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In the second half of August 2020, a new test programe with a Vectron took place in Austria - this time with 193 780.

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). 

Eurostar today confirms that its London - Amsterdam service will operate fully direct both to and from the Netherlands from 26 October.

On 24 August 2020, UNIPETROL DOPRAVA announced order of four Vectron MS locomotives.

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

On 29 July 2020 Siemens Mobility and Metro Warszawskie have signed a contract for the P4.3 inspection of bogies of Warsaw Inspiro metro trains. 

Following the transport of the first rake of Viaggio Comfort cars from a batch for ČD to the VUZ Velim test centre in late July, the tests were started there.

On 4 and 5 August there were realised test runs of three new Vectrons in Poland.

On 5 August 2020 RegioJet put another locomotive hired from MRCE in service - 193 627.

The second batch of TCDD Velaro high speed trains at half of deliveries.

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.

ODEG leases from Alpha Trains seven Class 4746.3 four-car Desiro ML EMUs for its Ostseeküste-Ost network which it operates under a public service obligation for the PTA Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Siemens Mobility and  SBB Cargo International realised the digital handover of locomotives for the first time: for four Vectrons this has been achieved at the Regensburg works in April 2020.

On 26 July 2020, the first four of the 50 new Viaggio Comfort cars ordered by České dráhy from the Siemens-Škoda consortium were transported from ŠKODA VAGONKA of Ostrava to the VUZ Velim test center for authorisation tests.

In February this year LOTOS Kolej publicly announced that it plans to start operating freight trains under its own license in the Czech Republic. This happened for the first time at the end of June, and regular transports began in July.