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Articles in May, 2005 issue of International Railway Journal

• China's new five-year plan
• Mexican Railway becomes wholly American owned
• Prorail, the track authority, plans to employ 50 train conductors to improve security
• According to the Berliner Zeitung, the city is planning a new series of underground trains for the low-profile network
• Utah Transit Authority is awaiting approval of an environmental impact study to allow it to start work on a 70.8km commuter line to the northern suburb of Pleasant View
• Turkish State Railways has issued an invitation to tender for the supply of 10 six-car 250km/h electric trains
• Road/rail specialists
• Bombardier Transportation improves its performance
• Docklands plans to operate longer trains
• Bangkok seeks new funding
• RailComm, United States, has supplied to RailAmerica a second regional dispatch centre based on its so-called domain operations controller technology
• Corrosion protection and finishing
• Mexico to build high-speed line
• Total railfreight traffic increased by 8.2% from 78.5 billion tonne-km in 2003 to 86.4 billion last year
• Union Pacific is to test a Green Goat hybrid locomotive supplied by Railpower Technologies
• A pressure group called Gutsy Women has called on the Mass Transit Railway Corporation to provide women-only metro cars to help prevent indecent assaults on them in metro trains
• Canadian National Railway has placed two orders for 75 locomotives with options for another 75
• Deuta-Werke: 100 years of motion
• Mr Katsuya Akita has succeeded Mr Hiroumi Soejima as president of the Railway Technical Research Institute
• Budapest Transport reckons it loses about $US 15.7 million a year from ticketless travel
• Indian Railways has announced details of its new scheme for the private sector to invest in freight wagons
• Deck Track: a new foundation for railways: Deck Track offers a cost-effective alternative for heavy-loaded freight lines as well as high-speed lines constructed in soft-soil areas
  by Ir H.G. Stuit
• Russian/German high-speed pact
• Morocco wants high-speed rail
• Bidders line up for UK franchises
• Mr Babe Botana, CEO of Rail Systems of Zambia, says that passenger services are being seriously disrupted
• The cabinet has decided to further delay public tendering for the operation of light rail and metro networks in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht from 2012 to 2017
• French National Railways has awarded a 37 million [euro] contract to Alstom to convert 48 Corail coaches so that they can operate as push-pull sets
• Managing risk improves track safety: a new generation of track safety management tools has been developed to quantify and analyse the risk associated with key track failure modes
  by Allan M. Zarembski
• ICE 1 fleet to be upgraded
• Train services on the coastal line were fully restored on April 11
• Japanese experts have prepared a feasibility study for a $US 474 million monorail from Ben Thanh Market to National Highway 1 in District 12
• Botniabanan, which is constructing a 190km 250km/h railway in northern Sweden, has appointed Bombardier to produce specifications for an ERTMS-based signalling system
• First N700 Shinkansen train starts testing; test running started last month on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen of the first N700 train to confirm its performance and long-term durability. The N700 is expected to enter commercial service in 2007
• Brazil plans first HS line
• Hull Trains, Britain's only open-access passenger operator, will start to operate this month the first of its 200km/h four-car Pioneer dmus on its services linking Hull with London King's Cross
• The prime minister has approved funding of 6 million [euro]
• Mr Robert W Hubner has been elected chairman of the Industry Division of the Brussels-based International Association of Public Transport for 2005-07
• VR Group has awarded a contract to GE Transportation Rail
• Queensland coal line reaches half-way point: construction of the Bauhinia Regional Rail Project in Central Queensland, the longest railway to be built in the state since the mid-1980s, has reached the half-way point
  by Ian Hammond
• Rail revival in Brazil
  by David Briginshaw
• President Sam Nujoma has commissioned the 89km first section of the new Northern Railway from Tsumeb to Oshivelo
• The S-Bahn will be extended to Hildesheim from December 2008
• Pakistan Railways is inviting bids this month for 20-year leases to lay optic fibre cables alongside the railway network
• Polyfelt beats the British weather! Geotextiles were part of the solution to construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link across a marshy area of southeast England
• Bombardier to build more E464 locomotives
• EMD sale completed
• A pre-feasibility study is to be conducted for a proposed new line from the Kenyan port
• Path replaces entire metro car fleet
• Metro Recife has opened the first 4.1km section of Line 2 between Central on Line 1 and Imbiribeira
• Netherlands Railways has placed a 14 million [euro] order with Ascom for automatic ticket vending machines
• World high-speed rail market set for strong growth; according to a recent study of the high-speed rail market by SCI Verkehr, Germany, there will be strong growth in the Asian market between now and 2012. The study analysed those countries with establishe
• Tri-voltage locos delivered
• Tunisian National Railways has introduced internet access
• Budget gap threatens transit
• Singapore Technologies Electronics is supplying the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation
• Rendezvous
• CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works, China, is building 12 class SS5 140km/h BoBo electric locomotives for Tehran Urban & Subway Railway, Iran, to power commuter trains
• French Rail Network is to upgrade the Lille-Bethune line at a cost of 82 million [euro]
• The two governments have agreed to privatise the 1852km 1067mm-gauge railway operated by the Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority
• Metrolink takes centre stage
• Omega Red Group has been awarded a contract worth more than 500,000 [pounds sterling]
• South Africa to upgrade its two heavy-haul lines: demand on South Africa's two 1065mm-gauge heavy-haul railways is about to outstrip capacity despite recent upgrading of infrastructure, rolling stock and motive power. As a result, capacity on both lines i
  by Rollo Dickson
• Eurotunnel to renegotiate its debt
• Metro Brasilia plans to buy between two and eight additional four-car emus this year
• Ganz Mavag, Hungary, Mitsui, Japan, and TTrans and MPE, Brazil, are bidding for a $US 5.4 million contract to revamp the Santa Teresa tramway in Rio de Janeiro
• Designing track for high traction forces: achieving a uniformly high quality in both ballast and formation, and the selection of suitable rail pads is vital wherever track is designed for use under high traction forces
  by David Rhodes
• UP's $US 1.3 billion programme
• Siemens rolled out on April 5 the first EuroRunner 20 diesel locomotive for LTE, Austria, a member of the European Bulls railfreight alliance formed earlier this year
• Work has started on a Rs 1.8 billion two-year project
• The government of Tamil Nadu plans to asks India's Ministry of Railways to extend the Mass Rapid Transport System from Taramani to Mahabalipuram
• The city's two main fare integration systems—flee transfer between all urban buses within the city
• Norfolk Southern is to acquire 50 3MW high-adhesion locomotives from GE Transportation Rail to cope with a higher-than-expected increase in traffic
• Equipment for lifting, repair work and testing in depots and workshops
• The Australian government has announced a study of the rail corridor linking Melbourne, Sydney
• Goninan wins extended NSW contract
• US ridership increases
• Queensland Rail's iQR division has signed a memorandum of understanding with Vietnamese Railways
• Website directory
• New Chinese line opens

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