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Metros
Canada:Toronto Transit Commission has signed a C$7·9m contract for integrated software from IFS Applications to replace five maintenance and support systems.China:Coronet Rail Ltd has won an order to supply fishplates worth £100000 for the 3·5 km Yam O - Penny’s Bay light metro feeder line in Hong Kong.France:RATP has placed ...
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Pointers
Nigerian Minister of State for Transport Alhaji Mohammed Musahas has held discussions with China Civil Engineering Construction Co in Beijing over extending a Ccecc contract for technical assistance with refurbishment of the NRC network to include the management of rail operations.Russian Railways President Gennadi Fadeyev has agreed with Siemens Transportation ...
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Sidetrack
200 years oldFEBRUARY 21 marks the 200th anniversary of the first journey of a steam locomotive running on rails. Richard Trevithick’s 7 tonne machine hauled five wagons, 10 tonnes of iron and 70 passengers for about 15 km on a tramway at the Pen Y Darren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil ...
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France's ninth modern tram network began carrying passengers in December, and work is getting underway on the first of seven extensions. Chris Jackson looks at Bordeaux's innovative surface-contact power supply
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Market January 2004
Austria: ÖBB has placed a €215m order with Bombardier and Elin for 60 more four-car Talent regional and commuter EMUs, to be delivered fom July 2005 to the end of 2006. Canada: Canadian Pacific has signed a seven-year IT outsourcing contract with IBM worth C$200m, under which 100 employees ...
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Jerusalem in under 30min
FUNDING for the long-planned high speed line from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and other major projects was allocated in Israel's budget for the next five years announced on December 1; for the first time the rail spend this year (US$800m) will exceed that allocated for roads (US$780m). On ...
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Line 4 foreshadows urban expansion
SPEAKING at the Central & Eastern European Rail summit on November 27, Deputy Director-General for Economics of Budapest Transport Tam
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Brussels - Luxembourg accelerated
FROM the start of the winter timetable on December 15, Belgian National Railways and Luxembourg Railways have accelerated their inter-city services between the two capitals. Work is underway to rebuild the E411/E25 motorway connecting Brussels and Luxembourg by summer 2006, and the railways have increased capacity by 20% to cope ...
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More open access
IN A report on November 25 former head of Banverket Jan Brandborn proposes open access throughout Sweden, including routes where SJ AB or regional authorities enjoy a monopoly on passenger services. Rikstrafiken, the authority that administers subsidies to some national routes, would be given greater responsibility, including management of a ...
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Understanding of RCF advances
THERE IS now a far greater understanding of rolling contact fatigue in the UK than there was on October 17 2000 when the Hatfield derailment occurred. In part this is due to the Wheel-Rail Interface System Authority, set up in 2001 to co-ordinate the response to RCF by a shattered ...
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Financial advisers named
SAUDI Railways Organisation President Khalid H Alyahya announced at the Mena Rail conference staged by IIR in Dubai on December 9 that financial advisers had been appointed for Saudi Arabia’s planned rail expansion projects.UBS of Switzerland and the National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia have been chosen to handle the ...
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Dutch vow not to slip up again
MANY railways suffer from slippery rails in the autumn, and Netherlands Railways is no exception. During a storm over the weekend of October 27-28 2002 NS was hit exceptionally badly, and rolling stock availability fell in the following weeks as many wheelsets had been damaged. A predictable public outcry ensued, ...
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JFK Airtrain opens
DECEMBER 17 saw the formal opening of the 13 km automated peoplemover network serving JFK International Airport. The date had been selected to mark the centenary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight. Airtrain provides a link between the various airline terminals, together with external connections to Howard Beach subway station ...
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RailNet goes alone
JANUARY 1 2004 sees the transformation of RailNetEurope into a free-standing non-profit organisation, with its own offices in Wien, following a decision by the steering committee on December 3. RNE was set up by the European Infrastructure Managers group as a forum to establish co-operation for allocation of international freight ...
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Larkhall approved
PASSENGER trains are set to return to the Lanarkshire town of Larkhall in October 2005, following a final go-ahead for a £35m project. Scottish Transport Minister Nicol Stephen confirmed on December 5 that the Scottish Executive would lift its funding contribution from £16m to £25m, reflecting increases in the projected ...
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Connex picked in Auckland
JULY 1 will see TranzRail hand over operation of Auckland’s commuter trains to Connex under a deal announced on November 26. Connex was selected as preferred contractor ahead of rival bids from Stagecoach and Serco, and the contract is due to be signed by Auckland Regional Council this month.Auckland’s two ...
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Dubai metro will be automated
SPEAKING at the Mena Rail conference at the Dubai World Trade Centre on December 9, Dr Abdelqader O Elshabani, Technical Co-ordinator for the Dubai Rail Project in Dubai Municipality’s Planning & Survey Department, confirmed that the planned urban rail network will use driverless technology with platform screen doors. Trains would ...
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Four contend to build Tel Aviv Red line
ISRAELI Transport Minister Avingor Liebermann announced in November that four consortia had been shortlisted for the 32-year concession to build and operate the Red line light metro in Tel Aviv. Project manager NTA has issued a request for proposals, and expects to announce the winning bidder at the beginning of ...
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... as Spoornet goes back together
IN MAY last year the South African government appointed Dolly Mokgatle as Chief Executive of Spoornet. The 20070 km network she found was not in good shape, and in November she decided how she would start to turn the business round.Spoornet had moved into the red in 1998-99 with a ...
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CN wins BC Rail concession
ON NOVEMBER 25 the government of British Columbia announced that it had selected Canadian National Railway for a 60-year concession to operate the 2315 km BC Rail network. Premier Gordon Campbell said CN would pay C$1bn over the life of the concession. Half of this will be used to retire ...