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After the tests at the VUZ Velim centre, unit 561.002 was transported from Velim to Kúty in Slovakia on 2 August 2023.

On 6 June 2023 at the Rail Business Days in Ostrava, Stadler and ZSSK presented the first six-car double-deck KISS EMU of the Class 561 to the public.

ŽOS Vrútky presented in Berlin a Bdmpz second class coach for Slovak railways. The latter has ordered in total 17 cars of this type.

Another novelty from Stadler are the Class 561 double-deck EMUs, of which four were ordered by ZSSK in December 2021.

On 17 April 2023, KISS 561.001 for ZSSK arrived at the VUZ Velim test centre.

On 23 December 2022, ZSSK ordered five more Panter EMUs.

Final assembly of the KISS EMUs for ZSSK is underway at the Stadler Siedlce works since summer of 2022.

On 27 May 2022, the first ZSSK locomotive in the new corporate design was put into service. 

After the rack-and-pinion railway in Vysoké Tatry (Ozubnicová železnica, OŽ) was cleared of snow on Friday 11 February, test runs began the very next day.

For 16 February 2022, it is planned to start passenger operation on the rack-and-pinion Štrba - Štrbské Pleso line in Vysoké Tatry.

On 16 December 2021, ZSSK and Stadler Polska signed a contract for the delivery of four six-car KISS EMUs.

Since July 2020, Strabag and Swietelsky-Slovakia carried out the modernisation of the OŽ line (Ozubnicová železnica, Rack and pinion railway) in Vysoké Tatry. On 23 July 2021, the Special Construction Office of the Slovak Ministry of the Interior issued a permit for "early use of the line - for test runs".

On 22 October 2021, ZSSK took over the last of a batch of 25 Panter EMUs produced by a Škoda Transportation - ŽOS Trnava consortium.

On 2 August 2021, ZSSK announced that Stadler Polska, Siedlce, was selected as the supplier for four six-car double-deck EMUs for regional transport.

On 9 September 2021, ZSSK signed a contract with a consortium of Škoda Transportation and ŽOS Trnava for the purchase of nine four-car Panter EMUs with an option for 11 more.