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On 16 April 2020 OVK (UWC) announced it has signed a contract with Dessa, a leasing company on the transportation services market, for the supply of an additional batch of 20 new generation 60-foot flat wagons for the timber.
Škoda Vagonka continues to build a batch of five three-car push-pull trains for ČD, which were ordered on 29 March 2019.
Between 20 and 23 April 2020, two turnouts are being installed at the Prosenice station (near Přerov), which enable trains to run at a speed of 160 km/h to the diverging path.
Following the prototype 742.711, taken over by the operator on 30 July 2019, CZ LOKO started deliveries of a batch of 50 Type EffiShunter 1000-M modernised diesel locomotives.
NS has started the tendering process, based on EU legislation, for a new generation of double deck trains. The process is starting with a market consulting to the industries which is part of pre-selecting potential suppliers.
At SBB there remain the last three green-painted Class Re 4/4 electric locomotives, which are used in regular service all over Switzerland, two of them by SBB Cargo.
In early April 2020 OVK (UWC) announced that it has signed contract with EvroKhim for the supply of a batch 14 Model 15-6901 tank wagons mounted on the 25 t axle-load Model 18-9855 bogies.
On 20 April 2020 in Cairo an agreement entered into force on multilateral financing of the largest project in the history of the ENR for the supply of 1,300 carriages manufactured by TMH and its partners.
Siemens continues with tests of the Desiro HC units destined for Israeli State Railways.
On 17 April the Austrian Ministry of Transport temporarily awarded WESTbahn and ÖBB a temporary PSO contract for the Wien - Salzburg route.
On 29 January 2020 we visited Stadler Siedlce. This works is now, in addition to Class 777 EMUs and various types of FLIRTs, also building trams for Poland and Germany. In early 2020 at Stadler Siedlce works the contrat for BSVG (Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH) was nearing completion.
Over the Easter weekend the industrial branch line that Ports of Stockholm has built to Stockholm Norvik Port was connected to the railway network and electrified.
In 2019 the Czech freight wagon manufacturer Legios Loco ended up in bankruptcy, following the quite dramatic and not very transparent circumstances. One of the consequences is that the branch Nymburk workshop is resuming its activity independently, under the new identity Nymwag CS, managed by Petr Vlček, former general director of Legios Loco.
On 8 April 2020 at 15.35 h an accident occurred between Allach and Olching (north-west of München) during a test run with the Pendolino ED250-001 and the Class 152 locomotives.
Bombardier Transportation announced today that on 31 March 2020 it has signed a ten-year contract with Fraport AG to continue operating and maintaining the INNOVIA APM 100 people mover system and to modernise its signalling technology with the CITYFLO 650 solution at Frankfurt Airport.