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Articles in Feb, 2004 issue of International Railway Journal

• Rendezvous - Calendar
• Rail journeys top 1 billion in Britain - World Report
• Latin America Logistics has begun testing a prototype covered hopper wagon at its Ponta Grossa manufacturing facility - ALL - Brazil
• SNCF orders more DD TGV trains - World Report
• Passenger services have been restored between the countries after being suspended for more than two years as a result of political tension - India/Pakistan
• Bordeaux opens innovative LRT - Transit News
• Integrated rail-bus lines for Delhi - Transit News
• A new light rail line has opened to the south western suburb of Barrandov - Prague
• North East Railway , a subsidiary of Connex, has ordered 12 MaK DE 2700 diesel locomotives from Vossloh Locomotives - NOB - Germany
• Land Transport Authority has invited tenders for civil works - LTA - Singapore
• The pros and cons of privatising maintenance: the benefits and drawbacks of the privatisation of track maintenance were discussed at length during a round-table session at the recent track technology conference staged by the International Union of Railway
  by David Briginshaw
• Ustra benefits from flywheel system - Power Supply Innovations
• Trenitalia started test running on January 14 with the first Minuetto train on a section of the Turin-Alessandria line which has sharp curves and gradients of up to 2% - World Report
• The Asian Development Bank has approved a $US 500 million loan towards construction of the planned 377km Yichang-Wanzhou line - China
• Eurotunnel suffered a decline in traffic on its shuttle services through the Channel Tunnel in 2003 - Europe
• Genesee & Wyoming has bought three short-line railways from Georgia-Pacific for $US 55 million - GWI - United States
• Marta wins AFC legal challenge - Transit News
• Hyderabad Development Authority has invited bids for a turnkey project for a 12km monorail - Hyderabad
• Chilean State Railways is to award 15-year contracts to maintain signalling, track, and communications on four sections of the 1578km north-south line between Santiago and Puerto Montt - EFE - Chile
• Israel Railways is to invite bids to electrify 300km of line linking Nahariya-Jerusalem-Ashekolon - Israel
• Improving rail durability and life: new materials and techniques are being developed in Europe which will have a major impact on the durability and lifetime of rail in the future - Track Technology
  by Martin Heinsch
• SW trains replaces mobile machines - Fare Collection
• HS rail gets a boost - This Month
  by David Briginshaw
• The government has set up Benguela Railways - CFB - Angola
• Passengers at stations throughout China are to be monitored for severe acute respiratory syndrome - Sars - China
• VR carried 59.9 million passengers in 2003, representing an increase of 4% compared with the previous year - Finland
• Railfreight traffic in the United States increased by 1.9% last year to reach a record volume of 2432 billion tonne-km - United States
• New York JFK AirTrain opens - Transit News
• Nearly 150 London Underground stations are to be equipped with Thales Station Management Systems in an 11.7 million [pounds sterling] contract awarded by Atkins Rail - SMS - London
• Changchun Railways Vehicles has ordered 360 low-floor bogies from Bombardier Transportation - China
• Adriatico Sangritana Railways has invited bids to supply four second-hand electric locomotives - Italy
• Reducing the lifetime cost of the track system: Corus has developed and tested a suite of models to predict rail life. The results from the models are interpreted by a team of experts into achievable and realistic maintenance regimes. The objective is to
  by Jay Jaiswal
• Wayfarer widens its portfolio - Fare Collection
• France to expand high-speed rail network - World Report
• The federal government has provided Reais 25 million to enable work to start on the first 43km section of the planned 240km line linking Estreito, on the under-construction North-South Railway, with Balsas - $US 9 million - Brazil
• Zambian rail privatisation - World Report
• The Asian Development Bank has agreed to provide loans worth $US 350 million - China
• A new so-called tri-modal terminal, incorporating rail, road, and waterway facilities, has opened at Dourges, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - France
• Vienna airport rail link opens - Transit News
• The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has adopted a $US 1.8 million capital programme that includes $US 150 million for a rail link to the New Jersey Meadowlands sports and entertainment complex - New York/New Jersey
• Rhine-Main Transport has ordered 22 Itino two-car dmus from Bombardier Transportation for commuter services on the Odenwald regional line - RMV - Germany
• Romanian State Railways has invited bids to upgrade and electrify sections of the 165km Cluj-Oradea-Episcopia Bihor line - CFR - Romania
