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In early October, Škoda Vagonka of Ostrava finished a bodyshell for the first car of the new Warsaw metro train.

Metrovagonmash (MVM) developed a new version of the metro cars, Models 81-775/776/777, which are expected to be built for Moskovsky Metropoliten (Moskva metro) between 2020 and 2023.

On 8 October 2020, Bombardier Transportation unveiled the next-generation design of its MOVIA metros for two of Singapore’s longest Mass Rapid Transit Lines.

Before the new metro Line 3 in Sofia went into operation on 26 August 2020, Vossloh gave the newly-laid rails an initial grinding to prepare them for service.

On 4 October 2020, Stadler took on 120 staff from Nexus and assumed responsibility for looking after the Tyne and Wear Metro fleet.

On 28 September 2020 Bombardier Transportation announced that it has signed a new contract with Singapore’s rail operator, SMRT Train Ltd, to provide 10-years of long-term service support for 636 MOVIA metro cars currently in delivery for the North-South and East-West Lines.

On 16 September 2020, Nexus, the public body which owns and manages the Tyne and Wear Metro, has revealed colour scheme for its new 362 million GBP train fleet, as Nexus launches a major public consultation on its interior design. 

On 7 September 2020 Bombardier Transportation announced that its Chinese joint venture, Changchun Bombardier Railway Vehicles Company Ltd. (CBRC), has signed a contract with CRRC Changchun to manufacture 390 metro cars for Harbin Metro Line 2 Phase 1 and Line 3 Phase 2.

On 3 September 2020 Bombardier Transportation announced that it will upgrade the communication systems on 92 three-car MOVIA metro trainsets for Singapore’s Downtown Mass Rapid Transit line.

On 26 August 2020 Siemens Mobility's Inspiro trains and Trainguard MT systems have gone into passenger service on Line 3 of the Sofia metro (Metropoliten EAD, MEAD). 

On 24 August 2020 Bombardier Transportation announced that it has completed the local assembly work on the first of the batch of 27 driverless INNOVIA Metro 300 trains ordered in October 2017 for the Kelana Jaya Light Rail Transit line in Kuala Lumpur.

On 19 August 2020 the first three new Type G1 metro trains started regular passenger service on the U1 line in Nürnberg.

Between 15 and 30 June 2020 the cars 3701 and 3501 of the first X-Wagen metro train have been subjected to numerous tests at the RTA Rail Tec Arsenal climatic wind tunnel.

On 6 July 2020 Bombardier Transportation announced that it has received a Letter of Award (LoA) from India’s Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation (UPMRC) to build and deliver 201 metro cars and a signalling solution for the Agra-Kanpur Metro projects.

On 3 July 2020 representatives of Wien, Wiener Linien and Siemens Mobility unveiled the first X-Wagen cars of the new metro generation at the Siemens Simmering works.