All Railway Gazette International articles in October 2007 – Page 5
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Kyiv - Kharkiv wired
UKRAINIAN Railways General Manager Volodimir Kozak attended celebrations at Ogultsy station on September 20 to mark the formal completion of electrification of the route between Kyiv and Kharkiv. Work to electrify the missing section between Yahotin and Radnarkomivska began in 1994, with the extension of 25kV wires from Yahotin ...
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Norfolk line cleared by Congress
A CEREMONY to mark the approval of federal funding for the $232·1m light rail project in Norfolk, Virginia, took place on October 1, two days after the project was cleared by the US Congress. The $128m Full Funding Grant Agreement was approved only days after the Transportation District ...
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Dutch urban tendering retreat
PROSPECTS for the opening up of public transport in the biggest Dutch cities have fallen sharply, following an EU decision that cities with in-house operating companies need not call competitive tenders. The European Commission has retreated from its free-market approach at the behest of several member states, not least ...
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High Speed 1 inaugurated as London - Brussels joins the 2 h club
Eurostar set a record time of 1 h 43 min from Brussels to its new London St Pancras terminus on September 20. Murray Hughes was on board
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High Speed 1: the stations
St Pancras PASSENGERS from Paris and Brussels will now arrive at the stunningly-renovated St Pancras station, which with the adjacent Midland Hotel forms a masterpiece of Victorian architecture on the government's list of 9 137 buildings considered of Grade ...
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Who is who in High Speed 1
THE BRITISH government selected London & Continental Railways in February 1996 to build and operate High Speed 1 (then called the Channel Tunnel Rail Link), and to own and operate the UK arm of Eurostar. LCR's shareholders are Arup, Bechtel, Halcrow and Systra, transport operators National Express Group and SNCF, ...
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News‘Depot mark 2’ promises faster maintenance of faster trains
Andrew Grantham reports from Eurostar Engineering Centre Temple Mills
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China awards €1bn high-speed train contract
A BILLION euro order for 40 high-speed trainsets including 20 sleeper trains was signed by China's Ministry of Railways and manufacturer Bombardier Sifang Power (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd on October 31. The 16-car electric multiple-units will be 430 m long and capable of speeds up to 250 km/h. The order ...
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AGV tipped to win NTV contract
ALSTOM is reported to have preferred bidder status in the competition to supply rolling stock to Italian open access high speed operator Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, but the supplier is unable to confirm this, saying only that the company has been shortlisted. The French company is offering its AGV trainset with ...
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