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Articles in Feb, 2006 issue of International Railway Journal

• Inauguration of the first 7.5km section of a fully-automatic VAL system in the northern Italian industrial city of Turin was due to take place early this month
• New cross-Paris link proposed
• Nigerian railways set for revival?
• Britain's biggest freight operator, English, Welsh, & Scottish Railway, is calling for significant extra capacity on the London-Edinburgh East Coast Main Line
• Indian Railways has developed a system which converts conventional diesel engines to dual fuel, using compressed natural gas
• Metro Rail Transit Corporation , which operates the LRT line from North Avenue in Quezon City to Taft Avenue, is seeking $US 100 million to buy 48 additional vehicles to satisfy peak-hour ridership demand
• The Chinese government plans to invest more than $US 300 million to reconstruct the 1300km Benguela Railway, which runs from Lobito on the coast to Angola's eastern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo
• Netherlands Railways subsidiary NedRail, and partner Serco, Britain, are to bid for four further British passenger franchises
• CP boosts track capacity across the Rockies: while the trains kept moving, Canadian Pacific built new capacity in western Canada to handle surging traffic
  by William Vantuono
• Worldwide transport & infrastructure consultants
• Renfe orders more HS trains
• SP gets Brazil's first PPP
• Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is replacing four single-deck cars that can carry between 97 and 120 passengers each with new double-deck cars capable of carrying 180 passengers to ease overcrowding on the Worcester/Framingham, Needham, and Fra
• Punjab state government is to propose an underground metro to serve the state capital, Lahore, because it does not want to disturb the city's buildings
• JR East opts for hybrid MU
• Twelve diesel locomotives from China were delivered last month, as part of a rehabilitation programme launched by the government
• IR has opened up its intermodal operation to external companies for the first time
• Baas R&D, Sweden, has installed the Gotcha train monitoring system on a trial section of the heavy-haul line from Kiruna to Narvik, Norway
• Amsterdam Municipal Transport plans to replace its existing 25-year-old metro Wains from 2008 and order new stock for the north-south line, which is under construction
• ALSTOM has received an order from Buenos Aires metro, Argentina, for 16 cars to extend five-car trains to six cars
• Tehran plans 13-line network by 2020: the rail network serving the Iranian capital Tehran will reach 90km this year. The next phase of construction is now underway which will extend the network to 164km by 2012
• Czech Railways is expected to make a profit this year, thanks to improved productivity, growing business, and cost-cutting
• India's prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, inaugurated Line 3 of the Delhi Metro on December 30 2005
• Israelis reopen Dimona line
• Siemens Scoops 900m [euro] Israel order
• Two new stations will be built at the King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Jeddah
• Tests start on Dutch HS line
• Eurotunnel has appointed Mr Francois Coart as director for railfreight development
• Finally! Series 66 starts tests in France
• The French government is providing 40 million [euro] in official development assistance for Vietnam Railways to modernise its signalling
• Circular railway plan shelved
• Freight operator EWS has bought 75 Hicube wagons from BMW
• Angel Trains is buying 12 Bombardier Traxx locomotives for the High Speed Alliance, which is due to start running high-speed passenger services between Belgium and the Netherlands next year
• Eurostar dominates market
• Railwork magazine
• EWS keeps its powder dry
• MRS Logistics has won a $US 100 million loan from International Finance Corporation to help it expand
• Siemens wins CP loco order
• Passenger trains between Francistown, Botswana, and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, could soon resume if negotiations between Botswana Railways and National Railways of Zimbabwe are successful
• Mr Mark G Whiteman has been named vice-president and general manager of Wabtec Railway Electronics
• On Track Innovations , United States, is to supply support software to be integrated into the Scheidt & Bachmann, Germany
• Tests of airport-type security scanners started on the Heathrow Express service from London last month
• JR Freight is buying 25 electric locomotives and 100 intermodal wagons in a Yen 12 billion investment programme
• Tasmanian railway survival plan approved
• ARTC alliance contracts for Australia's east coast railways: major investment in a key Australian rail corridor is expected to increase freight traffic by 118%, and free capacity for passenger trains too
  by Ian Hammond
• Can governments be trusted?
  by David Briginshaw
• Argentina increases spending
• DB flotation decision closer
• Chinese engineers have developed the country's first low to medium speed maglev train capable of 150km/h
• Melbourne fleet completed
• Five people were killed and 32 injured in a derailment between Akita and Niigata on December 25 2005
• Sri Lankan Railways is to modernise the 160km Colombo-Matara line with financial assistance from India
• DB orders more S-Bahn trains
• Help is at hand for tourists who struggle with Brazilian Portuguese while trying to find their way around the country's most popular tourist destination for foreign visitors
• Amec Spie Rail has been awarded a 24 million [pounds sterling] contract to increase capacity at Edinburgh's congested Waverley station
• A consortium of five banks is lending Forints
• Balaji Railroad Systems, India, and International Technical & Engineering Services Corporation, Jordan, have been awarded a contract to inspect rail welding
• Delhi metro expands to tackle city's growing pains: the Indian capital, Delhi, opened its first metro line four years ago, and massive expansion is planned to meet soaring demand
• Siemens has won a 40 million [euro] contract to upgrade the interlocking equipment on two of the city's metro lines
• Trans-Asian railwav takes another step forward: an agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway network should speed up progress of a project whose history goes back 40 years
  by Mike Knutton
• MTU sold to equity fund
• Work starts soon on twin cities MRT
• Record investment in Brazil
• CP to invest less this year
• Mr Joseph K Wilsted is the new chief financial officer of Wabtec, taking over from Mr Larry Brady, who is retiring
• GO Transit has ordered 20 double-deck commuter coaches worth $US 48 million from Bombardier
• French National Railways is ordering 73 high-capacity AGC trains from Bombardier in a deal worth 290 million [euro]
• Rail-weld surfacing
• Top JR West managers to resign this month
• Leasing company Porterbrook has completed fitment of on-train data recorders to its fleet
• East Coast Railway has started to electrify the 90km Cuttack-Paradip line
• Operation of an 862km coal line from Moatize to the Indian Ocean is being studied by CVRD, Brazil
• Rail spending benefits Jakarta
• Auckland hits the jackpot!
• Work has started on construction of the second metro line in the capital of China's Jiangsu province
• A consortium of Alstom and EADS, France, will install a communications-based train control signalling system for MRS Logistics
• Faiveley Transport is buying air-conditioning, heating, and ventilation company Neu Systeme Ferroviaires in a bid to strengthen its position in the air-conditioning market
• Tapping into Asia's 10bn [euro] a year rail market: extensive market intelligence for the Asia region lies between the covers of a 66-page report produced in Germany
  by Mike Knutton
• High-speed gets priority
• Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development expects to loan railways Reais 1 billion this year, and Reais 1.5 billion next year

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