All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1115
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Intelligence April 2007
China: Work is due to begin this month on the construction of a privately-funded 29 km freight railway between Pengzhou and Bailu in Sichuan province. Sichuan Dezhong Investment Construction Co has a 30-year Build-Operate-Transfer agreement for the 420m yuan line which will serve customers including a cement works, ethylene plant ...
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Pointers April 2007
The Russian Academy of Transport is to develop standards for high speed operations on 1 520 mm gauge railways, to allow compatible developments across the CIS countries. Chattanooga Enterprise Center has appointed Arcadis to undertake a statefunded study into the feasibility of constructing a high speed maglev on a ...
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Finance April 2007
Australia: On March 15 Minister for Transport & Regional Services Mark Vaile announced the federal government’s approval of a A$78m 10-year rescue package and works programme for Tasmania’s railways. The 1 067 mm gauge lines between Hobart, Launceston and Burnie will be upgraded under a plan announced in December 2005, ...
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Express metro and light rail will support capital's growth
Four major projects are under development to expand the Tunisian capital's rail network over the next 15 years as urban growth continues to drive up patronage, reports Zouhayer Ben Abdelkader
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Advanced turnouts for Taiwan's high speed trains
Turnouts for the Taipei - Kaohsiung high speed line have been developed using kinematic gauge optimisation to improve ride quality when diverging at higher speeds. Better design should help to reduce wear and improve life-cycle performance
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NewsTGVs to Marrakech
MOROCCO: On February 21 French engineering consultancy Systra announced that its Moroccan subsidiary had been awarded a contract by Oncfm to develop plans for a dedicated passenger line between Settat and Marrakech. Systra Morocco will be working with local consultants CID, Team Maroc and APTE on the 18-month study, which ...
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Desert riches fuel network revival
Greater political stability and a measure of prosperity are returning to Algeria, with revenues from oil and gas helping to pay for an ambitious programme to rebuild and expand the rail network. Murray Hughes reports
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Finance March 2007
China: On January 30 the World Bank approved a US$200m loan towards doubletracking and partial realignment of the Lupanshui – Zhanyi section of the Guiyang to Kunming railway. This will increase capacity to accommodate growing business from western China. Europe: Eurofima reported a net profit of SFr45·4m in 2006, ...
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Intelligence March 2007
Australia: A replacement 200 m bridge across the Murrumbidgee at Wagga Wagga in New South Wales was opened on January 3. The A$16m project undertaken by Arenco under ARTC's A$2·4bn North South Rail Investment programme allowed an increase in running speed from 20 to 80 km/h. Belgium: Infrabel has ...
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The challenge of spending wisely
The European Union is making €14bn available for the new member states in Central and Eastern Europe to invest in rail up to 2013. With no comprehensive development plan to take advantage of this largesse, governments and railways need to take urgent action if the rail sector is to be ...
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Open access in a challenging market
Set up in the late 1990s to bid for a share of Poland's rail freight business, Rail Polska became an open access operator in 2003. The company began carrying international traffic last year and is now growing rapidly as the Polish open access market develops
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NewsModel restructuring reshapes CFR to survive in a competitive market
Romania's railways are preparing to operate in a market environment where the latest European regulations apply. Restructuring has helped to stabilise the freight sector, where private operators now have a 25% share, but more remains to be done to secure the passenger business
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NewsADIF plans €23bn spend in 2007-10
SPAIN: On January 26 the cabinet approved the 2007-10 contract programme between the government and ADIF, which will see the infrastructure authority receive a total of €11·9bn from the state. Over this period ADIF is planning to spend a total of €23bn, with the balance to be found from ...
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Rail cuts CO2 emissions by 20%
UK OPERATORS have been criticised in recent years for buying trains that are heavier and use more energy per seat-km than those they replace. Key factors have been crashworthiness, retention toilets, air-conditioning and the need to accommodate wheelchairs. This, it is claimed even by transport ministers, has increased kWh/seat-km and ...
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Market March 2007
Angola: ÅF Group's SwedeRail business has been appointed to provide the National Railway Institute with technical assistance for the restructuring of railway legislation. Australia: Union Switch & Signal has won a contract to supply signalling and other asset protection systems for the Lang Hancock Railway in Western Australia. The ...
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Metros March 2007
Argentina: Alstom has been awarded a contract to provide signalling and a control centre for the 3·6 km extension of Buenos Aires metro Line A from Primera Junta to Nazca. Under a two-stage programme, work on the extension is scheduled for completion by December 2008. Canada: Toronto Transit Commission ...