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On 9 August 2022, Stadler and DB Regio have signed a supply contract for 19 FLIRT EMUs for use on the MoselLux network. 

On 30 June 2022, ODEG together with representatives from the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt and the transport authorities VBB-Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg, Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt and Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, ceremonially signed the transport contract for the Elbe-Spree network.

It's almost two years since the first CRRC-built wagons cars for London Underground arrived in the UK.

In February 2021, Rail Operations UK have completed a Sale and Purchase Agreement with Heathrow Airport Limited to acquire the fleet of five Class 360/2 EMUs, plus spare parts.

Stadler started the final assembly of the first of the Class 93 locomotives at the València works in early July.

On 15 July 2022, Alstom announced that it had received the EBA type approval for its Class 554 HMU.

After factory static tests were conducted, CAF began test runs with its prototype EHMU at the end of July.

Knorr-Bremse has been awarded a major supply contract by Siemens Mobility to equip trains for Egypt.

The Schneebergbahn has been climbing the highest mountain in Lower Austria for 125 years.

After years of preparation and planning, the electrification of the lines of Graz-Köflacher Bahn und Busbetrieb GmbH (GKB) started on 12 July 2022 with the erection of the first overhead line mast at Deutschlandsberg station.

As a continuation of the information issued on 24 November 2021 regarding the CAF's acquisition of the Alstom’s Reichshoffen works, the Coradia Polyvalent and the Talent 3 platforms and after obtaining the regulatory authorisations needed for the purchase-sale agreement, on 1 August 2022 the closing of the operation has been formalised.

Due to the several-year delay in the contract for the Talent 3 EMUs and the still unclear delivery, ÖBB decided last year to withdraw from the contract with Alstom and ordered Desiro ML EMUs from Siemens instead.

On 1 August 2022, Siemens Mobility Czech Republic announced that in mid-July it signed a contract with ČD Cargo for the delivery of 10 Vectron MS locomotives (A54 variant).

The Škoda Group continues to deliver its Type 16Ev EMUs.

In June 2022, Tatravagónka started operation of the second assembly line for the production of hopper wagons for transport of cereals.