All Railway Gazette International articles in October 1997 – Page 2
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Policy vacuum clouds a bright future
INTRO: A unique opportunity to restructure Australia’s fragmented and neglected rail network into a profitable industry providing cost-effective, reliable and safe transport will be lost if the federal and state governments fail to create the right framework for private investmentBYLINE: John KirkDirectorAustralasian Railway AssociationTHERE IS A HIGH level of optimism ...
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Istanbul orders Caracas cars
ROLLING STOCK for the first stage of the Istanbul heavy metro is to be supplied by GEC Alsthom’s Valenciennes works in northern France. On September 2 the company announced that Istanbul Ulasim ve Ticaret AS had awarded a 7400bn lira contract for an initial build of 32 cars.The vehicles will ...
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Clampdown on UP
FOUR people died in June when two Union Pacific freights collided head-on in ’dark territory’ near Devine, Texas. Had it been an isolated incident, it would have been dismissed as a rare but spectacular smash. But this year UP has been struck by an unusual series of accidents, prompting the ...
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Two in race for high-speed concession
INTRO: Next month is due to see the selection of a preferred bidder for a build-operate-transfer concession to build Taiwan’s long-planned Taipei - Kaohsiung high speed line. The government hopes to have the 340 km route open by 2003BYLINE: Dr Ching-Lung LiaoDirector General, Bureau of Taiwan High Speed RailWITH A ...
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Remote sensing at crossings
Burlington Northern Santa Fe has teamed up with communications companies Kansas Cellular, Open Cellular Systems, and BellSouth to provide remote monitoring equipment for level crossings, using existing communications links. Commissioning is due to be completed by the end of next year.BNSF staff will be alerted to a range of equipment ...
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Decision-makers seek a real financial return
INTRO: IRCA Secretary-General Antoine Martens briefed Murray Hughes on the aims of the XXVIIth IRCA-UIC Congress in MarrakechINTRO: XXVIIth IRCA-UIC Congress, Marrakech, October 6-10WHEN THE world’s most senior railway executives gather in the Moroccan city of Marrakech this month they bear a heavy responsibility. Railways everywhere are undergoing the most ...
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Through running diesels
GERMAN regional rail operator Regental Bahnbetriebs-Gesellschaft has reached agreement to run its Vogtlandbahn services into the centre of Zwickau over the tracks of the local tram network. The company’s eight RegioSprinter low-floor diesel railcars are to be fitted with direction indicators, brake lights, warning bells and electric point actuators for ...
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From economic necessity to financial return
INTRO: The XXVII th session of the International Railway Congress Association is being held in Marrakech on October 6-10, in conjunction with the International Union of Railways. Host railway ONCFM is no stranger to the main theme of the congress, with profitability achieved through restructuring INTRO: XXVIIth IRCA-UIC Congress, Marrakech, ...
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PKP monopoly to end
OPEN ACCESS operators will be able to use the tracks of Polish State Railways from October 14, when PKP’s automatic monopoly of rail traffic is abolished. The legislation to open up the network has been signed by President Aleksander Kwasniewski, as the first stage of a restructuring programme which could ...
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News travels fast on ICE
GERMAN RAILWAY’S news service for passengers on ICE trains (RG 9.97 p580) makes use of modern com-munications technology to print a newspaper on board the train. Known as ICE-press, the newspaper is produced in conjunction with the publishers of Der Spiegel.Text is sent by the publisher over a radio data ...
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Finance
Canada: CN is to invest C$64m on its lines in British Columbia this year, including C$36·4m on track renewal, C$2m on signalling and C$2m on links to Vancouver’s Deltaport intermodal terminal. A six-year C$11m programme to upgrade the Terrace - Kitimat branch will finish this year.Ethiopia: The government has negotiated ...
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Metropolitan plans go firm
GERMAN Railway has completed plans for its Metropolitan business trains. Two seven-car push-pull formations and a Class 101 loco will launch the service next summer between Hamburg and K
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Rail takes lion's share of TEN funding
WELL OVER half of the Ecu352m allocated by the European Commission under the Trans-European Networks funding programme for 1997 is being spent on rail projects. Analysis of the Ecu352m made available for 125 schemes, as notified to 14 of the 15 EU governments by Transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock on July ...
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GNER orders Pendolini
BERMUDA-based shipping group Sea Containers is to order tilting trains from Fiat Ferroviaria for its British train operating franchisee Great North Eastern Railway. The signing of heads of agreement covering two trains was announced on September 9, at a price believed to be around £15m each. There is an option ...
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Three groups take on AN remains
Winning bidders for the three main elements of Australian National offered for sale to the private sector were announced on August 28 by Federal Minister for Transport & Regional Development John Sharp.Combined gross value of the successful bids is A$95·4m, but Sharp said the government could have raised A$30m more ...
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Industry
Germany: GE Capital Services has agreed to purchase Cargowaggon GmbH from Brambles Industries Ltd and Danzas Holding AG. Retaining its present name, Cargowaggon will become the first European component of GE Capital’s Railcar Services business.Great Britain: Construction group Miller has set up a specialist railway company called Miller Rail. It ...
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Intelligence
Angola: Tor di Valle of Italy has begun work on rehabilitation of the Benguela Railway under a barter agreement that grants it the right to exploit 37000ha of eucalyptus plantations (RG7.97 p432). Argentina: Under a concession awarded by the province of Córdoba, Ferrocarriles Mediterr
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Letters
Speed in South KoreaSir - With reference to your Comment item ’TGV Bypass’ in RG 9.97 p557, I should like to point out that the Korean High Speed Rail Authority (KHRC) has had 350 km/h as its criteria for infrastructure design since the very beginning.While South Korea’s technology transfer programme ...
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Valencia LRT under way
VENEZUELAN transport authority C A Metro de Valencia gave permission on September 4 for Siemens Transportation Systems to begin construction of the city’s US$80m light rail project. Phase 1 of the turnkey package covers the 6·2 km from Parque Recreacional to Avenida Cedeño (DM 97 p57), including eight LRVs to ...
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Manufacturers must share the risk
INTRO: Higher power-to-weight ratios, tilting, and distributed power have become dominant features of orders for high speed trains over the last two years. But with railways facing growing commercial pressures, Gordon Pettitt obe fcit finds that manufacturers must take on more of the risk in delivering rolling stock to a ...
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