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Print Edition | August 2005

• Alcatel spruiks RailCorp to tune into Tetra

  Alcatel Australia is optimistic that the company's international experience with the wireless radio train communication system Tetra (Terrestrial Trunked Radio)...

• Alstom to fit V/Line train safety system

  Alstom's Ballarat workshop has won a $9m contract to fit Victoria's V/Line passenger fleet with an automatic train protection system....

• ARTC lines up CDMA coverage for national rail networks

  The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) has signed up with Telstra to provide code division multiple access (CDMA) coverage across...

• Brussels on track for big spending on rail

  Brussels wants to pump e2.5bn (US$2.97bn) into Europe's failing railway system over 10 years to create “the European railway area"....

• Coal boom fires QR to 176m freight record

  QR has set a new haulage record of 176m tonnes for its coal and freight division in 2004/05. The...

• Coal terminals scrap over Goonyella coal rail capacity

  Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI) has played down concerns that a BHP Billiton Mitsui Alliance (BMA) deal with QR will...

• CRT Group founder to push on with CargoSprinter dream

  When CRT Group founders Colin and Phil Rees sold their business to feed the interstate appetite of Queensland Rail there...

• Furious protests as monopoly ends

  When the first privately operated freight train between France and Germany made its debut in June with 20 wagonloads of...

• Gambling with the future?

  I often attempt to view issues as laterally as possible, while accepting that a degree of personal bias will always...

• GWI bullish growth prospects for ARG

  Revenue from the Australian Railroad Group's (ARG) new Melbourne-Adelaide intermodal service has helped offset a drop in grain haulage business,...

• Iemma timetables Sydney rail fix as top priority

  Sydney's RailCorp will accomplish its first major train operations overhaul in more than 10 years when it introduces a new...

• India joins Siemens GSM-R thrust

  Global transport and communications firm Siemens has secured two new contracts to build mobile communications networks on Indian Railways subsidiaries....

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