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METRANS started to use its own railway undertaking METRANS ADRIA in Slovenia.

Softronic has completed the delivery of Transmontana locomotives for Green Cargo.

On 30 November 2023, Akiem and Talbot Services signed a contract for the overhaul of 23 Class 186 TRAXX locomotives in 2024, including on-going maintenance in the following years. 

Transport for Wales will now increase train service frequency on its Liverpool - Chester route (via Liverpool Airport), and on the Ebbw Vale branch, in January 2024. 

A team of 90 specialist engineers have completed the assembly of HS2’s giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) which will start digging the second bore of the 5.6 km Bromford Tunnel into Birmingham next year.

On 11 December 2023 Mayor Steve Rotheram has announced that the Liverpool City Region’s new publicly owned trains will begin the final stage of their phased roll-out this week. 

In early December 2023, a viaduct in Northamptonshire has become the first on the HS2 project to have all its deck beams installed as work on the project continues to ramp up between London and the West Midlands.

One of the two prototypes of the CRRC-built Class 181 electric-battery locomotives purchased by Rail Cargo Hungaria has undergone tests in Bulgaria to measure compatibility with infrastructure.

Siemens Mobility has built seven two-car Mireo Plus H trains for Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn (NEB). The last HMU in the batch left the factory in Krefeld on 30 October 2023 and was transferred to the Siemens Mobility test center in Wegberg-Wildenrath.

On 7 December 2023 CPK has signed the second of three construction contracts for its most advanced railway project.

The first of the Coradia Stream units ordered by the ARF (Autoritatea pentru Reformă Feroviară, Railway Reform Authority) has arrived in Romania.

On 28 September 2023, the MÁV Group signed a contract with Akiem for the lease of 15 Type ES64U2 locomotives in order to cover the growing passenger traffic.

SBS Cargo Praha has purchased four Class Zags tank wagons for transportation of liquefied petroleum gases.

Freshly overhauled gangway systems for “LeShuttle” - the newly renamed Eurotunnel train that provides a rail connection between France and Great Britain. 

SBB Cargo has reached an important milestone in the automation and digitalisation of railway freight traffic in Europe: on 8 November 2023, the BAV has granted type approval for the automatic brake test.