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Articles in March, 2005 issue of International Railway Journal

• The final 36-tonne concrete viaduct section is shown being slotted into place on the 4.5km Canning Town to London City Airport section of the Docklands Light Railway
• Voith enters loco market
• Passenger services are due to resume this month between Buenos Aires, Rosario and Cordoba
• CVRD will invest Reais 1.81 billion this year to purchase 5606 wagons and 123 locomotives for its three railways
• Nortel to run French GSM-R network
• Ms Dolly Mokgatle has resigned as CEO of Spoornet
• Eskisehir exceeds expectations
• The municipal railway construction company plans metro construction work totalling $US 850 million this year
• German/Polish LRT link approved
• TUV Product Service, Britain, has supplied EMC testing, consultancy, and certification services to English, Welsh and Scottish Railway for a company train that will be used for a variety of EWS corporate functions including customer and charity events, s
• Siemens Transportation Systems has signed a 67 million [euro] contract to supply 25 Desiro diesel-powered regional trains to Bulgarian State Railways , and maintain them for seven years
• Indian Railways has invited bids for the purchase of 24,640 wagons
• RailComm has commissioned a wireless remote control and yard automation system for Union Pacific Railroad
• Appitrack speeds up slabtrack installation: an automatic system called Appitrack has been developed by Alstom to cast and lay slabtrack in urban areas
  by David Briginshaw
• Batteries for all seasons
• Siemens is building three types of Desiro train for British operators
• European Rail Outlook has new editor
• A memorandum of understanding was signed in the presence of King Jigme Singye Wangchuk and the Indian prime minister, Mr Manmohan Singh, to connect Bhutan to the Indian rail network
• Eleven die in Los Angeles crash
• It is hoped to start work this year on a two-year $US 658.4 million project to rehabilitate the 117km railway
• Four pre-qualify for DLR
• 600 Bogies en route for China
• Earth Tech, part of Tyco International, and a provider of consulting, engineering and construction services
• The deadline for submitting bids for the city's light rail build-operate-transfer tender for the Red Line
• Alstom has awarded a contract worth more than 350,000 [pounds sterling] to Trelleborg Industrial AVS for Metalastik
• Jessop's emu division is awash with local orders but cannot muster enough staff to operate a three-shift day
• Siemens has ordered 504 sets of shoegear and fuseboxes from Brecknell Willis
• Modifications to Getrac ballastless track approved: Germany's Federal Railway Authority officially approved in July last year a series of modifications to Pfleiderer's Getrac asphalt-supported ballastless track system
  by Stephan Freudenstein
• Cutting back on technological diversity: the boundless diversity of expensive railway technolological solutions is threatening their competitiveness. German Rail aims to save money through greater modularity and standardisation. Batteries provide a good e
  by Wolfgang Wullhorst
• Two North American Railways have record years
• First N700 Shinkansen car on show
• VR carried a record 60.1 million passengers last year, thanks to a 1.8% increase in long-distance traffic
• Ferromex plans to invest $US 101 million this year, mainly in locomotives, wagons, and intermodal facilities
• Mr Arthur Shoener has been appointed president and CEO of Kansas City Southern Railway and Texas-Mexican Railway
• PM approves Hanoi LRT line
• Parsons Brinckerhoff, United States, has won a contract to provide programme and construction management services for Line 3 of the Shenzhen Metro
• On February 11, Westinghouse Brakes , part of the Knorr-Bremse Group, changed its name to Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems
• As part of its rationalisation programme, which involves shedding non-core activities, Bombardier has sold its Niesky freight wagon manufacturing plant to SEAG and Mutatio Consult
• Protekon, a subsidiary of Transnet, has won a Rand 74.5 million contract
• Three-nation project agreed
• European alliance formed
• Rail Cargo Austria , a subsidiary of Austrian Federal Railways, has taken over intermodal specialist Okombi
• London project approved
• Pakistan Railways plans to procure 100 locomotives worth Rs 15.8 billion , 1000 freight wagons
• Two New York projects "highly recommended"
• Bombardier scores in Valencia
• Northstar Corridor Development Authority is to conduct a study to examine the feasibility of using biodiesel fuel for operations on the proposed 64km Northstar Commuter Raft service
• In the wake of the collapse of the semi-expressway last year, work on the Nicholl Highway metro station will resume in the middle of this year
• Amec, in association with its local joint venture partner, FP McCann, has won its first rail contract in Northern Ireland-upgrading 4km of single track and 12km of double track on the coast line between Belfast and Larne
• The government of Mecklen-Vorpommern, in collaboration with Schleswig-Holstein and the city of Hamburg, has issued a tender for the provision of regional rail services up to the end of 2007
• Bokamoso Investments, a "black economic empowerment" consortium led by a former head of Spoornet, Mr Zandile Jakavulu
• Railways must adopt a system approach: if railways are to meet some of the demanding challenges being placed upon them, they must look to a step change in their approach. As far as the track is concerned, this will only be optimised by adopting a system a
  by Jay Jaiswal
• US transit gets increase in federal funding: many rail and bus transit operators in the United States will benefit from a 5.2% increase in federal funding. In addition, some cities will also benefit from schemes that were approved by voters last year
  by Luther Miller
• China plans massive rail investment
• Ireland invests in new train fleet
• Eastern Railway carried a record 1.35 million tonnes of freight last year
• Railion buys RAG companies
• Russian Railways plans to spend Roubles 3.2 billion to upgrade the 599km Irkutzk-Petrovski Zavod
• Chicago plans major rolling stock renewal
• The regional S-Bahn project is being delayed by two years, with Line S3 to Olten and Pruntrut now scheduled to open at the end of 2006, followed by Line S1 to Fricktal in 2008
• Go-ahead given for Rhine-Ruhr Express
• A feasibility study for a light rail system in this Indian city is to be undertaken
• GB Railfreight has ordered through HSBC Rail five class 66
• Konkan Railway has awarded Scott Wilson, Britain, in association with Flint & Neill Partnership, a "proof checking" contract for the designs of two railway bridges
• Wabtec has completed the takeover of Rutgers Rail, a leading manufacturer, with headquarters in Italy, of brake shoes, disc pads and interior trim components in Europe
• Minimising battery maintenance
• Bangkok rail link contract awarded
• Franchising study published
• This month suburban trains in Adelaide will start to run on fuel containing 5% biodiesel
• Mr Jacques Gounon has replaced Mr Jacques Maillot
• Four companies are bidding to reopen the Nimba iron-ore mines
• About 280km of track has been laid on the 560km new line from Ashgabat across the Karakum Desert to Doshoguz
• New Mexico buys corridor
• The main construction contract for the city tunnel has been awarded and work will begin later this year on twin tunnels and four stations
• Nottingham Express Transit's light rail ridership figures continue to grow
• Westinghouse Rail Systems has a contract with Carillion Construction for a 20-month signalling project which involves upgrading the Chiltern Line from Bicester North to London's Marylebone station, where two new platforms are being added
• Harsco Track Technologies, United States, has won an order from the Tianjin light rail development company for a rail grinding machine
• Romanian National Railways has placed a 45 million [euro] order with Siemens Transportation Systems for Simis W electronic interlockings to be installed at seven stations to the northwest of Bucharest on the European Corridor IV which runs from Berlin/Nur
• Saudis launch rail Landbridge project: Saudi Railways Organisation has launched its $US 1.3 billion rail landbridge project. This is the first of three projects designed to expand the existing railway. In total, about 2900km of new railway will be built
  by David Briginshaw
• Innovations in Bordeaux

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