All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1390
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Argentina: The government is to call tenders for the design, construction and operation over 30 years of a rail link between the centre of Buenos Aires and Ezeiza Airport, with the fastest journey time over the 40 km not to exceed 40min. Initial proposals include an extension of metro Line ...
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Real progress, but more is needed
PUBLIC HEARINGS called this month by the Productivity Commission will seek views on the way railway reform is being handled in Australia. A draft report was published by the Commission on March 30, and its final report is due in August. Despite huge changes in the way government owned railways ...
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Network with revenue potential
ECI Telecom has supplied a US$5m Syncom SDH telecommunications network to Singapore MRT. Linking 60 stations with trackside optic fibre cabling, it can transmit information at speeds of up to 400gigabits/sec. It supports SMRT’s telephone network and also carries data and pictures from station CCTV cameras to the control room.The ...
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On April 15 Guatemala President Alvaro Arzu Irigoyen and Transport Minister Fritz Garcia-Gallont joined Ferrovias Guatemala Chairman Henry Posner III and General Manager Renato Fernandez Ravelo to celebrate the return of freight services to the 914mm gauge network after a three year break. The thrice-weekly train will haul cement 60 ...
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Finnish infrastructure authority Ratahallintokeskus expects to call tenders this month for the extension of 25 kV electrification from Oulu to Rovaniemi and Tuomioja to Raahe. This forms part of a two-stage programme to wire the remaining trunk lines in northern Finland.CAPTION: Russian Railways’ Demikhovo EMU factory has completed a prototype ...
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As part of the Canadian National corporate restructuring to integrate Illinois Central, announced on April 14 (p261), President & Chief Executive Officer Paul M Tellier has named Michael Sabia as Executive Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer and E Hunter Harrison as Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer. Senior Vice-President, Network ...
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Arab Railway StatisticsStatistics for 13 members of the Arab Union of Railways covering 1997 show that Moroccan Railways carries the most freight, followed by Tunisia, whereas Egypt has the highest passenger traffic. Various network and traffic statistics are complemented by a directory of operators and suppliers in Arab countries. Eng ...
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Under or round
AT THE behest of Bavarian Transport Minister Otto Wiesheu, German Railway has been asked to examine proposals to increase capacity for cross-city services in München. Specifically, he wants DB to assess the feasibility of upgrading the southern ring linking the main station and the Ostbahnhof, with four tracks throughout and ...
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Westrail sale will start soon
EXPRESSIONS of interest are to be called shortly for a private concessionaire to operate rail services in Western Australia; the intention is to complete the sale this year. The state’s Rail Access Committee presented its recommendations to the government last month.Westrail’s rolling stock, depots, terminals and existing contracts are to ...
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Brief Encounter with Mega 3
INTRO: Richard Hope takes a ride with an innovative multi-purpose piggyback/container wagon designed for the restrictive British loading gaugeA TEST RUN from Derby to Carnforth and back, one of three carried out during February by Serco, provided an opportunity to assess the ride quality at 145 km/h of Babcock Rail’s ...
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Series 700 derivative will replace Doctor Yellow
INTRO: JR Central is developing a Shinkansen infrastructure inspection train able to measure track and overhead wire parameters at 270 km/hBYLINE: Seiichi IshizuChief Engineer, Technical Research & Development Division, Central Japan RailwayKNOWN as Dr Yellow because of its bright canary paint scheme, JR Central’s Shinkansen Multiple Inspection Train is a ...
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NewsAcela relaunches Northeast Corridor
As the first of Amtrak's fleet of high-speed trainsets for the Washington DC - New York - Boston corridor prepares to start test running at Pueblo, infrastructure upgrading is in full swing along the route.
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Madrid metro extends again
ON MARCH 3 the President of the City of Madrid inaugurated a 2·8 km extension of metro Line 1, which has been built at a cost of Pts8·9bn. It is the eighth in a series of metro extensions to be opened in the Spanish capital over the last 15 months ...
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WMATA looks ahead
WITH COMPLETION of the US capital’s 166 km metro network approaching after 30 years, planners in Washington DC are discussing possible extensions, to serve new suburbs and raise daily ridership to 2 million.Favoured projects include a new Red line station at Florida and New York Avenues, extension of the Blue ...
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Brisbane airport BOT
QUEENSLAND’s state government has awarded a build-operate-transfer concession to the Airtrain Citylink consortium for construction of an 8·5 km rail link to Brisbane airport at a cost of A$223m. Work is expected to take two years, followed by a 35-year operating period before the line is handed over to the ...
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SRT investment hits all time high
BYLINE: Saravudh DhamasiriGeneral ManagerState Railway of ThailandDOUBLE TRACKING, electrification, new rolling stock and resignalling are spearheading investment plans in Thailand. More than 180bn baht (US$4·5bn) will be spent by SRT over the next 10 years.The package of modernisation measures includes construction of several new lines (Table I), which will in ...
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Profits up at Ansaldo Signal
PRESENTing its results for the 1998 financial year on March 10, Ansaldo Signal reported revenue of US$354·5m, up 11·4% from 1997. Gross profit was up 40·2% at $77·1m and net income was $6·5m or $0·32 per share. This compares with Wall Street estimates of $0·15 for 1998 and a loss ...
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Exhibitors bank on Asian market revival
INTRO: Singapore Expo CentreApril 14-16SINGAPORE is the host city for the Exporail (Asia) 99 trade exhibition, being staged on April 14-16 at the Singapore Expo Centre. Organised by Interfama Brooks Exhibitions, the show is taking place at the same venue as the 1999 International Symposium on Public Transit for the ...
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Asturian link completed
SPANISH narrow gauge operator Feve inaugurated a cross-city link through the Asturian capital Oviedo on February 4. Separate termini built by different private railways serving eastern and western routes have been replaced by a new cross-city route, serving metre-gauge platforms within Renfe’s broad gauge station. Total cost of the project ...