CZ LOKO has completed two EffiShunter 1600 locomotives for BTS - Bulk Transshipment Slovakia. Upon completion, both locos were equipped with standard gauge (1435 mm) bogies and numbered 774 723-1 and 774 724-9 respectively. After delivery to Slovakia, the locos got their broad gauge (1520 mm) bogies and were renumbered into 774 823-9 and 824-7.

WLE 22 heads an intermodal train for Warsteiner at Belecke on 21 March 2025. Picture: Carsten Klatt.

One of the two WLE EuroRunner locomotives has changed its appearance recently. The well-known orange livery has been replaced by a black base livery combined with small white WLE logos, big Warsteiner logos and filled Warsteiner beer glasses.

CZ Loko has outshopped another EffiShunter 1000M locomotive. The loco, numbered 742 793-3 has been delivered to CZ LOKO subsidiary CZ Logistics.

Besides a new EffiShunter 1000 loco for Italian operator ERMES Rail, numbered 744 182-7, two 741.7 locos were sent to Italy by CZ LOKO in early-November. Italian company Scala Virgilio & Figli had placed an order for them in late-2023. The two locos in question are 741 768-6 and 741 769-4, which had previously been leased out to Liberty Ostrava a.s. as 741 713 and 712 respectively until the company's bankruptcy.

CZ LOKO received another order for the EffiShunter 1000 type. CEPRO has decided to purchase two locomotives with deliveries planned for late-2024/early-2025 (loco 1) and 2025 (loco 2).

At London, King's Cross station GBRf 66312 was named Nigel Harris on November 4th.

On its social media, CZ Loko shares a new operator for the EffiShunter 1000 type: Hrochostroj. Currently under construction and numbered 744 161-1, the loco is set to join the Hrochostroj fleet in the summer of 2024 in what looks to become a black, purple and yellow livery. Hrochostroj is a relatively young Czech company, providing railway construction services in the Czech Republic.