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On 8 November 2021, the first Artic X54 tram started passenger service at HKL.

On 14 December, the contract for ten TRAMLINKs as well as the supply of spare parts and maintenance over a period of ten years was signed between ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam and Stadler.

In September 2021, ZF started delivery of the new Type EcoMet axle gearboxes for CRRC Puzhen.

On 9 December 2021, TSA announced that it was contracted by CAF to design and manufacture traction motors for 28 Civity Nordic regional trains ordered by AB Transitio.

On 13 December 2021, VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft ordered 14 more Avenio trams.

After 46 years of operations, the Class SGM Sprinter EMUs have been withdrawn from commercial operations at NS on 11 December 2021.

Since July 2020, Strabag and Swietelsky-Slovakia carried out the modernisation of the OŽ line (Ozubnicová železnica, Rack and pinion railway) in Vysoké Tatry. On 23 July 2021, the Special Construction Office of the Slovak Ministry of the Interior issued a permit for "early use of the line - for test runs".

On 10 December 2021, ERA issued a type approval for TRAXX MS3 locomotives in the version equipped for operation in Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

On 29 November 2021, MÁV-START started a test passenger service on a new train-tram system in southern Hungary, connecting the cities of Szeged and Hódmezővásárhely by using the Szeged - Békéscsaba railway line as a train between them and in Szeged and Hódmezővásárhely working as a tramway, using the local tram lines.

On 9 December 2021, the first of the four Tauruses purchased by ČD from WLC was put into passenger service.

On 9 December 2021, HS2 Ltd confirmed that a Hitachi/Alstom JV has been awarded the contracts to build Britain’s next generation of high speed trains at their factories in Derby and County Durham.

On 8 December 2021, TMH Germany celebrated the arrival of the first train of contract partner Go-Ahead Bayern at the newly-built maintenance facility in Langweid am Lech.

Since 6 December 2021, NS started to gradually reintroduce its Class DDZ double deck sets in regular service.

In August 2021, Siemens Mobility and Stadtwerke München (SWM) successfully completed a one-year test of semiconductor technology based on silicon carbide (SiC) in an Avenio tram in München.

On 4 November 2021, Alstom Ferroviaria was announced the winner of the tender for the supply of 20 EMUs for Romania, with an option for 17 more.