All Railway Gazette International articles in October 1999 – Page 2
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Lounges target business market
IN THEIR continuing efforts to increase ridership as subsidy levels decline, Britain’s inter-city train operators are paying particular attention to the lucrative first class market by offering improved facilities for business travellers. Virgin Trains, holder of the West Coast franchise, opened new first class lounges at Manchester Piccadilly and Stoke-on-Trent ...
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CVRD to buy FCA
LAST MONTH Brazilian mining group Companhia Vale do Rio Doce announced that it had reached agreement to take over Ferrovia Centro-Atlântica, in which it already holds a 12·5% stake. With the backing of its parent steel conglomerate CSN, which also owns 12·5%, CVRD will pay R$218m for the 75% stake ...
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First capacity review by SSRA
THE WEST Midlands region surrounding Birmingham, Britain’s second largest city after London, has been selected for the first network capacity review to be undertaken by the ’shadow’ Strategic Rail Authority. Pending legislation to establish the SRA formally, staff of the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising and the British Railways Board ...
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Subte car order placed
BUENOS AIRES metro concessionaire Metrovías has ordered 16 five-car EMUs from Alstom Transport to re-equip Line A between Plaza de Mayo and Primera Junta. The deal is valued at 186m euros, and the first deliveries are due 18 months after the contract has been signed.The stainless steel cars are to ...
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Cold clean carbodies
CAR BODY design is set for radical change. Since the earliest days of railways, rolling stock has been fabricated using ’hot and dirty’ manufacturing processes. Now the days of welding large metal structures are numbered, and they are set to give way to ’cold and clean’ processes like bonding, bolting ...
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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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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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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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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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'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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Cross-border joint venture
A MAJOR assault on the cross-border markets from Oslo to Stockholm, G
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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