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CAF secured two new agreements to expand the number of units in its current projects: it will supply the Dutch operator GVB with 13 additional trains for the Amsterdam metro, and it will increase the number of units for the new Palermo city tram network.
Plans for a new station in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle have reached a significant milestone after a planning application was submitted for the 100 million GBP scheme.
On 30 October 2024, Stadler has signed a contract with the Lisbon metro operator Metropolitano de Lisboa for the supply of 24 vehicles.
On Monday 14 October 2024, the first of the capital's new Piccadilly line trains arrived in London, ahead of a programme of rigorous testing.
Following an investment of up to 230 million GBP, Siemens Mobility opened on 2 October 2024 its Train Manufacturing Facility as a key part of its new Goole Rail Village in the United Kingdom.
On 30 July 2024, Metrovagonmash delivered to the Republic of Belarus the first Type Minsk 2024 metro train (Models 81-765.7/766.7) for operation in the Minsk Metro.
On 10 July 2024, Alstom has signed a framework agreement with Hamburger Hochbahn AG worth up to 2.8 billion EUR for the delivery of up to 374 new metro trains, for fully and semi-automated operation.
On 5 July 2024, Siemens Mobility has won the tender from Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) and will introduce a Communications-Based Train Control System (CBTC) on the U5 and U8 metro lines in Berlin for the first time.
The daytime testing began on Wednesday 15 May 2024, when a new Metro train operated in the gaps between timetabled services provided by the current fleet on Metro’s coastal route between Newcastle and North Tyneside.
Milano’s subway system is gearing up for a green makeover with the integration of electric motors made in Austria. Following their success in buses and trams, Traktionssysteme Austria’s electric motors will now power the first batch of 21 new metro trains, worth 168 million EUR, serving lines M1 and M3.
On 11 March 2024, a new metro train Moskva-2024, built at Metrovagonmash, was put into operation in the Moskovsky metropoliten.
Stadler has finished building a new depot, which will accommodate the fleet of 46 METRO trains being manufactured for the Tyne and Wear Metro.
On 11 December 2023, for the first time, passengers in Glasgow had the chance to travel on the new subway trains, which Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) will gradually be introducing into commercial operation.
On 11 December 2023 Mayor Steve Rotheram has announced that the Liverpool City Region’s new publicly owned trains will begin the final stage of their phased roll-out this week.
On 10 November 2023, the final stabling areas for all 46 new Metro trains is in the final stages of completion with all tracks successfully installed as part of the 70 million GBP rebuild of Gosforth Depot.