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Island LRT
PROPOSALS have been invited for the restoration of rail services to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, on the basis of a design-build-own-operate-transfer concession. The government is concerned about increasing road congestion in the Port Louis - Curepipe corridor, but earlier tenders for a 27 km light rail line ...
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Letters
Wrong tacticSir - The exposé of how Wisconsin Central shareholders unceremoniously fired Ed Burkhardt (RG 8.99 p481) is yet another example of what is wrong with the great god privatisation. This sordid tale of stockholders dumping good executives because they were using earnings to improve and expand the property has ...
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Market
Algeria: SNTF has called tenders for the supply of 21 track maintenance machines, including six tamping, levelling and lining units and six ballast regulators. Two vehicles for overhead line maintenance are also required.Australia: Alstom Australia has been awarded a contract to provide rolling stock and infrastructure maintenance for the Hillside ...
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Metros
Austria: Tenders are to be issued this year for work on the first section of a 10 km U-Bahn line from Praterstern across the River Danube to Stadlau and beyond. Completion is expected in 2008.Germany: The first dual-gauge track has been laid in Braunschweig. Conversion of the 1100mm gauge tram ...
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Sokol prototype rolled out in Tikhvin
MORE than 100 press and media representatives were present on July 28 at a roll-out ceremony for the Sokol (Falcon) high speed train at Tikhvin, 200 km east of St Petersburg, on July 28. Star guest at the event was Vladimir Starostenko, Russia’s Minister of Railways.The 280 km/h blue and ...
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Paper plans
CALIFORNIA High Speed Rail Authority voted on July 21 to develop a 1100 km network of high speed lines. Split into 12 segments, the network would link San Francisco with San Jose, Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, Los Angeles and San Diego. Having defined alignments for all routes apart from Los Angeles ...
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Trouble in Paradise
UNREST could be brewing at that paragon among metro operators, Hong Kong MTR Corp. A bill to privatise the company is due to be tabled before the Legislative Council on October 13. Acting Secretary for Transport Kevin Ho Chi-ming said on July 28 that the government hoped to pass the ...
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PEOPLE
Barry Murphy has been appointed as Chairman of Australian Rail Track Corp.Cynthia M Sanborn has been named Vice President & General Manager of CSX Transportation’s Florida Business Unit, replacing Paul D Sandler who has become Senior Vice-President, Corporate Services (RG 8.99 p496). Dr Francis Small has been appointed Vice-Chairman of ...
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Virgin pioneers ticket sales rethink
IN LESS than 12 months time passengers will be able to book rail tickets and reservations using interactive television. Pay-TV installations can already accept smartcards, and it is this facility which will allow booking and payment from private homes. The ticket, reservation and payment details will be downloaded on to ...
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Pointers
n Expect a programme for the privatisation of Estonian Railways to be published this month. Roads & Communications Minister Toivo Jurgenson hopes to complete the sale around the start of 2000, and expects to retain at least 33% of the shares.n Upgrading of the Tecate - Plaster City section of ...
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Tren Urbano starts to take shape
INTRO: Construction of the initial heavy metro line serving the Puerto Rican capital San Juan is approaching the midway point, with the first cars expected to start test running early next year BYLINE: Klaus TiedemannProject Director, Siemens Transit TeamTOWARDS THE END of this year, a pre-series married-pair of metro cars ...
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Sidetrack
Make it easyFRENCH National Railways has made much play recently of the introduction of regular-interval timetables on TGV routes to Lille, Lyon and western France. How nice to see that good ideas eventually win their converts, even if it is a decade or two after everyone else.Not of course that ...
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Zambian turnround
In March 1998, a team from Hifab International AB of Sweden, in association with DE-Consult of Germany, began a 30-month contract to manage and restructure Zambia Railways Ltd on behalf of the Swedish International Development Agency. The management team found it was running a railway in far worse condition than ...
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News in Brief - August 1999
Asia: International freight services between Russia and China began using the new 40 km cross-border line between Makhalino and Hunchun during June. Canada: Alberta RailNet took over the 586 km ex-CN route from Swan Landing to Hythe and Tangent on June 27. CN and CP have agreed to halt ...
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VAL Line 2 reaches Tourcoing
AUGUST 18 sees the start of revenue operation on the Lille metro Line 2 extension from Fort de Mons to Tourcoing Centre, adding 12·5 route-km and 16 stations to the network. The extension was formally handed over to operator Transpole by the Lille Urban Community on June 21, ready for ...
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DB targets Paris with the ICE3
INTRO: ICE3 builders Siemens and Adtranz demonstrated the first complete ICE3 unit or German Railway at the Siemens test track in Wegberg-Wildenrath on July 9. Murray Hughes was on boardHEINZ KURZ, Head of Rolling StockTechnology and Train Systems at DB Reise&Touristik, German Railway’s long-distance passenger subsidiary, confirmed on July 9 ...
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ú500m to boost LU
PUBLIC FUNDING to complete London Underground’s Jubilee line extension and continue investment in the rest of the network through to March 31 2001 was announced by Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott on July 15. The statement promised ’an extra £500m of resources’, but the nominal amount of new grant ...
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£7m revamp gives Caledonian Sleepers a quality upgrade
UK: Train operating company ScotRail was expected to unveil a new livery for its Caledonian Sleeper services at the end of last month, as part of a £7m upgrading of the service announced by Managing Director Alastair MacPherson on April 1. The company currently runs two 16-car trains to ...
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Eurotunnel secures 99-year concession
TWO YEARS after the British and French governments agreed in principle to extend Eurotunnel’s concession to 99 years, their action was approved by the Assemblée Nationale in Paris on June 30. The original 55-year concession granted in 1987 would have terminated in 2042. It was extended by 10 years in ...