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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. 

Alstom has delivered 500 electric locomotives to Indian Railways. On 25 March 2025, the 500th Prima T8 WAG12B was flagged off from Alstom’s facility in Madhepura.

On 3 April 2025, framework agreement for the delivery of a total of 90 new trams for the capital of Województwo Małopolskie were signed in the office of Kraków's Mayor Aleksander Miszalski.

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.

On 1 April 2025, RegioJet introduced the new PESA-built EMUs for the PID (Pražská integrovaná doprava, Prague integrated transport).

On 31 March 2025, Koleje Mazowieckie and Stadler have signed an agreement for 14 FLIRT EMUs.

KISS 4736 103, which was damaged in an accident at the VUZ test centre in February, left Velim on 12 March 2025.

On 28 March 2025, Alstom has signed a contract with the Moroccan National Railway Office (ONCF) worth 781 million EUR to supply up to 18 Avelia Horizon high-speed trains.

Hitachi Rail on InnoTrans 2024 introduced the Frecciarossa 1000 unit (ETR 400 series according to the Italian scheme), specifically four cars from the Trenitalia’s ETR 400 061.

On 24 March 2025, an Alstom-built EMU for NorskeTog arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre.

On 21 March 2025, Alstom and SŽ - Tovorni promet (Slovenian Railways - Freight Transport) have signed a contract for the delivery of 30 TRAXX Universal locomotives, worth over 150 million EUR.

On 20 March 2025, the 1,000th car for the Ivolga family was presented in Tver. The car forms part of the 92nd train built at TVZ since the start of production of this class.

A total of 12 nearly 60 m long trams are being produced at Plzeň works, and now the first Škoda ForCity Smart 38T from batch production is ready to depart for the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan area.