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In early January 2022, Stadler Rail completed the first of 22 EUROLIGHT locomotives ordered by Spanish infrastructure manager Adif in October 2019.

WINDHOFF is currently executing a major SBB order for a total of 35 Class Tm 234-4 multi-purpose vehicles. The details of this contract, as well as the innovative approach of the manufacturer, are described in the following article.

The prospect of high-speed journeys adding extra capacity into the rail network, and helping to close the distances between towns and cities in the Midlands and North, took a giant leap forward on 24 January 2022 as the Bill for the Crewe - Manchester extension of the HS2 network was submitted to Parliament.

On 17 January 2022, HS2 Ltd confirmed that TK Elevator has been awarded the framework to deliver around 300 lifts and escalators for the four major new stations being built as part of the HS2 high speed rail project.

Historical step for the railway development in the Budapest metropolitan region.

On 6 January 2022, HS2 revealed the first images of the longest of three innovative ‘green tunnels’ that will be built across Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire.

Sinara Transportnye Mashiny established a new Railway Infrastructure Division, the main task of which will be the development and provision of various services for the infrastructure of RZD and other customers.

In late October 2021, experts of STM arrived in the Republic of India and started the works on the assembly of RTM-32 Work Site Tampers.

On 21 - 23 October 2021, Vectron 193 901, which was purchased from Siemens by Správa železnic, was transported from München to the Czech Republic.

On 30 September 2021, HS2 was celebrating a literal milestone as ‘Florence’ - the first of ten Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) on Phase One - completed her first mile of tunnel for the UK’s new high speed railway.

On 14 September, HS2 has revealed the colossal logistics operation that is taking place at HS2’s logistics hub near Willesden Junction.

On 2 September 2021, HS2 Ltd  announced the start of a major refurbishment project to restore the Grade 1 listed Old Curzon Street Station in Birmingham.

On 31 August 2021, Siemens Mobility has signed a contract with the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) to deliver a comprehensive rail system that will feature the first ever high speed line in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

On 19 August 2021, the Czech infrastructure manager Správa železnic signed a contract with Siemens Mobility Czech Republic for the purchase of a Vectron multi-system locomotive.