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MAV boosts investment
HUNGARIAN Railways announced plans in March to invest around HF65bn in upgrading and network development this year, with a similar amount to be spent in 2000. Around three-quarters of this will come from international agencies such as the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development, the European Investment Bank, Kreditanstalt für ...
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Taiwan breaks ground twice
CEREMONIES were held in Kaohsiung on March 26 to mark the formal groundbreaking for construction of the 345 km Taipei - Kaohsiung high-speed line. Participants included Vice-President Lien Chan and Transport Minister Lin Feng-Cheng. President Vincent Siew joined Lin for a second event at Taipao in his home state of ...
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Float-out eases Dutch capacity crunch
NETHERLANDS Railways has a problem. It has become a victim of its own success. Such is the growth in passenger traffic that NS Reizigers has had to adopt a number of tactics to get more seats on its trains. One important strand is refurbishment of the 1964-built four-car ’Plan T’ ...
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SMRT cards
LAST MONTH Singapore’s Land Transit Authority awarded an S$134·6m contract to ERG Ltd and Motorola Worldwide for the supply of an integrated smart card fare collection system covering all public transport on the island. Around 22000 readers and 5 million cards will be required by the time the project is ...
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Cassiopeia relaunches JR East sleepers
ON April 10 East Japan Railway unveiled its Deluxe Super Night Express train at Tokyo’s Ogu depot. Marketed as Cassiopeia, the 12-car double-deck set is to enter revenue service between Ueno and Sapporo on July 16. It will run northwards on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday each week, returning on Monday, ...
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Chinese plans
CHINESE Railways is to invest 55bn yuan during 1999, the Ministry of Railways announced in March. Under the five-year development plan launched last year (RG 9.98 p611) this year will see the construction of 1320route-km of new line.Last month CR completed feasibility studies for two alternative routes to the Tibetan ...
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Karachi tries Circular Railconcession
MAY 20 is the deadline for submission of proposals to revitalise the Karachi Circular Railway as a high-capacity commuter carrier. Pakistan’s National Mass Transit Authority envisages awarding a 25-year build-operate-transfer concession, with railway-owned land and stations forming a government equity stake in the project.NMTA is looking for private sector promoters ...
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City NEWS
On March 23 the Denver RTD board approved another $7m for design and construction of the 3 km Central Platte Valley light rail branch. With $2m approved earlier this year, this completes the agency’s share of the $40m project, which will branch off the existing line at Auraria station. Serving ...
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West Coast conundrum
THE SWEDISH government has selected a private consortium as preferred bidder to run passenger services on the West Coast main line between Gøteborg and Malm
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DB fixes on radio
BY THE END of this year radio-based signalling should be operational on German Railway’s route from Kaiserslautern to Lauterecken-Grumbach. The branches from Bielefeld to Dissen-Bad Rothenfelde and from Mainz to Gensingen-Horrweiler, Alzey and Monsheim are to follow shortly afterwards, kicking off a programme to convert 16000 route-km of mainly regional ...
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Partners promise to deliver on time
BYLINE: Union Railways South has the challenge of completing the first phase of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link by October 2003. Newly-appointed Managing Director Chris Jago told Chris Jackson that a partnership with project managers Rail Link Engineering promised ’a win-win solution’ INTRO: Union Railways South has the challenge of ...
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Dutch tunnels make progress
ON MARCH 17 Netherlands Transport Minister Tineke Netelenbos officially launched work on the country’s first bored rail tunnel. The double track Botleks tunnel under the Oude Maas will carry freight trains between the docks and the Betuwe line. The twin 1835m bores will replace the Botleks bridge on Rotterdam’s harbour ...
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Tasman is early
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Chairman Jim Lawson announced on April 5 that the $327m, 12·2 km Tasman West light rail line in San Jose, California, will open for revenue service on December 20. He said that the first extension since the initial 38·6 km route was completed in 1991 ...
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Economic growth is spur to expansion
INTRO: CB Transportes is using its business acumen to turn round run-down railways in Latin America. The company is operating successfully in Chile and Bolivia and is seeking more opportunities to expandBYLINE: Gonzalo Grebe NFinance Manager, CB Transportes SAOVER THE last decade commerce within the southern cone of Latin America ...
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Tilting ICEs enter service
ON APRIL 15 German Railway ran an introductory special train between Stuttgart and Horb to demonstrate the ICT tilting EMUs. Five of these will be allocated to inter-city services on the Stuttgart - Zürich corridor from the end of this month. With effect from the May 30 timetable change, ICTs ...
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FNM enters privatisationend game
INTRO: With 14500 km of the National Railways of Mexico (FNM) system now operated by the private sector, FNM should see its operating role disappear by the end of this year as bids are invited for the remaining short lines. Head of Restructuring Jorge Machado outlined progress so far and ...
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Informed and entertained
Adtranz Sweden has awarded a contract to Focon Electronic Systems for the supply of luggage rack units incorporating passenger information and entertainment systems, which will be fitted to the 17 trains for Danish State Railways and 10 for Swedish State Railways that will operate over the Øresund link from next ...
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New entrants scoop LRV orders
SPANISH rolling stock builder Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles has been selected as preferred bidder to supply 54 light rail vehicles to Sacramento’s Regional Transit District. CAF bid US$124·9m compared to US$142m from local firm Siemens Transportation Systems which supplied RT’s 36 original cars. Other bidders were Kinki Sharyo of ...