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Deutsche Bahn Netz AG and Nokia Siemens Networks have signed a framework agreement to expand the GSM Railway (GSM-R) communications along an additional 7,000 kilometers of the passenger rail routes.

By GEIR MOULSON BERLIN - Train drivers staged a two-hour strike Thursday against the Berlin and Hamburg commuter networks, then called off further walkouts after mediators were appointed to seek an end to the bitter pay dispute.

By GEIR MOULSON BERLIN - Train engineers staged a two-hour strike Thursday on the Berlin and Hamburg commuter networks, part of an increasingly bitter pay dispute that has seen courts bar walkouts elsewhere on Germany's rail system.