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Articles in April, 2004 issue of International Railway Journal

• Beijing municipal government has decided to set aside $US 446 million for a programme to remove hidden dangers on the Chinese capital's three-line, 114km metro network by 2007
• Terror attack calls for cool heads and vigilance
  by David Briginshaw
• New Melbourne maintenance deal
• Belgian National Railways has begun operating additional container train services from Antwerp to Muizen, Athus, Mouscron, Charleroi, and Bierzet
• DB has completed the largest-ever electronic interlocking project at Magedeburg with installation by Siemens of a third Simis C computer-controlled interlocking
• A five-times per week east-west railfreight shuttle service is to be introduced between Ljubljana and Bologna
• TTC gets $C 1 billion present
• The British government has approved a 145 million [pounds sterling] 2.5km extension of the Docklands Light Railway to Woolwich Arsenal
• The government has invited tenders to carry out work on 320km of track in the northern zone of the rail network
• Consultants are invited to supervise various railway projects including construction of second railway bridge across the river Mahanadi in Cuttack
• Siemens has awarded a 8.5 million [euro] contract to SAB Wabco
• The best level crossing is one that doesn't exist: a month in the life of a Finnish level crossing was captured on a "Peeping Tom" video to record the number of violations by motorists, cyclists, and pedestrians
  by Mike Knutton
• Politics & Britain's railways
• First Great Western, Britain, has unveiled the first of three train driver simulators designed to both assess existing drivers and train new ones
• China to build passenger line
• German Rail has decided to sell its ill-fated fleet of ICE-TD class 605 four-car tilting dmus
• Norwegian State Railways has signed an agreement with German Rail to jointly test composite brake shoes fitted to a test container wagon
• Dubai light metro gets green light
• Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has awarded a contract to Systra Consulting and J F White Contracting to install an Automatic Train Operation system on its Orange Line from Chinatown to Oak Grove
• Network Rail has awarded a 70 million [pounds sterling] contract to GrantRail
• Talgo has awarded a contract to Prose, Switzerland
• Bids are invited for contracts covering electrical supplies
• Light rail makes its mark in the Texan oil capital; Houston's first light rail line is now up and running. It is expected to provide better links throughout the city helping to alleviate traffic problems
  by Dipl-Ing Thomas Lecher
• IFE launches new door drive system
• Agreement on second railway package
• Eurotunnel has received back from Brush Traction, Britain, the first of 37 Shuttle locomotives being upgraded from 5.6 to 7MW to match the new locomotives supplied recently by Brush
• The only surviving railfreight service in Northern Ireland has been scrapped
• Work has started on doubling the 64km single-track line between Kutoarjo and Yogyakarta on the island of Java
• BLS Lotschbergbahn and Mittelland Regional Transport are negotiating a merger
• Hong Kong seeks rail merger
• An integrated ticketing scheme covering the Greater Manchester area was launched on April 1
• DG Regio, the regional passenger services division of German Rail , has invited bids to supply between 30 and 60 emus, with options for a further 60
• IR has invited bids to supply 10,000 wheels
• Rail research suffers setback in Europe
• JR East unveils two new trains for Tokyo services: JR East is building two new types of emu for operation on lines in the Tokyo area. In the meantime, the railway is continuing to develop its new AC train
• From Atlanta to Zurich
• Russia promotes trans-Korean Railway
• Pacific National has acquired Tasmania's rail operator, Australian Transport network
• New engines extend loco life
• The Chinese government has provided a $US 400 million loan to the Philippines government to enable it to go ahead with construction of a 32km line linking Caloocan, which interchanges with Metro Manila, to Malolos, the capital of the northern province of
• Nottingham opens first LRT line
• Since opening on December 20 2003, West Rail has been running up to 20 trains/hour with punctuality and service availability permanently over 99% and regularly at 100%
• Merseyrail has ordered an automated gating system from Cubic Transportation Systems for installation on the Mersey commuter rail network
• DB is seeking to purchase 80 24.5-tonne axleload freight wagons capable of 120km/h operation
• Bids have been invited by Spanish National Railways to install electronic interlocking with automatic block and CTC on the Magaz-Quintanilleja section of the madrid-hendaye line
• Monorails could benefit cash-strapped cities: the Indonesian capital Jakarta is planning to build a two-line monorail to help to solve its chronic road traffic congestion problems
  by David Briginshaw
• SBB tests AX pantographs
• China plans massive expansion
• Bombardier to make 6600 staff redundant
• Office of Rail Regulation
• DB plans to sell Mitropa, its sleeping car and catering subsidiary
• Metrorail
• Siemens withdraws Combinos
• Jarvis is considering selling half its stake in Tube Lines, the private consortium charged with maintaining and modernising London Underground's Piccadilly, Jubilee, and Northern lines
• Czech Railways is to rebuild its Plzen main station
• IR is seeking to purchase up to 5250 low-platform-bogie
• Union Tank Car has ordered braking equipment worth $US 19 million from Wabtec Corporation
• Cheaper solution for crossing control
• Transport maps
• Brazilians invest for growth
• Toll Holdings' 50%-owned joint railway venture, Pacific National, reported an after-tax profit of $A 17.3 million during the second half of last year
• Korea to install ERTMS
• Pakistan Railways is to have its annual budget increased by 60% during the coming financial year beginning on July 1
• Budapest calls line 4 tender
• Hamburg Hochbahn has called bids to replace its signalboxes with an electronic system and two remote control centres up to 2012
• NR has awarded a 12 million [pounds sterling] contract to carillion to design and build a new double-track section at Allington Junction
• Berlin's Lehrter, Potsdamer Platz, and Papestrasse stations are to be be equipped with new customer information systems supplied by Vossloh Information Technologies at a cost of 4 million [euro]
• Valencian Railways
• Oporto plans second expansion phase; construction of the first phase of a light metro in Portugal's second city, Oporto, is drawing to a close. Plans are now being drawn up for a second phase
• Innovative air-conditioning units
• Alstom faces more problems
• Renfe orders more hs trains
• Bulgarian State Railways will have to reissue a tender for two new high-speed trains after the initial bidding process attracted just a single bid from Talgo, Spain
• Israel's transport minister, Mr Avigdor Liebermann, says that investment in the rail network will be stepped up from $US 289 million last year to $US 778 million this year
• The 56km Mbale-Tororo section of the disused northern line, which connects with the Kampala-Nairobi main line at Tororo, has reopened after 10 years
• The first new rail service in south New Jersey, United States, since 1963 opened to the public last month between Camden and Trenton, serving communities along the Delaware River's Route 130 corridor
• A 64km commuter line from north of Ogden to Salt Lake City centre is to be built by Commuter Rail Constructors, a consortium of Stacy and Witbeck, San Francisco, and Herzog, Missouri
• DB has invited tenders to supply up to 320 new intermodal wagons between 2004 and 2008
• CargoNet has ordered a fleet of 48 25-tonne axleload freight wagons from Tatravagonka, Slovakia, at a cost of 4.5 million [euro]
• New Betuwe business plan

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