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	ICC's Commission on Transport and Logistics
		The efficiency of rail transport in Europe is of crucial concern to the entire global business community that ships its goods on and through the continent.
		ICC supports efforts to work toward a European rail transport market that includes a variety of operators, and who are given the opportunity to run their railway systems with no discriminatory conditions attached.
		Access to infrastructure and allocation of rail infrastructure charges have to be fair to the operators and should be non-discriminatory in relation to other transport modes.
	www.iccwbo.org /policy/transport/id452/index.html (1158 words)

	Rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rail transport is the transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads.
		The rails and perpendicular beams are usually then placed on a foundation made of concrete or compressed earth and gravel in a bed of ballast to prevent the track from buckling (bending out of its original configuration) as the ground settles over time beneath and under the weight of the vehicles passing above.
		Rail transport is an energy-efficient and capital-intensive means of mechanised land transport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rail_transport (2785 words)

	Rail transport - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		A railway (or railroad) track consists of two parallel rail tracks, usually of steel, generally mounted upon cross beams (termed "railroad ties" or "sleepers") of timber, concrete or steel.
		Rail transport is the most energy efficient means of mechanised land transport.
		The rail tracks provide very smooth and hard surfaces on which the wheels of the train may roll with a minimum of friction.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/r/a/i/Railway.html (1933 words)

	Learn more about Rail transport in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, both passengers and freight are transported on railways.
		High speed rail, with speeds up to 350 kilometers per hour, are achieved by a specially built railroad and special trains.
		Railways soon spread throughout England and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /r/ra/rail_transport_1.html (1142 words)

	RAIL#TEC - PARTNER COUNTRY SWITZERLAND
		In fact, rail’s share of passenger transport fell from 30 to 14 per cent, and the proportion of freight moved by rail declined from nearly 67 to 33 per cent during the period 1960-2000.
		Rail’s share of transalpine freight dropped from 93 percent (1980) to around 63 per cent (2003).
		Key data on rail transport in Switzerland is available for you to download here as a PDF document.
	www.railtec.de /e/2322 (293 words)

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		Shipping To And From Russia Russia is not only the largest country in the world, it is also, from an international transport point of view, the least accessible in many ways.
		On-carriage is arranged by road or rail, depending upon the cost/speed equation.
		When rail movement is called for, we receive daily reports, advising the exact whereabouts of the containers.
	www.globalintermodal.com /transport.html (1042 words)

	Rail transport in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rail transport is the most commonly used mode of long distance transportation in India.
		Rail operations throughout the country are run by the state-owned company, Indian Railways.
		It is one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting over 5 billion passengers and over 350 million tonnes of freight annually.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Rail_transport_in_India (3898 words)

	RAIL#TEC - PARTNER COUNTRY CZECH REPUBLIC
		With 120 kilometres of track per 1,000 square kilometres of land, the rail density in the Czech Republic is the second-highest in Europe after Switzerland.
		In relation to rail capacity, however, the period from 1995 to 2002 saw a slight decline in passenger-kilometres and significant falls in cargo tonne-kilometres.
		Key data on rail transport in the Czech Republic is available for you to download here as a PDF document.
	www.railtec.de /e/2323 (167 words)

	Articles - Railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Rail transport is an energy efficient means of mechanised land transport.
		Most rail systems, including urban rapid transit (metro/subway) systems, are highly subsidised and have never or rarely been profitable; however, their indirect benefits are often great.
		The use of overhead wires conducting electricity, invented by Granville T. Woods in 1888, amongst several other improvements by Woods, led to the development of electrified railways, the first of which in the United States was operated at Coney Island from 1892.
	www.techize.com /articles/Railway (2136 words)

	Hungary - Transportation and Telecommunications
		The nation's transportation and communications systems were highly centralized because of Budapest's importance as the capital and principal urban center (see fig.
		Despite the fact that transportation employed about 14 percent of the total work force in the late 1980s, transportation delays were frequent.
		The river transport system carried 3.4 million tons of cargo and 4.1 million passengers, most of whom were tourists.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-5863.html (630 words)

