Transport minister Andrew Constance said the government is seeking expressions of interest from Australia and around the world to transform the hidden station space.
Renfe runs 5,000 trains daily on 7,500 miles of track. In 2017 it moved more than 487 million passengers and 19.6 million tons of freight.
Including future options, training and maintenance, the total value of the contract is around €39 million.
Named Inter7City – a reference to the fact that they will ultimately link Scotland’s seven cities – the revamped HSTs are part of ScotRail’s grand plans to improve services around the country.
HS2 has released concept images of two of its brand new stations: Curzon Street in Birmingham and Interchange in Solihull.
Around 45 per cent of the tram will be covered in large windows. Six passenger information screens will feature inside as will USB charging points - a first in France.
Once completed in 2020, the redeveloped Glasgow Queen Street station will provide extended platforms for longer trains of up to eight carriages and an expanded concourse with more circulation space.
APTA and UITP will strive to work together on areas of mutual benefit to their respective memberships to maximise the value of their services.
Chris Grayling said the line, which will link Oxford and Cambridgeshire via Bicester, Milton Keynes and Bedford, will "transform journeys in one of Europe's most vibrant economic regions".
Brand new carriages will no longer be coming to the Caledonian Sleeper's Lowland service between London, Glasgow and Edinburgh this month as originally planned.
The standards and protocols that help ensure the different companies across the UK's railway work safely as a system will remain after Brexit, according to the rail industry body RSSB.
Railtex, the UK’s premier rail industry exhibition, returns to Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre from May 14-16, 2019.
