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The HÜBNER Group will soon deliver the first gangway systems for the new trams of the Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (KVG).

On 16 June 2025, the Škoda 46T trams began operating with passengers in Frankfurt (Oder).

On 2 July 2025, Škoda Group signed a contract to supply up to 30 trams to the city of Mainz.

Škoda Group and ARRIVA vlaky signed a contract for the delivery of 22 new Type Škoda 26Ev EMUs.

On 20 June 2025, Dopravní podnik hl. m. Prahy (DPP) and Škoda Group began a test operation of the Škoda ForCity Plus 52T tram with passengers.

Less in the spotlight are VR‘s Class Dm12 diesel railcars that were delivered between 2004 and 2006 by the then ČKD Vagonka, the Czech Republic

Almost exactly one year later, Praha main station experienced another milestone in the ComfortJet project: while on 9 April 2024 the first train, the then temporarily configured eight-car unit, was officially presented here for the first time, on 14 April 2025 the complete nine-car unit ran from the same station for its first passenger service.

A total of 12 nearly 60 m long trams are being produced at Plzeň works, and now the first Škoda ForCity Smart 38T from batch production is ready to depart for the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan area.

In November 2020, the first six-car double-deck push-pull train with Class 102 locomotive began test operation with passengers.

For Kassel, from Kassel: The HÜBNER Group will supply gangway systems and other components for 22 new Škoda 50T trams that will be in service in Kassel from 2027.

On 12 December 2024, Škoda Group and Tampereen Raitiotie signed a contract for the delivery of seven new four-car bi-directional ForCity Smart Artic X34 trams and one additional module to extend one of the existing three-car trams.

Two ComfortJet units are now present in the VUZ test centre.

On 27 January 2025, the Škoda Group presented the first ForCity Plus 52T tram destined for Praha to representatives of DPP and the media.

Since September, ComfortJet NMUs have been deployed on the SC 240/241 "Košičan" Prague - Ostrava - Košice and EC 178/175 and EC 176/177 "Berliner" Prague - Berlin - Prague services.

Following the transfer of all four Class 690 RegioPanter BEMUs to Bohumín on 28 November 2024, their handover to České dráhy took place the next day.