{"id":480417,"date":"2025-10-07T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480417\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:46:13","slug":"germanys-27-regions-to-align-train-designs-and-buy-in-bulk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/480417\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s 27 regions to align train designs and buy in bulk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Germany\u2019s 27 regional transport authorities have agreed to buy future regional and S-Bahn trains based on shared technical standards \u2014 a move designed to lower costs, simplify maintenance, and speed up delivery. The plan, formalised in a September charter, could reshape how Europe\u2019s largest passenger rail market procures new trains.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Frolling-stock%2F2025%2F10%2F07%2Fgermanys-27-regions-to-align-train-designs-and-buy-in-bulk%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s 27 regional transport authorities have agreed to buy future regional and S-Bahn trains based on shared technical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[159460,159461,25473,2000,299,1824,7061,159462,83387,159463],"class_list":{"0":"post-480417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-allianz-pro-schiene","9":"tag-bag-spnv","10":"tag-deutschlandticket","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-procurement","15":"tag-regional-trains","16":"tag-rolling-stock","17":"tag-vdb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115332958471478162","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}