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Xi’an metro plan
PROPOSALS for a first metro line in the Chinese city of Xi’an were unveiled by the Municipal Planning Committee in March. The 19·4 km route would link the western suburb of Xinxibei to Fangzhi in the east via the city centre. Construction is scheduled to start in 2002, with opening ...
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Metros
Australia: On March 26 Melbourne’s tram route 86 was extended from Bourke & Spencer Streets along Latrobe Street line to a new terminus at Colonial Stadium.Great Britain: In the budget on March 21, the government allocated an extra £65m to London Underground, mainly to pay for escalator repairs at a ...
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Montréal works modernised
Alstom Transport Canada is delivering 50 remanufactured SD40-2 diesel locos (top right), to First Union Rail Corp, which will lease them to CSX Transportation under a multi-year agreement. The locos are being rebuilt at Alstom’s Montréal plant, a former Canadian National workshop which has been extensively remodelled since Alstom took ...
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People
Kenya Railways Managing Director Eric Nyamunga has resigned with effect from March 17. He has been succeeded by Douglas N Odette, who was formerly General Manager Freight.Former CSX President Glenn Michael is taking over as General Manager of PeruRail from Paul White, who will retain overall control of the company. ...
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Pointers
n Expect Canadian Transport Minister David Collenette to announce a package of capital investment for VIA Rail to replace its long-distance passenger coach fleet, together with increased federal operating support.n Look for Myanmar Railways to announce a major investment programme including new diesel locomotives and freight wagons to boost capacity.n ...
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Publications
London’s Undergroundby John GloverThe ninth edition of a history of the world’s oldest metro, first written by Henry Howson and published in the 1950s, brings the story up to date with completion of the Jubilee Line Extension into London’s former docklands. It closes with the launch of yet another reorganisation ...
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Safer seats
FOLLOWING the collision test with a former Septa Budd Silverliner car staged at the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo on November 18 last year (RG 1.00 p16), a second crash test took place at the same location on April 4. As on the previous occasion, the $1m experiment was designed ...
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Spread the word
CGEA TRANSPORT is so pleased with the Connex branding used for its British rail franchises that it has decided to extend the name to its other rail and bus operations. Managing Director of the parent Vivendi Group Henri Proglio says studies in five countries have shown that the Connex name ...
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Structure studies
AS ANTICIPATED in RG 2.00 p81, crashworthiness looks set to be a significant issue emerging from the Ladbroke Grove collision 3 km from London Paddington, which killed 31 people on October 5 1999. In its third interim report on the accident, released on April 14, the Health & Safety Executive ...
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BA plans to double metro by 2010
APRIL 24 is due to see the opening of the latest extension to the Buenos Aires metro, taking Line D from Juramento to the provisionally-named Congreso de Tucum
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On-board condition monitoring keeps down Series E231 costs
BYLINE: Yoshihiko SatoGeneral Manager, Transport & Rolling Stock Department East Japan Railway CoEast Japan Railway’s Series 209 broke fresh ground in 1992 when it was launched as a train designed to halve costs. The idea was to achieve major savings in manufacturing and operating costs through a shorter life cycle ...
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Action needed
A PROGRESS report from International Risk Management Services commissioned by the Irish Department of Public Enterprise chides Iarnród éireann for not moving quickly enough to implement changes to improve safety. While the dire predictions of a report by the same consultants published in November 1998 (RG 12.98 p825) have not ...
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Auto-sanding tackles low adhesion
TRANSYS Projects Ltd has started work at Cambridge depot to fit sanding equipment to a batch of Class 158 DMUs operated by Central Trains of Great Britain, following successful installation last year on six Class 158s and a batch of Class 323 EMUs (below). The equipment operates automatically in braking ...
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Restructuring hits Adtranz
ON FEBRUARY 28 DaimlerChrysler AG presented its results for 1999, the first year with fully consolidated results from Adtranz after ABB sold its 50% stake in the business. Operating profit at DaimlerChrysler was up 20% at 10·3bn euros, after adjustment for one-time effects including restructuring expenses at Adtranz, where revenue ...
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BBR beacon lights the way in southern Africa
AFRICA: Opening of the Beitbridge - Bulawayo Railway in Zimbabwe on July 15 last year quickly led to appreciation of the benefits of faster transits between Zambia, Zimbabwe and the ports of South Africa. Traffic that had previously rolled through Botswana via Mafikeng and Plumtree rapidly switched to the new ...
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F-Market all at sea
WITH LITTLE fanfare and no speeches from elected officials, San Francisco Municipal Railway’s long-awaited F-Market light rail extension to Fisherman’s Wharf was opened on March 4. Now renamed F-Market & Wharves, the line runs along the waterfront to a loop at Jones & Beach streets. Serving many tourist destinations, the ...
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Amsterdam picks Combinos
ON MARCH 8 Amsterdam's metro operator GVB confirmed that it was to order a fleet of 95 Combino 100% low-floor cars from Siemens Verkehrstechnik, making it the eighth city to adopt the modular design. Placed after a Europe-wide tendering process, the 138bn euros contract works out at 1·45bn euros per ...
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Amtrak turns to growth
REVERSING a 25-year policy of cutting costs, US national passenger operator Amtrak announced an aggressive expansion plan on February 29. President & CEO George Warrington admitted that the previous policy had backfired: ’the amount of revenue we lost exceeded the amount we saved.’ Intended to boost profits by $65m a ...
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Oil link approved
FEASIBILITY STUDIES have been completed for a 220 km rail link in the northern Caucasus, designed to improve access to the Caspian Sea oilfields. The line is being promoted by Russian Railways, with the regional government in Stavropol and various Russian and foreign oil companies.A committee was formed in 1998 ...
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DART approves three more lines
ON MARCH 8 the Dallas Area Rapid Transit board announced preferred routes for light rail extensions to serve Carrollton, Farmers Branch and Irving. A month earlier, the board approved a 16·4 km route to Pleasant Grove. A two-year Major Investment Study suggests that the $1·4bn northwestern lines serving 18 stations ...