LITHUANIAN Railways (LG) has placed an order with Škoda Vagonka for an additional three class 575 1520mm-gauge double-deck City Elefant EMUs for €27.2m.
A CEREMONY was held in Bratislava on November 6 to mark the introduction of the first Škoda 30T ForCity Plus low-floor LRV on the city's metre-gauge tram network.
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CZECH Railways (CD) has awarded Škoda Transportation a Koruna 2.6bn ($US 125m) contract to supply 14 additional RegioPanter EMUs for inter-city services.
ŠKODA Transportation has secured a follow-on order from the Turkish city of Konya for 12 catenary-free type 28T Classic LRVs. The new vehicles follow an order for 60 conventional vehicles which are already being rolled out in the city from a €104.7m contract awarded in March 2013.
ŠKODA Kingway Electric, a joint venture of Škoda and Jiangsu Kingway Transportation, China, has secured a contract to supply drives and motors for 40 six-car metro trains being supplied by CSR Nanjing Puzhen to the Chinese city of Suzhou.
ŠKODA Transportation announced on March 5 that it has completed testing and certification of its new Catfree catenary-free propulsion system for light rail vehicles, which has been undergoing trials at the company's facility in Plzen, Czech Republic.
ŠKODA Transportation unveiled the first of 60 type 28T low-floor LRV for the Turkish city of Konya on October 29.
A joint venture is to be established between Zerz, a Ukrainian state-owned electric locomotive maintenance and repair company, and Skoda, Czech Republic, to build dual-voltage passenger locomotives for Ukrainian Railways (UZ).
BRATISLAVA Transport signed a €39m contract with Škoda Transportation on July 18 for a fleet of 15 low-floor 30T LRVs, which will enter service on the metre-gauge network in the Slovak capital in 2015.