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Articles in Dec, 2005 issue of International Railway Journal

• Korea develops tilting train
• Rites, the consulting arm of Indian Railways, hopes to increase turnover fourfold to Rs 1 billion by 2010 from its current level of Rs 240 million
• Freight operator MRC has signed a Reais 70 million contract with Randon Brazil, for the supply of 400 covered hopper wagons
• The German Development Bank has provided a 52 million [euro] loan to the Indonesian government for railway improvements
• The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has given the Venezuelan government a Yen 15.8 billion loan for rail improvements
• Chilean president Lagos delivers
• Zwicky - back on track
• CEE countries grapple with transition: the accession to the European Union of 10 countries from central and eastern Europe heralds a challenging transition. Mike Knutton reports from Budapest
  by Mike Knutton
• China awards huge contracts
• Bothnia bridge contract awarded
• CVRD says it handled 8242 million tonne-km of freight in the third quarter of 2005—a rise of 3.7% over the same period last year
• Canadian Pacific Railway
• Lloyd's Register Rail has acquired Bluefield Consulting and Belrose Consulting
• CKD Vagonka has chosen Trelleborg Industrial, Britain, AVS engine mounts for new dmus being built for VR, Finland
• German Rail has acquired logistics company Bax Global in a bid to expand into the United States
• Mitsubishi takes off in Atlanta
• L B Foster has won a $US 17.9 million contract
• CEE railways struggle to get on terms
  by Mike Knutton
• Bulgarian Railway adapt to the market economy; the railways of Bulgaria are beginning the long haul back to transport preeminence following more than two decades of decline
  by Krasimir Krastanov
• Meeting place
• Rhine freight line upgrade agreed
• Sydney-Melbourne line upgrade
• ZD Praha, Czech Republic, is to build a new factory to produce integrated transport systems in Sofia
• A trial to reduce the number of accidents on unsignalled lines is being undertaken on a 278km stretch of track between Tulsa and Avard, Oklahoma
• DB Regio has won the contract to operate the Ostseekuste network
• Bombardier has won an order worth 18 million [euro] to supply Connex, Germany, with seven, three-car Talent dmus
• Anglo-German row over rail privatisation
• BLS Lotschberg Rail plans for expansion: BLS Lotschberg Rail, Switzerland's second largest railway, has a number of major projects underway which will extend its reach
  by Anitra Green
• Moulded products for the rail industry
• DB Regio leaves troubles behind; railways—and the weather—have been around for more than 150 years, yet problems associated with the annual autumnal leaf fall still challenge engineers
  by Dr-Ing Wolfgang Voges
• Bombardier launches high-speed train
• The regional government of North Rhine-Westphalia has allocated 1.8 million [euro] for laying a third track from the end of the Betuwe freight route in the Netherlands to Oberhausen, a distance of 75km
• Brazilian Railway is leasing 35 used locomotives from North America for its freight services
• Two yard automation systems have been installed for Union Pacific at the Butler North and Butler South yards outside Milwaukee
• Chile boosts suburban rail
• Apta calls for new solutions
• Europe's railways should follow the nimble elephant; Keshav Chandra , Indian Railways' Adviser for Europe, based at the Indian Embassy in Berlin, argues the case for vertical integration
  by Keshav Chandra
• Window of opportunity
  by David Briginshaw
• Amtrak boss Gunn is fired
• Madrid-Toledo HS link opens
• CITC, China, will build the new line from Matara to Kataragama
• San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission is buying a video surveillance system from A4S Security
• Merseyrail gets star treatment
• ETCS goes live from Austria to Hungary; after years of development, trains will soon be running across an international border using the European Train Control System for the first time
  by Andrew Roden
• Austrian moveable crossing proves its worth; a driving, setting, locking and detecting system for moveable crossings has been developed by VAE, Austria, based on the now well-proven Hydrostar ZV switch point setting device
  by Christian Langschwert
• Website directory
• US rail boom continues
• Work has started on track doubling the Graz-Cilli line, more than 40 years after it was singled
• China woos private sector
• DM&E plans $US 2.5 billion route upgrade
• EWS Holdings has acquired wagon maintenance company Marcroft Engineering
• Parsons Brinckerhoff has been appointed as the engineering team for Phase 1 of the "Tunnel Cooling Project", which will identify and select cooling solutions for the London Underground
• High-speed tightrope act
• CWR gains favour in turnoust: though use of CWR is well-established, its application to switches and crossings has been limited. However, new noise emissions laws are making it more attractive to European railways
  by G. van Ettekoven
• Targeted reprocessing: new life for old signalling: Wuppertal Signal Works is German Rail's largest reconditioning plant for railway command and control equipment
  by Peter Bruckhaus
• Eurostar/Thalys partnership deal
• Northeast Railway is upgrading the 360km line
• Matterhorn Gotthard Rail has received approval to transform Brig station from its current terminus layout to a through station
• French National Railways has awarded a 18 million [euro] contract for handheld computers to Psion, Britain
• Plan to keep London moving
• The metro needs 234 new cars by 2011
• Lotschberg base tunnel set to open in 2007; fitting out of the Lotschberg base tunnel is well underway. This is the first of Switzerland's huge AlpTransit construction projects to improve rail links through the Alps
  by David Briginshaw
• What's on at ET 05: a wide range of railway components and systems will be on show this month at the high-profile ET exhibition in Basle, Switzerland
• Reliability is the key for Victoria line re-signalling; what is billed as the world's largest re-signalling project is underway on London Underground's 22.5km Victoria Line. The project could be completed in 2012
  by Mike Knutton
• The government has provided Reais 140 million for a 100km section of the north-south railway project
• The Russian Ambassador to Britain, Mr Yury Viktorovich Fedetov, helped unveil a new luxury sleeping car for GW Travel's new Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express at the World Travel Market exhibition in London
• EWS prepares to make French connection
• Via Rail has signed a five-year contract with Parsons, United States
• Britain tests new anti-terrorist measures
• Paris orders more line 1 trains
• Tunnelling has started on the first of the city's twin 700m tunnels that form part of the $A 1.56 billion
• Swiss consider long-term infrastructure needs; Switzerland is now considering what needs to be done to improve the rail network once major projects such as the new Alpine base tunnels and ETCS have been completed
  by Anitra Green
• Access scheme achieves 100% cost recovery: strong freight flows from the CIS form the foundation of a successful rail operation in Latvia
• Volo trials interactive In-Train Entertainment; the potential market for In-Train Entertainment systems could be massive as train operators seek to win passengers back from the airlines. Andrew Roden reveals how a small British company hopes to steal a ma
  by Andrew Roden
• Nepal is set to build its first railway line, from the capital, Kathmandu, to the Indian border
• Lucchini wins Chinese order
• Soundplan
• Vietnam Railways has secured 10 million [euro] of funding from Germany
• Serco selected as preferred bidder for DLR
• Don't miss your connection!

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