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International Railway Journal DecCover:Layout 1 18/11/2015 2:56 PM Page 1 City centre revival Plastic fantastic Tomorrow’s world Helsinki’s ambitious plan Synthetic sleepers still New affordable elevated to halt urban sprawl performing after 30 years system targets congested cities December 2015 I Volume 55 Issue 12 www.railjournal.com IRJInternational Railway Journal Peru’s peak performer DecCover:Layout 1 18/11/2015 2:56 PM Page 1 City centre revival Plastic fantastic Tomorrow’s world Helsinki’s ambitious plan Synthetic sleepers still New affordable elevated to halt urban sprawl performing after 30 years system targets congested cities December 2015 I Volume 55 Issue 12 www.railjournal.com IRJInternational Railway Journal Peru’s peak performer IRJDECXX (Plasser):Layout 1 05/11/2015 16:36 Page 1 HOCHLEISTUNG I PRÄZISION I ZUVERLÄSSIGKEIT HIGH CAPACITY I PRECISION I RELIABILITY High-speed lines require increasing precision although less and less time is available for track maintenance. Plasser & Theurer - the partner for The basis of high performance railways around the world - meets these high demands by using the most up-to-date track maintenance technology. More than high-speed lines sixty years of experience, innovative know-how and the resulting outstanding quality have produced more than 15,600 Plasser & Theurer track maintenance machines supplied to 109 countries throughout the world. www.plassertheurer.com ”Plasser & Theurer“, ”Plasser“ and ”P&T“ are internationally registered trademarks Dec Contents:Layout 1 18/11/2015 3:07 PM Page 3 Contents December 2015 Volume 55 issue 12 News 4 This month 12 Transit news 6 News 14 Financial news Metros and light rail 16 The networked city Can rail help Helsinki grow inwards? 22 Helsinki West Metro to launch in 2016 27 How can cities meet future transit needs? The cost of delivering transit-oriented cities by 2050 32 Elevated ambitions Affordable infrastructure for under-served cities page 16 High Speed 37 High-altitude high-speed Also in this issue 51 Rendezvous China’s Alpine EMU prepares to enter service 53 Full contact list City centre revival Plastic fantastic Tomorrow’s world Advertisers index Helsinki’s ambitious plan Synthetic sleepers still New affordable elevated 53 system targets congested cities South America to halt urban sprawl performing after 30 years December 2015 I Volume 55 Issue 12 www.railjournal.com 38 High hopes for Peru’s Andean railway 54 The last word IRJ International Railway Journal FCCA invests heavily in infrastructure and fleet 44 Chile’s EFE aims for 100 million passengers New three-year plan continues investment Front cover FCCA efforts to double traffic on its lines Track in Peru have enabled it to become profitable. It is also encouraging the 37 Synthetic sleepers still going strong government to take proposed rail projects more seriously. Photo: Keith Fender Peru’s RTRI investigates Sekisui’s FFU sleepers’ longevity peak performer Contact us Advertising Sales Offices Editorial Offices Post 19 John De Mierre House Post 46 Killigrew Street, Falmouth Bridge Road Cornwall TR11 3PP, UK Haywards Heath Tel +44 1326 313945 Fax +44 1326 211576 West Sussex RH16 1UA, UK Web www.railjournal.com Tel +44 1444 849123 Fax +44 1444 458185 Editor-in-Chief David Briginshaw [email protected] Associate Editor Keith Barrow [email protected] International Area Sales Manager Louise Cooper Features Editor Kevin Smith [email protected] Tel +44 1444 849123 or 416368 [email protected] Data & Markets Editor Angus Hammond [email protected] Senior Designer Fiona Browning [email protected] International Area Sales Manager Julie Richardson Production Assistant Sue Morant [email protected] Tel +44 1444 849318 [email protected] International Railway Journal (Print ISSN 2161-7376, Digital ISSN 2161-7368), is published monthly by Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp, 55 Broad Street, 26th Fl, New York, NY 10004-2580, USA. Printed in Great Britain by Buxton Press and distributed in the USA by Mail Right International, 1637 Stelton Road B4, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Periodicals postage paid at Piscataway, NJ and additional mailing offices. COPYRIGHT © Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation 2015. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reproduced without permission. For reprint information please contact Editor-in-Chief. For subscriptions & address changes, please call +1 402 346-4740, Fax +1 402 346-3670, Email [email protected] or write to: International Railway Journal, Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp, PO Box 1172 Skokie, IL 60076-8172, USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to International Railway Journal, PO Box 1172, Skokie, IL 60076-8172, USA. IRJ December 2015 3 Dec TM:Layout 1 18/11/2015 2:00 PM Page 4 This month David Briginshaw Editor-in-Chief We must balance increased security with the freedom to travel HE appalling terrorist Litter bins were removed and equipment and hire and train Cross-border services are T attacks in Paris on left-luggage offices