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Articles in July, 2005 issue of International Railway Journal

• Dubai Metro contract awarded
• India plans heavy-haul network
• Prorail loses Betuwe line battle
• Danish State Railways has appointed Mr Roger MacDonald as managing director of its British business DSB UK
• Indian Railways' e-ticketing programme is expected to come on stream this month, after an 18-month delay
• Israel Railways has made three new appointments
• Init is supplying a new generation of ticket machine for the Bremen light rail network
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is to buy two explosives detection systems from HiEnergy Technologies, United States
• The new E3 double-leaf train door was on show by IFE, a subsidiary of Knorr-Bremse
• French National Railways has commissioned Parkeon to develop a ticket vending machine for regional transport networks
• Norwegian State Railways has won the first rail franchise in Norway
• BNSF celebrates 10th anniversary of merger: this year marks the 10th anniversary of the merger between Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Pacific, which created today's Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway
  by Matthew Rose
• DB moves into operating profit
• RAIL4CHEM launched a new intermodal service between Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Schkopau, Germany, in June
• A 300km railway linking Haikou and Sanya on the island of Hainan is to be built
• New Mid-East lines planned
• Ircon, India, will soon start building a new railway line connecting Haiya Junction with Port Sudan in a $US 307 million project
• A new $US 300 million station at Coney Island on the New York Subway's N Line includes a massive glass canopy made up of 2730 solar energy panels that will generate about 15% of the electrical energy used by the station
• A radio communications system is to be installed on the Madrid Metro by Mondragon Sistemas
• Ansaldobreda had on show a mock-up of a refurbished train for Circumvesuviana
• Bulgarian State Railways expects to receive 23 Desiro dmus from Siemens by the end of the year
• Strukton Railinfra has won a contract to renew track and sleepers between Venlo and Nijmegen
• Wabtec's MotivePower operation is to overhaul 70 locomotives for leasing company Helm Financial Corporation in a deal worth $US 12 million
• Timely Information Consolidates customer loyalty: German Rail's new passenger information system delivers improved quality of information especially when timetables are disrupted
• Brazilian investment set to rise
• Pacific National has gained from a thriving coal market to make profits of $A 78 million
• French National Railways is running extra trains through the Alps after a fire in a road tunnel in May
• Politics play havoc with urban rail
  by M.P.S. Narayan
• Denver Regional Transportation District has earmarked four potential sites for a commuter train depot
• Lloyd's Register Rail has signed a contract with Bangkok Metro Public Company for an independent review of the safety management system for the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand's Initial System Project
• Moscow Metro is upgrading its security systems with new technology from Telindus Surveillance Solutions, Britain
• Thales reorganises business units
• The Chinese Ministry of Railways is buying 20 front nose sections, couplers and front door operating systems for new 200km/h electric trains from Voith Turbo Scharfenberg
• Arriva has ordered 43 GTW vehicles from Stadler, Switzerland, for use on secondary lines in the provinces of Friesland and Groningen
• North American railways: growing pains at age 175: North American railways are booming thanks to a surge in freight traffic. In turn, equipment suppliers are benefiting from an increase in orders as railways struggle to boost capacity
  by Luther Miller
• Rendezvous
• Railways must have vision
  by David Briginshaw
• Japan crash site reopens
• Vitoria a Minas Railway is to start testing a biodiesel fuel made of 80% diesel and 20% plant oil
• Open-access freight operator Rail4chem has succeeded in feeding traction current from an open-market supplier into the German Rail network to its locomotives
• The Union of European Railway Industries has named Bombardier Transportation president Mr Andre Navarri as its next chairman
• Sydney announces massive rail expansion plan
• MVA
• Bombardier Transportation has rolled out the first of 10 BiLevel commuter cars for a new service between Belen and Bernalillo
• India awards two ETCS contracts
• Six railway projects in east China's Shangdong Province are open to foreign investment
• The Bureau of Public Enterprises has shortlisted 14 consultancies for consideration as advisers in the impending privatisation of Nigeria Railways Corporation
• Return on railway investment is key: North American railways are gradually and cautiously embracing modern technology. The question is how to fund it
  by William Vantuono
• Website directory
• China orders more HS trains
• CTRL train contract signed
• China Railway Corporation has received a Yuan 20 billion loan
• China seeks private funds
• Transport minister Mr Jeff Radebe has set a deadline of next March for the consolidation of passenger services into a single operation
• LA approves reduced budget
• Docklands Light Railway has finalised a 180 million [pounds sterling] contract with the concessionaire, Woolwich Arsenal Rail Enterprises , for a 2.5km extension from King George V station in North Woolwich, under the fiver Thames in two parallel bored t
• Adapt public transport to match lifestyles—UITP
• Axminster Carpets, Britain, has won a contract to supply train operator First Great Western Link
• Mexican freight railway, Ferrosur, has signed a contract with RailComm, United States, to supply a new computer-aided dispatch system
• Genessee & Wyoming has signed an agreement with Rail Management Corporation to buy its rail operations for $US 243 million
• ICE 1 fleet gets information upgrade: Vossloh Information Technologies has been commissioned as part of a wider refurbishment to upgrade the mobile customer information system on German Rail's fleet of ICE 1 high-speed trains
• Vietnam plans 1630km railway
• One-man operation in US?
• Net turnover for VR Group for the first quarter of 2005 was 373 million [euro], a 10 million [euro] rise compared with the same period last year
• Solution found to potential Lausanne Metro problem
  by Patrick Chevaux
• Private railway, Midland Regional Transport , plans to sell its freight arm, which it launched a year ago
• Trainmakers investigate plant
• The Light Rail Transit Authority will continue to operate at a loss because of high interest costs from loans incurred for modernisation
• Bombardier claims no 1 transit spot
• The European Commission has approved the selection of Terna, Greece, to electrify the 37.7km Krumovo-Parvomai section of the Plovdiv-Svilengrad line
• Holland Railconsult has won a contract from ProRail
• Standard Car Truck Company and Cooper Standard , United States, have signed a joint agreement to make dynamic control parts for freight wagons
• Alstom unveils new train for Stockholm commuters: Stockholm Transport buys 55 low-floor Coradia Lirex trains to replace 30-year-old emus
  by Andrew Roden
• Work starts on new Chinese passenger line
• Israel Railways cuts back investment plan
• The chairman of the Rail Passengers Council, Mr Stewart Francis, has resigned because of ill health
• Indu Projects plans to introduce flash-butt welding units for South Central Railway
• Bombardier and Israel Aircraft Industries have signed an agreement to jointly develop single-deck passenger cars for Israel Railways
• Light railfreight
• COE Group, Britain, has a subcontract from Siemens to deliver the third stage of the CCTV system for the Delhi Metro

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