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...publicity stunts go, this one could have been better timed. Throughout May and June, as waves of strikes disrupted public transport in France and forced the cancelation of hundreds of trains, the French national railroad company SNCF lugged 28 engines and carriages onto the Champs Elysées for an exhibition that promised to "put the whole of Paris under the spell of rail." The exhibits ranged from a replica of an 1829 steam locomotive to the latest version of the high-speed tgv. There were even models of the very commuter trains hardest hit by the strike...
...comparable agreement on opening the market for passengers to competition. Technology is also starting to make a difference. After years of planning and billions of euros of investment - E.U. governments paid out €40 billion in subsidies to their railroads in 2001 alone - a new network of high-speed train lines is finally taking shape in Western Europe. France has been the most aggressive to date: its tgv currently accounts for more than half of Europe's high-speed total. But Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands are also busy assembling a comprehensive high-speed network that will...
...British Rail into more than 100 different firms. At the center was Railtrack, which had the task of maintaining the tracks, signals and stations. It contracted out the work, resulting in spiraling costs and a record of erratic maintenance that had fatal consequences, including a 1999 collision between two trains outside Paddington Station in London that killed 31 people. Criticism of the safety record was heightened by its status as a publicly-traded company that paid out dividends to shareholders. Whenever an accident took place, critics charged that the company cared more about profits than safety. Following a public outcry...
...Rail4Chem also moves chemicals across Europe for other companies. Business is so good, the company has expanded its fleet from four to 14 locomotives. One of its selling points: unlike DB, which still controls more than 90% of the freight market, Rail4Chem guarantees arrival times. Raith says his trains have been late just three or four times since 2001. Living up to the guarantee is no small achievement. Getting permits to cross borders involves kilometers of red tape; Raith calls it "an unbelievable adventure." For historical reasons, each E.U. nation has different safety requirements, permits, electrical and signaling systems...
...those days.” Work was hectic, I had to run a gazillion errands and when my day was finally done, my normal bus route was under construction, so I had to take a bus the opposite direction to catch a train that would take me home. When I finally got to my apartment, I was hot, tired and cranky. I threw my stuff—and myself?...