All News articles – Page 254
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Tsubame takes to the rails in Kyushu
Series 800 trainsets for the Kyushu Shinkansen were due to start test running last month
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Toulouse launches RER line
LINE C of Toulouse’s embryonic RER opened on September 1 between the dormitory suburb of Colomiers and an interchange with metro Line A at St Cyprien-Arènes, giving a journey time from Colomiers to central Toulouse of less than 30 min. Line C is the suburban section of SNCF’s Toulouse - ...
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Russian leasing
BRUNSWICK Rail Leasing has been formed as a Russian rolling stock leasing joint venture of Brunswick Capital and Transgroup AC. Over the next five years BRL plans to invest US$200m, aiming to acquire a fleet of 10000 wagons by 2008.On August 26 Brunswick Capital Chairman Christopher MacKenzie met Russian Railways ...
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Ore port link moves to study phase
PLANS to develop a new deep water iron ore port at Krishnapatnam on India’s east coast took a step forward in August. Technical and financial consultants have been appointed to develop the port and a 130 km rail link to serve it. Intended to handle ships up to 200000 dwt, ...
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Market
Czech Republic: CD has ordered 11 saloon and 15 compartment coaches and spare parts worth €43m from Siemens for use on cross-border trains. The 200 km/h air-conditioned vehicles are to be delivered from 2005.France: Alstom has signed a €25m three-year contract to maintain cooling units in TGV power cars, with ...
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Metros
Canada: The government has announced a contribution of up to C$25m towards the construction of a planned 10·3 km peoplemover to transport tourists at Niagara Falls.Union Switch & Signal is to supply NS-1 relay-based signalling for the 5·2 km extension of AMT Montréal metro Line 2 to Laval in 2006.Czech ...
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Nordic Rail tackles politics and technology
INTRO: Both technical and political themes will be on the agenda at the Nordic Rail event in J
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PEOPLE
South African Treasury Director-General Maria Ramos is to become Group Chief Executive of Transnet on January 1, when Mafika Mkwanazi will leave to take up a post in the private sector.Nick Newton has become Deputy Chief Executive of the Strategic Rail Authority. He will be Chairman of South Eastern Trains, ...
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Pointers
Rio Tinto subsidiary Hamersley Iron has almost completed a feasibility study to determine whether its mines, railway and port at Dampier can be upgraded to produce 114 million tonnes of ore a year. Robe River Iron Associates, also owned by Rio Tinto, now expects the West Angelas mine opened last ...
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Transwa railcars start TEST running
SEPTEMBER 8 saw the start of of a five-week programme of commissioning trials with the first of nine new diesel railcars for the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia. The cars are being built by United Goninan’s Broadmeadow plant in New South Wales to re-equip the state’s Prospector and ...
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Sidetrack
Construction workers on the Qinghai to Tibet railway are facing some of the most extreme environmental conditions tackled by any railway builders. Work has now been completed on the Hoh Xil plateau, which is up to 4·7 km above sea level, and the next stage of the project will take ...
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Tracks on track
Plant hire firm BCL has placed an order for 10 Komatsu PC128US tracked excavators converted for road-rail use by Rexquote.The Komatsu base machine is designed so hydraulic rail bogies can be fitted for travel to a worksite, where normal working is carried out using the vehicle’s tracks, minimising soil and ...
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BHP line to carry 100 million tonnes
BHP BILLITON has accelerated plans that will expand the capacity of its 426 km railway from Newman to Port Hedland to 100 million net tonnes/year by the end of 2004. In the year ended June 30 2002 the line carried 71 million tonnes. Announcing investment totalling A$77m on July 25, ...
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Intelligence September 2003
Argentina: The Entre Ríos provincial government has signed an agreement with ALL Mesopot? mica that will see the Concepción del Uruguay - Paran? route re-opened to freight traffic with new terminals at Estación Parera and Nogoy? . A daily Basavilbaso - Villaguay passenger service is also planned. ALL Central ...
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Preparations for InnoTrans 2004 are already well advanced
INTRO: Letter from InnoTransInnoTrans 2004 looks set to repeat the success of previous years. With 12 months still to go before this event starts on September 21 2004, Messe Berlin has already received a record number of applications. The amount of display space that has been reserved is almost equivalent ...
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Pendeltåg X60 EMU takes shape
Harry Hondius MSc reports from Salzgitter NOW UNDER construction at the Alstom LHB plant in Salzgitter are the first cars for a fleet of innovative articulated low-floor cars to operate Pendeltåg suburban services in Stockholm. Ordered last year by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik AB, they are derived from the Lirex experimental multiple-unit ...
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Smart card accord
RAIL and bus operators in the Greater Tokyo region have agreed to introduce a common smart card by 2006 that can be used on services run by 53 organisations. Around six million passengers use the Suica smart card introduced by JR-East in 2001, and two other rail operators have smart ...
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Cost control tops the agenda as refranchising moves ahead
INTRO: With the complex relationships of the privatised rail industry driving costs and subsidies to record levels, politicians are asking whether Britain still needs its railways. Murray Hughes looks at recent developmentsTEN YEARS have passed since the Railways Act 1993, the legislation passed by John Major’s Conservative government that brought ...
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Financial rescue agreed
ALSTOM announced on August 6 that it had secured a comprehensive financial package with the agreement of more than 30 of its banks. This will enable the company to repay its existing debt facilities which mature in the first half of 2004, as well as providing short and medium-term liquidity.The ...
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RZD reforms move ahead
ON OCTOBER 1 Russian Railways will begin life as a joint stock company, OAO RZD, marking the start of the second phase of the railway reform programme. The company will remain 100% state-owned, according to Vice-Minister of Railways Anna Belova.Reviewing progress with the reform programme on July 25, Mrs Belova ...