Modern Railways 1999: Vol 56 Index

7 Pages·1999·2.7 MB·English

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Channel Tunnel: ‘50 years ago’:
* Channel Tunnel Rail Link
CTRL contracts / Kent Finland:
CTRL contracts not yet awarded / Bidders for Bi-level option taken up
“CTRL: growth / Catering for freight Rail operators: Open-to-all competition
CTRL link-ups / Mowlem prepares
Make-up of Volume 56 “CTRL - one year on ‘Forum’:
CTRL progress
Month ) Pages | Month oo CTRL shortlist
January 1-72 | July 457-536 Cuxton / Temporary CTRL bridge at France:
Duty free protest Bridge at Kehl for TGVs and trams
February 73-152 | August 537-616 Euronight stock may be scrapped Clermont Ferrand non-stop
March 153-216 | September 617-696 Eurostar could terminate at Watford / Regional Coradia prototype / Double-deck
April 217-296 October 697-776 Eurostar’s fifth birthday Corail replacement / SNCF plans
May 297-376 | November 777-856 EEuurroossttaarr’ss fGorr eaStN CFN?o rt/h eRreng iornuanl EEuurroossttaarrss ftoo r bSeN CuFs?e d / oRn egFiroennaclh internal services
June 377-456 December 857-936 Eurostars / Little hope for Regional Grandes Lignes overhaul
Eurostars on domestic services / New pantograph for liberalisation / French concede on
An asterisk denotes a major feature article Eurostars? / Thalys to lease Regional Lille Line 2 extends
Eurostars to be used on French internal services Loyalty card launched
fleet / Eurotunnel boosts “Lyon benefits from regional powers
freight clocks up five years / Chunnel Lyon-Turin tunnel / Go-ahead for
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Burntisland track defect case traction frenzy / Captain Deitic’s Parisian travel /A utomated metro eases
Ladbroke Grove Pendolino cutback / Lyon
Ladbroke Grove: Aluminium bodyshell concerns deepen China: Regionalisation
Ladbroke Grove: Back to basics (Railtalk) contracts for Euro-giants / Chinese SIFER 99: Paris show
Ladbroke Grove disaster TGV Decouverte
“Ladbroke Grove / Estimating train accident risk after Civil Engineering: TGV Est
Lewes and Newtown accidents TGV Est still short of funds
“Bedford South Midlands hub
November accidents TGV Est to open in 2005
BLAT: Stoneblower upgrades 100 miles of track in 12 weeks
Settle disaster averted TGV in doubt on longer LGV Est / Tilting
*Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Shap / Container smashes windows at TGV Med on course
“East Coast route / A 21st century
Southall - £1.5million: record fine for GWT TGV Mediterranee progress
*Euston / Remodelling
Spa Road incident causes disruption TGV Quest: green light
Felixstowe upgrade
TPWS: let’s get on with it (Railtalk) *GW Zone zeroes in on performance TGV Rhine-RhUne under study
Winsford / Pacer rammed by 110mph express at *IMC2 contract / How to win an TGV services / Faster Franco-Swiss
Winsford SPAD IMC2000 / Railtrack unveils Thalys to lease Regional Eurostars?
