All Railway Gazette International articles in September 1999 – Page 4

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    Pointers

    1999-09-01T10:00:00Z

    n Expect a programme for the privatisation of Estonian Railways to be published this month. Roads & Communications Minister Toivo Jurgenson hopes to complete the sale around the start of 2000, and expects to retain at least 33% of the shares.n Upgrading of the Tecate - Plaster City section of ...

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    Tren Urbano starts to take shape

    1999-09-01T10:00:00Z

    INTRO: Construction of the initial heavy metro line serving the Puerto Rican capital San Juan is approaching the midway point, with the first cars expected to start test running early next year BYLINE: Klaus TiedemannProject Director, Siemens Transit TeamTOWARDS THE END of this year, a pre-series married-pair of metro cars ...

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    Sidetrack

    1999-09-01T10:00:00Z

    Make it easyFRENCH National Railways has made much play recently of the introduction of regular-interval timetables on TGV routes to Lille, Lyon and western France. How nice to see that good ideas eventually win their converts, even if it is a decade or two after everyone else.Not of course that ...

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    Zambian turnround

    1999-09-01T10:00:00Z

    In March 1998, a team from Hifab International AB of Sweden, in association with DE-Consult of Germany, began a 30-month contract to manage and restructure Zambia Railways Ltd on behalf of the Swedish International Development Agency. The management team found it was running a railway in far worse condition than ...