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More discounts and better service
FRENCH National Railways has changed its portfolio of discounted fares. This follows an initial step last June, when SNCF simplified its basic fares structure and launched two railcards designed to attract young people to travel by train. The latest changes are being made after a market research campaign in November ...
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BHP picks ECP brakes
BHP Iron Ore is to start installing electronically-controlled air brakes on 240 wagons for its Mount Newman mineral railway in Western Australia, using radio to transmit braking signals along the train. It has selected EPx Direct Braking equipment and TrainTalk radio technology from GE Harris Railway Electronics of Florida. ...
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Tunnel link bidders told to keep trying
LONDON & Continental Railways has been given until May 29 to come up with a satisfactory proposal for building the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott told Parliament on March 27 that he was extending the March 31 deadline (RG 4.98 p207) by two months.LCR and ...
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Izmir electrification bids
TURKISH State Railways was due to call tenders last month for the electrification of 79 route-km of double-track lines radiating from the port of Izmir, at a cost of around US$35m. Bids are expected to be opened in July or August. TCDD is looking to award a turnkey contract for ...
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New Minister of Railways boosts Chinese investment
JUST 10 days after taking over as China’s Minister of Railways on March 18, Fu Zhihuan announced at a conference in Beijing that rail investment would be stepped up by 30% this year from 34·9bn to 45bn yuan. Spending on construction and upgrading over the next five years will be ...
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Steady workload at Brush
ON MARCH 16 British intermodal operator Freightliner Ltd presented its first Class 57 diesel locomotive at Brush Traction’s Falcon works in Loughborough, lowering an American engine into a Class 47 now undergoing conversion. Brush has a contract to rebuild six Class 47s which it delivered to British Rail 30 years ...
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Building the Nafta Railway
INTRO: Kansas City Southern has moved from a 2750 km regional carrier to a 16000 km international network, ideally placed to tap the expanding opportunities generated by the North American Free Trade Agreement BYLINE: Michael R HavertyPresident & Chief Executive OfficerKansas City Southern RailwaySIGNING OF the North American Free Trade ...
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STB considers the unthinkable
IT SEEMS that Union Pacific is not out of the soup yet. Indeed, some of the stories reaching our offices would suggest that progress towards solving the fearsome congestion problems that followed UP’s merger with Southern Pacific is far from encouraging. Take, for example, the one about a train of ...
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Contact wire tracking by laser
PLASSER & Theurer has supplied a contact wire measuring system to Austrian Federal Railways that uses laser scanning technology to determine the position of the wire with an accuracy of
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Two contracts for Line H
THE Buenos Aires city government expects to call tenders towards the end of this month for a contract covering civil works on its Line H metro project. The 10·3 km route from Retiro to Nueva Pompeya will be largely in tunnel (RG 1.98 p10), and Secretary of Production & Services ...
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DB plans night train revival
GERMAN Railway’s long distance passenger business has charged its DB Autozug GmbH subsidiary with developing night services so that they run at a profit.Autozug’s main responsibility until now has been to develop Germany’s motorail services, for which it is refurbishing couchettes and sleeping cars (RG 4.98 p232). Karl-Dietrich Reemtsema, Head ...
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Development line strategy
THREE NEW RAILWAYS totalling around 1300 km may be built to open up the potentially prosperous interior of northeast Peru, between the Andes Cordillera and Brazil’s Amazon basin. A multi-sector committee has been formed under the chairmanship of the prime minister to look at the practicality of building the lines ...
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Via safety drive
VIA Rail Canada has launched a drive to improve its safety management, following the completion of a four-month investigation by two international experts on March 20. The wide-ranging, independent review was commissioned following a derailment of Via’s premier train, the Canadian, near Biggar, Saskatchewan, last September. Conducting the study were ...
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Two railways test dual-system Tractis
INTRO: A fleet of 60 high performance 3 kV DC or 25 kV AC locomotives being built by GEC Alsthom for Belgian National Railways will replace units dating from the 1950s and 1960s. Another 20 locos are on order for Luxembourg National RailwaysBYLINE: Harry Hondius MSc EngBY THE START of ...
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Imperial Express heads east
From May 3 tourists will be able to travel in luxury between Praha and Budapest with the inaugural run of a land cruise programme by the Imperial Railway Co. Sleeping cars from the Hungarian Presidential train have been married to a pair of Wagons-Lits Dining Cars to form a luxury ...
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MetroLink heads east
CONSTRUCTION work is getting under way on the first phase of the extension of the St Louis MetroLink light rail network to serve St Clair County (Illinois), following a ceremony at Belleville on March 6. Scheduled for completion in 2001, the 28 km line will run east from the existing ...
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Eastern timetable reorganisation
The summer timetable change sees the cutting-back of the Ost - West Express to east of Warszawa only, with a new Jan Ciepura EuroNight train introduced between K
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Finance
Australia: Evans Deakin Industries Ltd has completed a placement of 8·99million fully-paid ordinary shares with institutional investors, at an issue price of $4·20. Representing 9·99% of the company’s issued shares, the placement raised $37·75m.Canada: Canadian National Railway Co is to issue up to US$1·8bn in debt securities and warrants to ...
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Holidaymakers ride free
GERMANY’S Association of Public Transport Operators (VDV) has signed an agreement with tour operator NUR Touristic GmbH that allows holidaymakers to use public transport at no extra charge. Air tickets issued by the NUR group under the Ride & Fly scheme can be used on services provided by the VDV’s ...
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Portable structure gauging
AVAILABLE for purchase or hire from manufacturer Laser Rail, LaserSweep is a portable structure gauging system designed for use by a single operator. It comprises a measuring head mounted on an outrigger that spans the track, and a Husky FC computer to log the data. Data is saved as a ...