“Infrastructure tilting trains /T enders sought for
Airlines & airports: VAL success
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Malpensa Airport line beds in
Manchester Airport mineral branch Councils / Local Authorities:
Milan Malpensa Airport link open Bedford-Swindon funds bid Direct Rail Services:
Paddington Lawn opened *Croydon Tramlink nears completion Class 20 Choppers at Leiston
Dungeness nuclear flask traffic
Schipol Airport track quadrupling
Stockholm-Vasteras line /Arlanda train on test for “Croydon Tramlink / Progress on
Nottingham tram goes ahead English Welsh & Scottish Railway:
‘Alan Williams’ Column’: power / Unreasonable exercise of Car traffic growing
public authorities / Unlawful behaviour by Carlisle depot to close
Regulators / Regulating the Chairman Burkhardt resigns
‘Alan Williams’ Column’ replies: right to be treated fairly / The Chairman Ed’s departure - there was no alternative
Robin Hood / NET steals track from Class 33 Crompton farewell
South Wales: Future investment Class 33s, 37/9s out as 66s flood in
Association of Train Operating Companies: “South Wales: World Cup winner Class 37s for France
Crisis management: Who speaks for the railway? Class 47 saved for 2000 open day / Celebrity
Czech Republic: Class 60 named Hundred of Hoo
Austria: Tilting train order cutback Class 66 / Heart of Wales
Class E412s for Brenner Class 66 on car parts
Customs delays Class 66 update
Class 66s soar
as ee Class 66s top the ton
Hay Hee a Class EG3100 6.5MW for Denmark Class 66s underpowered, said Beeching
Belgium: Great Belt link / Swiss double-deckers for Class 66s up EWS productivity
Bi-levels ordered Oresund link progress Class 67 deliveries begin
Class 13 enters service Oresund link to Sweden to open in July / Fixed Class 67 introduction delayed
Dutch drivers working through Oresund work / UK firm wins Class 67 takes shape
Eurostar / New pantograph for sleepers return / Danish
Class 67s / First
Halle / New station for Swedish DMUs come off Copenhagen through trains
Class 92 tested on the East Coast
High-speed preparations Thalys visit
Class 92s extend range
High-speed success
coal and lime on line / Wales
LGV Sud
container carrier designs from Thrall / New
Locomotive problems
trains / New Electrification: CSDC ‘working’ - FTA
Bulgaria: Cumnock coal deal
Bosnia: Great Britain: Customer Service Delivery Centre
Brits in Bosnia Italy: Felixstowe debut
*freight / Confidence in
British Transport Police: Estonia: “freight growth / Coping with
Secure station scheme reaches London cylinder liners / Engineering Link succeeds with Freightliner / EWS head-to-head with
Privatisation progress Future: Where next for EWS? (Railtalk)
Bulgaria: German service from UK / Direct
ETCS Level 1 job / Alcatel wins 432 ‘Europeview’: 47, 127, 194, 2 432 “growth / Catering for freight
wiring contract / Adtranz wins 990 intermodal / expands
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train round-up / New eec rs Thameslink 2000 / Railtrack revises
Transrapid exposure / DB seeks to lim i se E ; > ion sys “Traction and rolling stock
Transrapid has “hardly a chance’ transport booms
Wagon investment "Informed Sources’: Tube bidders relieved by Railtrack promise
wagons / New Tube plan runs into difficulties
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Tube profits rise Sandite - a British export | Regulator to Railtrack "you will deliver capacity for
Underground train washer at Hammersmith depot / New Schipol Airport track quadrupling |} freight!’
Underground: Five groups in running for PPP Schipol connection | Regulatory Asset Base: Bolt hits bulleye
Waterloo & City ‘Drain’? / 1973 stock for | safety authority? / An independent
West Brompton takes shape ‘New Railway 2000’: West Coast impatience
West Brompton unveiled
Newsfront’: Rail Industry Training Council:
Luxembourg: “Training the new century’s workforce
Class 3000s arrive
Norway: Rail Regulator:
Arlanda Airport delay brave new world - a glimpse / The
Bergen line improvements “Building a better railway
Mallorca: Class Diés / Deal reached on capacity for freight!’ / Regulator to Railtrack
New in Maltorca Fares comparison "you will deliver
Gardermoen Airport Express Competition Act / Brave new world of the
Monaco: Gardermoen Airport speed up complaint / Regulator’s
tunnel to open / New inter-city trains introduced / New Complaints: Winsor poses the questions
Marketing push with new rolling stock delays / Railtrack rapped on
‘Moving Wheels’: privatisation plan / Porterbrook in East Coast open access in a bind
Romeriksporten tunnel / More delay on Enquiry service warning
London-Ipswich / 15-min frequency
‘Moving Wheels’ replies: Monopoly power
“Network Management Statement 1999
Office of Passenger Rail Franchising (OPRAF) | Network Management Statement No more stalling
(see also Shadow Strategic Rail Authority):
National: Chiltern takeover approved / Laing’s Poli(cRya ialntdr acdki)r ection: Action this day Sir Alastair (Railtalk)
access rules released / Train deliveries / implacable on train Power over rail
accident investigation supported / Independent “Direction - the political imperative
BR land sale debate rumbles on Disability exemptions coming through pPrUoGj2e c-t tpirmoeg refsors r/e gMuolnaittoorryi nagc tio(nR!a iltalk)
“Building a better railway Fares research “Rail the new growth industry
Car use up franchises / Prescott promises longer Railtrack delays - is Winsor flogging a dead horse?
