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On 8 March 2021, following ratification at a meeting of Renfe's administrative council, the operator announced that it will order 211 high-capacity EMUs for Cercanías, the commuter rail systems of Spain's major metropolitan areas.

On 8 April 2021, acting on behalf of the four regions, SNCF Voyageurs has placed an order worth almost 190 million EUR with Alstom for the 12 Coradia Polyvalent/Régiolis dual mode electric-hydrogen (EHMU) trains plus two optional ones.

On 30 March 2021 Stadler announced that it has successfully completed a three-year research project with its FLIRT AKKU battery-powered EMU (or BEMU).

On 3 April 2021, TMH handed over the 300th passenger car to the Egyptian National Railways.

Under the contract signed in early 2021, OVK (UWC) delivered in late March 50 Model 11-6874 box wagons to Lokotrans, Yaroslavl.

As part of the service agreement concluded with Lineas in April 2020, Voith started the major overhaul and other maintenance measures on a batch of Class 77 locomotives.

No, it's not about a new music festival at the VUZ Velim test centre, but about a new Trenitalia EDMU, which arrived in the Czech Republic on 6 April 2021.

On 25 March 2021, OVK (UWC) and VIK of Ulan-Ude announced a contract for the supply of 40 Model 13-6852-02 flat wagons for transporting timber materials.

On 5 April 2021, Metrovagonmash and Tashkent Metro signed a contract for the delivery of 40 Model 81-765.5/766.5/767.5 metro cars for the Uzbek capital.

Kolomensky zavod is implementing a project to increase the volume of diesel engine repairs.

In October 2019, FRACHTbahn Traktion (Freight Railway Traction) of Wien was established, whose founders were the Austrian entrepreneurs Hans Peter Haselsteiner and Erhard Grossnigg, who had previously founded WESTbahn in 2008. 

The reason is the loss of a key end customer, the toy producer Lego, as the majority of a train capacity was used by DB Schenker for the latter’s shipments between factories and warehouses in Denmark and the Czech Republic, which participate in production.

On 1 April 2021, Subterra ordered an EffiShunter 1000 locomotive.

Škoda Vagonka continues with the project of five push-pull double deck rakes for ČD.

The polish Industrial Division (CARGOUNIT) vehicle pool received the first three of the five Vectrons it has ordered. They arrived in Poland on 18 March and were handed over to Bahnoperator Polska on the 31st of the month.