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Puget Sound makes progress
GROUNDBREAKING ceremonies were held in Seattle on April 26 for a $43m maintenance depot to be shared by Amtrak and Sound Transit. Amtrak is contributing $21m, and Washington State will invest $22m. Opening in 2003, the depot will service Amtrak’s Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, the Cascade Talgos, and the ...
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Market
Australia: Hamersley Iron has ordered 240 ore wagons from Smorgon Steel’s Bradken subsidiary at a cost of A$25m; first delivery is due in September.Canada: In May CPR signed a C$28m three-year contract with Bell Nexxia covering all its telecommunications needs.Bids closed on May 30 for seven diesel locomotives sought by ...
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TGV track reaches Marseille
WITH civil works including several major structures now complete, the latest addition to the French high speed network is due to open on June 1 2001. Tracklaying on the 250 km TGV Méditerranée to Marseille and Nîmes (RG 1.99 p43) began in May 1999, involving some 150 locomotives and 1600 ...
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Metros
Egypt: A total of 22 companies applied to pre-qualify for the Giza extension of Cairo metro Line 2. The National Authority for Tunnels was expected to produce a shortlist by the end of May.Europe: The European Commission has appointed AEA Technology Rail to provide an overview and analysis of, and ...
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Operators turn professional
MAY 11 saw the launch in London of the Institution of Railway Operators. Set up to give formal recognition to the profession of railway operating, IRO aims to recruit 5000 members within five years, according to its first Chairman, the Shadow Strategic Rail Authority’s Technical Director Richard Morris. He told ...
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PEOPLE
Freightliner Ltd has appointed Operations Director Alan Galley as its new Managing Director in succession to David Rutherford who has left the company. In addition, four new board members have been named: Peter Maybury, Neil McLean, Eddie Fitzsimons, and Robert Goundry.Jon R Roy has been elected President & Chief Executive ...
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Privatisation sequel is worth reading
SUCCESSOR to our annual Rail Business Report, this inaugural edition of Rail Investment is designed to meet the need for an authoritative publication covering trends in railway spending. As in Rail Business Report, we include the World Bank's railway performance database which offers a valuable picture of ...
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Sidetrack
INTRO: Mirror, mirror on the floorCoy Japanese are starting to address the issues arising from a doubling in suicides over the last 20 years, particularly now that more and more people are choosing ’public’ methods such as jumping under trains. Faced with substantial costs when services must be halted to ...
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HSR 2000
ON MAY 31-June 2 Railway Gazette International and AiC Worldwide are staging the High Speed Rail 2000 conference in London. With a strong business focus, the event has attracted eminent speakers from the world’s high speed operators. They include: Chris Green, Chief Executive of Virgin Trains; David Azéma, Chairman & ...
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NewsIntelligence - May 2000
Australia: The federal government has granted a 30-year access agreement to the Asia-Pacific Transport consortium which has been selected to build the Alice Springs - Darwin railway. NSW FreightCorp is preferred bidder for a 10-year contract to move 6million tonnes of coal a year from Blackwater to Gladstone in Queensland, ...
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Surf Board to rule in 2001
NEW REGULATIONS for consideration of US railroad mergers will be published by the Surface Transportation Board on June 11 2001. Board Chairman Linda Morgan announced the date on March 31, confirming the timescale set in the March 17 decision to suspend consideration of all mergers, including the proposed US$6bn BNSF-CN ...
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Milano - Bologna to open in 2006
INTRO: Italian high-speed line authority TAV SpA is due to award a formal contract to the Cepav-Uno consortium this month for construction of the Milano - Bologna route at a cost of 8 995bn lire. Chris Jackson talked to project managers Galliano Ballarani and Giovanni Caccia *BYLINE: * Galliano Ballarani ...
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Class 333 makes its debut
Testing of the first of 16 Class 333 electric multiple-units for British train operator Northern Spirit was due to begin last month, following the delivery of the unit to Neville Hill depot near Leeds (top) on March 11. The three-car EMUs were ordered by leasing company Angel Trains in April ...
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Railtrack’s £51·5bn ’wish list’
ISSUING its 2000 Network Management Statement on March 29, British infrastructure company Railtrack proposed a total spend of £51·5bn over the next 12 years. Of the total, £22·3bn represents maintenance and renewal; the rest is ’investment’ to enhance the network.However, only £4·2bn of the enhancement spend is actually ’committed’. The ...
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Angel adopts air-cycle air-conditioning
BRITISH leasing company Angel Trains has developed a refrigerant-free air-conditioning system in co-operation with Liebherr Verkehrstechnik of Germany, and is considering a range of applications on new or refurbished rolling stock.Since air-conditioning was first introduced on British trains in 1971, most systems have relied on vapour compression cycle technology, ...
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Advanced IT can buy commercial success
INTRO: ’Killer applications’ of information technology are being sought by North America’s railways in the battle to win freight business from road. TTCI is honing the latest IT developments for the benefit of AAR members, including two Positive Train Control projectsBYLINE: Robert E GallamoreAssistant Vice President, Communications Technology,Transportation Technology Center, ...
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African concessioning continues
PROPOSALS to privatise the operation of Zambia Railways have been approved by the country’s government. Communications & Transport Minister Prof Nkandu Luo confirmed on March 29 that the cabinet had agreed in principle to the concessioning of the national network. Trade & Industry Minister William Harrington has instructed the Zambia ...
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British light rail takes off again
A FINAL go-ahead for the £180m Nottingham Express Transit light rail project was given by Britain’s Transport Minister Lord Macdonald on April 3. He confirmed that government revenue support would be provided as part of the public-private financing package for an initial 14 km line from Nottingham to Hucknall and ...
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SJ looks ahead
PROPOSALS to give Swedish State Railway more commercial freedom have been approved by the transport ministry, which confirmed in March that new legislation will give SJ the status of a limited company from January 1 2001. This will enable SJ to compete in the deregulated market under the same conditions ...