POLISH State Railways (PKP) says it will allocate funds raised from the privatisation of its power subsidiary PKP Energy towards the purchase of 10 additional Pesa ED161 Dart long-distance EMUs for PKP Intercity.

POLISH long-distance operator PKP Intercity confirmed on July 17 that authorisation of its Stadler/Newag Flirt 3 EMUs has been completed and delivery of the fleet has passed the halfway mark.

POLAND's largest railfreight operator PKP Cargo has signed a letter of intent with Greenbrier Europe Wagony Świndica, the Polish subsidiary of US wagon builder Greenbrier, to establish a joint venture for the production of freight wagons.

PHU Locomotive, Poland, signed an agreement on July 8 to acquire three Gama locomotives from Pesa on behalf of Polish open-access operator Ecco Rail.

AN agreement has been reached between the German state of Saxony and German Rail (DB) regarding a plan to electrify the 103km Dresden – Bautzen - Görlitz - Polish border line, with €3m allocated for initial planning.

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.

SOLARIS, Poland, has delivered the first of 15 standard-gauge Tramino S111O low-floor LRVs for the first phase of the light rail network in the Polish city of Olsztyn.

NEWAG, Poland, handed over the first of 12 Impuls 45WE EMUs for Masovian Railways (KM) on June 8 in the presence of Masovian regional premier Mr Adam Struzik.

DYNAMIC testing of the first Pesa ED161 Dart EMU for Polish long-distance operator PKP Intercity has begun with trials on the Bydgoszcz – Gdansk line in northern Poland.

A TE33A locomotive built by JSC Lokomotiv Kurastyru Zauyty (LKZ), Kazakhstan, is undergoing trials with Polish operator PKP LHS on its 394km 1520mm-gauge line which links a steelworks near Katowice with the Ukrainian border.