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On 25 January 2020, NEVZ handed over NP1-100 to SGOK, completing the contract for the supply of two Class NP1 traction units for use on iron ore trains, signed in May 2020.

The first of five headhouses that will provide ventilation and emergency access to HS2’s 16 km long Chiltern tunnel has gained planning approval from Buckinghamshire Council.

On 26 January 2021, Bombardier Transportation has announced the launch of a major investment and hiring plan aimed at increasing the production capacity of its Brugge factory.

Newag is currently building a batch of 24 dual-voltage Class ET43 locomotives for PKP Cargo.

HS2 have completed sheet piling work by contractors Skanska Costain STRABAG Railways Joint Venture (SCS Railways) in Acton, West London, to enable the construction of the Victoria Road Crossover Box.  

Following the first narrow-gauge Class 495.95 EMU for TEŽ and OŽ, which arrived in Slovakia on 14 January 2021, another new vehicle destined for ZSSK appeared in Poprad a week later.

On 21 January 2021, the main station in Szczecin saw the official handover of the first two Impuls 2 EDMUs built by Newag for Województwo Zachodniopomorskie.

Starting on 18 January 2021, the Belgian railway Infrastructure manager Infrabel is running tests with the purpose to carry out interference current measurements in order to check the compatibility of the new TCM100 track circuits with already homologated rolling stock. 

On 21 January 2021, Bombardier Transportation and GTS Rail signed a contract for three more Class E.494 TRAXX DC3 locomotives.

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 20 January 2021, Alstom announced it has won a contract worth 106 million EUR to design, supply and install the signalling, train control and telecommunication system of the 82 km Delhi - Ghaziabad - Meerut RRTS corridor.

On 19 January 2021, Deutsche Bahn has awarded Siemens Mobility a contract for the Type IS 600 revision of 40 Class 412 EMUs.

Stadler is making localism a key tenet of the project to build, supply and maintain new trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro.

On 19 January 2021, Bombardier Transportation announced that its Chinese joint venture, Bombardier Sifang (Qingdao) Transportation Ltd. (BST), has been awarded a contract by China State Railway Group to provide maintenance service for 32 BST-built high-speed trains.

On 17 January 2021, Škoda Vagonka of Ostrava put into operation a new machining centre with a mobile portal, thanks to which it can machine oversized aluminum bodyshell components.