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Full fleet Of 27 Hydrogen Trains On German Network Will Not Be Deployed Until 2026 — More Than Three Years Late

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Hydrogen Insight.

This is the sub-heading.

Full fleet of 27 hydrogen trains on German network will not be deployed until 2026 — more than three years late
The Alstom fuel-cell trains were ordered back in 2019 in a €500m contract and were supposed to be fully operational in December 2022… but problems have persisted.

To read the rest of the article, I need to register, but from this article, for my argument, I only only need the fact that the trains are three years late.

But the introduction of hydrogen buses into service hasn’t been without its problems  in the UK and projects have been dropped.

So have Alstom decided to take a closer control of the technology to bring this flagship project on track? Hence the deal, I talked about in Alstom And Cummins Make A Deal On Hydrogen Rail Technology.

Will the del also breathe new life into the agreement I talked about in Alstom And Eversholt Rail Sign An Agreement For The UK’s First Ever Brand-New Hydrogen Train Fleet?

This is Alstom’s visualisation of the Hydrogen Aventra.

But I certainly think, that a multinational hydrogen-tri-mode train built in Derby by a French-owned company on a proven and reliable 125 mph platform, with German fuel cells, running on Cheshire hydrogen, through spectacular Welsh countryside could be an easy proposition to sell to Fat Controllers.

April 18, 2026 - Posted by AnonW | Hydrogen, Transport/Travel | Alstom, Alstom Hydrogen Aventra, Aventra, Coradia iLint, Cummins, Eversholt Rail Group