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.

DB Cargo 247 035-9 has lost its ECR livery and has been repainted in DB 'traffic red'. Here the loco is seen, freshly painted, at Oberhausen-Osterfeld. Picture by Heinrich Podobienski.

SETG ER20-05 visited the career fair "LokLive" on Sunday 23.10.2023, held at Bahnpark Augsburg. Picture by Christoph Essen.

In October 2023, SETG acquired ER 20 loco 2016 901-7 from Steiermarkbahn Transport und Logistik GmbH. Planned as 2016 090-9 for ÖBB, the loco was never delivered as such. It was delivered in red with StLB logos and later on was reliveried in white and green. Now the loco has again been reliveried in white and green, but this time in the colours of its new owner and a new number: ER20-05.

DB Cargo 744 154-6 (744 034-5) as the first EffiShunter 1000 within the DB Cargo group of companies on test near Rezzato, Italy. Picture by Giovanni Grasso.

At the TRAKO trade fair in Poland, CZ LOKO and DB Cargo signed a deal for the delivery of one EffiShunter 1000 locomotive. The loco is to be delivered in 2025 and will be the fifth of its kind in the DB Cargo group of companies. Two EffiShunter 1000s have already been delivered to DB Cargo Italia, which expects the third and fourth locos by the end of 2023. The loco for DB Cargo Czechia will be equipped for operations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

On September 22, GB Railfreight 66306 was named SCS Logistics at a naming ceremony in Willesden. GB Railfreight states the naming celebrates the vital role of the Skanska Costain STRABAG Joint Venture (SCS) in the construction of the High Speed Two (HS2) high speed line project.