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Management, employee representatives and IG Metall have agreed on a collective labour agreement for the future of the Berlin plant of train manufacturer Stadler. The parties announced this on 11 April 2025.

On 17 April 2025, DB Regio ordered 19 battery-electric FLIRT AKKUs trains for the Central Thuringia battery network.

The French railway company Chemins de fer de Provence (CP) and Stadler are paving the way for more environmentally friendly railway operations between Nice and Digne-les-Bains.

On 16 April 2025, it was possible to see the first "pershing" of RegioJet in Přerov after the reconstruction to a dual-voltage locomotive.

Almost exactly one year later, Praha main station experienced another milestone in the ComfortJet project: while on 9 April 2024 the first train, the then temporarily configured eight-car unit, was officially presented here for the first time, on 14 April 2025 the complete nine-car unit ran from the same station for its first passenger service.

On 11 April 2025, Centralny Port Komunikacyjny has awarded the contract for the excavation of a new high-speed rail tunnel in Łódź to a consortium led by PORR.

Contractors building HS2 have completed work on a pair of innovative extensions to the southern portal of its longest tunnel to eliminate the possibility of ‘sonic boom’ being created by high-speed trains entering at 200 mph (321 km/h). 

In 2024, Siemens Mobility sold over 360 Vectrons, the plan is now to produce 385 Vectrons annually to meet the growing demand for locomotives and associated services.

On 9 April 2025, FGC President Carles Ruiz Novella and FGC General Manager Alicia Valle Cantalejo visited the Alstom facilities in Santa Perpètua de Mogoda.

As the rail industry unites under the banner of ‘Railway 200’, to celebrate 200 years of the modern railway, HS2 and the Railway 200 team are calling on those with a connection to Birmingham to get involved.

On 4 April 2025, AŽD in cooperation with the Správa železnic demonstrated to the public on the Kopidlno - Dolní Bousov line its 100 % technological readiness for the start of regular operation of the first railway autonomous line with passengers on a line in open landscapes in Europe, which is operated by a vehicle of Czech origin.

Arriva Group has announced an order of nine five-car battery hybrid trains (electricity, battery, diesel, EBDMU) by Hitachi Rail to replace its entire Grand Central fleet. 

At the end of March 2025, Ferrovie della Calabria (FdC) and Stadler signed a contract for the delivery of three metre-gauge DMUs.

On 10 March 2025, Stadler handed over the first of five Saphir II Class ABe 4/8 EMUs to Aargau Verkehr AG.