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Articles in May, 2003 issue of International Railway Journal

• SNCB seeks innovative trains
• Siemens
• Spanish National Railways and Trenitalia, Italy, have formed a joint venture railfreight company
• Eurotunnel spreads its wings
• Vietnam's largest city is soon to have a metro, according to the official Vietnam News Agency
• Tenders have been called for a 2.3km extension of the metro from the city centre to the Interpred World Trade Centre
• Network Rail
• Karachi City District Government
• Light rail comes to the Basque capital: a new light rail line is under construction in Bilbao, Spain. The initial section is built, and the line will open fully next year
• Second railway package approved
• Regional trains sought in Sweden
• Parliament is considering a Railways Bill which will restructure Croatian Railways
• Construction of a new line from Ha Long City to Can Lai deepwater port in the northeastern
• Bombardier
• Expressions of interest have been called for design and construction of most of the works associated with the $A 200 million inner city rail project
• STIB speeds up track renewal
• Angel Trains International
• Hupac Intermodal
• Brazilians test different sleeper materials
  by Theodor Gevert
• Germany unveils new investment plan
• GO Transit expands network
• Indian Railways has introduced the first of its new dual-voltage emus on suburban services in Mumbai
• Gloomy outlook by Network Rail
• Metrofor wants to accept 13 diesel-hydraulic suburban trainsets offered free of charge by Japan
• The tourist island of Sentosa has launched a search for companies to provide a low-capacity tram system
• Salvador Transport and Brazilian Urban Trains
• High Speed line South
• Barcelona plans major rail network expansion
  by Steve Bennett
• Russian Railways Company is born
• Trenitalia orders 100 Coradias
• Rehabilitation of a 297km section of freight line on the Valle de Cauca railway
• Sumitomo Metal Industries, Japan
• Mashhad LRT line due to open soon
• Jakes Associates
• Chengdu sets out on the metro path
• Indian Railways
• CIT Rail Resources
• New rail could solve rolling contact fatigue: a lot has already been achieved to improve rail quality. Trials currently being conducted with a new type of rail hold out the hope of a solution to rolling contact fatigue
  by Norbert Frank
• Via Rail plan gains support
• Venice Simplon Orient-Express and Queensland Rail are to suspend on June 8
• The parliamentary upper house has passed the Railway Act
• Japan's JR East railway
• Bombardier Transportation has rolled out the first of a fleet of type NGT6 low-floor LRVs
• The ground-breaking ceremony took place last month for the $US 340 million
• Bids are invited to supply and install track on West Rail's 14km Lok Ma Chau branch line in Hong Kong
• Polish State Railways
• Singapore still testing 20km automatic metro
  by Mike Knutton
• Paris prepares for rail spectacle
• Chuo maglev Shinkansen to cost up to $US 82.5 billion
• The government has guaranteed to support a $US 88 million bonds issue planned by Chilean State Railways
• The Swedish government has agreed to provide the state-owned passenger services operator
• Mulhouse orders Citadis LRVs
• Expressions of interest have been invited for the financing
• Andalucia goes for light metro
• German Rail
• Bids are invited for civil engineering works
• Wide-sleeper track gains official approval
  by Dipl-Ing Hans Bachmann
• Brenner base tunnel agreement
• Basle freight by-pass proposed
• Rail passenger traffic is declining on the German network
• OBB to be restructured
• Sri Lanka's Ministry of Western Region Development
• Alstom has won a contract from Metro Recife for a new Urbalis 100 train control system covering track and onboard signalling and ATP
• BHP Billiton
• Luxembourg National Railways
• Madrid confirms its low-cost approach
  by Steve Bennett
• Platform edge protector
• Tokaido line to be improved
• UIC streamlines its activities
• The government has agreed to allocate an additional Dkr 360 million
• The transport and communications minister, Mr Witness Mangwende, has announced that $Z 1 billion will be allocated to National Railways of Zimbabwe
• The city's S-Bahn will be extended by 3km from Lichterfelde Sud to Tetlow by the end of 2004
• A loan of [euro]30 million from the European Investment Bank
• City sell-off may fund metro Line
• Irish Rail
• How secure are US railways? Follow the acronyms
  by William Vantuono
• VDEI track show opens in Munster on May 13
• SBB goes into the red
• Austrian Federal Railways has begun testing signalling conforming to the European Train Control System
• The European bank for Reconstruction and Development

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