All Railway Gazette International articles in November 2002 – Page 3
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Italferr plans a bright future
IT IS ALMOST exactly one year since Riccardo Bonasso took over as Chief Executive of Italferr, after working in the construction industry for over 30 years. He feels that the FS-owned engineering consultancy is well placed to pick up business as investment in the national rail network expands.New legislation that ...
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Passenger Portfolio in Brief
With effect from December 15, SNCF is to withdraw smoking provision from first class in all TGVs. The move follows the success of a pilot ban on TGV Atlantique introduced on June 16.To mark the introduction of a half-hourly Thalys service between Paris and Brussels on September 2, the Director-General ...
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Work starts on Brenner link
SIX YEARS of preparation and planning culminated on October 2 when work began on a 40 km double-track main line along Austria’s Lower Inn valley. Infrastructure Minister Mathias Reichhold and General Manager of Brenner Eisenbahn Gesellschaft Dipl-Ing Hans Lindenberger jointly launched the project at the western portal of a 10·6 ...
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EIM justifies the break-out
WHEN A GROUP of European infrastructure companies decided in December 2001 to leave the Community of European Railways and establish a separate lobbying group known as the Association of European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM), the move was seen in many quarters as a serious rift among Europe’s national railways. Taking ...
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Talgo double-decker offers gangways on both decks
FINNISH company Talgo Oy is offering a novel design of double-deck EMU to Finnish Railways and Swiss Federal Railways. Describing the design as ’the first real double-decker’, Talgo says that its concept makes better use of space than conventional double-deck trains. Traction equipment would be supplied by Elin of Austria.Of ...
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Nacala boost
INTERNATIONAL donors have agreed to fund repairs to a critical section of the Nacala Railway in Mozambique, which connects Malawi with the Indian Ocean. The 77 km between Cuamba and the border at Nanyuci is in poor condition, although the 538 km from Nacala to Cuamba was rehabilitated over the ...
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Boom may be short-lived
SINCE restructuring its Montevideo - 25 de Agosto suburban service on July 1 to provide more stops at Progreso, Uruguayan state operator AFE has seen a dramatic increase in passenger traffic. In June 2001 the trains carried 17000 passengers, and AFE Vice-President Roberto Médica told Ultimas Noticias that with a ...
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ETCS lessons are being learnt
SWISS FEDERAL Railways’ Level 2 ETCS pilot project installed over the 35 km between Zofingen and Sempach on the Olten - Luzern main line is yielding valuable lessons for future ETCS applications elsewhere. SBB has conceded that during August and September ’we had a very difficult time’, the worst incident ...
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Cinderella becomes a Princess
WHATEVER pain Virgin may be suffering over its Pendolinos on the West Coast main line, its other franchise achieved a notable milestone with the start of the winter timetable. From Monday September 30, weekday services run by the Virgin CrossCountry (VCC) franchise jumped to 215, more than double the 90 ...
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ICF banks on X.net expansion
THIS MONTH sees 12 more services added to Intercontainer-Interfrigo’s embryonic X.net hub-and-spoke network based at Herne on the Wanne-Herner Railway in Germany’s Ruhr district (RG 7.02 p354). New destinations for X.net traffic include Sopron in Hungary, and Hirtstals and Frederikshavn in northern Denmark. Since start-up on September 1, X.net has ...
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West Coast upgrade cut back as costs soar
BRITAIN’S troubled West Coast Main Line upgrading programme suffered another setback on October 9 when the Strategic Rail Authority issued for consultation a document confirming that Virgin would not be able to run its fleet of 53 Pendolino tilting trainsets at 225 km/h until some indefinite future date when the ...
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TEDA plans automated metro
CONTRACTS have been awarded for construction of an automated metro in the Chinese province of Tianjin. The 50 km Binhai New Development Area Rail Rapid Transit is expected to open in 2005. It will connect the city centre with the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) on the coast near Tanggu, ...
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Mineta backs transit and Amtrak
INTRO: Julian Wolinsky reports from APTA’s 2002 Public Transportation Expo in Las VegasMORE THAN 15000 attendees and 750 exhibitors converged on the Las Vegas Convention Center last month for the American Public Transportation Association’s 2002 International Public Transportation Expo. Keynote speaker at the opening session on September 23 was US ...
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Diesel light rail rolls at last in North America
A short route in Ottawa has pioneered diesel light rail operation in Canada, and New Jersey Transit is close behind with a 51·5 km line between Camden and Trenton. William D Middleton reports
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Iberian cross-border accord
ON OCTOBER 3 after an inter-governmental summit in Valencia, the transport ministers of Portugal and Spain announced that tenders would be called early next year for studies to determine the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of a high speed line from Madrid to Lisboa and Porto. The contract will be ...
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A ‘huge opportunity’ in open access
Rail Traction Company was the first open access freight operator to begin running in Italy. Founder and Director-General Giuseppe Sciarrone explained his strategy to Chris Jackson
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IC4 takes shape
UNDER construction at the AnsaldoBreda plant in Napoli is the first IC4 inter-city trainset for Danish State Railways. The 83 articulated four-car DMUs have been designed in co-operation with Pininfarina, and will have a top speed of 200 km/h. Intended to operate in multiple with up to five sets, they ...
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NewsInnoTrans 2002 report
Over 30000 trade visitors converged on the InnoTrans event at the end of September in Berlin, attracted by 1045 exhibitors from 30 countries. Numerous contracts and acquisitions were announced, and hundreds of new products were on display. In this special report from Berlin we offer a selection of industry news.
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