Tag: rail
The Kryukov Railcar Building Works expects production of freight cars to reduce by 84% to 349 in 2015, compared with 2014. The economic department of the Kremenchuk city executive committee announced this
British rail operator National Express launched services in Germany. The carrier will operate the two lines in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia for 15 years.
Ukraine intends to supply 1,500 railcars to Turkmenistan, and supply of 750 of them has already been put out to tender. These railcars will be used on a railway along the TAPI gas pipeline.
According to Volodymyr Omelian, joint expert work on preparation of project proposals will begin next week.
The Lviv Railways will begin selling tickets for the new Lviv - Ivano-Frankivsk - Lviv regional express train No. 704/703 on 4 December. The train will begin operating on 13 December, using a DPKr-2 diesel train produced by the Kryukov Railcar Building Works.
West Japan Railway Company and Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe have jointly developed a system of special rail crossings for turtles. They keep animals from getting caught between railway switches.
Ukrzaliznytsia has extended the capacity of the Black Sea-Beregovaya railway segment by 10 million tons of cargo per year with money from private investors - TIS and Borivage.
European gauge to Lviv is extremely important for both Ukraine and Poland, as well as for the entire European community,considers City's Mayor Andrii Sadovyi.
Ukrzaliznytsia continues to automate railway level crossings with the aim of improving traffic safety standards and six crossings with bus traffic will be automated before the end of 2015.
The international conference "Eurorail 2015: Innovative Solutions on Rail Transport and the Future of Cooperation between Ukraine and the EU" will take place in Lviv from 19 to 20 November.
PJSC Ukrainian Railways intends to upgrade its fleet of freight and passenger cars next year.
The Ukrainian Railways public joint-stock company (PJSC Ukrainian Railways) will begin operation on 1 December 2015.
A new passenger rail operator will start to work in Germany on March 18 2016. DerSchnellzug (the fast train) company will be specialized on long-distance routes.
Ukrainian and Moldovan railways are planning to implement a project involving construction of a railway between Berezino and Bessarabka (Basarabeasca) and overhaul of the railway between Artsyz and Berezino.
Authorities in the Kiev region are discussing the possibility of building a monorail that will connect the capital of Ukraine and Bila Tserkva, which is a major regional administrative center.
Poland is interested in high-speed rail links between Warsaw and Lvov and between Kiev and Warsaw, Paweł Kopczyński, the head of the rail transport department at the Polish Ministry of Infrastructure, said in an interview with the CFTS portal.
It is necessary to build a separate railway line in order to create a normal high-speed rail link between Kiev and Odessa because there is very high freight and passenger train traffic on the existing network.
Romania is preparing to reconstruct its rail network in Transylvania under EU financing. The reconstruction of the Brasov - Sighisoara railway will begin on this November
The Ministry of Infrastructure has announced the composition of the board of PJSC Ukrainska Zaliznytsia, which was appointed by a decision of the Cabinet of Ministers on 7 October.
I emphasize that auctioning is not privatization.