	AllRefer.com - Uzbekistan - Transportation and Telecommunications in Uzbekistan - Transportation - Railroads - Roads - ...
		Rail transport is the major means of freight transport within Uzbekistan, but the country has an extensive road network as well.
		The Transcaspian Railroad between the Amu Darya in the southwest and Tashkent in the northeast is the main transportation route within Uzbekistan, connecting Bukhoro and Samarqand in the south with the capital city in the northeast.
		Because of the country's long political isolation from its historical trading partners to the south, Uzbekistan's transportation infrastructure, aside from air transport, is largely designed to tie the region to Russia.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/uzbekistan/uzbekistan51.html (1151 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Have Your Say \| Will a high speed rail network make a difference?
		I think that constructing such a high-speed rail network in Britain is essential to the country as it would encourage more people to use the train instead of their cars and at long last help give us a start to the rail network we deserve and should have had years ago.
		The country desperately needs an upgraded rail transportation system, and I hope that it is not just limited to high-speed links between major cities, but also better and faster local services which are crucial for travelling that final distance.
		Efficient high speed rail networks are one of the greenest options we have in terms of mass transport and by having dedicated lines like those used by the TGV we will avoid the chaos (and delays) which is caused by our current mixed use railway network.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/3466081.stm (3938 words)

	SCADPlus: International Rail Passengers' Rights and Obligations
		This improvement of passengers' rights is very important for promoting rail transport and thus helping to achieve one of the main aims of the Common Transport Policy: consolidation and strengthening of the modal share of rail transport (6.2%) at 1998 levels in 2010.
		The aim of this proposal is to establish rights and obligations for international rail passengers in order to make international rail passenger transport more effective and more attractive.
		The proposal lays down provisions on minimum requirements for the information to be provided to passengers before, during and after their journey, contract conditions, the liability of railway undertakings in the event of an accident, delays or cancellation of services, and transport conditions for persons with reduced mobility.
	europa.eu /scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l24003.htm (1248 words)

	PREMIER MBHAZIMA SHILOWA'S ADDRESS AT THE GAUTRAIN RAPID RAIL LINK INVESTOR CONFERENCE
		It contributes 60% of the country's revenue, and is home to 70% of the country's workforce.
		Besides a general transport services, a dedicated service for local and international air passengers will be operated between JIA and Sandton, with de-centralised checking-in facilities available at Sandton Station, as is the case in London and Stockholm.
		Rail transport in general is more environmentally friendly than most other means of transport modes, especially private cars.
	www.gpg.gov.za /docs/sp/2001/sp0904.html (2194 words)

	allAfrica.com: Ghana: Ghana Railways Cries for Gov't Intervention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He said the operations of rail transport was an expensive venture and that without the support of the government it would not be easy for the industry to survive.
		According to him the GRC, which is managing the rail transport in the country had been saddled with both short and long-term debts, which is crippling the effective operations of the company.
		Opoku who was briefing the parliamentary select committee on transport who paid a fact finding visit to the company last week Friday said currently the rail tracks are not in the best shape as one would have expected but the funds are simply not there for them to maintain the lines.
	allafrica.com /stories/200606261243.html (988 words)

	Rail transport by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Democratic Republic of the Congo: see Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
		Republic of the Congo: see Rail transport in the Republic of the Congo
		The Netherlands: see Rail transport in the Netherlands, Trains in the Netherlands and Nederlandse Spoorwegen
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rail_transport_by_country (388 words)

	EyeforTransport - transportation glossary A-B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A share of the capacity of a means of transport assigned to a certain party, e.g.
		The return movement of a means of transport which has provided a transport service in one direction.
		B/L R 302: A modern document for either Combined Transport or Port to Port shipments depending whether the relevant spaces for place of receipt and/or place of delivery are indicated on the face of the document.
	www.eyefortransport.com /glossary/ab.shtml (2924 words)

	Platform 11, Ireland's National National Rail Users Organisation
		Essentially what should have been a straightforward, light rail transport project for a mid-sized European city has turned into one of the most remarkable and bizarre episodes in the history of public transport planning, political interference and incompetence in European railway history.
		To have central government involved to the degree that they have been in interfering with the work of a light rail transport project is nothing short of farcical and uniquely Irish.
		The Politicians at the same time have decided that Todd Andrews is still the mentor of choice when it comes to rail transport policy on this island and that his disastrous legacy and failure to understand precisely what railways are, and why the Irish economy/society needs them, continues to this day.
	www.platform11.org /media/press_release.php?year=2003&no=pr_009.html (887 words)

	Country Tourism and Rail Travel - 04/12/2003
		If rail transport were promoted more effectively, particularly to international tourists who are accustomed to rail travel in North America and Europe, patronage of our country rail services would increase.
		If only eight people per day are using a rail service, that means that the system is not attracting passengers—and that happens when a rail service is run down, antiquated, not attractive, not promoted and is darned difficult to get on because people cannot obtain information.
		Rail is the forgotten mode of transport in general in New South Wales and in particular for tourism.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/LA20031204005 (5904 words)

