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On 24 October 2022, a presentation of the new brand and offer of night travel - ČD Night - took place at Praha main station.

On 19 October 2022 at the Praha depot ČD took delivery of the last two of the planned ten Vectrons from the RSL. 

On 7 October 2022, a symbolic launch of the six-month trial operation of the 80-91 005 ČD non-powered multiple unit equipped with mobile signal repeater technology took place at the main railway station in Prague.

After four years of enforced hiatus, the InnoTrans is taking place again.

One of the contracts currently being carried out by PESA are two-car Class 847 DMUs for Czech Railways.

On 20 June 2022, an InterJet rake was exceptionally deployed on the EC 141/140 „Ostravan“ Praha - Žilina and Žilina - Praha services.

On 12 May 2022, the ceremonial handover of the Class 362 WTB locomotive with the on-board ETCS took place at Masaryk station in Praha.

On 11 May 2022, Coradia iLint 654 101 was transported from Germany to the Czech Republic via Děčín.

ČD took over and put into service another of the Vectrons, which they are gradually hiring from the Slovak company Rolling Stock Lease this year.

In 2021, ČD ordered in two contracts a total of 66 two-car DMUs from PESA, intended primarily for regional transport in various Czech regions.

In early April, as planned, the R3 repair of ČD’s CityElefant 471.060 was completed in DPOV Přerov.

On 31 March 2022, ČD signed a contract with Siemens Mobility Česká republika (Czech Republic) for the purchase of 50 Vectron MS locomotives with a maximum operating speed of 230 km/h.

On 22 - 24 March 2022, ČD together with Siemens Mobility carried out a practical verification of the Vectron - railjet communication. 

The Russian aggression against Ukraine, launched in the early hours of 24 February 2022, has also resulted in a humanitarian crisis in the invaded country.

On 24 February 2022, an InterJet rake of ČD was used for the first time out of its regularly diagrammed workings