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On 12 September 2024, the biggest overhaul of bogies belonging to the Class 390 fleet has reached a major milestone, when the first part of the work to overhaul 1,148 bogies across Avanti West Coast’s Pendolino fleet has been completed by Alstom.

On 22 January 2024, Pendolino 680.004 arrived at VUZ Velim, which was the first of its class to be equipped with the ETCS OBU.

On 15 October 2023 the new National Rail Contract (NRC) for West Coast Partnership (WCP) will start.

On 7 September 2023 Avanti West Coast has completed the upgrade of the 35th, and the last of 11-car Pendolino EMUs.

At the end of May, PKP IC’s „Pendolino“ ED250-001 (2 370 001 - 007) was in Austria for the fourth time for extensive test programe.

On 24 February 2022, an InterJet rake of ČD was used for the first time out of its regularly diagrammed workings

On 20 January 2021, the first Class ETR 470 Pendolino upgraded by Alstom has arrived in Thessaloniki, marking the arrival of high-speed trains in Greece.

On 24 November 2020, Alstom’s predictive maintenance solution for rolling stock, TrainScanner, has entered in service in Warszawa’s Service Centre, where it will be used to maintain the fleet of 20 PKP IC „Pendolinos“.

In late June, tests were started on the Správa železnic network with a Class ED250 (2370) PKP IC EMU.

Between 29 June and 6 July 2020 the PKP IC Pendolino will be tested in the Czech Republic.

Following an accident during one of the test runs near München on the 8th of the month, the damaged Class ED 250-001 EMU was sent from Germany to Poland.

On 8 April 2020 at 15.35 h an accident occurred between Allach and Olching (north-west of München) during a test run with the Pendolino ED250-001 and the Class 152 locomotives.

Britain’s most iconic train fleet is to undergo a major refurbishment.

On 5 December 2019 an Alstom-built fleet of 25 Avelia AGV high speed trains, operated under the name Italo at a maximum speed of 300 km/h, has...