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Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
Efforts to increase train speeds continue unabated, with new countries, such as Russia, joining the exclusive club of manufacturers.
Germany: The three-car ForCity Plus 47T, assembled in Plzeň, is 29 m long, 2.4 m wide and 70% low-floor.
Germany: The city operator BVG has commenced testing the inaugural nine-car tram, which Alstom delivered under the contract signed in 2020.
Germany, Czechia: The Czech manufacturer has produced the inaugural ForCity Smart 38T tram, measuring 58.7 m in length.
Germany: As Tagesspiegel cites Alstom’s employees, the company’s Görlitz and Hennigsdorf plants for tram, metro, MU projects are threatened with closure.
EU: The German-based rail consultancy estimates 2023 deliveries of intercity and night trains in continental Europe at €570 mln and locomotives at €90 mln.
Germany: The four-car train was presented to the media at the plant in Salzgitter, Germany, where another three vehicles are being assembled.
Germany: Under the contract, signed with the public transport operator SWU, 18 Avenio M trams, produced in 2018–2023, are to be expanded from five to seven cars.