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On 25 January 2024, TMH-Elektrotech received a certificate of compliance with the TR TS 001/2011 standards for the new Type DTA-125 asynchronous traction motors.

Testing of the Talgo 230 NMUs for DB, which are referred to by the operator as ICE-L (Low Floor), is continuing.

On 24 January 2024, the Service Locomotive Depot (SLD) Tynda-Severnaya has completed the acceptance of the first Class 3TE28 diesel locomotives built at BMZ.

On 10 December 2023, ÖBB started operating Viaggio non-traction multiple units (NMUs) on the NJ 40420/40491 Innsbruck - Hamburg and NJ 490/491 Wien - Hamburg services, which meet at Nürnberg Hbf and on which they replaced conventional locomotive-hauled rakes.

Träfraktkontoret in Göteborg and its subsidiary, TFK Logistics, have established a railway shuttle between Piteå and the Port of Göteborg.

On 18 January 2024, Alstom announced that it will supply 18 Coradia Max EMUs to DB Regio (Coradia Max replaces the former product name Coradia Stream HC, High Capacity).

As expected, the recent order for ten EURODUALs was followed by another contract for EURO9000s, concluded on 15 January 2024.

In the second January week, engineers began a delicate job that will see almost half a kilometre of bridge deck slid into position over the next year, high above the Misbourne Valley in Buckinghamshire, as HS2’s Wendover Dean Viaduct enters a critical new stage of construction.

On 9 January 2024 first customers got to experience SWR’s new Class 701 Arterio EMUs.

The first vehicle to arrive for testing in 2024 at VUZ Velim was a Coradia Stream for Romania on 5 January.

Less than 20 months after the foundation stone laying ceremony, and therefore in a very short time, Deutsche Bahn inaugurated the new hall for maintenance of ICE 4s in Cottbus on 11 January 2024.

On 20 December 2023, ZSSK took over three of the four KISS EMUs.

On 10 January 2024, representatives of the City of Praha, DPP and Škoda Group presented the concept and design of a new Type Škoda ForCity Plus Praha 52T tram.

On 5 January 2024 FirstGroup plc has  submitted the first phase of an application for a new open access rail service between London and Sheffield to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR).

On 11 December 2023, for the first time, passengers in Glasgow had the chance to travel on the new subway trains, which Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) will gradually be introducing into commercial operation.