All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2000 – Page 3
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First franchise renegotiated
SSRA CHAIRMAN Sir Alastair Morton announced on August 10 the first fruits of the programme to renegotiate Britain’s passenger franchises. Heads of terms have been agreed with incumbent M40 Trains as preferred operator of Chiltern Railways for up to 20 years in return for a £370m investment programme that the ...
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Private freight
MID-JULY saw the start of open-access freight services on Romania’s national rail network. Rail engineering and rolling stock maintenance company Sefer SA has started hauling petroleum products from Brazi, southeast of Ploiesti, to Chitila, northeast of Bucuresti. The 30-wagon train carries 2500 tonnes, but capacity will be increased to 3200 ...
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NewsMixed gauge link study
NEXT MONTH should see the completion of an initial study for creating a north-south corridor between Poland and Romania via Ukraine. The United Nations' Trans-European Rail Office has appointed Gibb Transportation Consulting to look at the feasibility of upgrading a 600 km route from Tarnow to Oradea to speed transit ...
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Overnight trains to go private
PLANS are being drawn up for a private company to take over operation of German Railway’s overnight service linking Berlin with Malm
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Singapore metro goes public
TRADING in Singapore MRT Corp shares began on July 26, making it the world’s first modern metro operator to be publicly listed. When the offer closed on July 25 there were 110671 applications amounting to 1·08 billion shares for the 209·5 million shares available to the public. The share price ...
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Strasbourg grows
THIS MONTH sees the opening of two more light rail lines in Strasbourg, doubling the length of the 12·6 km network. Line B will run from Elsau in the southwest to Hoenheim Nord, intersecting with Line A at Homme de Fer. Line C will share tracks from Elsau to République ...
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Hoist with their own petard
ONCE AGAIN, Argentine politicians have scored an own goal in their attempts to deal with the reletting of operating concessions on the suburban railways serving Buenos Aires. The issue of being allowed to charge higher fares to pay for badly-needed investment lies at the core of the problem as the ...
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Lilyfield inaugurated
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr opened the 3·1 km Sydney light rail extension on August 13, serving stations at Glebe, Jubilee Park (above), Rozelle and Lilyfield;. Following a former SRA NSW freight railway alignment, the extension cost A$20m to build. NSW Transport Minister Carl Scully confirmed at the opening ...
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Industry News
France: Alstom Transport has reported turnover of 874m euros for the first quarter to June 30, down from 1·02bn euros in the first quarter of 1999-2000. Orders were however up from 1·02bn euros to 1·14bn euros.Sema Group has formed a strategic global alliance with SAP to provide software solutions for ...
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Polymeric insulator
AT THE REQUEST of infrastructure maintenance contractor GTRM, a 25 kV polymeric post insulator has been developed specifically for use in upgrading catenary for 200 and 225 km/h operation on Britain’s West Coast main line. Once the polymeric insulator has been approved by Railtrack, it will be used to replace ...
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INTELLIGENCE
China: The Minstry of Railways has approved two new routes in Fujian province. The 277 km Wenfu Railway into Zhejiang province is to be completed in 2002 at a cost of 6·2bn yuan, and the 325 km Ganglong Railway into Jiangxi by 2004 at a cost of 8bn yuan.Electric operation ...
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Spoornet invests
PLANS to invest around R15bn in upgrading track and rolling stock on South Africa’s rail network over the next 15 years were announced at the end of July by the Managing Director Designate of Transnet Mafika Mkwanazi. He confirmed that the state holding company had committed itself to the first ...
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Iron Rhine the wrong way
Sir - Your report on the Iron Rhine in RG 7.00 p437, apart from the confusing layout making it hard to read, was also misleading and, in places, erroneous. The last through train - a piggyback service from Antwerpen to the Ruhr - ran on May 31 1991. The river ...
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Scheduled steam pays its way
Regular steam services returned to a British main line route this summer with the launch by Steam Dreams of The Cathedrals Express every Wednesday from London Victoria to Canterbury and back, with two runs from Waterloo to Salisbury in August and September.So successful has the operation been that six more ...
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Korean link to reopen next year
WORK IS expected to start this month to reinstate the rail link between North and South Korea, which has been disused for over 50 years. Reinstatement of the missing section of the Seoul - Pyongyang main line is to be completed before the end of next year, as part of ...
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White Seagulls serve Kyushu
PREMIER services on JR Kyushu’s main line between Hakata and Nagasaki are now operated by the company’s fourth design of air-conditioned limited express EMU. The Series 885 Kamome or Seagull units are derived from the Series 883 sets used on the Hakata - Oita run. With a top speed of ...
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Laser treatment for wheels
SWEDISH regional operator Svenska Tågkompaniet has awarded Duroc Rail a contract to maintain the wheels and wheelsets of its rolling stock fleet, including application of the Duroc treatment process to extend the life of contact surfaces. This uses a high-power laser to heat the wheel tread, followed by application of ...
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Littleton line launched
DENVER RTD inaugurated its 14 km Southwest light rail line from I25/Broadway to Mineral Avenue in the suburb of Littleton on July 14. Parallelling existing BNSF and UP tracks, the route has four intermediate stops at Evans, Englewood, Oxford and Littleton/Downtown. Journey time on the extension is 14min, with services ...
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Siemens wins Maracaibo LRT
A TURNKEY contract to build and equip the first 6·9 km of Maracaibo’s planned light rail network was awarded to Siemens Verkehrstechnik last month. Siemens announced on August 9 that it had won the 155m euros package, which includes the depot, six stations and 12 LRVs.Metro de Maracaibo is planning ...
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Sacramento LRVs
Sir - In Metro Report 2000 p17 you refer to 40 high-floor LRVs being built for the Sacramento Regional Transit District. These cars are being built by CAF with traction equipment from Alstom, not Siemens. Siemens-Duewag supplied the first two orders of Sacramento LRVs, with 26 being delivered in 1985-86 ...
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