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On 15 April 2025, East Midlands Railway (EMR) has unveiled its first fully refurbished Class 170 Turbostar, marking the beginning of a transformative year for the company.

ASC’s inertial sensor solutions help Spanish test and analysis center CETEST to address critical measuring and evaluation challenges, to provide unrivalled monitoring outcomes to customers across the world.

The collaboration between TSA and Toshiba Railway Europe is already yielding results: two Type Toshiba HDB 800 hybrid shunting locomotives are currently undergoing test operations.

Traktionssysteme Austria has secured a significant service contract for the maintenance of its traction motors in CAF Urbos 3 trams in Belgrade.

Management, employee representatives and IG Metall have agreed on a collective labour agreement for the future of the Berlin plant of train manufacturer Stadler. The parties announced this on 11 April 2025.

On 17 April 2025, DB Regio ordered 19 battery-electric FLIRT AKKUs trains for the Central Thuringia battery network.

The French railway company Chemins de fer de Provence (CP) and Stadler are paving the way for more environmentally friendly railway operations between Nice and Digne-les-Bains.

On 16 April 2025, it was possible to see the first "pershing" of RegioJet in Přerov after the reconstruction to a dual-voltage locomotive.

Almost exactly one year later, Praha main station experienced another milestone in the ComfortJet project: while on 9 April 2024 the first train, the then temporarily configured eight-car unit, was officially presented here for the first time, on 14 April 2025 the complete nine-car unit ran from the same station for its first passenger service.

On 11 April 2025, Centralny Port Komunikacyjny has awarded the contract for the excavation of a new high-speed rail tunnel in Łódź to a consortium led by PORR.

Contractors building HS2 have completed work on a pair of innovative extensions to the southern portal of its longest tunnel to eliminate the possibility of ‘sonic boom’ being created by high-speed trains entering at 200 mph (321 km/h). 

ALSA Rail‘s first EURO6000, the first of four on order from Stadler, via lessor Alpha Trains, is now in service.

In 2024, Siemens Mobility sold over 360 Vectrons, the plan is now to produce 385 Vectrons annually to meet the growing demand for locomotives and associated services.

On 9 April 2025, FGC President Carles Ruiz Novella and FGC General Manager Alicia Valle Cantalejo visited the Alstom facilities in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda.

TATRAVAGÓNKA is integrating PJM‘s digital freight train functions and automated applications into its equipment range. Hence, the efficiency-enhancing monitoring and automation features are now available ex works for wagon purchasers.