THE Czech Republic's minister of transport, Ing Antonín Prachar, has dismissed the CEO of Czech Railways (CD), Mr Daniel Kurucz, after serving only nine months in office. CD's new CEO is Mr Pavel Krtek who was previously chief financial officer.
THE Hungarian government has approved the purchase by MÁV-Start, Hungary's national passenger operator, of six EMUs with an option for 15 more units.
THE mayor of Rome, Mr Ignazio Marino, officially opened the first section of Line C on November 9. This is the Italian capital's third metro line.
BELARUS Railways (BC) opened a rail link between Minsk Passazhirskiy in the city centre and Minsk National Airport on November 7.
A SIX-YEAR project by Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) to reconstruct Salzburg main station was officially completed on November 7 at a cost of €250m.
THALYS, which operates high-speed services between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Cologne and Essen, will become an independent company on March 31 2015 for the first time since it was set up as a purely commercial entity in 1996.
THE Czech Ministry of Transport and Czech rail infrastructure manager SŽDC have launched a feasibility study into the possible conversion of all lines currently electrified at 3kV dc to 25kV ac 50Hz.
WESTPHALIA-Lippe Local Transport (NWL) has selected Keolis for a contract to operate the Teutoburger Wald regional network in northwest Germany from December 2017, which will become effective from December 2017.
A CEREMONY was held in Bratislava on November 6 to mark the introduction of the first Škoda 30T ForCity Plus low-floor LRV on the city's metre-gauge tram network.
HOTEL and luxury travel operator Belmond has announced plans to launch a luxury train which will tour the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland from mid-2016.