International Railway Summit 2016, Vienna: Mr Jerzy Lejk, CEO, of Warsaw Metro, announced that a general contractor will be appointed very soon to construct the first phase of planned extensions to Line M2.

Battery manufacturer Saft has won a multi-million dollar contract from Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Septa) to supply lineside lithium-ion energy storage equipment.

GERMAN open-access operator derschnellzug.de - which was planning to start services between Stuttgart and Hamburg on March 18 says its planned services will be delayed.

JR East, Japan, plans to spend Yen 1.04 trillion ($US 9.1bn) on upgrading its Tokyo - Morioka and Niigata – Omiya high-speed lines from 2031.

GERMAN Rail (DB) passenger numbers showed a small decline in 2015 according to figures released this week by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).

CHANNEL Tunnel operator Eurotunnel says revenues and profits for the year ending December 31 2015 rose.

A feasibility study into the construction of a €1bn route between Dobbiaco and Calalzo in Italy's Belluno province will take place following an agreement signed on February 13.

A CONFERENCE held in Rome on February 12 hosted by Italian track authority RFI, the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA), European Railway Agency, Italy's National Agency for Railway Safety and Ansaldo STS could help accelerate the rollout of satellite based signalling (Ersat) in Europe.

GOVIA Thameslink Railway, Britain, has completed its order of 25 class 700 EMUs from Siemens in a £200m deal after securing funding from British leasing company Rock Rail.

UNITED States railway investment company Iowa Pacific Holdings has sold its shareholding in Andean Railways Corporation for an undisclosed sum.