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Articles in Feb, 2005 issue of International Railway Journal

• EU compensation scheme launched
• Korean train tops 350km/h
• A feasibility study will be carried out this year into a proposed line between Rongai, Kenya, and Juba, southern Sudan
• TTC plans university extension
• Work starts on Caribbean Metro
• The Chilean capital's metro has awarded Alstom a six-year contract to maintain 87 metro cars
• CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works, China, and Siemens are building 28 six-car trains for phase 2 of Shanghai Metro's 22km, 17-station Pearl Line
• Zhuzhou Rolling Stock Works has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Greenbrier Companies, United States, under which ZRSW will supply components for Greenbrier's freight wagons built in Europe and North America
• Budapest Transport Authority has awarded a 26 million [euro] contract to Siemens to supply a signalling, control, and safety system for the M2 metro line
• RZD and Siemens sign train deal
• An estimated 50 people were killed when an express train travelling between Jammu Tawi and Ahmedabad collided
• The Chinese government has agreed to provide a $US 179 million rescue package for Zimbabwe's state-owned rail and air transport companies
• Success for Siemens in Calgary
• The Indian government has agreed to provide Rs 9 billion towards the cost of building a metro
• Punggol elevated LRT opens for business next month serving the 49,000 resident of Punggol New Town
• French National Railways has awarded a contract worth about 350 million [euro] to Bombardier
• Lack of capacity hampers growth
• GM reaches agreement on EMD sale
• Taiwan line to open on time
• Where less is more: the case for contact-free travel
  by Gerard Najman
• Paris public transport authority has called bids
• French National Railways has invited bids
• RZD opens air-rail terminal
• The federal minister for railways, Mr Mian Shamim Haider, has announced that Pakistan Railways will be transformed into a state-owned corporation on July 1
• Kochi opts for light metro
• Sao Paulo Metro will soon call bids for the final engineering design of the second phase of Line 5, the 9.4km link between Largo 13 and Santa Cruz on Line 1
• Two British LRT schemes approved
• Lazio regional government's transport division has invited tenders to design and supply six emus for operation on the Rome-Lido line which is electrified at 1.5kV dc
• Rail should benefit from economic growth
• The future for rail in Southeast Asia: the last 10 years has seen an extraordinary commitment to rail in many Southeast Asian countries. But can investment levels be maintained?
  by John B. Powell
• India's $US 5.5 billion rail plan
• Skoda Dopravni Technika, has changed its name
• A crash between a passenger train and a freight train near Crevalcore on the Verona-Bologna line killed 14 people
• Beijing seeks investors in growing metro
• Sao Paulo expands suburban network
• The route of the new Line U4 between the city centre and the port has been decided
• Dubai takes on 100% of LRT financing
• Chilean State Railways has extended until March 8 the deadline for bids to renovate and maintain the rail network's 751km central zone
• MVV OEG and MVV Transport, two operators in the Rhine-Neckar region, have ordered 16 low-floor LRVs from Bombardier Transportation at a cost of 34 million [euro]
• Three years to state the obvious
• Madrid chooses CBTC for two metro lines; Bombardier is installing its first communications-based train control system on a metro in Europe, following the award of a 104 million [euro] contract from Madrid Metro
• China to build 3000km of high-speed lines
• DB has record year but still faces major problems
  by David Briginshaw
• DB refines is signalling strategy
• Toulouse goes cntactless in 2006
• The Ministry of Infrastructure has unveiled a plan to divert some road usage and fuel tax income to rail infrastructure later this year
• Brazilians to invest more
• Eurotunnel has given a vote of confidence to its chief executive officer, Mr Jean-Louis Raymond, by confirming his appointment as group chief executive
• Bidding has resumed for civil engineering contracts to construct a 448km section of the 2066km North-South Railway linking Belem to Goiania
• Siemens has received an order from the Ministry of Railways to install a GSM-Railway communications system on the 470km line from Jinan to Qingdao, south of Beijing
• Indian Railways has invited tenders to supply 2300 wheels and axles for 16T bogies
• Goode is US Railroader of the Year
  by William Vantuono
• Prestige claims commercial success: today, nearly every large transport operator or authority is deploying, procuring or planning a smart card-enabled fare payment system. One of the largest and most interesting is the Prestige project in London
• Simply shining ahead
• QR builds new heavy-haul line
• Bosphorus link designer named
• Work has begun on doubling the Pottendorf Line south of Vienna
• RailCorp has drawn up a shortlist of six potential bidders for a contract to supply 208 emu cars for operation on the urban rail network in Sydney
• Bulgarian State Railways has ordered 25 Desiro dmus for regional services from Siemens at a cost of 67 million [euro]
• SNCF has invited tenders to supply signalling
• Prignitzer Eisenbahn Gessellscahft has taken over international passenger services between Enschede, Netherlands, and Dortmund, Germany, under the latest passenger rail timetable
• JR Central to be fully privatised
• Singapore adopts Picopass
• Trenitalia launches internet ticket distribution: Trenitalia has developed a new internet-based ticket distribution system called Railbest in order to increase its sales abroad
  by Ugo Dell Arciprete
• Eurostar reported record levels of traffic in 2004
• Website directory
• Hungarian State Railways has awarded a 14 million [euro] contract to Bombardier Transportation to refurbish and upgrade 41 suburban passenger coaches
• Report slams rail cost overruns
• Suburban rail services in Newcastle, New South Wales, are to be replaced by bus services
• Ghana's government has secured a $US 5 million loan from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• The government has appointed a task team to merge Metrorail and South African Rail Commuter Corporation with Spoornet's long-distance passenger operation, Shosholoza Meyl
• Systra wins Lyon LRT contract
• Guangzhou Metro has ordered an integrated operations control centre
• Tickets can now be downloaded
• Corrosion protection and finishing
• Work has been accelerated on the 3.7km, six-station metro extension between Tollygunj and Garia, which is due for completion in 2007
• Israeli part Of Hedjaz Railway to be rebuilt
• Get the worst out of your compressed air
• The Rail Safety Administrator, Ms Betty Monro, has resigned
• Bombardier wins three contracts

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