French experts, with financial support from the European Union, will be carrying out the project of liberalization Serbian railways.

Spanish manufacturer of railway vehicles TALGO presented its technology to the Georgian Railways. The system allows to replace the wheels on track size without stopping the train.

State-owned Lithuanian railways has managed to choose new diesel fuel provider. This was achieved after the second attempt since during the first tender Lithuanian Railways decided that none of the proposals was meeting the requirements.

Last year EURO 2012 Operations Manager Martin Kallen announced that the EURO host countries (Ukraine and Poland) “Shouldn’t waste more time in developing transport infrastructure”.

The third International Scientific and Practical Conference on Railway Engineering “IRIS - Quality, Innovation, Modernisation” will take place in Moscow on 1 April 2011.

4 members of PKP PLK Management were dismissed on 31 January 2011 by supervisory board during the session.

According to Mediafax, Radim Jancura's RegioJet will recruit about 100 new employees In Slovakia.

In the night from 29 January to 30 January 2011, a passenger train of Veolia's Harz-Elbe-Express (Hex) and a cargo train of Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter collided head-on at full speed on the single-track line between Magdeburg and Thale via Halberstadt.

In December 2010 problems with the rail transportation in Germany were more serious than initially presumed.

“Grzegorz Medza, the head of PKP intercity, resigned. He will be officially the chair until 2 February”, said to Railway Market Malgorzata Siatkowska, PKP Intercity spokeswoman.

According to Lithuanian Ministry of Transport the Lithuanian Railways (Lietuvos gelezinkeliai) had better financial results than it was planned.

The recent growth of railway tariffs is considered as generally low especially in comparission to the official inflation level. This seems to be an indication of consequent approach toward Federal Tariff Service rates, which were established at minimum level in order not to disturb recovery of the economy.

Bulgarian Minister of Transport, Alexander Tsvetkov, announced that all security measures required to access Schengen zone have been applied in Bulgaria’s railway stations and airports.

According to press information announced by Czech Railways (Ceske Drahy) the average amount of individual customers in 2010, as much as general revenue, have grown slightly in comparison to the year 2009. This is good information since one could notice a general decline of passengers in Czech public transport.

The Serbian state-owned railway operator Zeleznice Srbije is going to finance the construction of new railway section by borrowing EUR 150m from European Investment Bank. This investment will significantly increase Serbian effort to modernize its railway tracks.

Ukraine’s state-run rail operator singed loan restructuring agreement with Barclays Capital in December and paid the first tranche of EUR 80.644m.

Romanian metro operator Metrorex, responsible for building Line 7 in Bucharest, decided to base the construction on a Public Private Partnership.

Kaido Simmermann, Chief executive officer of Estonian Railways says, that the reason for the decrease of the carried freight in 2011 is the new terminal for heavy fuel oil in Ust-Luga port.

Bulgarian labor unions demand a debate regarding the future of the Bulgarian State Railway Company BDZ and the National Railway Infrastructure Company NRIC.

Passenger transport and providing customers with high quality services – these are the priorities of Belarus railways for this year, the state-owned company wrote in a statement.