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Between 15 and 30 June 2020 the cars 3701 and 3501 of the first X-Wagen metro train have been subjected to numerous tests at the RTA Rail Tec Arsenal climatic wind tunnel.

On 31 July 2020 TMH announced that the Dunakeszi works has been selected by MÁV-START for the heavy overhaul and modernisation of 403 coaches.

ODEG leases from Alpha Trains seven Class 4746.3 four-car Desiro ML EMUs for its Ostseeküste-Ost network which it operates under a public service obligation for the PTA Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Today at 5.20 h the first direct RegioJet train service on the Praha - Brno - Wien - Budapest line departed from Praha main station.

On 28 July 2020 locomotive 742.761 was handed over to CER Cargo Holding at the CZ LOKO works in Jihlava.

Iarnród Éireann has ordered a batch of 41 MTU Hybrid-ready PowerPacks. They are to power Class 22000 DMUs from late 2022.

Jerusalem Transportation Masterplan Team (JTMT) has selected CAF to deliver 114 low-floor Urbos trams which will be equipped with traction motors produced by Traktionssysteme Austria.

TMH International, the international subsidiary of the privately-owned Russian rail manufacturing group TMH, celebrates two years of activity on the global railway market.

Siemens Mobility and  SBB Cargo International realised the digital handover of locomotives for the first time: for four Vectrons this has been achieved at the Regensburg works in April 2020.

On 26 July 2020, the first four of the 50 new Viaggio Comfort cars ordered by České dráhy from the Siemens-Škoda consortium were transported from ŠKODA VAGONKA of Ostrava to the VUZ Velim test center for authorisation tests.

Following an interruption due to the coronavirus pandemic on 19 March 2020, FlixTrain will resume its operations on 23 July. We added a couple of new photos taken at Talbot Services.

Škoda Transportation has recently started construction of a new production and testing facility in Plzeň. In 2020 and 2021 the company will invest more than 800 million CZK (around 30 million EUR) in its main premises there.

On 10 July 2020 UL handed over to RZD a ten-car ES2G-131 EMU, the first Lastochka in the MTsD colours.

On 23 July 2020 HS2 revealed the final design for the Chalfont St Peter vent shaft headhouse - the first of four similar structures that will provide ventilation and emergency access to the high-speed rail line’s 10 mile-long Chiltern tunnel.

In February this year LOTOS Kolej publicly announced that it plans to start operating freight trains under its own license in the Czech Republic. This happened for the first time at the end of June, and regular transports began in July.