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On 30 January 2024, a contract for 62 regional EMUs (RE-R) was signed between Autoritatea pentru Reformă Feroviară (ARF, Railway Reform Authority) and PESA Bydgoszcz.
On 29 January 2024 Alstom and the Romanian Railway Reform Authority (ARF) have signed a contract for the delivery of 16 TRAXX3 MS locomotives and 20 years of associated maintenance services.
Stadler has finished building a new depot, which will accommodate the fleet of 46 METRO trains being manufactured for the Tyne and Wear Metro.
Testing of the Talgo 230 NMUs for DB, which are referred to by the operator as ICE-L (Low Floor), is continuing.
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.
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).
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 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 22 December 2023, the car Afmpz 80-90 020, the second ComfortJet driving trailer, arrived for testing to Velim.
The plan mentioned last year that the Class 665 EMUs will execute test operation under the RegioJet umbrella has become a reality.
In addition to the new Class E6800 locomotives, Tanzania Railways Corporation will also receive Class 1014 locomotives.