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CONTENTS
Volume 14 · Issue 3 · 2008
3 INTRODUCTION
As fuel prices escalate – will rail
cope with demand?
James Abbott, Technical Editor
5 FOREWORD
Optimistic outlook for Finnish railways
Henri Kuitunen, President and CEO, VR-Group Ltd
13 VIEWPOINT
Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
Craig Waters, Commissioning Editor
14 NEWS
18 NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE:
JERNBANEVERKET
23 Recognising the importance of
high-speed rail in Norway
Lars Erik Nybø, Project Manager for High-Speed Study,
Jernbaneverket
23 NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE:
JERNBANEVERKET
Strategies aiming to double
Norwegian freight traffic
Anita Skauge, Executive Director of Strategic Planning,
Jernbaneverket
29 NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE:
RHK & VR-TRACK LTD
Finland’s longest railway tunnel
is under construction
Erkki Mäkelä, Chief Inspector of Investment
Department, Finnish Railway Administration (RHK)
and Timo Cronvall, Head of Geotechnics and Rock
Engineering, VR-Track Ltd / Railway Consulting
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39 NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE: NSB AS
The search for the train of the future
Emil Eike, Project Manager for New EMUs,
Stein Nilsen, Group Director and Director of Passenger
Trains Division and Torod Gjermundsen, Director of
Technical Services, NSB AS
44 NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE: ACCIDENT
INVESTIGATION BOARD OF FINLAND
The study of level crossing
safety in Finland
Esko Värttiö, Chief Railway Accident Investigator,
Accident Investigation Board of Finland (AIBF)
49 NORTHERN EUROPE PROFILE:
BANEDANMARK
Strong developments for rebuilding
the Danish railway
Claus Rehfeld, Director of Construction & Renewals,
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