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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.

On 28 November 2024, alle four Class 690.2 units moved to their future operational location, Bohumín depot.

On 7 November 2024, Škoda Group signed a contract with the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport for five more RegioPanter EMUs.

The conversion of six Class Bmz compartment cars to Class Bbcmvz couchettes is underway.

A small reminder of the last InnoTrans and the ForCity 36T bi-directional trams for Rhein Neckar Verkehr (rnv) was provided by the models on the Škoda stand, which showed all three 1,000 mm gauge versions ordered as part of the Rhein-Neckar-Tram 2020 (RNT) project.

On 26 September 2024, Škoda Group and Tampereen Raitiotie signed in Tampere a contract for the extension of the ForCity Smart Artic X34 trams.