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After the four cars from the first shortened, six-car ComfortJet test set were transported from VUZ Velim test circuit to Austria on 10 November 2023, they already started the tests on the ÖBB network.

On 7 November 2023, ČD ordered another 30 RegioFox DMUs, worth over 3 billion CZK (over 120 million EUR).

Less than two weeks after its presentation to ČD representatives at the Siemens Mobility plant in München, the first completed ComfortJet driving trailer was transferred to the VUZ Velim Test Centre.

The Siemens Mobility - Škoda Transportation consortium continues the work on the contract for twenty ComfortJet units.

On 11 September 2023, the first ComfortJet for ČD arrived at Velim.

On 15 August 2023, first two ČD's Class 847 DMUs started test operation with passengers.

On 12 August 2023, a meeting of Class E 499.0 (140) locomotives took place in the ČD Museum's Olomouc depot.

The Czech network will start to see Class 242 locomotives in a previously unusual blue paint.

The Škoda Group is finalizing the first non-traction multiple unit (NMU) ComfortJet at its Škoda Vagonka plant in Ostrava.

CZ LOKO, which won the contract for the complete modernization of 14 Class 742 locomotives to the EffiShunter 1000M type, handed over the first of them to ČD on 27 June 2023.

The first of the EffiShunter 1000M locomotives for ČD has completed a test run.

PESA is currently working on several contracts for both České dráhy and RegioJet.

On 3 March 2023, the two Vectron AC DPM locomotives ordered by ČD Cargo were delivered to the latter’s České Budějovice depot.

On 1 March 2023 Škoda Group announced that  production of new trains will return to the Šumperk works.

Currently, the first DMU of the new Class 847 for ČD is being tested on the IK OETD circuit.