• Making the case for steel sleepers: steel sleepers are once again becoming more prevalent, and Britain is among those countries which needs to adopt them for practical and commercial reasons, according to one of the pioneers of the use of steel sleepers -
  by Colin Wheeler
• Urenco's kinetic energy storage system is now commercially viable: from its initial proof of principle in a demonstration for London Underground in 2000, Urenco Power Technologies' kinetic energy storage system has become a commercially viable energy s
• Korean HS line opens on April 1 - World Report
• RailAmerica has agreed to sell its 55% interest in Ferronor to its Chilean partner, Andres Pirazzoli y Cia, which currently has the remaining 45% shareholding in the 2331km railway - Chile
• Israel promotes land bridge - World Report
• Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad has received a $US 233 million federal government loan - United States
• Lima offers urban train concession - Transit News
• Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has invited bids for supply through to commissioning of electrification, power supply and distribution, and a Scada system - Delhi
• Toronto Transit Commission has awarded a $C 8 million contract to IFS Applications - TTC - $US 6.2 million - Canada
• The United States Agency for International Development has awarded a $US 1.8 billion contract to Bechtel National to undertake the Iraq Infrastructure II programme to continue rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure - USAID - Iraq
• Govia's strategy to improve performance at South Central: Govia, an Anglo-French company, plans to improve dramatically the performance of South Central, one of Britain's busiest passenger rail franchises. While some progress has been made, its long-suffe
  by David Briginshaw
• Ascom launches new-generation TVMs - Fare Collection
• The 30km Transrapid maglev line linking Shanghai airport with Long Yang Road in the city's Pudong financial district opened on December 29 2003 - World Report
• The government is to review the structure of the railway industry - Britain
• National Express wins UK franchise - World Report
• Israel Railways reported its highest-ever passenger traffic figures in 2003 - IR - Israel
• Houston opens its first LRT line - Transit News
• In what is claimed to be a world first, Adelaide's suburban rail and light rail timetables are now available by mobile telephone - Adelaide
• Digital passenger information units are being introduced by the city's Metro Operations Company, covering not only train information and dealing with emergencies, but items such as weather and lottery information - Shanghai
• HGV, Cologne, is seeking to purchase four 100km/h freight diesel locomotives for mainline and shunting operations - Germany
• Spanish National Railways has awarded a 900 million [euro] contract to Patentes Talgo to maintain 1000 Talgo passenger coaches for 14 years - Renfe - Spain
• How smart can electronic ticketing get? Electronic ticketing in public transport is the most innovative example of mass fare collection and payment. But what started as a means of making public transport more manageable is now becoming a business in itsel
• Permanent magnet WheelMotors - Power Supply Innovations
• The first north-south trans-continental freight train departed from Adelaide to Darwin on January 16 - World Report
• The transport minister, Mr Nikolay Vassilev, has dismissed Bulgarian State Railways' executive director, Mr Georgi Neshev - BDZ - Bulgaria
• Taiwan HS train rolled out - World Report
• Netherlands Railways is to introduce a surcharge from next month on passenger tickets bought at ticket sales desks - NS - Netherlands
• Santiago goes for integration - Transit News
• Consorcio Caribe is undertaking a detailed engineering study of a proposed 14km mass transit line with 23 stops linking El Amparo and Bocagrande. - Cartagena Colombia
• Bulgarian State Railways has invited bids to supply 25 two-car dmus - BDZ - Bulgaria
• Trenitalia has ordered 48 Traxx electric locomotives from Bombardier Transportation at a cost of 103 million [euro] - Italy
• California High-Speed Rail Authority - United States
• Indra goes for global card market - Fare Collection
• Spain boosts rail investment - World Report
• The privatisation of the Belgrano Cargas freight railway is under way with a presidential decree allowing a restructuring of shares in the company, which is currently owned by the railway trade union, UF - Argentina
• Korea launches infrastructure authority - World Report
• A consortium of Indian Railways, the port of Mundra, the government of Gujarat, and Kandla Port Trust has signed a memorandum of understanding to go ahead with conversion of the 313km Gandhidham-Palanpur line from metre to broad gauge - KPT - India
• The Vietnamese government is to receive a loan of Yuan 530 million from the Chinese government - $US 64 million - Vietnam

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