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Articles in March, 2003 issue of International Railway Journal

• Rail funding crisis deepens
• Belgium National Railways has taken over the German freight forwarding company Spedition Rheinkraft
• Konkan Railway Corporation
• Swiss Federal Railways and the canton of Baselland have decided in favour of constructing a long tunnel at Wisenberg to bypass Liestal for the high-speed link between Basle and Olten
• So to go
• Portland ponders transit plans
• Bosnia & Herzegovina Railways has invited tenders to supply signalling, switches, and interlocking
• Locomotion Capital
• Land Transport Authority
• ProRail upgrades interlockings
• Quality cabinets
• Airport rail links are a growth market
• DB invests to cut Berlin journey times
• A group of 28 privately owned freight railways from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium has joined the European Rail Freight Association
• JR West has appointed Mr Kakiuchi Takeshi as its new president from next month
• RailAmerica plans to sell Chilean holding
• Cespa
• Budapest upgrades Metro Line 2
• HSBC Rail has awarded a [pounds sterling]13.1 million contract to Bombardier Transportation
• Cespa, Italy, has secured a contract to supply three sets of 12 lifting jacks
• Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit
• Compact battery challenges convention
  by Mike Knutton
• Solar powered lamps
• Vossloh develops heavy diesel loco
• A City Rail Tangara double-deck emu on a Sydney—Port Kembla service derailed near Waterfall, 40km south of Sydney, on January 31 killing seven people
• Koehne Gleisbau, a rail infrastructure maintenance contractor based in Oberhausen, has been taken over by Volker Wessels Stevin , Netherlands
• The opening of the Madrid-Lerida section of the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed line has been delayed until next month
• Tokyo privatises metro company
• Metra creates a Star
• Victorian state government has awarded a $A 20 million contract to Downer EDI to upgrade 160km of track on the Ararat and Bairnsdale lines
• Czech Railways is considering bids to supply a fleet of 20 200km/h multi-voltage locomotives for international services and expects to make a decision by the end of this month
• Polish State Railways is seeking a consultant to provide a feasibility study into the proposed upgrading of the line linking Warsaw-Bialystok-Sokolka-Suwalki-Trakiszki
• The next few months are crucial for SNCB
  by Steve Bennett
• MiniProf measuring equipment for wheel and rail profiles
• Alstom to build 30 three-system TGV power cars
• Intercontainer-Interfrigo has reduced the transit time from just under two days to around 24 hours for its southbound intermodal block train service between Hamburg Waltershof and Switzerland
• The government has approved a Rupees 3.23 billion project
• More than 40 people were killed in a head-on collision between a Bulawayo—Victoria Falls passenger train and freight train near Dete
• China JV wins Movia car order
• Venice to build LRT network
• The state government of Goias has ordered 2300 rail wagons from Kraljevo wagon factory
• Connex Regiobahn
• Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation has awarded a Yen 100 billion contract to a consortium of seven Japanese companies to lay track along a 153km section of the Taipei-Kaohsiung high-speed line
• Flywheels can solve power supply problems
• On-board Ni-Cd battery system
• CPR has a record-breaking year
• Queensland Rail is to spend $A 200 million on the first phase of refurbishing its fleet of locomotives
• S-Bahn Berlin has taken delivery of the first of the latest-generation four-car half-train class 481 emus built by Bombardier Transportation
• The government has agreed to absorb 80% of the [euro]6.87 billion debt accumulated by Spanish National Railways Reafe, leaving the operator with remaining debt of [pounds sterling]1.51 billion
• Underground hit by derailment
• Docklands Light Railway has proposed a 5.5km extension from Gallions Reach to Dagenham Dock, via Barking Reach, with five stations
• A consortium of Siemens Transportation Systems and Bombardier Transportation has received a [euro]70 million order from Munich transport authority for eight six-car U-Bahn trains
• Shanghai Metro has awarded a contract to Lucent Technologies
• Poznan's urban transit authority, MPK, has awarded a [euro]10 million contract to Siemens
• Better network utilisation to solve capacity crisis
  by Peter Badcock
• Thoroughbred train washing equipment
• Swiss test bigger freight trains
• Rail link between Toronto Union station and Toronto International Airport
• Asian Development Bank
• Ukraine Railways
• 130 die in Taegu metro arson attack
• Zurich votes in new LRT line
• The mining company, CVRD, is seeking to purchase 3200 freight wagons
• Bids are invited to refurbish 20 articulated LRVs in Helsinki
• Syrian Railways
• Rail-Tech Europe prepares for bumper Utrecht show
• Travel information expertise
• Florida considers HS proposals
• Two Swiss railways merge
• Eurotunnel, the Channel Tunnel operator, achieved cash break-even for the first time during 2002
• The government plans to build a 22.5km line which will connect Shidiyeh Phosphates Mines to the mainline network
• DB seeks ETCS subsidy
• Systra, responsible for engineering services for phases 1 and 2 of the Bordeaux LRT
• New London underground MD
• Network Rail has awarded a [pounds sterling]20 million contract to Amec
• Hungarian State Railways has invited bids from companies to take part in rehabilitation of the Budapest-Cegled-Sznolnok-Lokoshaza line
• CIT Rail Resources
• UPS for rail signalling application
• Amtrak's perpetual uphill climb
  by William Vantuono
• Spain underpins Turkish project

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