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Articles in Sept, 2005 issue of International Railway Journal

• First new inter-city cars arrive in Ireland
• Taiwan to start high-speed tests
• Australian Transport and Energy Corridor has teamed up with Barclay Mowlem for a planned $A 775 million line linking the Surat Coral Basin with the Port of Gladstone, in Queensland
• Dijbouti-Ethiopian Railways
• Sri Lankan Railways is considering the construction of a new 160km line from Colombo to Matara, in the south of the country
• Jabotabek to be franchised
• Affiliated Computer Services, of Dallas, United States, is to acquire, for about $US 100 million
• Queensland gets smart
• Kamco, a consortium of four ticketing and systems companies, is working in partnership with the Victoria state government to develop a new generation of public transport ticketing
• French National Railways has amended a contract with Alstom to supply it with 30 electric freight locomotives
• Carillion Rail has won a SKr 86 million contract from infrastructure authority Bankverket
• Maintenance is a vital part of the system approach: appropriate and timely maintenance forms an integral part of the system approach that needs to be adopted by railways if they are to meet the demanding challenges being put upon them
  by Jay Jaiswal
• Powder coatings
• Website directory
• Moscow airport rail link opens
• IRJ team member Lynda Page dies
• Work is underway on Northern Ireland transport operator, Translink's 11.4 million [pounds sterling] train cleaning facility at Fortwilliam
• The International Association of Public Transport celebrated its 120th anniversary last month
• Light tramway technology has a role to play too
  by Caspar Lucas
• Work has started to modify Courtetelle, Bassecourt, Glovelier, St Ursanne, and Porrentruy stations on S-Bahn Line S3 in readiness for the introduction of new Flirt trains on the line on December 11
• Vossloh Kiepe, Germany, is upgrading with new traction systems 127 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority metro cars
• Westinghouse Rail Systems, Britain, has won a contract from the Land Transport Authority for the signalling, automatic train control, automatic train protection, and automatic train supervision systems
• Omnicom Engineering, Britain, has won a 5 million [pounds sterling] contract to improve information systems at Network Rail's engineering support centre in Derby
• TransNamib is to receive a government-backed loan of $N 204 million to buy 15 new locomotives and refurbish its existing fleet
• Harsco Track Technologies has been awarded a $US 70 million contract to grind rails in the United States
• New metro video surveillance techniques: software developed by Siemens promises to improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of transport video monitoring systems by using electronic recognition
  by Matthias Seifert
• Advanced rail weather information
• No flash in the pan for DB
  by David Briginshaw
• Iran and Iraq firm up plans for first rail links
• SAUDI Arabia's transport minister Dr Jubara Alsuraisri inaugurates the first double-stack container service
• Mowlem has successfully completed work on a 115-year old viaduct in Scotland
• A new maintenance depot for Irish Rail's new intercity train fleet will be built at a cost of 65 million [euro]
• NY orders more commuter trains
• An 18km, 20-stop light rail line between Evry and Senart, 30km south of Paris, is due to open in 2007
• Brazilian Metros seek IMF funds
• Financing has been secured for construction of a 32.5 million [euro] extension of the S-Bahn
• Alstom and Changchun Railway Vehicles have placed a 61 million [euro] contract with Knorr-Bremse
• Voith Turbo, Germany, is supplying locomotive cooling systems to Vossloh Spain for the first time
• Metronet boosts track maintenance productivity: Metronet, which is responsible for maintaining two-thirds of London Underground's assets under two of the three public-private partnership contracts, has achieved a major increase in productivity in maintai
  by Hugh McAnaw
• The train for Spain is far from plain: based on the ICE 3 emu, Renfe's new Velaro E high-speed trains are finally starting tests for eventual use on the Madrid-Barcelona line
  by Andrew Roden
• Corrosion protection and finishing
• DB makes first-half profit
• SBB exonerated over national blackout
• CN expands capacity in Canada
• The Saskatchewan government is to spend $C 2 million upgrading grain hopper wagons
• Rail and port company, CFM, is to resume operation of passenger services in the greater Maputo area
• Two shortlisted for DLR franchise
• The Japan External Trade Organisation has agreed to provide financial assistance for a feasibility study for the first phase of a $US 1.2 billion
• Parma studies LRT routes
• BHP Billiton Iron Ore has awarded a contract to Barclay Mowlem to install 60,000 concrete sleepers on heavy-haul lines
• Knorr-Bremse has won a 7 million [euro] order from Alstom to supply braking equipment for 128 cars
• Swedish Train Technology is licencing RailPower Technologies', Canada, Green Goat hybrid locomotive technology
• Metronet's markers speed fault finding
• Commitment to innovation
• Rendezvous
• SNCF orders more TGVs
• Pakistan to cut journey times
• Plans to re-open the disused Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine freight line in Scotland are closer to fruition following a pledge from the Scottish regional government to provide almost 30 million [pounds sterling] for construction to start
• The Union of African Railways is calling for greater cooperation between railways in the continent
• National Railways of Zimbabwe is to be split into four business units: freight and equipment, passenger services, infrastructure, and road motor services
• Interfleet Technology, United States, is to provide consultancy for a new 51.2km commuter rail service between Leander and Austin, Texas
• The new $A 75 million Thornlie suburban branch line in Perth, Western Australia, opened on August 7
• The three-track main line between the main station and the German border at Freilassing is to be used for an S-Bahn service
• Shell UK Oil Products has formed a new global rail lubricants sales network, with a team dedicated to Britain to assist in the smooth operation of rolling stock
• CAF, Spain, and Alstom were the only companies that registered for the second bidding round of the Mexico City-Cusautitlan commuter train project
• Union Pacific has awarded a $US 8.2 million contract to RailPower Technologies, Canada, for 10 Green Goat low-emission hybrid battery-diesel shunters for use in yards in southern California
• Interoperability moves a step closer with GSM-R: Kapsch, Austria, has developed a range of GSM-R and hybrid radio products as its contribution to European interoperability
• Personal high voltage safety detector
• Vossloh takes over Pfleiderer
• Cross-border studies agreed
• Balfour Beatty is to install track and power systems for the Eurostar maintenance
• Indian Railways plans to introduce a scheme where some passengers' tickets are upgraded to a higher class
• Dubai orders driverless cars
• The Andean Development Corporation has approved a $US 71.8 million loan to help finance a $US 606 million project for the Caracas metro
• Bombardier has received a $US 29 million order from Utah Transit Authority for 12 BiLevel commuter cars
• The new Alstom Coradia low-floor Lirex commuter train was inaugurated by Greater Stockholm Local Transport on August 13
• RailPower Technologies is expanding its manufacturing capability with a new contract signed with Super Steel, United States
• RCF, India, has submitted a bid to design, manufacture, and supply a 10-car push-pull train for TransNamib
• SafeTea-LU: "pork" or "turkey"?
  by William Vantuono
• Eurostar gears up for move to St Pancras in 2007: completion of a 300km/h link between London St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel heralds improved services to continental Europe in 2007
  by Mike Knutton

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