Govt promises 1,000 new train carriages
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In a bid to ease severe overcrowding on trains, the Department for Transport will Wednesday announce the provision of an extra 1,000 railway carriages.
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TOKYO -- A Japanese railroad will invest $3.1 billion to develop high-speed magnetic trains over the next decade, the company said yesterday, days after a crash of an experimental magnetic train in Germany killed 23 people.
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The government is planning new powers to help it double the money seized from crooks to Â£250m a year.
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The state of Virginia and Fairfax County each pledged $600,000 to entice International Business Machines Corp. to bring 1,250 high-paying new government contracting jobs to Fairfax.
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Kazakhstan's national railway has agreed to spend more than a half-billion dollars to outfit its trains with hundreds of new "environmentally clean" diesel locomotives built by General Electric Co.
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China has awarded Alstom more than $1.5 billion Cdn worth of contracts for trains and locomotives, the French engineering giant said Saturday on the first day of a visit there by President Jacques Chirac.
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GAZA CITY, 18 August 2004  The Israeli government yesterday issued bids for 1,000 new homes in West Bank settlements.
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Struggling French heavy engineering company Alstom signed contracts worth up to one billion euros (1.23 billion dollars) in China for the delivery of trains and locomotives, the company said.
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Israel announced plans for 1,000 houses in the West Bank yesterday, accelerating the expansion of the settlements.
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The first of Northern Ireland Railway's new fleet of trains has made its first journey from Portadown to Bangor.
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Nissan is to produce a new car at its plant in the North East, which it says will help to safeguard 1,000 jobs.
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1,800 expected to be sent in nation-building exercise as response to 'strong pressure' from Washington
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Scottish ministers are expected to approve plans for a replacement Forth crossing, costing Â£1bn.
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The government has promised to remove "unnecessary barriers" to the creation of more faith schools and encouraged the growth of new schools run by a combination of faiths.
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Aer Lingus considers a Belfast base which would mean up to 1,000 new jobs and 15 fresh European routes.
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Bulgaria in Brief: 18 October 2004, Monday. An Ukrainian company should be appointed to provide six new cars for the Sofia subway, it became clear on Monday.
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Canadian transport group Bombardier said that it had won a 223-million-pound (331-million-euro, 424-million-dollar) order for new rolling stock from Britain's government.