Czech Company Skoda Vagonka will deliver two new City Elephant double-deckers in spring 2012. They will be ready to transport passengers during Euro 2012 football cup - told Railway Marker CEE Review, Jolana Cihova, spokeswomen of Skoda Trasportation.

The railroad depot in Lvov will be refurbished this year. The modernization is one of the key rail projects for the Euro Cup 2012.

Alstom Transport delivered first 14 of 37 Citadis trams. The remainder will enter the traffic in the coming weeks.

Siemens AG is closer to securing a substantial order from railway operator Deutsche Bahn for long-distance trains, a spokesman for Siemens told Dow Jones Newswires.

German Railways (DB) deploy – at first in pilot operation – the HAFAS Information Manager HIM from the software specialist HaCon.

In 2011 State Joint Stock Company Latvijas dzelzcels (LDz) received the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) certificate from the customs authority (State Revenue Service).

According to preliminary calculations, PKP Cargo showed a net profit of EUR 8m in 2010.

National Railway Infrastructure Company (NRIC) informed on Monday, February 7 that nineteen candidates submitted bids in a tender for the upgrade of a key railway section in southern Bulgaria.

Bulgarian government will vote on a EUR 71.5m loan to the country's national railway carrier BDZ, minister of transport Aleksandar Tsvetkov said.

On 8 February the marshal of Wielkopolskie province Marek Wozniak and the president of PESA Bydgoszcz SA Tomasz Zaboklicki signed a contract for a delivery of 22 electric multiple units.

Romanian railway sector unions are planning to strike in March. Union members claim that they will accept neither a salary decrease nor collective negotiations.

Last year’s debut issue of Eurobonds by Russian Railways has been recognised as one of the best transactions in 2010 in Eastern Europe by Euroweek’s annual competition of the best deals of the previous year.

In January 2011, shipping volumes on Russian Railways’ (RZD) network reached 97 million tons, up on the same month in 2010 by 10.6%.

Belarus railways signed a contract with the company Belkomunmash for delivery of 6 DMUs 620M series. Vehicles will be produced in cooperation with PESA Bydgoszcz.

The prototype engine GT1-001 has run through the tests on the link between Vekovka and Bekasovo. This is one of the newest vehicles in the Russian train fleet.

Media speculations from the last month have been confirmed. Dmitri Gayev was replaced by Ivan Besedin, announced press secretary of Moscow Mayor, Gulnara Penkova.

Railway workers in Serbia went on strike on 7 February after no agreement could be reached by union and government representatives, reported Radio-Television Srpska Republika.

TV Nova has informed that Railway Infrastructure Administration (Správa železniční dopravní cesty ) has been fined for selling used railway sleepers that contained hazardous substances. Although RIA has paid the fine it nevertheless defended itself indicating that buyers were perfectly aware of the risk.

Belarusian railways will start selling train tickets via Internet. The system will be available only for holders of bank cards Belarusbank with the option “Internet banking”.

The German Train Drivers Union (GDL) made a decision to organize a strike in mid-February. The decision was made on 3 February during the meeting of the Train Drivers Union in Frankfurt (Main).