China: A fleet of 4 four-car CINOVA2.0 trains with a maximum speed of 200 km/h have entered service in the province of Hubei.
India: The first 16-car train was built at a plant in Kapurthala belonging to the national operator Indian Railways.
Ghana: The two-car Regio160 train was delivered from the site in Bydgoszcz, Poland, to one of the largest Ghanaian ports, Tema, in just 1.5 months.
UK: In a test run in March, a prototype train travelled 138 km from Long Marston to Honeybourne on battery power alone and without recharging.
India: In Chennai, the production unit Integral Coach Factory (ICF), part of the national operator Indian Railways, manufactured 1,091 cars for electric and diesel trains from April 2023 to March 2024.
South Korea: A fleet of 20 eight-car trains started running on the 35 km route of the GTX-A express commuter line, which includes four stations.
Poland: The producer has announced that it will provide operators with a free software licence for the Impuls EMUs control system along with the right to sublicence.
Brief overview of key events and news in the rail rolling stock markets.
USA: In mid-March, the US DOD’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) selected a company to develop a concept for building a railway infrastructure on Earth’s satellite.