Crisis management: Who speaks for the railway? Franchises - renegotiation may not mean extension Railtrack performance - now it’s serious
“Direction - the political imperative late delivery? / New trains - how will OPRAF handle Railtrack / Winsor spotlights
Disability exemptions coming through Performance Bulletin: Straw men are no push-over Railtrack’s profits excessive - Regulator
disability zealots / Time to curb performance says John O’Brien / ‘Little improvement’ in Regulator / The new
DLR bonus / Prescott’s £20m Power over rail Regulators / Regulating the
door lock rule / Central Regulators / Regulating the Regulatory Asset Base: Bolt hits bulleye
franchises / Prescott promises longer Remedies against public authorities right to be treated fairly / The
Franchises renegotiation may not mean extension Royston blockade “Safety: Let’s get it right
grant for Grangemouth / Biggest-ever Safety -w ho pays? Strategic Rail Authority: Prescott wins through
grant / Safeway’s Scottish Shadow Strategic Rail Authority / OPRAF becomes Track Access Charges: Reaping as they sow (Railtalk)
grant scheme for a new era? / Anew Strategic Rail Authority: Prescott wins through West Coast - Der Tag looms
information / One-call SWT battles GB West Coast / Regulator seeks answers on
Litter clear-up West Coast Der Tag looms Winsor is new Regulator
London Bill published
London Tube plan runs into difficulties "Rail Tourer’:
*LU spend its £517million? / How will
*Metropolitan railways Passenger Transport Authorities / Executives:
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*Rail the new growth industry pProowoefr Ho/ uUsner eJausnocntaibolne / eFxeerwceirs e coonff licts at Drax desulpherisation expansion
Railways Bill / Prescott presents new public authorities / Unlawful behaviour by East London terminal takes a bow
Railways Bill / The 1999 Regulators / Regulating the *Europe’s rail freight action plan
Railways Bill / The brave new world - the new *Scotland’s Model Railway “Freight
Regulators / Regulating the Sheffield Supertram extension proposed “freight / Confidence in
Remedies against public authorities SQUIRE and TIRE incentivise TOCs freight rethink / Railtrack wants
right to be treated fairly / The Strathclyde / Passenger boom in Freightliner Car-Rac order
safety authority? / An independent “Sunderland Metro / Christmas 2001 target set for FTR Car Carriers on demonstration
Safety & Standards Directorate: Peer review Sunderland Metro / Green light for Future: Where next for EWS? (Railtalk)
safety plan / Seven-point West Midlands programme / Ambitious Grangemouth / Biggest-ever grant for
safety role’ / Railtrack ‘should lose *growth / Catering for freight
Safety - who pays? Poland: *growth / Coping with freight
Scottish coal / Grants for Fiat contract / PKP defends * growth / Freightliner goes for
Secure station scheme reaches London Pendolino purchase in doubt Hastings / Spoil removal traction at
South Wales: Future investment PKP: Wisconsin bids Hinksey dump
Strategic Rail Authority / A job for the (Railtalk) reforms / Rail Kent grant application provokes storm
Strategic Rail Authority: Prescott wins through Keyham stone
Thameslink 2006 / Now it’s Portugal: Longbridge short train
Traction Action / Limited scope for Prescott’s Lisbon Metro order / Big Plymouth freight opening
train makers / UK tempts Japanese Pendolinos arrive Rawdon colliery / Coal recovery contract at
Wales boost / North-South Tagus bridge / Trains run over Renishaw site opened
Salford cement depot will be served by rail
Netherlands: Terminal news
Arriva goes Dutch Timber up at Norfolk terminal
Container ACTS Rail Freight Group:
crewing / International Capacity for freight ‘Railfreight’:
ERTMS order / Adtranz wins Chairman Ed’s departure - an alternative view
ICR class fleet adapted for push-pull working German Presidency? / How green is the
Lovers / Exit grant scheme for a new era? / Anew ‘Railtalk’:
Multi-modal Planning for rail freight
Private high-speed operators? PUG2 - time for regulatory action!
