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Tramways & Urban Transit 2001 December Leeds Porto Augsburg Railtrack collapse
Tramways and Urban Transit 2001 December
NEWS Midland Metro expansion fears after Railtrack calls in receivers; Dublin's Luas still on target despite national economy trouble; Edinburgh Waterfront trams soundly backed; London Cross River Transit talks under way; SRA master plan rules out light rail for the Isle of Wight; Nottingham gets first track; old US trams for Manchester? Four pages of analysis by UK News Editor John Symons. 444
PORTO Portugal's second city is also host to Europe's largest new system - and there is tramway expansion as well. By C.J. Wansbeek.448
AUGSBURG Rich past, tramway future. The Combino is a great success in southern Germany, as C.J. Wansbeek discovers. The pictures were taken on 28 October.452
A LONG SWAN-SONG Leeds is only a couple of years away from getting its trams back. Geoffrey Skelsey has memories of the original system. Part 2: Leading up to closure.456
LETTERS Protecting the heavy rail corridor on the Midland Metro extension to Stourbridge; Tracking down true definition of misused transport words; Commercial not always best; Not all trams of the past were slow; Why so many strikes in France? 460
WORLDWIDE REVIEW So much to report... a massive ten pages of news and pictures assembled by Overseas News Editor Michael Taplin. The picture feature depicts Zagreb. 462
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