Contents August 2012
News 2 This month
4 News
14 Transit news 18 Financial news 21 News analysis 24 Conference report
Rapid transit
27 London aims for gold medal performance Priming the city’s railway network for the arrival of 11 million Olympic spectators
31 Induction in action Testing Bombardier’s innovative Primove catenary- free electrification system in Augsburg
InnoTrans Preview Part 2: Track and signalling
37 Innovative track geometry system on test Dallas trials TTCI-developed technology
41 Versatile points machine launched Voestalpine unveils Ecostar 4
47 Bosphorus rail link to open next year World’s first line to combine CBTC and ERTMS
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Front cover
Plasser & Theurer's APT 1500 R is the first flash-butt welding machine to weld rails entirely automatically without manual interaction and a separate rail pulling device.
Bright sparks Infrastructure innovations at InnoTrans
Olympic hurdles London prepares for the biggest show on earth
Canadian coup
What will Hunter Harrison bring to CP?
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Versatile points The next generation of point machines
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