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With under two months to go before the formal inauguration of the high speed line between Pola de Lena and La Robla, under the Cordillera Cantábrica, the final stage of testing arrived early in the mornings of 26 and 27 September, the days of simulated evacuations.

Vossloh and DB Netz are continuing their successful cooperation in the field of preventive rail maintenance with the HSG (High Speed Grinding) technology developed by Vossloh.

At its Planning Committee meeting on 6 September, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council approved HS2’s plans for the Balsall Common Viaduct.

ZF plans to bring its track monitoring to the market next year.

There is no point in running a test freight train unless it carries a commercial payload. Such was the case when the final session of verification testing started on the new high speed line between Pola de Lena and La Robla on 1 September 2023.

On 22 August 2023 ŽSR officially launched operation of its new DV NDT diagnostic unit.

On 8 August 2023 HS2 confirmed that ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ - the two giant tunnelling machines digging HS2’s longest tunnels - have reached the Little Missenden ventilation shaft, more than three quarters of the way through their 10 mile drive under the Chilterns.

Part of the exhibition of Procházka MP was two-road vehicles of the Italian company Zephir, which it represents on the Czech and Slovak markets.

On 4 August 2023 HS2 revealed a new spoil conveyor designed to take around 70,000 lorry journeys off Buckinghamshire’s roads.

In late June 2023 the BBL LOGISTIK group and Vossloh Rolling Stock signed a purchase contract for ten low-emission Type DE 18 Stage V locomotives. 

On 3 July 2023, following an invitation to tender issued in December 2022, Adif announced that it had ordered a diagnostics train from CAF.

On 23 June 2023, HS2’s landmark super-hub station celebrated a key milestone as it marked two years of permanent construction.

The electrification of Caltrain has reached another major milestone: on 6 June 2023 it was announced that electric trains operated under power from the overhead line for the first time.

On 24 May 2023 HS2 Ltd has received Schedule 17 approval for a 150-metre section of viaduct carrying trains into Birmingham’s new Curzon Street Station, including a 25-metre-high truss which will create a new icon on the city’s skyline.

A major milestone in HS2’s plan to cut carbon emissions by removing lorries from roads.