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On the PSO line R23 Kolín - Ústí nad Labem, the Sirius EMU has been in test operation with passengers since 5 February 2024, but now it has also appeared on the ŽSR network.

At the beginning of 2024, the plan mentioned last summer that the Class 665 would begin trial operation, not under the umbrella of Leo Express but RegioJet, became a reality.

The plan mentioned last year that the Class 665 EMUs will execute test operation under the RegioJet umbrella has become a reality.

The CRRC-built unit 665.002 is present in Slovakia for the purpose of testing required as part of the approval process for operation on the ŽSR network.

In December 2019, WESTbahn ordered four six-car double-deck EMUs from CRRC ZELC.

On 14 December 2022, RegioJet received its newest TRAXX3 MS locomotives, in this case the last three, 388.216 - 218, of the present batch.

On 26 November 2022, 665.001 arrived in Přerov.

After the first test runs with unit 665.002 on the Správa železnic network took place in September, 665.001 is now on the main line as well.

On 19 September 2022, one of the Sirius EMUs originally ordered by Leo Express from CRRC, undertook test runs on the Správa železnic network.

Upon arrival at the VUZ Velim test centre, the six-car DEMU2 double-deck EMU for WESTBahn started test runs there. 

On 4 May 2022, a CRRC-built double-deck EMU for WESTbahn arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre.

At the end of May, a big celebration was held at the CRRC Zhuzhou works - a rollo-out of the new EMU for WESTbahn.

On 6 April 2018 Bombardier Transportation announced that it had been awarded a contract worth about 3.8 billion SEK (368 million EUR) by Swedish local operator Västtrafik for 40 200 km/h three-car EMUs, with an option for 60 more trains.

In spite of the fact that CRRC claims that the Class 665 approval is to be awarded soon, it will take at least until 2023.

In early 2020 the remaining three CRRC-built Class 443 locomotives arrived by rail to Macedonia.