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On 21 December 2021, České dráhy ordered another 31 three-car RegioPanter EMUs from Škoda Transportation.

On 17 December 2021, PESA signed another order for DMUs for Czech Railways.

On 9 December 2021, the first of the four Tauruses purchased by ČD from WLC was put into passenger service.

Between 21 and 24 September 2021, the 14th TRAKO trade fair was held in Gdańsk.

Between 21 and 24 September 2021, the 14th TRAKO trade fair was held in Gdańsk.

On 29 September 2021, locomotives 1216 951 - 954, which ČD bought from Wiener Lokalbahn Cargo, arrived in the Czech Republic. 

The four Type ES64U4 Eurosprinters which ČD decided to acquire from Wiener Lokalbahnen Cargo are being prepared for a handover to their new owner. 

On 19 August 2021, the Czech infrastructure manager Správa železnic signed a contract with Siemens Mobility Czech Republic for the purchase of a Vectron multi-system locomotive.

In December 2018, ČD purchased 12 Class 646 DMUs from DB Regio. 

On 12 August 2021, ČD announced that the ten Vectrons leased from ELL had already reached a mileage of approximately 10 million kilometres.

Between 21 and 28 June 2021, a shortened four-car Viaggio Comfort test rake underwent trials in Hungary.

On 24 June 2021, a festive presentation of a new double-deck push-pull set for ČD, one of five, which will run in the Moravian-Silesian region, took place.

The four-car ČD's InterJet rake continues its foreign testing.

The first non-traction unit from the batch of ten Viaggio Comfort trains for ČD, which were named InterJet by the operator in May this year, has started the previously announced tests in Hungary. 

Under this name, on 4 May 2021, a presentation of the recent achievements of the project, launched last year, aimed at doubling the production capacity of the Škoda Vagonka works, took place in Ostrava.