Privatisation ‘within three years’ Railtrack to Government - ‘if you want investmentfor rail Railtrack:
Public-Private Partnership for HSL Zuid freight, you pay for it’ / Message from Access and the disabled
Rotterdam metro trains arrive Railways Bill / The 1999 access rules released / Train
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accident investigation supported / Independent Manchester South resignalling plans Traffic growth: Lay down more steel (Railtalk)
ADMc / Meek welcomes Modelling rosk on the railway Train protection & warning system
axle-counter approved / Dutch Monopoly power *Training the new century’s workforce
Bechtel praised Nairn signalling bikes on condemned list *Trans-Pennine improvement proposals / unveils
“Bedford South Midlands hub “Network Management Statement '99 Tube bidders relieved by Railtrack promise
Bedford-Swindon funds bid Network Management Statement launched at Leeds vision for a safer railway / Long term
Birmingham Bullring controversy station WARM contract let / Second
Birmingham Bullring work could spark Staffs reopening Network Management Statement - No more stalling WCML - immediate problem solved
Birmingham International plan / New (Railtrack) WCML - signalling rethink
BLAT: Stoneblower upgrades 100 miles of track in 12 weeks “North London jam / Easing the WCML opportunity
Borders Rail ‘in five years North Staffs, Proof House / Adtranz wins WCRNM and extensions / Jarvis wins
brave new world - a glimpse / The Norwich dome restored West Brompton takes shape
Cambridge-Hitchin route upgrade Oil spills on the track munched by microbes West Coast bridge renewal
CIRAS to go national open access trail / GB on the West Coast capacity
clearances / enlarge Paddington Lawn opened West Coast contract structure
Coal leads traffic boom panic / Railtrack scapegoat in Government West Coast cost escalates
Competence database computerised “Passenger operators West Coast - Der Tag looms
Complaints: Winsor poses the questions Performance Bulletin: Straw men are no push-over West Coast ‘do-able’ - Corbett
Congestion: now and predicted performance - now it’s serious West Coast modernisation - Green gets half a cake
*Control and communications performance scrutinised by Booz Allen Hamilton West Coast modernisation -G reen warns
Crisis management: Who speaks for the railway? consultants West Coast - Railtrack throws in fresh troops
*Cross Country / V n upgrades Peterborough / Capacity at West Coast / Regulator seeks answers on
Dartford resignalling slips behind Peterborough level crossing replaced West Coast route / W10 clear on north
Dawlish to prevent washouts / Ballast bonded at “Piggyback where now? West Coast signalling - Virgin can’t wait for TCS-M
DC-line safety Policy and direction: Action this day Sir Alastair (Railtalk) West Coast tamper investment
Delays post changes / top West Coast upgrade downgraded
delays - is Winsor flogging a dead horse? Preserved traction: Railtrack gets tough on ‘oldies’ West Coast wiring train / Windhoff
“Delays: Raiders of the lost minutes profit up by 8 Willesden / Wiring at
Delays - Railtrack better, TOCs worse profits excessive - Regulator / Railtrack’s Zone Directors - fewer chairs, more changes
iltrack rapped on project managers / appoints
eration project progress / Monitoring (Railtalk) Railway Forum:
“Direction - the political imperative Project Sentinel: Arm’s length control *Railway Industry Innovation Awards for 1999
Disability exemptions coming througt Proof House Junction / Fewer conflicts at
Dorset Coast / Siemens waits or PUG2 - time for regulatory action!
