East German Railway Company (Odeg) took over operation of Berlin Wannsee - Jüterbog and Brandenburg - Rathenow regional services south of Berlin from German Rail (DB) in December.
BOMBARDIER has secured two contracts worth more than €240m to supply LRVs to two German cities.
DB REGIO has ordered an additional 90 class 430 emus from Bombardier and Alstom in a deal worth approximately e500m.
VTG Rail, a subsidiary of VTG, Germany, has acquired SC Leasing, United States, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation of America, and its 2000 freight wagons, doubling VTG Rail's North American customer base.
This year Hamburg-Köln-Express will break new ground for open-access operators in Germany when it goes head-to-head with DB on one of the national operator's most lucrative long-distance routes. Keith Barrow talks to the team behind HKX.
TODAY marks the start of commercial services on France's latest high-speed line - TGV Rhin-Rhône - and a major reorganisation of services in which 85% of trains have been rescheduled.
