UKRAINIAN prime minister Mr Arseniy Yatsenyuk officially launched a new regional express service on the 267km Lvov - Ivano-Frankivsk - Chernivtsi route on October 6, which uses Ukrainian Railways' (UZ) prototype DPKr2 DMU.
With declining traffic and volumes the current condition of Russia's railfreight market reflects the poor state of the Russian economy. Alexander Polikarpov, deputy head of the Railway Research Department, at Russia's Institute of Natural Monopolies Research (IPEM), looks at how this situation has come about and considers the prospects for an upturn in fortunes.
THE government of Ukraine has announced plans to electrify the 105km Kovel - Izov line at 25kV ac, and is set to enter negotiations with Poland over extending this to Hrubieszow, which is the gateway to PKP-LHS, the 1520mm-gauge line to Katowice.
UKRANIAN Railways (UZ) launched a new 160km/h daily service on December 12 from Kiev to Krivoy Rog, a city with a population of 700,000 in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2014: OMNITRAM, a low-floor LRV developed by a joint venture of German bogie supplier Transtec F&E Vetschau and Electron, Ukraine, makes its first appearance at InnoTrans this week.
TESTING has begun on a new metre-gauge tram line in Vinnitsa, a city of 372,000 inhabitants in western Ukraine.
UKRAINIAN Railways (UZ) introduced the first of two prototype EKr1 'Tarpan' long-distance EMUs on the Kiev Darnytsia – Lviv route on June 24.
UKRAINIAN Railways (UZ) received the first three type 2ES10 twin-section electric locomotives on December 16 from Ural Locomotives, a joint venture of Sinara, Russia, and Siemens.
THE vice-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Mr László Baranyay signed a €152m 25-year loan agreement with Ukrainian finance minister Mr Yurij Kolobov in Luxembourg on October 25, which will be used to finance the extension of the Dnepropetrovsk metro.
A joint venture is to be established between Zerz, a Ukrainian state-owned electric locomotive maintenance and repair company, and Skoda, Czech Republic, to build dual-voltage passenger locomotives for Ukrainian Railways (UZ).