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Articles in Sept, 2004 issue of International Railway Journal

• Bombardier group returns to profit
• Reaping the benefits of technical innovation
  by David Briginshaw
• Comsa wins Chilean concession
• Croatia
• South Africa
• Dubai bidders shortlisted
• The Atlantis Resort on the Palm, a man-made area in the shape of a palm tree, is to be served by a monorail starting at Jumeirah on the "trunk" of the Palm
• Systra has won a contract to provide technical and financial assistance in connection with the proposed 10km light rail line planned between Croix-Rouge and Orgeval via the town centre
• Union Railways has awarded a 6.5 million [pounds sterling] contract to Thales Telecom Services todesign and install a radio propagation system for section two of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
• A 73 million [euro] contract has been awarded to Imtech and GTI to provide communications and safety equipment
• Connex has ordered an additional nine three-car Talent dmus from Bombadier Transportation for 24 million [euro]
• A holistic approach is needed in train design: trains need to capture the imagination of consumers, in the way modern automobiles do. This could be achieved if design, marketing, engineering, and maintenance could be integrated
  by Siep Wijsenbeek
• New Asian rail link planned
• Australia
• Dual-mode vehicle developed
• MTRC expands into sourcing
• Bangkok plans elevated line
• Australia's Victorian government has called tenders for a smart card public transport ticketing system for Melbourne to replace the troubled and unpopular Metcard magnetic stripe ticketing in 2007
• Wiener Lokalbahn is seeking to lease for the next five years 10 5.6MW dual-voltage locomotives
• Iraqi Republic Railway is seeking rolling stock
• Syrian Railways has invited tenders from consultants to provide a preliminary technical and economic study
• Munich U-Bahn gears up for World Cup
• Texans think big on transit
• India
• Switzerland
• London salutes stable funding
• Atkins Rail, a partner in Metronet, which is responsible for renewing and upgrading two-thirds of the London Underground, has awarded four communications contracts worth 10 million [pounds sterling]
• A Japanese banking syndicate led by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation is providing a loan of $US 259 million to finance Line 4 of the Metro
• Chilean State Railways has invited tenders for 16-year contracts to install and maintain signalling
• Warsaw Tramway
• Has DC traction power had its day? A section of U-Bahn tunnel in Berlin that for a time will be isolated from the rest of the network is to be used for an experiment that could change the face of metros worldwide
  by Mike Knutton
• Siemens unveils multi-system universal loco: the president of Siemens' Locomotives Division has called for the certification of locomotives to be harmonised throughout Europe. He was speaking at the launch by Siemens of a new high-performance multi-system
  by David Briginshaw
• China plans new funding system
• Britain
• Correction
• Belo Horizonte Metro expands
• Alcatel and Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari have successfully completed an onboard, real-time video surveillance field trial in the fully automatic, driverless Copenhagen Metro
• The city's Metropolitan Region Development Authority has called bids for a mass rapid transit system
• Angel Trains, Siemens, and National Express have signed contracts for 30 new four-car Desiro emus
• Kenya Railways Corporation has awarded a Shillings 325 million contract to Bombardier Transportation to refurbish 35 class 93/94 locomotives and 12 class 62 locomotives
• Turkish State Railways has ordered 500,000 concrete sleepers from Pfleiderer, Germany
• Nexans cables are the "motor" for Shanghai's Transrapid
• Huge Saudi rail expansion plan
• TGV speed-up in Switzerland
• Germany
• Sweden
• Madrid orders Citadis LRVs
• A new public transport company, Rhein-Neckar Transport was formed at the end of July through the merger of five transport companies in the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen/Hei delberg area
• Two light rail extensions opened recently—the $US 282 million 4.7km, four-station Tasman East section between Alder Drive and Hostetter Road, and the 5.6km Capitol Light Rail section, which continues from the end of the Tasman East extension to just
• Corus has been awarded a 1.7 million [pounds sterling] contract by Birse to supply modular platform kits
• Mott MacDonald and its Polish partner, Kolprojekt, have been awarded a contract by Polish State Railways to carry out improvements at 134 sites on the national network that will increase line speeds by between 20 and 100km/h
• US railfreight traffic recovers with a vengeance
  by William Vantuono
• Japan's first Shinkansen train with active tilting: a new generation of Japanese high-speed train, the 300km/h N700, will begin test runs next year
  by Mike Knutton
• TRC privatisation moves a step closer
• Austria/Italy
• The 55m-high railway bridge dating from 1885 over the Sao Joao River in Brazil collapsed on July 19
• Korean BOT concession awarded
• Streetcars may return to the Texan state capital, Austin, if a two-line proposal goes to ballot in November as part of the Cap Metro commuter rail proposal
• Alstom is to supply 24 Citadis LRVs worth 58 million [euro] for the 19km Line 2 of the city's LRT system
• Zillertalbahn has invited bids to supply either three three-car dmus or seven coaches
• Israel Railways has invited bids to supply 83 single-deck passenger coaches
• Syrian Railways seeks bids to supply 200 two-axle
• Roll out of first Kassel tram-trains: Kassel will become the third German city to operate tram-trains in December when it launches its first services. Kassel will also become the first city in Germany to introduce hybrid electro-diesel vehicles
  by David Briginshaw
• French National Railways is drawing up plans for a 1007m-long 200km/h train that could carry 222 cars and minibuses and 704 passengers
• Franchise offers improvements
• Poland
• Turkey
• Ho Chi Minh metro a step closer
• A groundbreaking ceremony has marked the start of construction of the Los Angeles' highest-priority rail project, the 9.6km Eastside Extension of the Metro Gold Line light rail project
• Singapore Technologies Electronics has won a $US 35.6 million contract from Alstom/CTCI consortium to provide a communications system
• Belgian National Railways has sent a letter of intent to Bombardier Transportation in partnership with Alstom to supply a further 70 double-deck M6 passenger coaches
• Rave, which is responsible for developing Portugal's planned high-speed network
• Berlin S-Bahn fully restored: massive investment in recent years has returned the Berlin S-Bahn to its former glory. The next phase of development will be the introduction of competition
• Website directory
• KTX carries its 10-millionth passenger
• German job cuts predicted
• East African rail expansion urged
• Uganda
• Nagoya urban rail expands
• Colombia's first mass transit aerial cable system opened in Medellin on July 30

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