East Coast first for IMC2000 quality re Railway Heritage:
East Coast Main Line c >t station on time lan Allan National Railway Heritage Award winners 1998
EC r Winsor spotlights Railtrack
Summit - Prescott calls a truce an Allan National Railway Heritage Award winners 1999
growth industry
Railway Study Association:
traffic patterns RSA - what is it all about? / The
news:
1 Welsh & Scottist Projjeecctt
Remodelling DlocKade "Review’:
rk underwa
g the Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCOs):
1 independent c2c goes to the market
(Railtalk) Class 66? / Freightliner
Class 91 maintenance review
Competition Act / Brave new worid of the
Connex Networker leases extended
set / New base for
ould lose “Juniper starts to roll
Mk1 stock replacement fiasco
Monopoly power
“Passenger operators
Paxman’s VP185 - bigger is beautiful
yp Porterbrook Leasing purple Deltic livery
rt equivocal Porterbrook threatens to buy Korean stock
erley line rene Rail Summit - Prescott calls a truce
yntract / How t *Ready for 2000? / Britain’s railways -
IMC2000 / Railtrack unveils SENTINEL update Stock purchase and allocation
ncentives to run a better ra Settle & Carlisle / £18. stock / ROSCOs hold on to old
“infrastructure Severn un el at a craw TPWS - gearing up to implement faster
Infrastructure debut Sheringham signals at go “Traction and rolling stock
* Infrastructure provisior | firms feel squeeze “Trains for the next franchisees
integrated railway industr nthusiasm cools for hig
(Railtalk) Romania:
investing enough Cup winner Bucharest / New vehicles for
Irlam hits 85mpt Southern Zone / Balfour Beatty wins on
Jarvis, but pledges support Station regeneration reaches half way Royal Mail:
Kent grant application provokes s Strategic Rail Authority / A job for the (Railtalk) Class 67s / First
Kew rail bridge / Stronger SRA: Prescott wins through “customer / Royal Mail’s need as a rail
Kirkby Stephen / Refurb at Railtrack’s changing Railnet goes 110mph
Ladbroke Grove disaster Sleepers into mail vans?
“Ladbroke Grove Christmas 2001 target set for
land sale debate rumbles on Sunderland Metro / Green light for
Landslip action SWIS problems hold up trains
Larkhall tenders / seeks TCS under study "Service a Board’:
leaf measures / New anti Thameslink 20
leaf-busters / Autumn Thameslink 2006 / Now it’s "Service Please’:
Leeds gets green light Tilt control: has Railtrack recanted
Leeds progress Timetable: The summer timetable
“Leeds station / a 21st century *tir etable / Turbostar "Service Please’ replies:
Leeds Whitehall instant s ether now
*LTS Rail is relaunched TPWS f ting tr 1S with Shadow Strategic Rail Authority see also OPRAF:
Macclesfiele embankment fix TPWS - gearing up to implement faster brave new world - a glimpse / The
Maidentxed frozen solid 3runel embankment at TPWS: let’s get on with it (Railtalk) “Building a better railway
Maintenance contracts: GTRM, Amec winners in first TPWS - timescale getting tighter franchises / The brave new world - new
IMC2 round Track Access Charges: Reaping as they sow (Railtalk) Franchising anarchy? (Railtalk)
maintenance / Seamless transfer of track / Monitoring GW HST ban for Midland main line?
