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Pacific loan
REHABILITATION of Colombia’s Pacific Railway between Buenaventura, Cali and Cartago will benefit from a private finance deal supported by the Japan Bank for International Co-operation. JBIC confirmed on November 14 that it had signed a guarantee agreement for a US$120m loan, which is coming from a syndicate led by Mizuho ...
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Market
Brazil: Siemens is to maintain 10 Class 3000 four-car EMUs for CPTM of São Paulo under a five-year contract worth €9·5m.China: Barclay Mowlem (Hong Kong) Ltd has won a five-year contract to maintain the infrastructure on MTR’s Tseung Kwan O line from July. An option would extend the contract by ...
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Persistance may yet pay off
AEA Technology Rail is expected to complete shortly the installation of a Hitachi dual-voltage traction package in a British four-car Class 310 EMU at its premises in Derby. Equipment includes a transformer, IGBT inverter and four traction motors with a nominal rating of 270 kW. The train will include a ...
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Metros
Australia: The first four of 59 Siemens Combino trams (RG 4.02 p178) ordered by M>Tram were put into service on the Melbourne University - Glen Iris Route 6 on November 30.China: Siemens and Nanjing Research Institute of Electronic Technology are to supply Sicas interlocking and LZB 700M continuous ATC for ...
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Rosario regional network
PLANS have been unveiled in Argentina to create a regional rail network serving Rosario, a city of 1million inhabitants in Santa Fe province. The Remfer project is being led by former Argentine Railways executive Jaime Remolins, who says ’the intention is to create an efficient transport system where trains do ...
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Norfolk Southern spends
A $798m capital improvement budget for 2003 was announced by Norfolk Southern on December 9. Over the last three years, the annual NS capital spend has ranged from $705m to $806m. The largest slice in 2003 is earmarked for infrastructure, with $383m to be spent on rail, sleepers, ballast and ...
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Seeing the old year out
SOME PEOPLE will be celebrating the turn of the year in an unusual way. German Chancellor Gerhard Schr
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Passenger Portfolio
Ticketing change in Germany GERMAN RAILWAY is now selling all long-distance tickets priced at €21 or more online, with credit card payment. The launch was timed to coincide with the introduction of market-priced fares on December 15 (RG 2.02 p98). Tickets are sent by post at no extra charge to ...
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Pointers
n Canadian National Railway says it will invest C$30m in Ontario Northland if its bid for the company is accepted. ON is currently owned by the Province of Ontario.n Watch for SBB Cargo to order 18 dual-voltage locomotives this month to haul cross-border services to and from Italy.n Russian Railways ...
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Publications
Separation Philosophy of the European Union - Blessing or Curse?by Dr Carlo PfundEuropean Commission Directive 91/440 triggered radical reforms of member states’ national railways, and similar changes are occurring outside the EU. Dr Pfund argues that no examination of the concept of separating infrastructure from operations has been made in ...
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Sidetrack
Dieter CAPTION: Wiener Linien has begun publishing a daily list showing which of its gateless metro stations will have revenue protection staff carrying out ticket checks. This has been criticised for enabling fare dodgers to avoid checks, but WL believes that 'if only one person buys a ticket because of ...
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Growing fuel
INDIAN Railways' Research Design & Standards Organisation is to carry out testing of locomotives fuelled by biodiesel. Plans to sign a memorandum of understanding with Indian Oil Corp were announced in December, paving the way for a research programme using stationary locos at the RDSO test centre inBenares. Only minor ...
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DART extends
DALLAS light rail operator DART completes its current expansion programme on December 9, six months ahead of schedule. Opening of the final 5·1 km of the Red line from Galatyn Park to Plano, with two intermediate stops, will bring the network to 70·8 km and 34 stations.The final two-station extension ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2002 report
Over 30000 trade visitors converged on the InnoTrans event at the end of September in Berlin, attracted by 1045 exhibitors from 30 countries. Numerous contracts and acquisitions were announced, and hundreds of new products were on display. In this special report from Berlin we offer a selection of industry news.
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IC4 takes shape
UNDER construction at the AnsaldoBreda plant in Napoli is the first IC4 inter-city trainset for Danish State Railways. The 83 articulated four-car DMUs have been designed in co-operation with Pininfarina, and will have a top speed of 200 km/h. Intended to operate in multiple with up to five sets, they ...
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Iberian cross-border accord
ON OCTOBER 3 after an inter-governmental summit in Valencia, the transport ministers of Portugal and Spain announced that tenders would be called early next year for studies to determine the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of a high speed line from Madrid to Lisboa and Porto. The contract will be ...
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Mineta backs transit and Amtrak
INTRO: Julian Wolinsky reports from APTA’s 2002 Public Transportation Expo in Las VegasMORE THAN 15000 attendees and 750 exhibitors converged on the Las Vegas Convention Center last month for the American Public Transportation Association’s 2002 International Public Transportation Expo. Keynote speaker at the opening session on September 23 was US ...
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TEDA plans automated metro
CONTRACTS have been awarded for construction of an automated metro in the Chinese province of Tianjin. The 50 km Binhai New Development Area Rail Rapid Transit is expected to open in 2005. It will connect the city centre with the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) on the coast near Tanggu, ...
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Malagasy railway concession awarded
MADAGASCAR: Comazar Group subsidiary Madarail has been awarded a 25-year concession to operate the northern network in Madagascar from January 1 2003. The agreement was signed on October 10 by Minister for Privatisation Horace Constant and Comazar’s Managing Director Eric Peiffer. The concession can subsequently be extended every 10 years. ...