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In 2003 Tranz Rail was purchased by Australian freight firm Toll Holdings, which renamed the company Toll NZ.
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In 1993 the network was privatised, and until 2003 the national network was owned by Tranz Rail, previously New Zealand Rail Limited.
The Government agreed to take over control of the national rail network back when Toll Holdings purchased Tranz Rail in 2003.
Proposals to sell Tranz Rail's Wellington passenger rail services, Tranz Metro, did not come to fruition, although the division became a separate company in July 2003.
The company started in 2003 when Toll Holdings purchased an 85 % stake in Tranz Rail Holdings.
* 2003: Toll Holdings purchases a controlling share of Tranz Rail Holdings.
On 1 July 2008, almost 15 years after his National-led Government sold New Zealand Rail Ltd, the Labour-led Government repurchased its successor Toll NZ Ltd ( less its Tranz Link trucking and distribution arm ), having repurchased the track network in 2003.
Tranz Rail, formally Tranz Rail Holdings Limited ( New Zealand Rail Limited until 1995 ), was the main rail operator in New Zealand from 1991 until it was purchased by Toll Holdings in 2003.
In 2003 a competitive tender was held to find a new operator for the suburban passenger services, which Tranz Rail did not bid for.
In May 2003, United States based RailAmerica made a takeover offer of 75c per share for Tranz Rail.
In May 2003, the Australian transport firm Toll Holdings purchased a 6. 1 % share of Tranz Rail, increasing its share to 10. 1 % by June and 19. 9 % in July.
In July 2003 the Government announced that it was dropping its bid to buy a 35 % stake in Tranz Rail, instead allowing Toll to succeed in its takeover bid.
In 2003, around 3, 000 small shareholders held 25 % of Tranz Rail ’ s shares, many of them major institutional shareholders such as AMI and Infratil.
After a number of extensions of the deadline set by Toll, it held 84. 2 % of shares in Tranz Rail after the offer closed in December 2003.
In February 2004 Tranz Rail reported a $ 346 million loss for the half-year ended December 2003.
The total number of tonnes transported by New Zealand Rail and Tranz Rail from 1995 increased between 1993 and 2003, peaking in 2000.
In 2003 shares in Tranz Rail dropped to a record low price on the New Zealand sharemarket as a result of its poor financial state.
* 2003 Acquired New Zealand rail and trucking group Tranz Rail ( now Toll NZ ), and Tasmanian rail operator TasRail as part of Pacific National.
Following Toll Holdings ' investment in New Zealand's Tranz Rail in 2003, the Interislander was transferred to Toll Shipping.
Tranz Rail did not bid for the Auckland contract when it expired in 2003.
2003 and Rail
* Strategic Rail Authority Strategic Plan, 30 January 2003, page 101 and route descriptions page 27.
The cemetery was disturbed again by the construction, in 2002 – 2003, of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, but much more care was given to the removal of remains than was the case in the 19th century.
Campbell also initiated the privatization of BC Rail, which the Liberals had promised not to sell in order to win northern ridings which had rejected the party in 1996 but reversed this promise after election, with criminal investigations connected with the bidding process resulting in the BC Legislature Raids of 2003 and the ensuing and still-pending court case.
In 2003, a drug investigation known as Operation Everwhichway led to raids on government offices in the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in relation to suspect dealings concerning the sale of BC Rail to CN in a scandal which has since become known as Railgate and the trial of four former ministerial aides for influence peddling, breach of trust and accepting bribes.
* Jerusalem: Veolia won a $ 500 million contract in 2003 to build and maintain the Jerusalem Light Rail system, which will comprise eight lines running across the city.
From May 2003 until September 2004 Midland Mainline operated an hourly service between St Pancras and Manchester Piccadilly at the request of the Strategic Rail Authority whilst the West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Manchester underwent engineering work using former Virgin CrossCountry High Speed Trains.
On 1 August 2003 the Strategic Rail Authority awarded the new franchise to Arriva with the services operated by Wales & Borders transferring to Arriva Trains Wales on 7 December 2003.
