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In late April 2020 PESA announced that it was awarded an authorisation for its Class DP6 (Type 760M) DMU for Belarusskaya Chygunka.

In late April 2020 PESA announced that it was awarded an EBA authorisation for its Class 633 LINK DMU for DB produced for the Allgäu region.

On 4 May 2020 Siemens Mobility announced that in March 2020, DSB has ordered eight Vectron AC locomotives. One of them will be 1,000th Vectron.

The new HS2 station, to be built near Solihull and the NEC in the West Midlands, has become the first railway station globally to achieve the BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ certification.

On 18 March 2020, the locomotive 163.022 was handed over to ČD Cargo, which was the first of the operator’s 3 kV DC Class 163 to be equipped with the on-board ETCS.

After receiving all the official approvals, Voith successfully completed the acquisition of ELIN Motoren GmbH on 30 April 2020.

On 30 April 2020 it was announced that Bombardier Transportation and Trenitalia have signed a new contract for integrated logistics services to support the fleet of the Class ETR 500 high-speed trains.

On 30 April 2020, Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand, Bangkok Expressway and Metro Public Company Limited and CH. Karnchang Public Co. have officially started full passenger service for the Blue Line Extension.

On 29 April 2020 MPK Kraków has ordered further TANGO Lajkonik trams from Stadler - a framework agreement worth around 114 million EUR for up to 60 new trams has been signed. On the same day two contracts for the delivery of 10 and 25 vehicles were confirmed, worth totaling 293 million PLN.

JHMD is currently completing the repair of the diesel railcar M 27.004, which was damaged in April 2018 by a head-on collision with a tractor in the Včelnička station.

The first of the two prototype carriages built at TVZ in 2019 arrived on 24 March 2020 in the port of Alexandria. 

On 24 April 2020 Siemens Mobility announced that it has been awarded a contract from Sacramento Regional Transit for 20 Type S700 trams.

On 16 April 2020 PKP Cargo published tender for five multi-system locomotives. This is the last of the PKP Cargo’s batches of those vehicles, for which 50 % of the purchase price is to be supported by EU’s Cohesion funds through the POIiŚ (Program Operacyjny Infrastruktura i Środowisko - OP Infrastructure and Environment), supporting purchase of technics for intermodal transport in Poland.

A 1,520 mm gauge Evolution, the GE-built demonstrator, also visited Poland. This diesel locomotive paid a visit from Kazakhstan to Poland in 2015, for evaluation by PKP LHS, the subsidiary responsible for operation of the freight-only, non-electrified 1,520 mm gauge 394 km Line 65. The visit took place in May and June 2015, following almost a 5,500 km long journey.

On 24 April 2020, Správa železnic signed an agreement with SNCF on the provision of services in preparation for the construction of high-speed lines in the Czech Republic.