Manchester Piccadilly platform 12 reinstated Track remodelling: Railtrack’s Christmas pudding integrated railway industry: Back to the future /
“Manchester South remodelling Track worker smartcard deadline extended (Railtalk)
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Policy and direction: Action this day Sir Alastair (Railtalk) 380 Traction & rolling stock: Turbostar deliveries
Power over rail 301 Aluminium bodyshell concerns deepen Turbostar delivery improves
Procurement - back to the good old, bad old days Class 170 - they cannot be serious Turbostar - three TOCs face problems
Railtrack not investing enough, says Sir Alastair Class 220 Voyagers emerge Turbostars / Adtranz makes progress on
Railways Bill / The brave new world - the new “Coradia sets new standards Turbostars: Porterbrook threatens to buy Korean stock
SRA / A job for the (Railtalk) “*Hunslet-Barclay: 160 years of engine building
SRA / Stronger Mk1 stock: Exemption optimism? Virgin heads void days league
Procurement - back to the good old, bad old days West Country cuts
Signalling & telecommunications: *South West Trains investments on view
Adtranz wins North Staffs, Proof House Tilt control: has Railtrack recanted? Anglia Railway Train Services:
CIRAS to go national Traction Action / Limited scope for Prescott’s Basingstoke / seeks public money for
Communications from Alpha to Zulu “Traction and rolling stock Basingstoke service on hold / Anglia
Communications update “Trains for the next franchisees Class 170 Turbostars for Hull service?
*Control and communications *Turbostar comes of age Class 170/2 Turbostar / welcomes first
control / Railtrack enthusiasm cools for high tech Vehicle body widths: Honey, | shrank the train Class 170/2 Turbostar problems
CTRL signals award Westinghouse Brakes’ wheelslide protection system open access trail / GB on the
“Euston / Remodelling 1 *Turbostar comes of age
Greenfield signalbox closed: Piece of history Train Operating Companies (TOCs): Turbostar through trains
interference / A new twist on signalling Access and the disabled Turbostar timetable / Anglia prepares for
investment crisis deepens / Signalling build latest / New
Ladbroke Grove c2c goes to the market Cardiff Railway Company:
Ladbroke Grove disaster Class 170 Turbostar delivery projections livery / Class 143 Valleys Day Out
Manchester South resignalling plans Class 170 Turbostars? / Where are the
Nairn signalling bikes on condemned list Crisis management: Who speaks for the railway? Central Trains:
*railway control / Signalling the route to “Customer service Class 170/5 Turbostar / Central launches
*ROSS / Project Delays Class 170s
satellite / Quicker reaction by “Delays: Raiders of the lost minutes depots / A brace of new
Sheringham signals at go Delays - Railtrack better, TOCs worse Hereford services switch to route via Bromsgrove
Signal firms feel squeeze “Direction - the political imperative livery / Central’s new
TCODs: introduction delayed Disability exemptions coming through serious’ - Central Railway / 'We’re
Train protection & warning system door lock rule / Central Stansted Turbostars
TPWS - gearing up to implement faster East Coast open access plan Turbostar arrives at Eastcroft
TPWS: let’s get on with it(Railtalk) “East Coast route / A 21st century *Turbostar comes of age
TPWS / Prescott gives go-ahead to Ebbw Vale study urges UDI
TPWS - timescale getting tighter “Eclipse traffic patterns: Working in the dark Chiltern Railway Company:
TPWS up for grabs EMUs make slow progress charters / Now Chiltern goes for
