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On 8 September 2022, VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft and Siemens Mobility presented the Avenio tram. 

During a nocturnal test run with Talgo staff on board early on 7 September 2022, a Class 106 Avril reached 360 km/h on the 1,668 mm gauge high speed line between Ourense and Santiago de Compostela.

On 8 September 2022, the Department of Transport in Victoria has exercised the third option under an existing 2018 contract to purchase 12 three-car VLocity DMUs for the State’s regional network.

On 31 August 2022, TMH presented the results of the modernisation of the Kolomensky Zavod to Oleg Belozyorov.

On 7 September 2022, the first unit of the type 16Ev for Pasažieru vilciens, produced by the Škoda Group, was presented to the public. 

In 2019 GC ordered a third Type GTW 2/6 DMU from Stadler for services on the Lleida to Pobla de Segur branch. The new train was put in commercial service on 27 August 2022.

Already well established at ports such as Rotterdam and Göteborg, FastTrack is now also going off the blocks at another key European freight node.

As part of the approval process of the Elf.eu EMUs for RegioJet, further tests with the first set are continuing, this time not only at VUZ but also on the Správa železnic network.

Shortly after midnight on 6 September, the first of the five EffiShunter 1000 locomotives ordered by Trainpoint Norway left the CZ LOKO works in Jihlava heading for Sweden.

On 31 August 2022, Akiem announced that it has ordered in total 65 Vectron AC and Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility.

On 2 September 2022, Alstom has been awarded a contract worth 177 million EUR by Catalonian operator FGC to supply 10 Coradia Stream regional EMUs, along with associated maintenance for a period of 15 years.

Stadler has won its first metro tender in Taiwan.

After an enforced covid break, the InnoTrans fair will take place again after four years.

On 31 August 2022, the RAILPOOL Group took over Nordisk TogTeknikk AS.

The first of Tyne and Wear Metro’s new trains have been built by Stadler and are about to enter a crucial period of testing.