THE Indian government's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the prime minister Mr Narendra Modi, has approved a revised cost estimate for the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) projects of Rs. 814.6bn ($US 12.8bn).

SNCF CEO Mr Guillaume Pepy and the mayor of Paris Ms Anne Hidalgo presented plans on June 24 to expand capacity at Gare du Nord, Paris' busiest station which is used by up to 800,000 passengers per day.

HUNGARY's national operator MÁV-Start has selected Stadler out of two bidders for a contract to supply 21 four-car suburban EMUs.

THE president of the board of commissioners of Netherlands Railways (NS), Mr Carel van der Driest, has resigned with immediate effect in the wake of the Limburg regional concessioning scandal.

A taskforce set up to develop a strategy for the future of France's loss-making conventional long-distance trains published its first report at the end of May. Keith Barrow explores the options being put forward to revive the "weak link between TGV and TER."

THE Norrtåg joint venture between the transport authorities in Sweden's four most-northerly counties has selected Tågkompaniet, Sweden, for a nine-year contract to operate regional services in the area.

THE Municipality of Budapest voted on June 23 in favour of building a connection between metro Line 2 and the HÉV suburban rail line to Gödöllő to allow through running between both lines.

GREATER Stockholm Transport (SL) has awarded a six-year contract to Eltel, Sweden, to maintain infrastructure on two of its tram lines.

TRANSPORT Canada has uncovered serious violations under Canada's Railway Safety Act and the Fisheries Act in connection with the horrific 2013 oil train derailment in Lac-Mégantic.

TRANSPORT ministers from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland signed a declaration on the implementation of the Rail Baltica project during the TEN-T Days conference held in the Latvian capital Riga on June 22.