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The planning application for HS2’s west-London super hub, Old Oak Common, was approved by the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation on 19 May. 

In addition to locomotives 744 101 - 105 delivered to Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal, the Italian national rail freight operator confirmed option for another five in November 2018.

Today, Alstom announced that after 530 days and more than 180,000 kilometres, the trial operation of the world's first two hydrogen trains was officially completed at the end of February.

The creation of LKZ stems from the fact that Kazakhstan, like most ex-USSR countries, urgently needed to modernise its railway rolling stock.

One of the other countries to which TE33A-9999 paid a visit for testing purposes was Moldova. In 2020 a contract for 12 Evolutions is being realised.

On 8 May 2020, TMH announced that DMZ received a RS FZhT certificate of conformity for batch production of its Class EP2D EMUs with an enhanced service life of 40 years.

Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has received authorisation for its Type HF6 FLEXITY trams to begin operation on the Düsseldorf and Duisburg networks. This means that Rheinbahn can now start using the trams for passenger service within the Düsseldorf metropolitan area.

Following the start of regular PSO services in February 2020 on the Olomouc hl. n. - Senice na Hané - Drahanovice line, the former DB Regio’s GTW 2/6 DMUs are being tested by ČD on other lines in Olomoucký kraj (the Olomouc district).

Ingeteam announced today that it was awarded a new contract to design and supply traction equipment for seven dual-voltage EMUs manufactured by PESA.

Based on the contract signed on 19 April 2017, ZSSK is also to receive from ŽOS Vrútky 28 Class Bmpz open space cars with deliveries scheduled for 2018 - 2020 and seven similar Class Ampz cars scheduled for delivery in 2020 - 21.

On 2 March 2020, ŽOS Vrútky-built RegioMover 861.101 arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre. 

On 4 February 2020 Norske tog announced a tender for delivery of up to 200 new EMU for local services. They will replace the current Class 69 EMUs on line L2 Stabekk - Oslo - Ski. The main delivery will be for 30 trains with options for purchasing of additional 170 units.

On 29 January 2020 we visited Stadler Siedlce. This works is now, in addition to Class 777 EMUs and various types of FLIRTs, also building trams for Poland and Germany.  Among the FLIRTs there are many trains destined for Norway. 

We asked FlixTrain how its plans to start operations in Sweden and France, which were announced in October 2019, along with the intention to purchase new trains, are continuing.

Leo Express is one of the operators affected by the drop in rail passenger transport due to the coronavirus crisis.