were staff. Platforms will have to be also used by passengers November 13 and the closed temporarily. Such dedicated to international travelling domestically, but thwarted attack on an measures will surely be services so that they can be this is likely to be forbidden or Amsterdam - Brussels - Paris introduced at major stations made secure, which will have restricted severely as already Thalys train on August 21 will elsewhere in Europe. implications for station happens with Eurostar. inevitably lead to calls for Going beyond this would be capacity and train operations. Barring passengers from greater security and the extremely problematic for Railways operate very travelling domestically would reintroduction of border railways. At present, only differently from airlines. jeopardise the economics of controls. Eurostar operates full airport- Aircraft mainly fly point-to- operating cross-border Security was stepped-up style security checks and point whereas very few services. A solution would be following the Thalys incident passport controls before passenger trains operate non- to conduct the security and when passengers overwhelmed passengers are allowed to stop. Take Thalys for example, passport checks at the border, an armed terrorist travelling on board trains. This has made it only seven of the 23 trains per but passengers would have to the train, with patrols by very difficult to expand weekday operating between disembark to do this which armed police at stations and Eurostar services outside a Brussels and Paris are non- would extend journey times baggage checks. The Paris small network because of the stop services between the two and make such services far attack will no doubt lead to prohibitive cost and difficulty capitals. All the remaining less attractive. more security measures. of providing such facilities at trains originate in either A further reduction or The future of the Schengen stations. Indeed, passengers Amsterdam or Germany. curtailing of cross-border area of 24 European countries returning to London on the While it might be possible to services would also be a where border controls have serious setback for the been eliminated is already Widespread introduction of airport-style security European Union and its desire under threat as countries would be extremely costly and is likely to result to create a single market for struggle to cope with the rail. It would undermine many massive movement of refugees in the removal of intermediate stops. of the objectives of the Fourth and migrants from the Middle Railway Package, part of East and Africa across Europe. service from Marseille have to create a secure area for Thalys which is expected to become Border controls have been leave the train at Lille to pass at Amsterdam Central and law next year. There is little temporarily reintroduced in through security and Rotterdam Central, as these point in trying to remove the Finland, Sweden, Germany, immigration which adds 1h are large stations, it would be technical obstacles to Austria, Slovakia, and since 15min to the journey. extremely difficult to do so at international rail operations if November 13, in France, while Following the Madrid Amsterdam Schiphol Airport the services have been cross-border rail services have commuter train attacks, Renfe and Antwerp Central as both withdrawn anyway. been disrupted between introduced baggage scanners these stations have A far better solution would Germany, Austria, and at stations for long-distance underground platforms which be to step up covert Hungary. services but passengers and are used by numerous monitoring of passengers at At the very least we could their hand baggage are not domestic trains. Withdrawing stations and on trains using start to see the reintroduction screened, and Renfe shied stops at Schiphol and Antwerp intelligence gathered on of on-train passport control as away from introducing would be a serious financial suspected terrorists. As used to take place between security checks for commuter blow to Thalys. discussions over how to many countries prior to the services because of the large Indeed, widespread respond to the security threat introduction of the Schengen number of people and stations introduction of airport-style posed by terrorists intensify, agreement in 1995. While this involved, and the massive security would be extremely we must find intelligent would be costly, it would be disruption it would cause. costly and is likely to result in solutions to defeat terrorism the least disruptive to both Any proposals by national the removal of intermediate and not resort to measures railways and their passengers security agencies to introduce stops or the withdrawal of which will destroy a key of a range of potential security airport-style security checks at entire services. Many cross- element of rail travel in measures. stations for cross-border train border services have already Europe. The sight of armed police at services should be resisted by been withdrawn because of airports and major railway railways for several reasons.
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