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Articles in Nov, 2004 issue of International Railway Journal

• Rendezvous
• THSRC tries to plug cost overrun
• Routes between Felixstowe and Nuneaton have been upgraded at a cost of 30 million [pounds sterling]
• Gauge corner cracking
  by Andrew Sharp
• Ukrferry has launched a new weekly train ferry service
• Lyon Metro fights fraud
• Phoenix
• Belgian National Railways has awarded a 179 million [euro] contract to Bombardier Transportation in partnership with Alstom for the construction of 70 double-deck passenger coaches
• Is CSX sailing into calmer waters?
  by William Vantuono
• Alstom shows mock-up of Stockholm Coradia Lirex
• Rotem shows EMU and maglev train
• Promoting a centre of rail excellence
• MiniProf measuring equipment for wheel and rail profiles
• Keeping on track across Europe
• SNCF turns deficit into surplus
• NR to install upgraded TPWS
• Track-doubling of the Bangalore-Chennai line will be completed this month
• The World Bank has approved credit of $US 75 million
• Milan Passante opens at last!
• Los Angeles
• Queensland Rail has awarded United Goninan a $A 21.6 million contract to build 190 coal wagons
• New Mexico's Department of Transportation and the Mid-Region Council of Governments in Albuquerque have awarded a $US 22 million contract to Bombardier Transportation to supply 10 double-deck commuter cars
• Door edge protection system
• Westinghouse brakes wins big order
• The benefits of unattended geometry measuring: frequent track geometry measurement can be a low-investment solution to track measurement for high-speed passenger railways, heavy haul freight railways, and rapid transit systems by using unattended geometry
  by Roger Tracy
• Rail Weather System
• Windscreen wash/wipe systems
• China Awards major contracts
• SNCFI forms Middle-East company
• Mr Adrian Montague has resigned as deputy chairman of Network Rail to take up a new position as chairman of Cross London Rail Links
• TransNamib expects to take delivery next month of a 120km/h three-car dmu from China
• Greenbrier Companies has appointed Mr Benjamin Whiteley as its new chairman
• Adelaide orders new LRVs
• Seoul
• Alstom has awarded Strukton Systems a 10 million [euro] subcontract
• GE makes an impact at Berlin and Chicago exhibitions
• Hitachi exhibits A-Train mock-up
• Siemens signs Delhi contract
• Corrosion protection and finishing
• Geophysical assessment of railway trackbed
• Quality magazine for Europe
• Union Pacific orders locos
• Guangdong to build new lines
• SBB reaches major milestone
• Slovenian Railways has launched a weekly railfreight service between Ljubljana and Istanbul, Turkey
• New DLR platforms approved
• Mumbai
• Network Rail has awarded Birse Rail a 23 million [pounds sterling] contract
• Portec Rail is to take over Salient Systems, following approval by Salient's shareholders of the proposed 100% buyout
• Innovative freight wagon unveiled
• IT innovations from Vossloh
• Archimede gets the measure of Italian track: a new measuring train used by the Italian railway infrastructure company, RFI, travels 80,000km a year and checks the 10,000km Italian network at double the frequency of previous generations of vehicles
  by Mike Knutton
• Fire, smoke, toxicity protection
• Rail monitoring systems
• Big two back on track
  by David Briginshaw
• Korean Rail authorities slammed
• Sea Containers, the Bermuda-based company which owns Great North Eastern Railway
• Nordhausen beats Kassel
  by Andrzej Harassek
• Union Pacific plans to mount digital cameras and microphones at the front of each of its locomotives to record possible accidents
• Final bidding underway in Dubai
• Recife
• Wabtec Corporation, United States, has agreed a deal to take over Rutgers Rail, a manufacturer of brake shoes, disc pads, and interior trim components
• What a difference the 48th parallel makes!
• One-pass rail milling train
• Innotrans saw some of the manufacturing industry's major players sign up to the charter for sustainable development which has been drawn up by the International Association of Public Transport
• Rail equipment & systems
• Permanent way tools and equipment
• Rail batteries
• Beira railway privatised
• SNCF to study 350km/h operation
• A driverless diesel locomotive thundered nearly 200km through southern Italy at a speed of up to 80km/h
• Russian Railways' passenger division director, Mr Oleg Nikitin, has announced plans to launch a tilting train service
• Santiago Line nears completion
• Minneapolis
• Heathrow Express, Britain, has awarded a 70 million [pounds sterling] 19-year contract to Siemens
• The finance committee of North Carolina's Triangle Transit Authority has recommended acceptance of a $US 90 million bid by United Transit Systems, a consortium led by Rotem, Korea, and Sojitz, Japan, to supply 32 dmu cars
• New rail profile measuring system
• Acoustic panel speakers launched
• Laser-based profile clearance scanner developed: large amounts of money are spent to control the clearance profile of railway networks. A novel laser-based measuring system provides three-dimensional data in real time which makes maintenance more convenie
  by Gerhard Stasek
• Transport Research Laboratory providing research, consultancy and testing for the rail industry

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