This service ceased in September 2003 at the request of the Strategic Rail Authority.
In March 2000 the Strategic Rail Authority announced its intention to relet the franchise from May 2003 with Connex and Govia the shortlisted bidders.
On 24 October 2000 the Strategic Rail Authority announced that Govia had been awarded the franchise and would operate it from May 2003.
* Third Rail has won the Independent Press Associations ( IPA ) 2003 Journalism Award for Best Reporting.
On May 13, 2003, the provincial government of British Columbia announced that the provincial Crown corporation, BC Rail ( BCR ), would be sold with the winning bidder receiving BCR's surface operating assets ( locomotives, cars, and service facilities ).
The former regional franchisee Arriva Trains Northern initiated a twice daily Leeds – Glasgow Central service in 1999 ( calling at Settle, Appleby, Carlisle, Lockerbie and Motherwell ), but this was withdrawn at the behest of the Strategic Rail Authority in 2003, and there remains no link from Yorkshire or the East Midlands to Glasgow over the line.
The KCRC won a bid in 1996 to build a " Western Corridor Railway ", later branded as the KCR West Rail and opened in 2003.
In February 2003, a contract was awarded to United Group Rail to construct 41 OSCAR carriages ( 10 four car trains, plus 1 spare car ).
On 22 December 2003 the Strategic Rail Authority awarded the Greater Anglia franchise to National Express and the West Anglia services transferred to One on 1 April 2004.
The interchange facilities at Mei Foo opened in 2003, when the West Rail Line Line was opened.
* 20 Mar 2003: To connect with the new KCR West Rail ( Now West Rail Line ) Mei Foo Station, a passageway has been built between the two stations, with a new exit D on about midway of the passageway.
Myra Canyon Rail bridge near Kelowna on August 2, 2003, one month before it was destroyed by a forest fire
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He also performed the song on Red Sox opening day at Fenway Park in 2003, though the game was eventually rained out.
The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.
The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.
* STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH was a German defence company producing electronics until 2003
In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.
The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.
In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.
Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging.
"--- what Jesus ’ immortal spirit did after His death and before His Resurrection is a mystery to all but the Latter-day Saints ---" ( Elder Spencer J. Condie, Liahona ,-Church magazine – July, 2003 ) "--- unto the wicked he did not go, and among the ungodly and the unrepentant-- his voice was not raised.
A software-compatible clone of the Apple I ( Replica 1 ), produced using modern components, was released in 2003 at a price of around $ 200.
A record cold temperature of 450 ± 80 pK in a Bose – Einstein condensate ( BEC ) of sodium atoms was achieved in 2003 by researchers at MIT.
* In February 2003, the Boomerang Nebula was observed to have been releasing gases at a speed of 500, 000 km / h ( over 300, 000 mph ) for the last 1, 500 years.
In 2003 the medal was awarded to Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing.
Seeing Calgary and Edmonton are part of a single economic region as the TD study did in 2003 was novel.
The necessity to promote a healthier ecosystem for the people through the rehabilitation and regreening of the environment was stressed in Proclamation No. 643 that amended Proclamation No. 396 of June 2, 2003.
Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.
AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.
In 2003, author Graham Phillips hypothetically concluded that the Ark was taken to Mount Sinai in the Valley of Edom by the Maccabees.
He was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 27 February 2003.
Also introduced in 2003 was the DB9 coupé, which replaced the ten-year-old DB7.
In 2003, a method was developed for predicting subcellular location of apoptosis proteins
Known as Larzac 2003, the gathering was held over three days in August and attracted an estimated 300. 000 people to a series of concerts and political forums.
The WSF became a periodic meeting: in 2002 and 2003 it was held again in Porto Alegre and became a rallying point for worldwide protest against the American invasion of Iraq.
Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).
Additional improvements were made in Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and with the release of the latter the domain controller role was renamed Active Directory Domain Services.
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