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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
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Compact battery challenges convention
by Mike Knutton - Solar powered lamps
- Vossloh develops heavy diesel loco
- A City Rail Tangara double-deck emu on a SydneyPort 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
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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 BulawayoVictoria 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
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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
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Amtrak's perpetual uphill climb
by William Vantuono - Spain underpins Turkish project
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