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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.

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services (CML) have successfully concluded the “Pin Handling mR” project.

In early April 2025, DT-Výhybkárna a strojírna (DTVS) has successfully completed a major order for Network Rail. As part of the contract with Trackwork Ltd., the company has produced a total of 86 turnout tongues (a Type 54E1A1/56E1 profile).

As the rail industry unites under the banner of ‘Railway 200’, to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway, HS2 and the Railway 200 team are calling on those with a connection to Birmingham to get involved.

The historic bronze statue of Robert Stephenson, the great railway engineer, has gone on display at the Locomotion Museum in Shildon.

On 4 April 2025, AŽD in cooperation with the Správa železnic demonstrated to the public on the Kopidlno - Dolní Bousov line its 100 % technological readiness for the start of regular operation of the first railway autonomous line with passengers on a line in open landscapes in Europe, which is operated by a vehicle of Czech origin.

On 4 April 2025, Green Mobility Partners (GMP) handed over the first two Vectrons to their tenants, IDS CARGO and CT-Train.

On 4 April 2025, Alstom announced an investment plan of more than 150 million EUR at its French sites to meet the growing demand of the French and international rail market, particularly for very high-speed trains.

Arriva Group has announced an order of nine five-car battery hybrid trains (electricity, battery, diesel, EBDMU) by Hitachi Rail to replace its entire Grand Central fleet. 

Alstom has delivered 500 electric locomotives to Indian Railways. On 25 March 2025, the 500th Prima T8 WAG12B was flagged off from Alstom’s facility in Madhepura.

On 3 April 2025, framework agreement for the delivery of a total of 90 new trams for the capital of Województwo Małopolskie were signed in the office of Kraków's Mayor Aleksander Miszalski.

At the end of March 2025, Ferrovie della Calabria (FdC) and Stadler signed a contract for the delivery of three metre-gauge DMUs.