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On 7 July 2020 Škoda Transportation signed an agreement to purchase a 100 % share in EKOVA ELECTRIC of Ostrava.

Bombardier Transportation announced today that it has signed a four-year maintenance contract with Norwegian transport operator Vy Tåg AB to maintain its Night Train fleet in Sweden.

Among other recent innovations, like the first Granit with the new driver’s cabs and the first three-section Sinara, UL is at present preparing also a new, more powerful electric locomotive - Class 2ES6A.

On 2 July 2020 Penzadizelmash of Penza received a certificate of compliance of RS FZhT for batch production of Type GPP-840 traction generators.

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 at Pardubice České dráhy presented a prototype of the modernisation of the Class Bymee carriage to the Class Bdmtee car.

On 2 July 2020 ČD presented the prototype of the future batch modernisation of Class 810 diesel railcars destined for the Moravian-Silesian Region (Moravskoslezský kraj, MSK).

On 30 June 2020 Siemens handed over to the customer 383.065, the last one of the Vectron MS locomotives that EP Cargo Invest has ordered so far.

Following the container wagons, the Nymburk-based NYMWAG CS works recently launched production of tank wagons.

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.

After the first C2 metro train from the first option in 2016 entered service in May, SWM has also called up the second and final options for 22 six-car metro trains from Siemens.

TE Connectivity has begun offering a new type of signal wire and cable for a variety of railway applications. It performs to a high level, reduces energy consumption and takes up less space, all at the same time.

On the morning of 30 June 2020 VAG’s final modernised GT6N tram (1014) returned from IFTEC Leipzig.

Voith will produce electrical equipment for a batch of 18 new HeiterBlick-built trams for Würzburg.

On 2 July 2020, one of those two TRAXX MS3 locomotives from the ČD Cargo order, which recently started test operation, took its very first freight train. So far the machines only run light on the public network.