THE governing board of Madrid Metro has approved the award of a contract to CAF worth €498.2m for the design, manufacture, supply and certification of 40 new six-car trains for use on metro Line 1.
The standard-gauge trains will replace the oldest of the existing fleet of class 2000A trains built by CAF in the 1980s and introduced on Line 1 in 2007. The first of the new trains is expected to enter service in the first half of 2027 and the contract with CAF also includes maintenance and technical assistance. The trains will operate at Grade of Automation 2 (GoA2) and will feature full-width gangways, helping to boost onboard capacity.
Line 1 runs for 24km from Pinar de Chamartín to Valdecarros, serving 33 stations. It was the first metro line to open in Madrid, entering service in 1919, and now serves around 9 million passengers every month. The line is equipped with CBTC under a contract completed by Bombardier (now Alstom) in the 2000s.
The agreement follows the award of a €450m contract to CAF earlier this year for the supply of another 40 metro trains for lines 6 and 8. Unlike the Line 1 fleet, these trains will be driverless as the lines are being converted to automatic train operation (ATO).
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