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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer visited on 6 December 2024 Newton Aycliffe to celebrate a significant agreement for the Hitachi Rail factory which has secured an order of around 500 million GBP to manufacture 14 new five-car class 80X trains for FirstGroup, including maintenance over a ten year lease period.

Electric ‘tri-mode’ trains were introduced to passenger services for the first time in the UK on 18 November 2024 as part of the South Wales Metro. 

On 11 November 2024, Avanti West Coast’s 350 million GBP investment in its new Evero fleet reached an important milestone with their first run in service on the Liverpool to London route.

East Midlands Railway (EMR) shared first look at the interiors of their new Aurora fleet.

On 29 July 2024, Greater Anglia (GA) has marked the 5th anniversary of its first new train entering passenger service.

History was made this month as the very first electric train ran north of Cardiff to Pontypridd during daylight hours.  

14 March 2024: Thanks to effective partnership working with Greater Anglia and Rock Rail, Stadler has reached fleet acceptance for the 58 FLIRTs manufactured and supplied for the East Anglia network.

In December 2019 Adif awarded a consortium of Stadler and MerMec a 74.4 million EUR contract for three diagnostics trains, two EDMUs for use on the 1,668 mm gauge network, and one 1,435 mm gauge EDMU for use on the 1,435 mm gauge high speed network.

On 26 July 2023 Avanti West Coast’s new Hitachi-built fleet marked another major milestone with its first journey to North Wales as part of its rigorous test programme.

CAF Group has secured contracts to manufacture an additional 18 Coradia Polyvalent regional trains totalling 161 million EUR.

One of the three Adif's new diagnosticts FLIRTs arrived at the VUZ Velim test facility on 20 February 2023.

In mid-February, Norske tog announced that the contract for delivery of 17 single-deck long-distance trains had been awarded to Stadler.

On 17 February 2023 Norske tog announced that Stadler has been awarded the contract for 17 long-distance FLIRTs of the future Class 79.

The first of Avanti West Coast’s new fleet of trains has entered static testing at Hitachi Rail’s Newton Aycliffe factory in the North East of England.

On 9 December 2021, TSA announced that it was contracted by CAF to design and manufacture traction motors for 28 Civity Nordic regional trains ordered by AB Transitio.