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Articles in Oct, 2004 issue of International Railway Journal

• Eurostar upgrade begins
• A new 11.4 million [pounds sterling] train cleaning facility is to be built at Fortwilliam by Translink for Northern Ireland Railways
• Transnet, the parent company of the national railway Spoornet, suffered a loss of Rand 6.3 billion during the year to March
• Jordan revives Amman LRT plan
• A proposal for a new metro line connecting Dumdum airport with Howrah station
• Winder Electrical has won a 1.2 million [pounds sterling] contract for 55 distribution and isolation transformers for 23 sites across London associated with the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
• As part of the infrastructure renewal of railways in Iraq
• Union Switch & Signal has won a contract for 31 sets of MicroCab ATP cab signalling systems
• High-tech wheel monitoring arrives in London: Metronet Rail is introducing a state-of-the-art system to monitor wear and detect faults on the wheels of trains operating on London Underground's sub-surface lines. The objective is to change from reactive to
  by David Briginshaw
• Freight operator changes hands
• Amtrak scraps mail contract
• Puerto Rico studies railway
• Jerusalem LRT financing clears hurdle
• Four companies have submitted technical bids to extend Line B of the metro
• Belgian National Railways has ordered 80 THEC/LO locomotive radio remote control systems from Cattron-Theimeg Europe
• Indian Railways has invited bids for 2800 monoblock wheels
• ASK, France, has been selected by Thales to supply contactless cards and tickets for the nationwide contactless AFC system
• Perth rail etwork to double in size: Perth is making progress on a big project which will double its passenger rail network by the end of 2006
  by Ian Hammond
• The debt we owe to Japan's high-speed railway pioneers
  by David Briginshaw
• Sir Alastair Morton dies
• Conductor rail tested at 260km/h
• The Transport Ministry has approved a SFr 125 million scheme to upgrade Visp station
• UITP proposes sustainable transport actions
• According to its latest environmental report, London Underground uses about 3.5% of all electricity consumed in London
• Bulgarian State Railways is offering for sale, in lots of 100 wagons, 5259 second-hand freight wagons
• A strategic cooperation agreement has been reached between Afcon Industries, Israel, and Alstom Transport to create a group to compete for railway electrification contracts
• Japan celebrates the birth of high-speed rail: forty years ago this month, Japan opened the world's first dedicated high-speed railway, signalling a new start for railways worldwide
  by Mike Knutton
• Website directory
• BA improves rail facilities
• China Railway Engineering Corporation has agreed to build, finance, and transfer a rail link which forms part of Fortescue Metal's $A 1.85 billion iron ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
• A joint railways steering committee, representing the governments of Kenya and Uganda, has invited pre-qualification bids from the private sector
• CDG gets new peoplemovers
• Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and Northern Railway have decided to integrate their services starting with installation of escalators to link the Ajmeri Gate side of New Delhi main station with the metro
• Mitsui Rail Capital has followed up its order for 250 freight wagons from Randon, by ordering 400 wagons from Amsted-Maxion
• High-Point Rendel, Britain, has a contract to offer specialist advice to Stup Consulting
• A Eurofima loan of 74 million [euro] enables Slovenian Railways to buy 20 engines from Siemens
• Controlling wheel squeal on rapid transit systems: noise, particularly high-frequency wheel squeal, is a continuing problem on rapid transit systems. Wheel/rail noise can be generated by a number of mechanisms, depending on the track and vehicle configura
• Zhejiang province to invest $US 12 billion
• Passenger services are scheduled to be launched on the Guangdong-Hainan rail and sea link next month
• Cape Town station has been refurbished at a cost of Rand 12 million
• Delhi Metro completes tunnelling
• The first overhauled Central Line train that is to be used as a benchmark for overhauling the rest of the 84-strong fleet in a 68 million [pounds sterling] programme has gone into service
• Application Solutions has won a contract from Atkins Rail for emergency public address systems
• A TL 70 tracklayer from Desec, Finland, was handed over to Rail Infrastructure Corporation
• A spur to regional growth and integration
• Rendezvous
• Minuettos take their first graceful steps
• The Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services Ministry has signed a cooperation agreement with Russian Railways
• Mr James Evans has retired as president of European Infrastructure Managers
• Chengdu metro gets local approval
• Bids are invited by December 1 by the city of Buenos Aires for 11 five-car trains to operate on Line H
• CVRD has called bids for 1340 metre-gauge gondolas
• IR will manufacture 63 Linke-Hofmann-Busch-type non air-conditioned coaches during 2004-05
• Land Transport Authority has awarded a 3 million [pounds sterling] contract to Deluge Fire Protection
• Sydney rail network to be split into five 'clearways': a period of concentration on safety, performance and technical issues has culminated in a dramatic change of direction for Sydney CityRail
  by Ian Hammond
• DB division deteriorates
• Revised Belgrano concession
• SNCB plays down study findings
• An attempt to sabotage the line between Mersin and Iskenderun on a section near Dortyol failed
• British LRT shows growth
• Civil engineering contractors are invited to pre-qualify by October 12 for construction of the 3.8km Boon Lay Extension, with two stations, of the Singapore Metro
• Atkins Denmark, acting as a consultant to main contractor, Bombardier Transportation, has won a 500,000 [pounds sterling] contract for design and safety validation of geographic relay boxes at Ringsted Central station
• Israel Railways has called bids for an electronically-controlled portal wheel lathe
• Vertical integration proves to be a winner: the break-up and privatisation of Japanese National Railways on April 1 1987 has had profound, long-term effects on the Tokaido and other Shinkansen lines
  by Mike Knutton
• JR West completes technology test train
• Faiveley to acquire SAB Wabco
• British court rules on Hatfield
• Zambia Railways and National Railways of Zimbabwe plan to commission a stress assessment of the 100-year-old Victoria Falls road-and-rail bridge across the Zambesi
• Beijing upgrades Lines 1 and 2
• Technical and economic offers for revamping and operating Ferrocarril Belgrano Cargas were due by September 30
• Egyptian National Railways has called bids for 50,000 tonnes of 18m flat-bottomed
• The Tel Aviv Metro project management has announced that the closing date for the capital's metro project has put back from November 10 2004 to March 31 2005
• Westinghouse introduces a range of new systems: Westinghouse Rail Systems, Britain, part of the Invensys group, has developed a range of new signalling and train control systems for both the mainline and rapid transit rail markets which it believes will s
  by David Briginshaw
• 500-car order looms in Sydney
• Work has started on construction of a new Thameslink line station at St Pancras
• TransNamib Holdings has taken delivery of four diesel locomotives and 30 tank wagons at a total cost of $N 33.5 million
• Thailand tackles traffic jams
• Rail India Technical and Economic Services is to conduct a feasibility study for the state government of Haryana for a metro rail line.
• First Swietelsky, a joint venture between First Engineering, Britain, and Swietelsky, Austria, has won a two-year framework contract worth about 30 million [pounds sterling]
• Baghdad's Project and Contracting Office has called bids for up to six couchette

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