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In early January 2023, Siemens Mobility has received an order for 1,200 freight locomotives of 9,000 horsepower (6,660 kW) from Indian Railways.

VTG is terminating its tank container transport and logistics business and will discontinue the relevant activities by the end of the second quarter of 2023.

Customers in Germany and the Netherlands can be reached without pipelines or inland ports.

First of the Vectron AC DPM locomotives ordered by ČD Cargo has started test runs.

On 20 December 2018, WLB (Wiener Lokalbahnen) awarded Bombardier Transportation an order for 18 Type TW500 FLEXITY LRVs for Badner Bahn, the first of which entered service in late December 2022.

HS2’s plans for the Balsall Common Viaduct in Warwickshire, recently submitted to Solihull Council, incorporate local feedback focussing on environmental sustainability, landscape integration, visual connectivity and public access.

Nexrail is expanding its leasing business in Western Europe with the addition of 50 low-emission DE 18 Stage V locomotives from Vossloh Rolling Stock.

On 7 February 2023 Alstom has been awarded a new contract worth more than 230 million EUR to supply 25 additional Coradia Nordic regional EMUs to Norske tog.

On 7 February 2023, Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) has opted for three two-car Mireo Plus B battery trains from Siemens Mobility for their Upper and Lower Westerwald railway pilot project in Rheinland-Pfalz.

On 29 January 2023 Mohamed Amer, head of Egyptian National Railways, and Sergo Kurbanov, vice president of Transmashholding, signed a package of agreements providing for the maintenance organisation of coaches supplied by Russian-Hungarian consortium under the contract concluded in 2018.

In 2018, Bane NOR has launched a project to switch the entire railway network to ERTMS, with inauguration of first two lines scheduled at the end of 2022. However, this did not happen.

The m2 project was officially presented in September 2020 and has been moving forward since then, so wouldn’t there be a covid break, it would probably have already had more public presentations.

The test runs took place in November 2022. The data analysis and report were recently completed.

On 1 February 2022, the Class 3TE28 prototype built by BMZ was sent to the VNIKTI testing facility at Kolomna.

Třinecké železárny, one of main Czech steelmaking companies, has started test transport of iron ore using Innofreight technology, at the same time putting into trial operation a stationary unloading facility, newly built at its plant for this purpose.