DB Systemtechnik has been awarded a contract by Hitachi Rail Europe to test and commission a fleet of AT200 EMUs being supplied to Abellio Scotrail and which are due to start entering service in autumn 2017.
CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive has established a European subsidiary in Austria and has also been awarded a contract to supply trains to Czech open-access passenger operator Leo Express.
TESTING has started at the Velim test track in the Czech Republic of the first of 70 class 385 EMUs being built by Hitachi Rail Europe for the ScotRail franchise operated by Abellio.
A six-car metro train built by Hitachi Rail Italy (HRI) for Lima, Peru, is currently being tested at the Velim test track in the Czech Republic while other trains have already been shipped to Peru.
THE Czech region of Karlovy Vary published a prior information notice in the Official Journal of the European Union on September 7 for a contract to operate regional services around Karlovy Vary and Cheb.
CZECH infrastructure manager SŽDC awarded Strabag, Austria, a €34m contract on August 9 to renovate the 46km Okříšky - Zastávka u Brna line in southern Czech Republic.
CZECH private passenger operator GW Train Regio has been directly awarded a 10-year contract by the Czech Ministry of Transport to operate express services on the Plzen - Most line.
CZ Loko, Czech Republic unveiled its prototype EffiLiner 3000 electric locomotive at the Czech Raildays exhibition in Ostrava on June 14.
CZECH municipally-owned infrastructure manager Železnice Desná (ŽD), which owns two branch lines totalling 22km in Moravia, has completed a project electrify and modernise the 19km Šumperk - Kouty nad Desnou line.
ŠKODA Transportation, Czech Republic, is to set up a subsidiary company in the United States with a view to selling light rail vehicles and trains in North America.