Some recent rail news:
In mid-March Alstom officially announced the completion of its first ‘Prima T8’ (WAG 12) two-section electric high power locomotive for the Indian Railways. According to the contract, the French company will manufacture and maintain a total of 800 (!) such locomotives. The locomotive design, which will be produced in this new factory in Madhepura has been specially adapted for the Indian railway network.
http://railcolornews.com/2018/04/08/in-its-blue-and-big-the-wag-12-is-alstoms-9-mw-prima-for-india/
And sure won’t be ordering a hundred trainsets (of any scale) from my bank account.
“FRANCE: Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has said that the government is to place a firm order with Alstom ‘by the end of June’ for 100 TGV trainsets. He was addressing a press conference on March 22 to update progress on the merger of Siemens Mobility and Alstom.
These would be the first build of a next generation of high speed trainset being developed under the ‘TGV of the future’ programme launched by Alstom and SNCF in September 2016.”