We already know the number of passengers, who used services of Allegro train between St. Petersburg - Helsinki - St. Petersburg, during the first month of its operation.

In the year 2013 the latest, 31 railbuses produced by the Polish rolling-stock manufacturer PESA will operate on the regional routes in the Czech Republic.

Commuter trains, which are assembled by the Swiss rolling-stock manufacturer Stadler Bussnang AG, will be delivered to Belarus duty free.

The infrastructure unit of the state-owned Romanian Railways (CFR SA) will modernize 10 train stations in the country.

TUVASAS, the rolling-stock manufacturer and a subsidiary of the Turkish State Railways (TCDD), will manufacture rail cars for Iraq.

In fiscal 2010 the Knorr-Bremse Group reported sales of EUR 3.71 billion, up by 34% or almost EUR 1 billion.

The main tasks of Russian Railways’ innovation in technology policy in 2011 will be the development of an innovation development programme and the implementation of the “Strategies for Innovative Development at Russian Railways up to 2015” (updated White Paper).

In a large tender for audit repairs of 188 Electric Multiple Units, which has been separated into 4 tasks, Przewozy Regionalne chose the best bids submitted by the rolling-stock repair plants.

From 2011, all suburban passenger services will be carried out only by suburban rail companies as part of the structural reform of commuter rail services.

Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) announced, that it managed to increase the number of transported goods last year.

The year 2010 was the worst in the last three years when considered the sale of real estate owned by the railways in Poland.

The state-owned Czech Railways (CD) wants to increase the number of rolling-stock investments planned for this year.

Estonian Railways published its freight transportation results for the year 2010.

On 7 January 2011, Lithuanian Railways signed a contract with the Ministry of Agriculture of Republic of Lithuania.

Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) published information about the accidents, which occurred at rail crossings in the country in 2010.

Grzegorz Medza, the president of PKP Intercity, admitted in an interview for Gazeta Wyborcza daily, that the operator participated in the rail chaos, which occurred at the end of 2010.

Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) announced, that 2 million passengers used the company’s services during Christmas holidays and the New Year.

Bombardier Transportation has received an order from Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) for the delivery of 137 TWINDEXX 2010 double-deck coaches and 27 TRAXX P160 AC locomotives.

According to the preliminary data, the Polish regional passenger rail operator Koleje Mazowieckie registered revenue of PLN 544m in 2010.

Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) announced, how many of its freight cars went through repairs last year.