POLISH infrastructure manager PKP PLK has awarded Astaldi a Zlotys 240m ($US 57.3m) contract to upgrade the 11km Balice Express rail link between Krakow Central station and the John Paul II International Airport at Balice.
BRITAIN's secretary of state for transport Mr Patrick McLoughlin has asked infrastructure manager Network Rail to carry out a new study into the reopening of the Uckfield – Lewes line in southeast England.
Denmark is one of the first countries in the world to implement contactless smartcard technology on a national scale. Keith Barrow looks at the challenges and successes of the Rejsekort project.
Long considered a model city for urban transport, Vienna continues to build capacity into its already dense network. Erwin Reidinger looks at the fourth phase expansion of the metro network and considers the prospects for further investment.
The Ceva project to construct a new cross-city and cross-border rail link to France is set to change the face of Geneva when it opens in 2017. Project director Antoine Da Trindade talks to Anitra Green about the challenges and wider implications of the project.
THE council of Velez-Malaga has approved plans to lease three CAF Urbos 2 LRVs, acquired as part of the Spanish town's abandoned light rail project, to Sydney for use on the Metro Light Rail line, which is currently being extended.
MACANDREWS, a subsidiary of shipping group CMA-CGM this week launched a new refrigerated railfreight service linking Bilbao with Murcia in the southeast of Spain.
NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has asked the Dutch Consumer and Market Authority (ACM) to clarify its position on plans being developed by the municipality of The Hague for a new open-access passenger service between The Hague and Brussels, which would compete with NS and Belgian National Railways (SNCB) services.
LOGISTICS group Kuehne & Nagel and wagon leasing company VTG have announced plans to create a jointly-owned rail logistics business after signing a letter of intent at the end of April.
BIDS for the partial-privatisation of Romania's national railfreight operator CFR Marfă were submitted to the government on May 8, with three contenders vying for a 51% stake in the company.