Transport associations declare opposition to potential splitting of 4th Railway Package
With discussions of the technical and market pillars of the Fourth Railway Package beginning again under the Latvian Presidency of […]
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France: Languedoc-Roussillon launches the “one-Euro train”
For the first time in France, the authorities in the Languedoc-Roussillon region have inaugurated the “one-Euro train” to increase the […]
France to tighten SNCF tariff control
Considering SNCF’s recent tariff increase as “bad omen”, the French Minister of Ecology and Energy, Madame Ségolène Royal, announced that […]
OBB to supply MÁV with trains
Austrian OBB, the sole bidder in a tender to supply trains to Hungarian railway MÁV, is scheduled to deliver 55 […]
BLS takes over DB stake in BLS Cargo
BLS and DB Schweiz Holding, part of DB Schenker Rail, have agreed by consensus that the BLS will buy back […]
Turkey to invest EUR 3 Billion in railway projects in 2015
Turkey’s Minister of Transport, Lutfi Elvan, announced that this year’s priority projects are railway transport projects for which investments of […]
Romania: Timişoara Municipality to contract feasibility study for metro project
The mayor of Timişoara announced during a press conference that he had given “green light” to contract a feasibility study […]
Sofia will start construction works for third metro line this year
“2015 will be the latest year in which we have planned a very serious construction programme for the city. (…)One […]
