POLAND: Rail services from Lublin to Lublin (Swidnik) Airport station began on December 17.
This follows completion of a 2·2 km branch from Swidnik station, which was built by PRK Expol with KZA Lublin responsible for signalling and PKP Energetyka for electrification.
The new airport has been developed from a military airfield and currently has few commercial flights, but a helicopter factory at the site is expected to generate commuter traffic for the five daily return trains.
In a local referendum 50·2% of voters rejected the SFr920m TransRUN plan to build a new tunnelled alignment between Neuchâtel and La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland. This would have replaced the existing sharply-curved route, cutting journey times from 30 to 14 min. Canadian Pacific introduced faster schedules for trans-Continental intermodal trains ...
POLAND: Lubelskie voivodship has signed a contract with a consortium of Pesa and ZNTK MM for the supply of three two-car DMUs to operate the Rejowiec – Zamość/Bełżec, Lublin – Stalowa Wola and Lublin – Lubartów lines. Under the deal valued at 24m złoty, the first unit is due to ...
While freight trains are now running over Uruguay’s renovated Ferrocarril Central main line, the rest of the network has almost no traffic, undermining promises of investment made in recent years. Marcelo Benoit reports.
