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On 23 June 2002 Siemens Mobility announced that Amtrak has ordered an additional 50 Chargers.

The first of Avanti West Coast’s new fleet of trains has entered static testing at Hitachi Rail’s Newton Aycliffe factory in the North East of England.

On 20 June 2022, the CAF Group has achieved further success in France on being selected to supply the new fleet of trams for Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole.

Since 16 June 2022, RegioJet runs twice a day to Wien Schwechat Airport.

On 20 June 2022, an InterJet rake was exceptionally deployed on the EC 141/140 „Ostravan“ Praha - Žilina and Žilina - Praha services.

On 20 June 2022, HS2 Ltd. has been granted planning permission by Birmingham City Council for two viaducts which will take the new high speed railway into Curzon Street Station in the city centre.

On 13 June 2022, London North Eastern Railway (LNER), as part of essential maintenance work, has unveiled a new livery for its InterCity 225 fleet.  

As part of the approval of the PKP CARGO’s Class ET43 for operation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, test runs with ET43-001 were carried out this April on the Czech public network after previous tests on the VUZ Velim test centre (from late 2020). After that, Dragon returned to Velim again and then headed to Slovakia in early June.

The research project „Automatisiert fahrende Regionalzüge in Niedersachsen“ (Automated regional trains in Lower Saxony) is entering the next...

DB and SBB are further expanding the range of international passenger services between Switzerland and Germany.

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG's Italian multi-purpose terminal “Piattaforma Logistica Trieste” (HHLA PLT Italy) is expanding its intermodal offering.

HS2 announced the start of construction at the site of its first innovative ‘green tunnel’, designed to blend the high speed railway into the landscape and reduce disruption for communities.

Škoda is continuing the order for Type 16Ev EMUs for Pasažieru vilciens.

Upon arrival at the VUZ Velim test centre, the six-car DEMU2 double-deck EMU for WESTBahn started test runs there. 

The world’s first all-electric, high-capacity drilling rig is carrying out work on an HS2 construction site in Warwickshire.