A dozen Vectrons will be gradually handed over by the leasing company RSL from May this year until the end of the year.
Czech Railways will take over 12 more Siemens Vectron locomotives this year. It will be a lease from the leasing company RSL, with which the railways have a contract to secure 50 locomotives. The contract will end next year with the takeover of the last 22 machines.
“Modern interoperable locomotives are equipped with the ETCS security system. We will use them to replace unpromising rows on corridors where exclusive operation under the supervision of ETCS will begin from January 1, 2025. It will mainly be the connections Prague – Brno – Budapest, Prague – Ostrava or Prague – České Budějovice – Austria,” stated Deputy for Passenger Transport Jiří Ješeta.
A dozen Vectrons will be gradually handed over by the leasing company RSL from May this year until the end of the year.
Czech Railways currently operates 27 Vectron locomotives from leasing companies ELL (10) and RSL (16). ČD owns only one Vectron: a four-system machine that rides in the colors of the Railway Research Institute.
The machines mainly cover the operation of the Berliner Prague – Berlin – Hamburg/Kiel line, the Slovak Express in the section Prague – Staré Město u Uherského Hradiště, the Západní express and Krušnohor in the sections Prague – Plzeň – Cheb and Cheb – Ústí nad Labem together with non-traction InterJet units.
České dráhy will also be the first Siemens customer to purchase Vectrons for a speed of 230 km/h. The railways have ordered 50 of these locomotives, which are expected to be put into service with passengers in 2025. They should run, among other things, with non-traction ComfortJet units on connections to Hamburg, Graz and Budapest.
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