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08/02/2010 15:48
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The planned joint venture "RailSelect" between the freight divisions of the Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB) and DB AG is not going to take place for the time being.
Bombardier Transportation will supply another 48 TALENT 2 trains to Deutsche Bahn (DB) AG. This recent order amounts to approximately EUR 200m and has brought the number of TALENT 2 vehicles ordered by DB up to 176.
National Infrastructure Developing (NIF) informed that Budapest Kelenföld - Tárnok line section works project contract was won by S-D Consortium ( Subterra as and DOPRASTAV's). The consortium offered HUF 26,958,158,740 net price (EUR 98.5m).
No people were injured when the Moscow-Sofia train derailed at Kurilo railway station, Western Bulgaria, on Monday morning, engineer Milcho Lambrev, director general of Bulgaria’s National Railway Infrastructure Company, said.
PKP PLK, Poland's national infrastructure manager, has chosen the winner of a PLN 1 billion tender for the modernizarion works on Warsaw - Łódź line, stage 2, section Warszawa Zachodnia - Miedniewice LOT A.
In 2009 the volume of container shipments transported by Freight One dropped by 26.7%.
Wrocław public transport company has spent the last couple of months on seeking a partner to provide a loan of PLN 300m for the purchase of trams for the Tram Plus project.
Tramwaje Śląskie (Silesian Trams) are testing a third tram piece. This time it is a German Pt unit, rented from Frankfurt am Main.
Goran Brankovič, who was appointed the CEO of Slovenske železnice (Slovenian Railways) in October last year, interviewed by The Slovenia Times, speaks on the opportinities the cooperation with Deutsche Bahn may bring to SZ.
Average daily shipments onthe Russian railways network totaled 2.827 million tons in January 2010, which is 17.2% as much as in the same period of 2009.
- We invite Turkey to join the Viking project’s development and we hope that they will find it economically useful – said Eligijus Masiulis, the minister of transport of Lithuania, after a meeting in Vilnius with the Turkish ambassador.
Lubusz Province (Lubuskie) plans to leave the structures of Przewozy Regionalne (regional services) and to operate local routes independently. However it does not want to establish a new company.
Estonian Railways is claiming EEK 500m from the state. The case started four years ago before Estonia bought back 66% of the company and re-nationalised it.
More than 20 Desiro trains, nicknamed „Blue Arrow”, of CFR Calatori were damaged because of the cold weather and bad railway infrastructure. Now, they are staying in depots due to lack of spare parts.
Yesterday, February 4, the police entered the headquarters of MAV Informatika, the subsidiary of state-owned railways.
