All Railway Gazette International articles in October 1999 – Page 2
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Heathrow link
A £170m plan to build a line between the proposed Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport and Railtrack’s Southern Zone at Staines has been endorsed by British Airways, airport operator BAA and Railtrack. The three signed a Memorandum of Understanding on September 13 to launch operational and environmental investigations, which ...
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Green policies still uncertain
NOT FOR the first time, environmentalists are wringing their hands over the fate of the earth. The GEO-2000 report compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme and published on September 15 is up for discussion at an international convention in Bonn this month - and it will make gloomy reading. ...
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ICF may go private
FOR some time now it has been clear that all is not well at Intercontainer-Interfrigo (ICF), and the mostly state-owned railways which own ICF are contemplating a radical restructuring for the ailing co-operative. One idea gaining favour is floating it off as one or more free-standing pan-European intermodal companies operating ...
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FS starts refurbishment
ITALIAN Railways has launched a national programme to refurbish and modernise around 2 500 stations across its entire network. FS says the aim is not just a renovation, but a ’veritable revolution’ in ambience and the quality of passenger service provided. Many stations will be rebuilt to improve interchange between ...
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RTRI at the focus of railway research
INTRO: WCRR ’99, the fourth World Congress on Railway Research, will be held at the Railway Technical Research Institute in Tokyo, from October 19 to 23. RTRI President Hiroumi Soejima looks at some of the developments which will be under debateBYLINE: Hiroumi SoejimaPresident, Railway Technical Research InstituteIT IS A GREAT ...
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Finance
China: Hong Kong MTR Corp has arranged an HK$3bn revolving loan facility with a 12-bank syndicate to fund capital investment and refinance debts over the next four years.France: On September 9 RFF launched another 250m euros issue of 10-year bonds retiring in April 2009, paying 5·6%. Great Britain: Angel Train ...
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F Market goes fishing
ON SEPTEMBER 7 San Francisco Municipal Railway received approval from the city’s Public Transportation Commission to operate tram services along the Embarcadero waterfront from Market Street to Fisherman’s Wharf. Construction of the route is virtually complete, and test running will start this month.The $140m extension is expected to open ...
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Kolkata extends
FOUR YEARS after the completion of India’s first heavy metro line, work has begun on an extension of the Kolkata Metro. Prime Minister A B Vajpayee joined the ceremonies to mark the start of construction of the 8·4 km southern extension from Tollyganj to Garia. The project is costed at ...
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Evaluation model optimises track renewal and maintenance strategies
INTRO: Austrian Federal Railways expects to make significant savings from the introduction of an economic evaluation model based on life-cycle costing to support decision making on track design and maintenance strategiesBYLINE: Dipl-Ing Dr Peter W Veit *Graz Technical UniversitySAVINGS on track maintenance and renewal of around 5m euros a year ...
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TRAX ready to open early
UTAH TRANSIT Authority is to celebrate the opening of its 24 km TRAX light rail line between Salt Lake City and suburban Sandy on December 4; revenue service will start two days later. The board of directors voted on August 25 to open the line four months early.The $312m line ...
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Tri-Rail doubling funded
FLORIDA commuter operator Tri-Rail has put together a $220m funding package which will enable it to complete the double-tracking of its 114 km Miami - Palm Beach route two years earlier than planned. CSX Transportation, which owns the line, has offered Tri-Rail a $55m interest-free loan, which will be combined ...
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Don’t race the train
A REPORT by Railned, the body responsible for managing Netherlands Railway’s infrastructure, reveals that 40% of collisions on level crossings are due to reckless disregard by road users for their own safety. This follows a study which analysed 6152 incidents at around 1000 locations during the 12 years from 1985 ...
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Dieter
CAPTION: After almost six years English Welsh &Scottish Railway has finally been granted a safety case certificate to run Class 92 locos between Wembley and Crewe, where reed track circuits in Watford tunnel might be affected by three-phase traction harmonics. Dieter suggests there might have been an easier way to ...
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CSXT restructures
FOUR Service Groups are to take over responsibility for commercial and operating functions at CSX Transportation under a major reorganisation announced by newly-appointed President Ronald J Conway on August 11. Designed to ’promote customer focus and speed the decision-making process’, the groups will be focused on the railway’s principal product ...
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Cross-border joint venture
A MAJOR assault on the cross-border markets from Oslo to Stockholm, G
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'We must create our own core competences'
JR East Chairman Shuichiro Yamanouchi challenges current thinking on research, suggesting railways can no longer rely on suppliers to develop new products and processes. In this interview with Murray Hughes, Yamanouchi outlines a three-pronged strategy for survival while Japan's economy bounces on the bump stops
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Commuter stations planned
Dallas Area Rapid Transit has called bids for a new station at Esters Road in West Irving, which will form part of a 4·8 km extension of the Trinity Railway Express commuter service due to open next year. It will have a canopied platform with a high block for disabled ...
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Tazara sale moves closer
TRANSPORT Ministers in Tanzania and Zambia have agreed in principle to award concessions for the rehabilitation and operation of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway, subject to formal approval by the two governments. The agreement was reached on August 29 at a meeting in Ndola of the international council of ministers which oversees ...
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The spirit of your city
INTRO: Alstom Transport’s Citadis low-floor tram family was unveiled at La Rochelle on September 2. Chris Jackson took a rideON A WARM sunny afternoon, a dark blue low-floor tram decorated with seagulls is being put through its paces on the Alstom test track in the French port of La Rochelle. ...
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UP celebrates triple tracking
ON AUGUST 24 Union Pacific announced that it had completed the triple-tracking of its original main line across Nebraska between Gibbon and North Platte. Upgrading the 174 route-km to accommodate up to 140 trains per day running at 113 km/h has cost $327m.UP’s Central Corridor is a key link between ...
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