NEWAG presented its new Dragon 2 locomotive at a ceremony at Poland’s Railway Research Institute Operations Centre in Żmigród on July 12, attended by Poland’s minister of infrastructure Mr Andrzej Adamczyk and deputy minister Mr Andrzej Bittel.

SITUATED in Central Europe and with relatively flat terrain, on the face of it Poland has the ideal conditions for railways to flourish.

POLAND’s largest rail freight operator PKP Cargo slipped back into the red in the first-half of 2016 as a combination of “difficult” market conditions, and challenges facing Czech subsidiary AWT put the company under financial pressure.