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Articles in May, 2004 issue of International Railway Journal

• GM Tier 2 locomotives enter service
• Siemens wins Ukrainian order
• The fifth airport to be served by German Rail's ICE high-speed trains
• A freight emu, called Super Rail Cargo, developed by JR Freight for container transport, is now operating nightly on the 550km Tokaido line between Tokyo and Osaka
• MTR invests in Beijing Metro
• The Serbian capital's minister for transport says that Dinars 180 million is to be invested in the suburban rail system
• Charlotte orders Siemens LRVs
• Harsco Track Technologies, United States, which recently sold rail grinders to Network Rail, now has a $US 50 million
• Afcon Industries has teamed up with two Czech companies, ZE Praha and Sudop Praha, in a strategic cooperation agreement to bid for the Shekel 1.2 billion Israel Railways electrification tender
• Serbian Railways has signed a contract with Koncar, Croatia, to repair and modernise 38 locomotives
• Charlotte city council, North Carolina, has approved/he purchase for $US 52.5 million of 16 S70 LRVs from Siemens for the South Corridor Light Rail Project
• IR to invest $US 3 billion in 2004-05: expanding capacity, removing bottlenecks, and carrying out safety-related projects continue to mark the thrust of Indian Railways' capital investment policy
  by K.K. Gupta
• The role of the airport express
• JR Central spending plans
• Novoeste is to invest Reais 13 million to begin rebuilding its 860km main line between Bauru and Campo Grande
• JR Kyushu opened the 126.8km Shin-Yatsuhiro-Kagoshima-Chuo high-speed line in March
• Joint divestiture of Uganda Railways Corporation and Kenya Railways Corporation has been agreed by the presidents of the two countries
• Tenerife orders Citadis LRVs
• South Florida Regional Transportation Authority is abandoning plans for a new Tri-Rail commuter service in favour of an extension of the Metrorail subway service to Florida International University
• A 45km light rail line, believed to be the longest in China, went into trial operation at the end of March
• Connex has signed a contract with Saxony-Anhalt
• Montenegro Railways has purchased 10 second-hand sleeping cars, 10 second-hand couchettes, and 10 second-hand double-deck car transporters from French National Railways for 405,000 [euro]
• Alcatel, France, has been awarded a 20 million [euro] train detection contract by Taiwan Railway Administration
• Seoul metro goes from strength to strength: the "can do" attitude of the Koreans has created a metro in the capital, Seoul, of nearly 300km in 30 years with more to come in the next decade
  by Mike Knutton
• Rendezvous
• Eurotunnel shareholders appoint new board
• DB to reduce investment
• Inauguration of the Kalaikunda solid state interlocking project look place on March 9
• Holland Railconsult
• Innsbruck expands LRT services
• The 21km Line 1 of the metro was completed on March 31 with the opening of the 8.9km Inderlok-Rithala section
• Bart shortens trains
• Voith Turbo has won a 40 million [euro] order from Siemens for 156 drive systems for Desiro dmus for Britain
• Turin Transport Group , which serves Turin and other parts of the Piedmont region, has ordered 10 Coradia regional three-car emus
• Spanish National Railways has selected Nortel Networks
• Florida project under threat
• Positive results from rail grinding in India: encouraging results were delivered when Indian Railways tested a Loram rail grinder in two very different operating environments
  by Sudhanshu Sharma
• MiniProf measuring equipment for wheel and rail profiles
• A blurring of roles
  by David Briginshaw
• Train blast devastates Ryongchon
• Go Ahead
• Tenders invited for Sicilian link
• National Railways of Zimbabwe is using Garratt steam locomotives—some borrowed from the railway museum—to haul commuter trains on two routes to and from Bulawayo
• Swings and roundabouts
• TRTA moves towards privatisation
• Wiener Linien has called bids
• Pfleiderer Track Systems, Germany, has formed a joint venture with sleeper manufacturer, Patil Rail Infrastructure, to supply the Rheda 2000 ballastless track system developed by Pfleiderer for sections of the 300km Jammu-Udhampur-Srinagar line in Kashmir
• Prequalification bids have been called for contracts to modernise five main city stations
• Harsco Track Technologies has won orders worth $US 15 million
• Massive expansion Programme forges ahead; with 3300km of lines under construction, Iran has the world's second largest railway expansion programme after China. Plans are being drawn up to build a further 3579km of new lines
  by David Briginshaw
• Windscreen wash/wipe systems
• Renfe orders high-speed power cars
• Germany to improve regulation
• Indian Railways hauled 555.74 million tonnes of freight in the recently-concluded financial year, an increase of 34 million tonnes compared with the previous year
• Fourteen days after the inauguration of the Korean high-speed train, KTX, which plies between the capital Seoul and the second city, Busan, the operator Korail carried its one millionth high-speed passenger—a 70-year old gentleman who was given flowe
• Chicago plan gets underway
• Steelmaker Corus, which is supplying grooved and vignole rail for the Bergamo Tramway, has now won a contract to study the wheel/rail contact position in order to define the optimum wheel/rail profile for minimum material wear and maximum ride quality.
• DLR refurbishes its fleet
• ImageMap, United States, has a contract with Network Rail
• Bids have been called by May 11 for construction of the first section, Anabe-Latrun, of the fast rail link from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
• Bids have been called by October 4 for modernisation of the signalling and safety devices on the line between Divaca and the port of Koper
• High-speed rail: can North America do better than 220km/h?
  by William Vantuono
• Better lubrication cuts rail wear dramatically: a more consistent and comprehensive approach to rail lubrication on London Underground's Circle Line has dramatically reduced rail wear
  by David Briginshaw
• Simply shining ahead
• NS faces tougher conditions
• An interim station to the northeast of the existing St Pancras station in London will be in use until 2006 while the historic 140-year-old Victorian station is extended and renovated to become London's new international station
• Britain vetoes private project
• The government is said to be "preparing to approve investment" in the form of bonds for a four-year, $US 206 million project to build a railway line from Yen Vien on the outskirts of Hanoi to the northeastern port of Cai Lan
• Bangkok Metro's "soft" opening
• A $US 53 million plan to reintroduce vintage streetcars is being promoted by a local councillor
• West Bengal government plans to set up a metro development corporation for the state's 23km metro project between Rajarhat in North 24 Parganas district and New Dasnagar in Howrah, the twin city of Kolkata that was once called the Birmingham of the east
• Comsa, Spain, in a joint venture with Themeli, Greece, has won a 6.3 million [euro] contract
• INIT, Germany, has won a contract to provide a computer-aided operating control system
• New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Metro-North Railroad has exercised options
• Korea's first airport railway to open in 2007: the first railway concession project is underway in Korea. The 61.7km line from Seoul city centre to Incheon international airport will offer both commuter and express services
  by Mike Knutton
• Corrosion protection and finishing
• Freight Australia changes hands
• Reunion to build first railway
• Regular European railfreight services using Britain's new Channel Tunnel Rail Link got underway in April with intermodal export trains operated by English Welsh & Scottish Railway , which has a track access agreement with CTRL Ltd
• NS has sold its 6% stake in the freight operator Railion to Stinnes

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