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After being well established in Bulgaria, Smartrons start to operate in Romania now. Bucureşti-based operator E-P Rail has placed an order for four last year, and the first one was handed over to the customer just recently and put in service.
In mid-March 2020, the production of a booster for the Class 2ES6 locomotive was started at the UL plant of Verkhnyaya Pyshma.
On 11 June 2020 Stadler announced that Rhätische Bahn will order 20 additional Capricorn EMUs worth 172.9 million CHF.
Between 14 and 16 June, international passenger services from the Czech Republic in the directions to Austria and Germany were restored, this including the operation of railjet Praha - Wien - Graz services and “Berliner” Praha - Berlin - Hamburg (- Kiel) services. At the same time, this enabled start of one new direct Graz - Wien - Praha - Berlin railjet service.
BLS has started to modernise its Class Re 465 locomotives, which, after about a quarter of a century of operation, will be adapted to another 15 years of service.
In mid-May 2020, 2ES10-167 was finished at UL, becoming the first locomotive of the Class 2ES10 to receive new modular driver's cabs.
On 15 June 2020 AB Transitio has ordered 12 more Class ER1 four-car DOSTO EMUs from Stadler.
On 15 June 2020 Stadler announced it has officially commissioned VolkerFitzpatrick to build a brand new depot at Gosforth, which will accommodate the new trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro, set to enter passenger service from 2023.
Since early 2020 most of the railway and other media were employed by the plans to merge the transport divisions of Alstom and Bombardier. However, what can be the real benefits of this acquisition?
In addition to the ČD Viaggio Comfort cars, six of which are now at various stages of final assembly, Škoda Vagonka also produces the first double deck cars for České dráhy.
The two 2,000 tonne machines - currently being manufactured in Germany - will dig the 10-mile-long Chiltern tunnels from the site next to the M25, to near South Heath in Buckinghamshire.
On 3 June 2020 the Max Bögl group sent a two-section maglev unit of the Transport System Bögl (TSB) with one of the world's largest transport aircraft, Antonov 124-100, to Chengdu.
Following locomotive Re 421 393, which in January and February 2020 was revised at Bellinzona works and rolled out in a historical TEE painting, IRSI now presented a second locomotive in a historical livery.
On 2 June 2020, locomotives 193 205 and 206, which RegioJet hires from ELL, completed the approval runs required for operation in Hungary.