Rail producer Alstom will provide 20 extra trains to the Stockholm metro system in Sweden, after increasing its present take care of the town’s public transport company SL.
The brand new contract brings the whole variety of Movia C30 trains provided by Alstom to the community to 116. They’ll exchange older CX wagons on the purple line of the community, which have been absolutely phased out of the system in February 2023.
Maria Sign Martebo, managing director of Alstom, stated: “It has been a privilege to produce Stockholm with superior Movia C30 metro trains. Much more gratifying is witnessing the expanded fleet.
“We take pleasure in delivering these distinctive trains with a superb collaboration with SL. The optimistic reception of the design among the many individuals in Stockholm is actually rewarding.”
First signed in 2013 and with the primary practice getting into service in 2019, the C30 contract with Alstom was a part of a modernisation venture for the community because it sought to extend capability to cater for a couple of million passengers per day.
With 96 trains ordered as a part of the unique contract, the most recent settlement is the primary time SL has used any of the 80 choices included within the 2013 deal.
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The modernisation work has additionally included the refurbishment of the community’s C20 vehicles, a venture that Alstom lately accomplished after the ultimate of the 270-strong fleet rolled out of its facility.
The order additionally comes shortly after it was introduced {that a} three way partnership between the Go-Forward Group and ComfortDelGro would take over operations of the Stockholm Metro in Might 2025 on an 11-year contract. The events will take over from MTR, which has run the community by way of its MTR Stockholm subsidiary since 2009.
