All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2001 – Page 4

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    Marketing alliance

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    MULTIMODAL Applied Systems and Opcom Pty Ltd have entered into an agreement to market jointly their railway service planning and crew optimisation products. Opcom’s OPCrew and MultiModal’s MultiRail scheduling software will be integrated, with timetables and crew data shared between the products.Opcom’s North American marketing and sales support will be ...

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    SNCF forms on-line alliance

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    ON SEPTEMBER 5 French National Railways announced that it had signed an agreement with Expedia Inc to form a joint venture that will develop SNCF’s existing web presence at www.voyages-sncf.com to provide a wider range of travel services by the end of this year. The site will combine facilities for ...

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    PPP inches ahead

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    ON SEPTEMBER 19 Metronet was named preferred bidder for the Sub-Surface Lines Infraco contract, indicating that progress, albeit slow, continues to be made with the London Underground Public-Private Partnership project. The SSL contract covers the Circle, District, Hammersmith & City, Metropolitan and East London lines.LU Chairman Derek Smith said that ...

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    Education across the Øresund

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    INTRO: Staff involved in cross-border railway operation must be able to understand each others’ languages, culture, and procedures. Technology is often emphasised, but education is also of vital importanceBYLINE: Svend PoulsenChief Advisor Birch & Krogboe AS Consulting EngineersWHEN THE Øresund link between Denmark and Sweden opened last year, it was ...

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    Freight accord

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    FRENCH National Railways and German Railway announced on September 5 that they were forming a working party to study ways of improving cross-border rail freight between their networks. The team will be headed by Dr Helmut Draxler, whose term as Director General of Austrian Federal Railways came to an end ...

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    World Speed Survey 2001: Speeds improve, but no changes at the top

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    Over 20 countries now operate passenger services at over 120 km/h, with 10 countries exceeding 150 km/h. In our biennial survey of the world's fastest journeys, Dr Colin Taylor finds there are no changes in the top slots, though TGV Méditerranée brings France closer to Japan's lead. Most changes lie ...

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    Manila Line 2 work resumes

    2001-10-01T10:00:00Z

    MANILA’s Light Rail Transit Administration confirmed on August 21 that construction had resumed on metro Line 2. Work had been delayed for several years by land acquisition problems, which were finally settled on July 31. The line is now expected to open for revenue service in the third quarter of ...

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    World Speed Survey 2001

    2001-10-01T07:40:00Z

    Speeds improve, but no change at the top HIGH-SPEED TRAINS have cut the fastest journey times on some inter-city routes by over 80% since 1914, according to the latest biennial World Rail Speed Survey, published in the October 2001 issue of Railway Gazette International. The opening of France's TGV-Méditerranée ...