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Articles in Nov, 2003 issue of International Railway Journal

• SJ compensates for delays
• Italian Railway Network has put into service its second of six integrated control centres being installed by Ansaldo Signal under a 150 million [euro] contract
• Arlanda express sold to bank
• Buenos Aires subway expands
• Artist's impression of the suspension bridge planned
• Transport minister, Mrs Karla Peijs
• Hungarian State Railways has awarded two contracts to Alcatel worth a total of 22 million [euro]
• Spanish National Railways
• Is the game up for R&D worldwide? The world's leaders in rail research and development came together at the WCRR in Britain last month. More than 700 delegates attended, but the optimism generated by new developments was tainted by uncertainty over fu
  by Steve Bennett
• GE develops "world's cleanest locomotive": GE Transportation Systems has developed the Evolution Series of diesel-electric locomotives after six years R&D work and an investment of $US 200 million
• Rendezvous
• Quiet brake blocks approved
• Network Rail has appointed Mr Rob den Besten as a non-executive director
• First live TV on board a train
• The proposed 80km high-speed line linking Johannesburg with Pretoria has been given the go-ahead by Gauteng province's environment and land department
• Airtrain, the automated light metro serving New York's JFK international airport, is due to open this month, several months later than planned due to an accident during testing
• The 4.5km Tis Hazari-Tri Nagar section of the metro was inaugurated by prime minister, Mr Atal Bebari Vajpayee on October 3
• The Strategic Rail Authority has received four bids for the new Northern Rail passenger franchise which will incorporate local and urban services in northern England currently operated by Arriva Trains Northern and First North Western
• The train control system for the Betuwe freight line will be supplied by Alstom in partnership with Holland Railconsult
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has awarded a $US 139 million contract to Granite Construction Company to demolish and rebuild the Market Street section of the elevated transit system in West Philadelphia
• 150 exhibitors at ET 2003
• China announces fifth speed-up
• German Rail needs a further 60 billion [euro] to modernise its infrastructure and boost efficiency, according to its chairman, Mr Hartmut Mehdorn
• Regulator tells NR to tighten its belt
• The JetTrain high-speed locomotive developed by Bombardier Transportation has recently been displayed to the public in Miami and Orlando
• Two derailments in London
• Miami-Dade County's Metropolitan Planning Organisation has approved a route for a Metrorail extension to Miami international airport
• German Rail has awarded a 11 million [euro] contract to Bombardier Transportation
• ZTP Beograd has awarded a $US 27 million contract to Koncar, Croatia, to refurbish 38 locomotives during the next two and a half years
• One TGV line at a time is quite enough!
• Eurotunnel plans to spread its wings: Eurotunnel is planning to enter the competitive fray in Europe within the next year. It has the commercial strength potentially to play an important part in establishing the principles of open access
• Toll Holdings tightens its grip on Tranz Rail
• SRA has extended the existing Central Trains franchise, held by National Express Group, for a further two years until March 2006
• Finnish Rosco to be set up
• The Slovak rail infrastructure company, ZSR, has announced that it will reduce its workforce of 22,000 by 25% during the next two years in an effort to save up to Koruna 1 billion annually
• Bombardier has won a $US 47.6 million contract to supply 12 low-floor Flexity Classic light rail vehicles to Leipzig
• Budapest Metro plans to introduce an electronic ticketing system by 2007
• Porterbrook Leasing has ordered 27 Turbostar cars from Bombardier Transportation at a cost of 32 million [pounds sterling]
• Nuon in partnership with Balfour Beatty Rail has been awarded a 31 million [euro] contract
• Chicago Transit Authority has awarded a $US 192 million contract to a joint venture of Kiewit and Reyes to rehabilitate the 9km Dan Ryan branch of the Red Line
• Vossloh Kiepe: keeping local transport on the move
• China unveils new strategy
• The first of Great North Eastern Railways' refurbished electric 225 trains went into commercial service last month in an official ceremony attended by Queen Elizabeth II
• Trenitalia and Alenia Spazio demonstrated live television, web TV, and internet connections via a satellite link on board a laboratory coach at Genoa Brignole station on October 22
• State Railway of Thailand plans to boost its fleet by placing further orders during the next few months
• Rotem wins in Salvador
• A 50-year concession for the SFr 590 million M2 project between Ouchy and Les Croisettes has been awarded to the Lausanne
• Tenders have been invited to rebuild the disused 21km Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine line
• Jernbaneverket, the infrastructure authority, has invited bids to build a double-track section of line between Sandvika and Asker
• Wabco Transit, a subsidiary of Wabtec Corporation, has been awarded a sub-contract worth up to $US 150 million to supply brakes, couplers, and current collectors
• Private operators face a tough challenge: the European Union is attempting to speed up the railways' slow progress towards open access through new legislation. But resistance is strong, and private railfreight operators still face a hugely difficult task
  by Steve Bennett
• Morocco plans high-speed line
• The 1143km line between Abidjan and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Research brings results
• Alcatel wins major LU contract
• Dart adopts austerity budget
• The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority has approved the 20-year Project Orpheus, which identifies 29 key traffic corridors and categorises them as either Superoutes, guided bus routes, or light rail routes.
• Budapest Metro has invited tenders for signalling and ATP/ATO for an 11.5km section of the M2 east-west metro line
• Botniabanan has awarded a turnkey SKr 1.3 billion contract to Skanska to build 32km of the southern part of the new Botnia Line
• Is political posturing paralysing Toronto?
• DB launches new locomotive strategy: German Rail has launched a three-stage strategy to modernise its diesel locomotive fleet. It involves withdrawing the oldest units, purchasing several hundred new locomotives of only three types, and fitting new engin
  by Matthias Muller
• Spain opens its second HS line
• The Strategic Rail Authority has signed a 15-year deal with Arriva Trains for the new Wales & Borders franchise to start on December 7
• Catalunya Railways has ordered 13 suburban emus from Alstom in partnership with CAF and Bombardier transportation at a cost of 66 million [euro]
• A new 50km line is being built from the newly-opened container terminal at Olya, on the Caspian Sea, to the existing Astrakhan-Grozny main line
• Wabco secures NYCT contract
• New light rail lines to the suburbs of Bethlehem and Bumpliz totalling 7.4km are to be built in the Swiss capital at a cost of SFr 152.8 million
• Bangladesh Railway
• Trenitalia
• New York City Transit has awarded a $US 110 million contract to Siemens Transit Technologies to install a new public address and customer information screen system at 156 stations on the New York City subway
• SBB traffic enters a new era with rail 2000; SBB's passenger and freight operations face a range of different challenges and opportunities in a time of fast-changing competitive conditions
  by Mike Knutton
• Website directory
• Railways to develop common HS train design
• Viamont has launched a private passenger service using RegioSprinter trains between the west Bohemian towns of Sokolov and Karlovy Vary, and the German border
• IRJ regional editor dies
• Uganda Railways Corporation says it intends to restore passenger and freight services on a section of the 509km Tororo—Pakwach line which has not been operated for about 15 years due to conflict in the area north of Kampala
• Shanghai orders more trains
• Mr John Weight has been appointed executive chairman of Metronet, which is responsible for maintaining and upgrading nine of London Underground's 12 lines
• The Chinese government is now preparing its seventh national railway plan
• ZTP Beograd, Belgrade, has invited bids for 10 diesel electric shunting locomotives

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