WARM / Westinghouse wins Enquiry service warning Class 168 Turbostars / Chiltern orders more
WCML / Marconi for Extras hired-in post-Winsford Laing’s Chiltern takeover approved
WCML - signalling rethink Fares M4C extension goodies
West Coast signalling moves on Fares research Marylebone Centenary
West Coast signalling - Virgin can’t wait for TCS-M fares trends / Walk-on traction frenzy / Captain Deltic’s
First Group up
Spain: franchises / The brave new world - new Connex South Central:
AVE results gauge mess / Railtrack in Class 4-CIG first-class compartments / Yellow roof
AVE success Gauging - strategy needed yands identify
gauging issue raised again / Re- growth / Operators record Class 423/9 4-VOP to traffic
Madrid Airport / Metro reaches HST ban for Midland main line? Class VEPs turn into VOPs
Madrid / Congestion in Hull-London bid Networker leases extended
Madrid-Valencia tilting train
Incentives to run a better railway traction frenzy / Captain Deltic’s
Talgo XX! information / One-call
Talgo 200 “Innovation awards 1999 Connex South Eastern:
Talgo power unit unveiled integrated railway industry: Back to the future / An Class 375 Electrostar problems
Valencia metro extension (Railtalk) Class 375 train rolled out / New
Juniper developments Class 465 reliability / Improving
Sweden: managers - musical chairs at the top Dartford? / Longer platforms at
Arlanda train on test Millennium Drivers Networker leases extended
Class MZ diesel on trial / Danish *Millennium experience / Transport to the Racal win Connex CiS
Double-decker trial Mk1 stock replacement fiasco Spa Road incident causes disruption
GSM-R order . Monopoly power traction frenzy / Captain Deltic’s
inter-city franchise / VIA GTI wins
Motor Show / Birmingham NEC
Oresund link to Sweden to open in July / Fixed multi-operator railway / A Dart Valley Light Railway:
Powell Duffryn in Sweden ORCATS and revenue distribution Ferry service: Dart Valley takes to water
private expansion / More “Passenger operators
Regional orders for Adtranz
Performance Bulletin: Straw men are no push-over First Great Eastern:
Stockholm light rail debut performance says John O’Brien / ‘Little improvement’ in Class 321 first-class areas refurbishment completed
Stockholm metro / CGEA to run
Peterborough / Capacity at *golden jubilee / Great Eastern celebrates a
Stockholm services / French win bid for
Swedish DMUs come off Copenhagen through trains PPoolliiccyy: a7n5d0 Vd irDeCc tijoolnt:s A(cRatiilotna lkt)h is day Sir Alastair L*moinldloenn-nIipusmw,i chn ew/ 1c5h-amlilne ngfer eq/ue Nnecwy ,
(Railtalk) Procurement - back to the good old, bad old days
Switzerland:
Prism / Good London results for
160km/h on the BLS
Rail Summit - Prescott calls a truce First Great Western:
Alpine tie-up / Trans
Rationalisation “car carrier / Forward Trust launches
Bahn 2000
“Ready for 2000? / Britain’s railways - Car transporters take shape
base tunnels / Swiss electorate votes ‘Ja’ for
Regulator’s complaint *Cardiff-Swansea rail decline rings alarm bells
catering / Swiss style
right to be treated fairly / The Coaching stock: Great Western goes loco
Eschede lessons for Switzerland
Safety cases -H ard pounding with millions at stake fine for GWT / £1.5million: record
excellence / Swiss
Safety - who pays? fleet changes / Great Western
Gotthard slack
“security / Improving fleet update
ICN debut
SQUIRE and TIRE incentivise TOCs Ladbroke Grove disaster
ICN developments
Stock purchase and allocation livery / New GW
ICN on test
Thameslink aid Loco-hauled trains - Mk1s return!
