All articles by Railway Gazette International – Page 1402
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Croatian wires
ON NOVEMBER 24 Croatian Railways commissioned the last section of 25 kV overhead wiring for the reinstatement of electric services on the Zagreb - Beograd main line. The 32 km from Vinkovci to the Serbian border at Tovarnik was severed by the Balkan war in 1991, but rehabilitation started in ...
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CrossCountry DEMUs ordered
BRITISH operator Virgin Rail placed a £1060m order on December 9 for Bombardier to supply and maintain a fleet of 78 diesel-electric multiple-units between 2001 and 2002. The 200 km/h trains will operate Virgin CrossCountry services and Virgin West Coast's London - Holyhead route. The contract is valued at £390m ...
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NJ picks DBOM
ON DECEMBER 7 NJ Transit selected a consortium of Bechtel and Adtranz to design, build, operate and maintain a 55 km ’diesel light rail’ line along the Delaware River corridor from Trenton to Camden. Southern New Jersey Rail Group bid US$615m for the contract, which will be awarded after a ...
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Midland Turbostar debuts in May
MORE SERVICES and extra capacity on Britain’s main line from London St Pancras to Sheffield and Nottingham are planned for this summer. From the May timetable change the first 10 of 17 two-car Class170/1 Turbostar diesel multiple-units will join Midland Mainline’s 13-strong High Speed Train fleet as the workhorses of ...
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Test tracks in demand
AS EUROPE’S railways adjust their procurement procedures towards performance specifications for rolling stock and other equipment, suppliers are having to assume fresh responsibilities. It is increasingly the manufacturer who takes the blame for trains with commercially damaging teething troubles, so it is perhaps no surprise that the industry is putting ...
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Industrial disputes foster rivalry
IN A MESSAGE signed by President Louis Gallois to be published in French newspapers on December 18, French National Railways announced the sale of Fr20 day tickets for travel within specified regions over the Christmas period. It was a gesture of reconciliation to passengers who have had their patience severely ...
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Enafer sale starts
BIDDING rules for the forthcoming privatisation of Peru’s national rail network were due to be published on December 16, according to the President of the country’s privatisation commission, Copri. Patrick Barclay hopes to complete the process and award contracts by the end of April.The government plans to award three 30-year ...
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No light at the end
SWEDEN’S rail infrastructure authority Banverket reported on December 9 that it would not be worth completing the heavily-delayed Hallandsåsen tunnel on the West Coast trunk line. Finishing the twin 8·5 km bores would require at least SKr4·3bn, way above the commercial and social benefits to be gained. Even a single-track ...
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EWS penetrates German market
ON DECEMBER 1 English Welsh & Scottish Railway dispatched its first through freight train to Germany via the Channel Tunnel. Leaving Wembley in north London at 00.07, it was scheduled to reach K
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Valencia to expand metro
A FIVE-POINT plan to expand the Valencia rail network at a cost of Pts15bn was unveiled by the President of the Generalitat Valenciana Eduardo Zaplana in November. This sets out future priorities following the inauguration of the Line 3 cross-city tunnel in September (RG 11.98 p753). The regional government has ...
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Train ferry plan
CHINESE Railways has decided to run a train ferry across the Yangtze river at Jiang’in, east of Nanjing. Work will start on the project this year for opening in 2001. The ferry will form part of the 642 km Xinyi - Chanxing line to open up the eastern seaboard between ...
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Frozen fortune
LAST MONTH we reported on problems affecting Russian Railways’ Trans-Siberian main line and proposals to rejuvenate its role as a landbridge. At the 7th conference of the Co-Ordinating Council on Trans Siberian Transport in Bremen, concern was expressed about the drastic fall in container traffic from 120000 units a year ...
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London’s light railway grows up
INTRO: The original Docklands Light Railway cost £77m, but Richard Hope found that total investment is approaching £1bn as a third extension nears completion - and there is more to comeBYLINE: Ian BrownChief ExecutiveDocklands Light Railway LtdBYLINE: Bill ShepherdProject ManagerLewisham ExtensionLRG ContractorsCHRISTMAS WAS DUE to see a major software upgrade ...
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TRTC readies Hsinchung line
TAIPEI Rapid Transit Corp President Richard Chen confirmed in November that the city’s third metro line would open before the end of 1998. The 7·8 km Hsinchung line combines the northern half of the Hsintien (Green) line between the Main station and Kuting and the southern section of the Chungho ...
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Swiss support huge rail spend
NO CLEARER signal could have been given. On November 29 the Swiss population voted by a majority of 63·5% to support a massive investment programme in their rail network. The Bern government now has a mandate to spend SFr30·5bn on rail projects over the next two decades, including the much ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: On November 18 Adtranz MAV Dunakeszi Kft handed over six refurbished couchette coaches to Hungarian State Railways for use by lorry drivers travelling on Hungarokombi piggyback trains. Rolling motorway trains have a 12% market share of the 700000 lorries that cross Hungary each year
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INTELLIGENCE
Australia: Western Australia’s government has set up the Rail Advisory Council to look at rail access, sale of Westrail, and access to North Quay, Fremantle, including possible double-stack operation.BHP Iron Ore was due to receive the first of six AC6000CW diesel locos from General Electric in December for use on ...
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: The first Gatwick Express EMU built by Alstom Transport in Birmingham to the Juniper design was due to start test running on December 18
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INTELLIGENCE
CAPTION: The first four spans for the cable-stayed high bridge on the Øresund fixed link were in position by December 11 and the last span on the 3·7 km eastern approach was installed on December 3. The last of the immersed tube tunnel segments is to be positioned this month
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DISTRIBUTED to subscribers with this issue is Rail Business Report 99. This edition includes the World Bank performance database, a review of investment plans in Europe, an assessment of the US rolling stock market, and articles about railway developments in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, West Rail in Hong Kong, and ...