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The high speed trains due to start running on the HS2 rail network within 10 years have been marked out as the most environmentally-friendly in the world.

At its Planning Committee meeting on 6 September, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council approved HS2’s plans for the Balsall Common Viaduct.

ZF plans to bring its track monitoring to the market next year.

METRANS hired three Vectrons in the A35 variant from Akiem, thereby incorporating in its fleet locomotives capable of operating in Italy and the entire Balkans for the first time.

There is no point in running a test freight train unless it carries a commercial payload. Such was the case when the final session of verification testing started on the new high speed line between Pola de Lena and La Robla on 1 September 2023.

Siemens Mobility has won the tender for a framework agreement to deliver up to 540 single-deck EMUs for ÖBB.

On Wednesday 19 April 2023, NS started a test service with passengers with the first ICNG (Intercity Nieuwe Generatie) units on the Amsterdam - Rotterdam route.

On 26 August 2023, a new tram line was inaugurated in Utsunomia. It is the first new tram system in the country since 1948. The service is provided by 51 three-section, 29.52 m long, bi-directional articulated HU300 'Lightline' trams.

On 29 August 2023 Alstom inaugurated its bogie centre in Astana.

On 28 August 2023, in the morning hours, a Talgo 230 unit for DB was hauled to the Żmigród circuit.

On 22 August 2023 ŽSR officially launched operation of its new DV NDT diagnostic unit.

TMH will present several new products at the 11th PRO//Dvizhenie.Expo, which opens on 24 August in St. Petersburg.

Strengthening its position on foreign markets and expanding its presence outside Europe - this is one of the goals of the Škoda Group's business strategy.

On 21 August 2023 Alstom and the Central Saxony transport authority VMS (Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen) presented in Chemnitz the first battery-powered train developed by Alstom.

On 11 August 2023, the first of 20 Cityjet Desiro ML EMUs arrived in Tyrol.