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On 17 March 2023 the Tyne and Wear Metro’s first Class 555 train has been officially unveiled at a celebration event hosted by Nexus and Stadler.

HS2 revealed the final designs for the North Portal of the Chiltern Tunnel - the last of seven key structures for the high speed rail project’s longest tunnels.

ORLEN Unipetrol Doprava has taken delivery of its seventh Vectron MS locomotive in February.

On 20 March 2023 the CAF Group announced that it has won two new orders to supply Urbos trams for a combined value of over 100 million EUR.

On 13 March 2023, ERA issued approval for EURO9000 locomotives. It is valid for operation in Germany, and a week later approval for operation in Austria was issued, in the standard form of an Extended Area of Use (XAU).

On 27 March 2023 Renfe is to expand its network of low cost AVLO services.

On 15 March 2023 the first of Twist trams built by PESA for Craiova started passenger service.

PESA is currently working on several contracts for both České dráhy and RegioJet.

On 16 March 2023, Stadler presented the FLIRT H2.

On 8 March 2023 Siemens Mobility Austria has received an order from ÖBB for additional 27 three-car Desiro ML EMUs.

On 13 March 2023, the electric locomotive 188 005 arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre.

On 25 February 2023 Crossrail brought ICE 3neo unit 8006 (408 006) from Germany to Brussels.

CZ LOKO is now also working on the order for five EffiShunter 1000s for Trainpoint Norway.

At InnoTrans 2022, one of the wagons on display impressed with its very unusual design and construction. It was the Extended Market Wagon (EMW), the first result of the Competitive Freight Wagon (CFW) project.

On 13 March 2023 Alpha Trains announced that it had reached an agreement with the Rail & Truck Strait Union (RTSU) for 11 new Co'Co' locomotives to be built by Stadler Valencia.