All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1350
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Maghreb metamorphosis
CIVIL WAR has long precluded serious interest by outside parties in the fate of the 4219 km Algerian Railways network. The murderous feuds of the recent past will not be forgotten, but it looks as though opportunities to revitalise what was once a busy and growing railway are at hand. ...
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Market
Australia: Goninan has been selected to supply nine new Prospector DMUs to Westrail by 2003 at a cost of A$59m. The fleet will comprise one three-car and two two-car 200 km/h sets for Perth - Kalgoorlie and a 150 km/h two-car set for AvonLink services to Northam.Azerbaijan: AZR has called ...
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Pacific revival
THIS MONTH is due to see the start of work on the renovation of Colombia’s Pacific rail network, serving the port of Buenaventura. The work is being done by a consortium of four local engineering firms, with Rites of India. Rites stepped in to replace the Spanish engineering firm Sacyr, ...
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PEOPLE
JR East President Masatake Matsuda becomes Chairman in succession to Shuichiro Yamanouchi, who has been appointed President of Japan’s National Space Development Agency. Vice President Mutsutake Otsuka steps up to the Presidency. In a separate move, Chief Rolling Stock Engineer Yoshihiko Sato has joined JR East’s affiliated company Nippon Rolling ...
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Workshops restructured
SWISS Federal Railways has decided not to hive off its workshops to an external supplier, but to reorganise them into service centres to trim SFr100m off the current rolling stock maintenance budget of SFr600m a year by 2005. The programme, dubbed ’Redesign Service Rollmaterial’, will mean cutting the number of ...
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TV at your table
TO DEMONSTRATE its TrainView passenger entertainment and information system to operators, the Passenger Rail Division of The Network Connection (TNCi) has unveiled a ’simulator’ at its British headquarters in Derby. Furnished with seats supplied by Antolin Loire, the simulator features seatback and table-mounted 8·4in LCD screens. TrainView has been developed ...
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Line 10 extends
MADRID City Council has selected two consortia led by Dragados y Construcciones and by NECSO and FCC for civil engineering on a southern extension of metro Line 10, at a cost of Pts25bn. The 3 km first stage of the extension, valued at Pts11bn, will run from Puerta de Bat
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Roger 1000 ready to roll
NORWEGIAN rail infrastructure authority Jernbaneverket has taken delivery of its Roger 1000 track and overhead line recording car from MerMec of Italy (RG 3.98 p169). The Roger 1000 is a key element in the authority's programme of network upgrading to accommodate tilting trains. It is carried on ETR470 Pendolino bogies, ...
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Shanghai Line 2 inaugurated
ON JUNE 11 Chinese government officials joined Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuang-di to inaugurate the first 16·3 km of the city’s second metro line. This section runs from Zhongshan Park to Long Dong Lu in the suburb of Pudong (RG 1.99 p27). Test running on Line 2 began last October using ...
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Linx readies to launch in June 2001
INTRO: From early 2002 international services in the Nordic Triangle linking København, Stockholm and Oslo will all be worked by tilting trains, offering shorter journey times and a higher quality of customer service. To run the Oslo - Stockholm and Oslo - København routes, SJ and NSB have founded a ...
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DB and NS to pool ICE3s
German Railway and Netherlands Railways signed an agreement on June 13 to operate their multi-voltage ICE3 sets jointly on the K
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U3 bidding soon
INTERNATIONAL tenders are to be called within the next two or three months for electrical and mechanical systems on Germany’s first purpose-built automated metro line. Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg has now put together the funding package for construction of U-Bahn Line U3, which is due to be operational by the end of ...
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Acela must slow down
DESPITE the generous loading gauge normally available in North America, the New York - Boston schedule for Amtrak’s 240 km/h Acela Express will be 15min longer than the 3h planned for last December’s start of service. Amtrak’s latest estimate for the launch is ’the beginning of August’. Last month endurance ...
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Kasai warns against total sell-off
WITH A general election due in Japan this month, the President of Central Japan Railway Yoshiyuki Kasai has renewed his attack against government plans to sell its remaining shares in the JR companies. Although the government has already indicated that it does not expect to push through a bill for ...
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Japanese sign THRSC agreement
TAIWAN High Speed Rail Corp signed a Memorandum of Understanding on June 13 with the Taiwan Shinkansen Consortium for the NT$95bn E&M systems contract to equip the Taipei - Kaohsiung high-speed line. The deal was signed by THSRC Senior Vice-President Lee Kuo-hsiung and TSC representative Yoshiyuki Yokota. 'By signing this ...
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Line H bidding starts Buenos Aires expansion
THE BUENOS AIRES city government is expected by the end of this month to award the first contracts for civil works on Line H, a north-south addition to the city’s metro network that will eventually link Retiro with Nueva Pompeya. Bidders were asked to quote a total price covering two ...
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Airport alliance
ON MAY 29 Bombardier Transportation signed a memorandum of agreement with Kumho Engineering & Construction to bid for construction of an automated light metro in the South Korean port of Pusan. The municipal government had called bids by June 7 for a 23·9 km rail link from the city centre ...