Lotschberg / Push-pull for the
Tilt trains -n ew regs could limit operation Motorail launched
motorway / Rolling
“Timetable: The summer timetable ‘Night Riviera’ revamp planned
NINA roll-out
“timetable / Turbostar Southall manslaughter charge dropped
profit / Return to
Timetabling - all together now
timetables / 1999-2001
Track Access Charges: Reaping as they sow (Railtalk) First North Western:
Zurich compromise
Track worker smartcard deadline extended Chester planned / New shed at Hoole Road,
Ee ae Traction Action / Limited scope for Prescott’s Class 150 refurbishment / Hunslet progress on
“Traction and rolling stock Class 150 Sprinter refurb
30 years ago’: Traffic growth: Lay down more steel (Railtalk) Class 175 Coradia tests progress
train enquiries pick up / New “Coradia sets new standards
“Training the new century’s workforce ‘Coradia’ to test on Chiltern
‘Trackwatch’: trains - how will OPRAF handle late delivery? / New cuts / First North Western plans May
*Turbostar comes of age DMUs on schedule / New Alstom
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Loco-hauled duties down Motorail: Policy: 750V DC jolts (Railtalk)
London confusion King’s Cross service / seats / adds more
London / FNW seeks to pull out of *security / Improving
Northern Spirit:
Gatwick Express: *Railtrack unveils Trans-Pennine improvement proposals Thames Trains:
Class 458 Juniper runs into delays Refurb news Ladbroke Grove disaster
Class 458 Juniper? / September ir for Oxford / New concourse at
*Class 458 Juniper starts to rol ScotRail Railways: Oxford to go quarter hourly
Class 460 arrives Caledonian sleepers
departures to go clockface Carnoustie crowds swamp Thameslink Rail:
Livery: Darth Vader revealed Class 57 for Caledonian Sleepers? “Bedford South Midlands hub
Ciass 158 named Far North Line 125th Anniversary capacity
GB Trains: Class 158 reliveried Midland stations / £48million boost for Thameslink
SWT battles GB Class 158s / Scenic Spa Road incident causes disruption
Class 170 Turbostars late trains on Thameslink / More
Great North Eastern Railway: Edinburgh-Glasgow quarter-hourly
Catering for all eventuatitie “improvements, day and night / ScotRail’s Virgin Cross Country:
*Model Railway / Scotland’s dawn for Virgin / New
Nairn signalling bikes on condemned list DEMU / goes all
pers DMU / CrossCountry order is all-
sleepers ready / Disabled maintenance / Virgin Trains
eae T- timetables / Clockface
eee ake r comes of age *upgrades Cross Country / Virgin
— — S arrive Virgin Rail:
Silverlink Train Services: Class 220 Voyagers emerge
Class 150 cascade / desperate for ticket sale / Virgin launches on-line
Class 150 Sprinters to Glasgow?
Hull Trains: Class 31/6 rewired for Bedford-Bletchingley services Virgin West Coast:
i. : Class 3 retains Class 90 with confused identity
a returned / Watford smash dawn for Virgin /N ew
4 lively livery Eurostar could terminate at Watford / Regional
Island Line:
rston Vale goes loco again Get connected
Connections: Wight knuckle Northampton ‘Cobbler’ service / 140mph Green: El Cid returns / Chris
Procurement - back to the good old, bad old days tilting trains - faster by design / Virgin’s
LTS Rail: F trains / seeks 140mph time savings than once predicted / Smaller
’ 37 Electrostar developm train order signed
f lectrostar South West Trains: WCML - immediate problem solved
/ Electrostars Class 170/3 Turbostars ordered / More West Coast modernisation - Green gets half a cake
Electrostar Class 421/5 Greyhounds and 3-CEPS / More West Coast modernisation -G reen warns
Class 442 ‘Wessex Electric’ / Refurbished West Coast signalling - Virgin can’t wait for TCS-M
Class ¢ to work again / Unique West Coast upgrade downgraded
Class 458 Juni Basingstoke debut for
and Main Line: Class 458 Juniper first impressions Wales & West Passenger Trains:
ord South Midlands hut Class 458 Juniper progress *Cardiff-Swansea rail decline rings alarm bells
Q - they cannot be Class 458 Juniper runs into delays Class 45 Ixion in charge
Midlands Parkway planned s 458 Juniper tests slip investment / Future
conversions livery / New W & W
Midland route / Gearing up for higher frequencies on the DMUs for SWT / New North-South Wales boost
platforms opened / New EMU introduction / New Penzance-Portsmouth / plans
timetable GB Railways / SWT battles
Turbo / Midland Gold Cup Day West Anglia Great Northern Railway:
Turbostar boost “investments on view Doncaster / sets sights on
*Turbostar comes of age Juniper? / September intro for East Coast Main Line capacity
Turbostar trials * Juniper starts to roll East Coast open access in a bind
Turbostars / Teething problems on Juniper tests continue Westinghouse wins WARM
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