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On 5 October 2023 the UK’s first battery powered trains made their maiden trip from the new station at Headbolt Lane in Kirkby.
Despite all the efforts to electrify the German rail network, many regional lines will remain without catenary in the future, as this investment is not worthwhile everywhere.
On 21 August 2023 Alstom and the Central Saxony transport authority VMS (Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen) presented in Chemnitz the first battery-powered train developed by Alstom.
On 27 June 2023, Hitachi announced that "first battery train in Europe completes phase one roll out".
On 21 July 2023, ÖBB concluded a tender for a framework contract for up to 120 BEMUs for its Cityjet category.
On 6 July 2023 Mayor Steve Rotheram has announced that the first of the Liverpool City Region’s new publicly owned Class 777 battery powered trains will begin final testing on the network.
On 21 June 2023, LTG Link and Stadler signed a contract for the delivery of FLIRTs.
After only one-and-a-half years of construction, Siemens Mobility opened on 19 June 2023 a new depot in Offenburg together with SWEG.
Passengers travelling to and from this year’s Aintree Festival and Grand National will get the chance to travel on one of the Liverpool City Region’s new trains as they begin the next stage of their phased roll out on the Ormskirk line of the Merseyrail network.
Utah State University (USU), the ASPIRE Engineering Research Center and Stadler signed on 15 February 2023 a contract to develop and test a battery-powered passenger train.
On 7 February 2023, Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) has opted for three two-car Mireo Plus B battery trains from Siemens Mobility for their Upper and Lower Westerwald railway pilot project in Rheinland-Pfalz.
Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram has hailed on Monday 23 January 2023 as a “massive day, not just for our area, but for the entire country” as the first of the region’s new 500 million GBP trains came into passenger service for the first time.
Last Stadler-built unit exhibited in Berlin we describe is Class 777 for Merseyrail network.
Another Stadler exhibit was the BEMU FLIRT AKKU 526 007 built for NAH.SH (Nahverkehrsverbund Schleswig-Holstein),