Last year, Russian Railways invested RUB 9.13 billion ( EUR 230.11m) in the full reconstruction of the stretch between Mga - Gatchina - Veimarn - Ivangorod and railway approaches to ports on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland.

During my introductory press conference shortly afterwards I told the members of the press that I felt as if I stepped into a Die Hard series movie. My statement was met by a wave of laughter, but that is exactly how I felt at the moment.

Intensive growth of traffic since the beginning of the year 2011 puts a threat of cars shortage upon Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsya). This situation may force Company's authorities to consider buying new vehicles.

Siemens wants to take part in developing Ukrainian railway system. The project is to link Kiev with Boryspil Airport.

Bulgaria will have railway connections for high speed trains. It is planned to finish the project by the end of 2013.

Among the most important projects of Croatian railways in 2011 will be the construction of new tracks to manufactories in Zadar and in Vukovar to connect them with the rail system.

The first electric multiple unit (EMU), manufactured by Stadler Bussnang AG was already transported to Belarus from Stadler's manufactory in Bussnang, Switzerland.

On 3rd of February CEO of Lithuanian Railways, Stasys Dailydka, and DB Schenker Rail manager for business development in Eastern Europe, Andreas Lipka, have signed agreement declaring a collaboration between companies.

After the anonymous phone call - on the morning 6th of February- reporting bomb threat on the main Moscow train stations the two biggest (Yaroslavl, Liningrad) stations have been evacuated. Emergency level has been announced on others.

Commenting the tender for modernization of 100 PKP Cargo’s locomotives SM42, Ireneusz Wasilewski, Board member has told "Gazeta Wyborcza" that: "The tender procedure has been definitely closed. We have also taken in to account all the complaints and our final decision is that the best conditions were offered by Newag."

Results of the tender for maintaining the overhead lines along 7000 km of tracks have been announced yesterday. According to Budapest Business Journal the tender has been won by two companies: BSS 2000 and Vastuvill.

Marketing strategy of selling train tickets in Lidl discount stores has brought new success to the Czech Railways (Ceske Drahy). The amount of tickets sold in 2010 has been doubled in comparison to preceding year.

Ukraine and Turkey signed the agreement to develop rail freight-ferry links, which also provides common tarifs.

Polish-Belorussian rail border-crossing in Kuznica has been modernized for EUR 2.5m. This is the first stage to adopt the crossing to Shengen standards.

Austrian government is planning to allocate the amount of EUR 12.8 billion for modernizing the infrastructure.

Moscow railways decided to drop temporally ticket prices for trains going in the direction of Yaroslavl. This is an experimental change will eventually cease after three months, depending from the results.

PKP SA prepared the plan of restructuring PKP Cargo - Polish freight transport operator. PKP considers selling majority of shares to private investor.

Nine locomotives bought last by Regio Jet from Italian carrier Ferrovie Nord Milano have arrived to Czech Republic . They will operate on the Prague-Ostrava section.

Serbia keeps reparing and modernizing rolling stock. The new contracts will cost in total EUR 8.59m.

Bulgarian Government decided to allocate funds for two major projects under the European Union's transport operational programme although the state's application for EU financing has not been cleared yet.