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Alstom Celebrates Entry Into Service of France’s First Two Battery-Powered Regional Trains

Posted on 2, September 2026 by EuropaWire PR Editor

(IN BRIEF) Alstom, SNCF Voyageurs and five French regions have begun commercial operation of France’s first two battery-powered regional trains as part of a national programme worth more than €41 million. Occitanie’s first battery train entered service on the Nîmes–Vauvert … Read the full press release →

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