All Railway Gazette International articles in September 2001 – Page 4
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Ankara extends
CONSTRUCTION of the 17·7 km Batikent - Sincan metro extension in Ankara was due to get under way on August 18, following the award of a US$151m contract to Guris Insaat ve Muhendislik. This covers civil engineering on the western extension, which will add 12 stations to the heavy metro ...
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Amtrak restructures to cut costs
ON JULY 27 America’s National Railroad Passenger Corp announced that it will implement a corporate restructuring programme with effect from October 1, in a bid to improve its bottom line by up to US$85m a year. Amtrak plans to offer early retirement and other incentives to reduce its management ...
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Alstom wins Firenze
ALSTOM FERROVIARIA has been selected to build and equip the first of three planned light rail lines in the Italian city of Firenze. This follows a second round of international tenders, as none of the bids lodged in July 2000 proved acceptable. Local transport operator ATAF has been allocated 240bn ...
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Alpine study group formed
DETAILED design studies and exploratory works for the Lyon - Torino rail link and base tunnel project are to get under way ’immediately’, according to Sergio Pininfarina, President of the intergovernmental commission set up to oversee the project. Meeting in Torino on July 24 to follow up the June 28 ...
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Alameda Corridor East
CALIFORNIA Transportation Commission has appropriated $153m to start construction of a second grade-separated freight corridor in the Los Angeles Basin. Running 56·3 km from East Los Angeles to Pomona, ’Alameda Corridor East’ will act as an extension of the 32 km Alameda Corridor between the city centre and the ports ...
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Sheremetyevo gets airport link
CONSTRUCTION work is due to get under way next year on a rail link to Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, following the signing of an agreement in July between Russian Railways Minister Nikolai Aksyonenko, the Vice-Premier of the Moscow City Government Iosif Ordzhonokidze and Aeroflot Director-General Valery Okulov. The decision to connect ...
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Putin and Kim agree Trans-Siberian strategy
MEETING in Moscow on August 4 (p572), Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean President Kim Jong-il backed plans to connect the Korean rail network into the Trans-Siberian landbridge corridor, confirming that ’the two countries will start working on reconnecting [the two lines] in the very nearest future.’Following the accord, ...
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Line 9 contracts awarded
ON JULY 31 the Catalunya regional government announced the award of its largest ever package of public works contracts, comprising design, construction and technical assistance for Barcelona metro Line 9 (RG 7.01 p437) worth a total of Pts119·5bn. The largest single contract worth Pts64·4bn has been awarded to a consortium ...
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Developing wheelsets for 30 tonne axleloads
BYLINE: Roger Lundén, Johan Marais and Stefan Schrader *BYLINE: * Roger Lundén is Director of Charmec, and Professor at the Department of Applied Mechanics at Chalmers University of Technology in G
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