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On 31 August 2021, Siemens Mobility has signed a contract with the National Authority for Tunnels (NAT) to deliver a comprehensive rail system that will feature the first ever high speed line in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
On 26 August 2021, the first two Vectrons of the second batch ordered by METRANS left München.
On 19 August 2021, the Czech infrastructure manager Správa železnic signed a contract with Siemens Mobility Czech Republic for the purchase of a Vectron multi-system locomotive.
On 19 August 2021, RAILPOOL has ordered 20 Vectron MS locomotives from Siemens Mobility.
Under the complete name CZT CZTrain, based in Praha, a new lessor of a modern traction in the Czech Republic was established.
On 12 August 2021, ČD announced that the ten Vectrons leased from ELL had already reached a mileage of approximately 10 million kilometres.
On 16 May 2021, switching tests between the 15 kV 16.7 Hz and 3 kV DC voltages took place at the border crossing station Spielfeld-Strass with a railjet rake and Taurus and Vectron locomotives.
On 29 June 2021, Siemens Mobility and Paribus Rail Investment Management have signed a framework purchase agreement and a full-service contract for up to 30 Vectron Dual Mode locomotives.
The first non-traction unit from the batch of ten Viaggio Comfort trains for ČD, which were named InterJet by the operator in May this year, has started the previously announced tests in Hungary.
ITL Eisenbahngesellschaft (a Captrain Deutschland subsidiary and therefore part of SNCF) is another user of a Type Vectron Dual Mode. On 18 May 2021 it took over 248 008, the first of the two on order.
On 6 May 2021, the FRACHTbahn’s first locomotive branded in the corporate design was symbolically “christened”.
On 13 April 2021, Primol-Rail has renewed its safety certificate for rail transport, valid until February 2026.
In October 2019, FRACHTbahn Traktion (Freight Railway Traction) of Wien was established, whose founders were the Austrian entrepreneurs Hans Peter Haselsteiner and Erhard Grossnigg, who had previously founded WESTbahn in 2008.
The polish Industrial Division (CARGOUNIT) vehicle pool received the first three of the five Vectrons it has ordered. They arrived in Poland on 18 March and were handed over to Bahnoperator Polska on the 31st of the month.