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No, it's not about a new music festival at the VUZ Velim test centre, but about a new Trenitalia EDMU, which arrived in the Czech Republic on 6 April 2021.

On 25 March 2021, OVK (UWC) and VIK of Ulan-Ude announced a contract for the supply of 40 Model 13-6852-02 flat wagons for transporting timber materials.

On 5 April 2021, Metrovagonmash and Tashkent Metro signed a contract for the delivery of 40 Model 81-765.5/766.5/767.5 metro cars for the Uzbek capital.

Kolomensky zavod is implementing a project to increase the volume of diesel engine repairs.

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 reason is the loss of a key end customer, the toy producer Lego, as the majority of a train capacity was used by DB Schenker for the latter’s shipments between factories and warehouses in Denmark and the Czech Republic, which participate in production.

On 1 April 2021, Subterra ordered an EffiShunter 1000 locomotive.

Škoda Vagonka continues with the project of five push-pull double deck rakes for ČD.

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.

In recent months, the prototypes of new Model 61-4523 and 61-4524 sleeping cars built by Tversky vagonostroitelny zavod were tested.

From 10 May 2021 it is planned that OUIGO España will start its open access high speed passenger services between Madrid and Barcelona.

With the start o the new 2021 timetable, on 13 March 2021, new Class E131 EMUs entered commercial service in Chiba prefecture.

On 21 December 2020, Class E235-1000 EMUs started commercial services on Yokosuka-Sobu Rapid Line.

Škoda Vagonka continues with the project of five push-pull double-deck rakes for ČD, intended for services in Moravskoslezský kraj.

Following previous tests at the Wegberg-Wildenrath centre, the new CRRC ZELC-built locomotive, arrived in the Czech Republic on 17 March 2021.