Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:17:29 +0200The battle for the underground: Skoda to compete with Siemens for metro businesshttps://english.radio.cz/battle-underground-skoda-compete-siemens-metro-business-8096862© 2026 Radio Prague International Just about every tram and trolleybus now operating in the Czech Republic was built by a company now owned by the transport engineering company Skoda Holding. But while the Plzen-based company is the undisputed master of the above ground rails, having bought out or partnered with the country's leading bus and railroad manufacturing companies, it has been less successful on its home turf underground, which has been the domain of the German engineering group Siemens. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/metro_skoda1.jpg?timestamp=1590316932 The battle for the underground: Skoda to compete with Siemens for metro business https://english.radio.cz/battle-underground-skoda-compete-siemens-metro-business-8096862 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9