China: At the end of April, the city of Qingdao inaugurated the first section of metro line 6, which is equipped to enable the highest grade of automation, GoA4.
Germany: According to the manufacturer, the delay is caused by the necessity to refine the battery module and software.
USA: The transportation administration DART started testing a fleet of eight diesel trains on a 54.7 line between Fort Worth and Dallas.
Hungary: The global leader in the rolling stock market has signed respective agreements with Acemil, Hungary, as part of Xi Jinping’s visit to the country.
Tanzania: The trainset, consisting of an electric locomotive by Hyundai Rotem and passenger coaches by Sung Shin RST, has made its inaugural test run.
India: The inaugural Vande Bharat Metro has been built by Rail Coach Factory (RCF) Kapurthala, a coach manufacturing unit of Indian Railways.
Italy: The first out of 20 four-axle vehicles ordered in 2022 was delivered to the freight operator Mercitalia Rail, part of the national railway company FS.
Switzerland: The operator Appenzeller Bahnen AG started testing the NOVA Smartsense system on a 66-year-old car, which runs on a two km rack-and-pinion narrow-gauge Rheineck–Walzenhausen line.
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