	Polish cold snap claims 183 lives as fellow Europeans face flood crisis
		Most of the 183 victims of Poland's cold snap were men in their 40s who died of hypothermia after drinking heavily and going to sleep in the open.
		Britain was on high flood alert as heavy rain pounded large parts of the country, hampering rail transport and worrying homeowners in vulnerable areas following weeks of almost uninterrupted downpours.
		With sodden ground and rivers reaching the tops of their banks after a wet start to the new year, officials feared a repeat of the floods that hit Britain in October 2000 which claimed 19 lives and left one billion pounds of damage.
	www.spacedaily.com /2002/030103034827.8lyhcuhr.html (628 words)

	Country Transport Services
		This section of the Transport Infoline website provides information on transport services in over 470 towns and centres across country NSW - including rail, coach, bus, taxi, hire car and community transport services.
		Please phone transport operators for service information (the 131500 phone service is not available at this stage for country areas).
		The Ministry of Transport and the Transport Infoline have developed the Country Transport section of the Transport Infoline website with funding from the NSW Department of Commerce and with the support of transport providers.
	www.131500.com.au /countrytransport (180 words)

	IAEA AND THE UN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Over 430 nuclear power plants are at present operational in 30 countries, and they generate about 17% of the world's total electricity.
		In a number of countries such assistance is provided through co-operation programmes executed by the IAEA with funding and management support from UNDP.
		The country's rail transport network no longer has the capacity to meet the growing energy needs of rapidly industrializing eastern and southern regions.
	www.iaea.org /Publications/Booklets/IaeaUn/chpfive.html (455 words)

	Rail Transport: a Timeline
		The first trains were pulled or pushed by people or animals, and were used in mines to transport coal.
		It is pulled along above the metal rails by magnets fitted to both the train and the track.
		Light rail vehicles are air conditioned and can carry more than 150 people.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/railtran.html (493 words)

	Vanguard - Cover Stories : Lamentations of Sunny Okosuns’ father
		He is even more worried with the shabby way that pensioners, those old men and women who gave their youth in the service of their fatherland, are being treated like heaps of rubbish by the governments at all tiers.
		In other countries, even old people who are not on pension, are paid monthly allowances by their countries.
		Sometimes, we regret over serving this country the way we did and it is not the right way to encourage the people who are there now.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/cover/july05/02072005/f302072005.html (1648 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Dismay at rail 'cutback' plans
		The government's transport policies were branded a "total shambles" after reports ministers want to reduce subsidies to train operators by 20%.
		But Richard Bowker, chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority (SRA), said he believed the service would not only be improved but that there would be a "significant growth" in passenger numbers.
		The Strategic Rail Authority confirmed it had asked companies currently bidding for franchises - such as Wales and the Borders or the Greater Anglia franchise - to submit plans based on 20% less funding.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2577413.stm (614 words)

	findAfrica - The definitive source for information about Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Burundi's government and the country's last active rebel group were still at loggerheads despite a South African attempt to break the stalemate, and the...
		Despite the Grahamstown National Arts Festival being one of the biggest in the country, the town had been relatively crime-free, except for a few petty theft cases, police said.
		Its website said a parliamentary committee recommended on yesterday that the conduct of such ministers be brought to the attention Robert Mugabe, the country's president.
	www.findafrica.com /index.php (773 words)

	business.iafrica.com \| business news Gautrain Rapid Rail project on track
		The Gautrain Rapid Rail is a project to encourage potential investors to invest in infrastructure Development.
		The project was launched by Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa at the opening of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Investors Conference on Monday in Sandton.
		Shilowa emphasised the role of Gauteng as the country's economic powerhouse and said it was the perfect location for the project.
	business.iafrica.com /news/793614.htm (383 words)

	NT Country Hour - 29/8/2002: Katherine - a future rail transport hub?
		The future operators of the Darwin to Alice Springs railway are looking to make Katherine a transport hub for the shipment of fresh produce from the Ord River region of West Australia to markets in south eastern states.
		Freightlink, the company which will run the rail link once it's completed in 2004, is looking for business for the new line and it's marketing manager, Wayne Webster, is in Katherine today.
		Mr Webster says the rail company is keen to generate as much "north-south" freight business on the railway as possible.
	www.abc.net.au /rural/nt/stories/s661789.htm (241 words)

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