EUROPEAN transport commissioner Mr Siim Kallas has called on the Baltic states to work together to make the standard-gauge Rail Baltic link between Estonia and Poland a reality, amid concerns that extra conditions being imposed by the Lithuanian government could delay the project.
VEOLIA Transport Sweden is set to continue operating the Swedish section of the Øresund network beyond December 2014 after it was awarded a five-year contract by Öresundståg AB, the joint company owned by six regional transport authorites which is responsible for tendering the services.
THE first of 10 class 350/4 emus has been delivered by Siemens to First TransPennine Express for operation between Manchester and Glasgow and Edinburgh.
KENYA's president Uhuru Kenyatta presided over the groundbreaking of a 500km standard-gauge railway linking the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi on November 28.
GERMAN Rail (DB) subsidiary DB Regio has reached an agreement with Poland's Regional Railways (PR) to continue operating the cross-border RE 100 Dresden Wroclaw Express service.
SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has agreed to sell all of its shares in the Voralpen Express joint venture to its partner South Eastern Railway (SOB) in a deal worth around SFr 4.2m ($US 4.6m).
THE German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württenberg have launched a joint tender through Bavarian Railway Company (BEG) for two concessions to operate diesel regional services in the Allgäu area.
MTR Corporation, Hong Kong, has awarded a SFr 85m ($US 13.4m) contract to Stadler, Switzerland, for six 200km/h trains for a new open-access express service to be launched in Sweden.
THE winners of the first European Rail Awards were announced at a ceremony in London on November 12 attended by around 600 delegates.
THE Greek government has secured a €1m grant from the European Union (EU) TEN-T Programme to help fund a series of studies into the construction of a new 43km single-track line from Toxotes Xanthi on the existing Thessaloniki – Alexandroupoli line to the Aegean port of Kavala.
