Bulgaria: The country's Ministry of Transport and Communications will change some specifications and qualification criteria following the cancellation of three of the four tenders announced in May, which attracted virtually no interest from global manufacturers.
Azerbaijan: The train was presented at a station in Baku.
Italy, Switzerland: The trains started operation on the 41 km Brig–Domodossola line.
UK: Glasgow's only metro line has received its first two four-car trainsets. This was three years later than the expected debut due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Switzerland: The manufacturer has published a video of a single-deck four-car train departing from the production site in Bussnang to the Erlen commissioning centre.
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Kazakhstan: This was announced by Nurlan Sauranbayev, CEO of the Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, KTZ.
Sweden: The first three-car X15p train began operating on 31 October. By the end of the year, another 22 of these trains will also start service.
UK: In his meeting with Markus Bernsteiner, CEO of the Stadler Group, the Mayor of Liverpool, Steve Rotheram, talked about the need to pay for the downtime of the trains.