BRITAIN’s HS2 Ltd has shortlisted five train builders to bid for a contract worth around £2.75bn to design, build and maintain at least 54 360km/h trains for entry into service in 2026 on the London - Birmingham first phase of the planned high-speed network which will eventually extend to Manchester and Leeds.
RABAT-SALÉ Transport (STRS), Morocco, has awarded a €45m contract to Alstom for the supply of 22 Citadis LRVs for operation on the city’s 19km light rail network and two new extensions totalling 7km, which are due to open in the second half of 2019.
ALSTOM has begun delivery of an additional batch of 139 Metropolis 9000 metro cars for Lima metro.
THE first Citadis LRV for the initial phase of the Sétif light rail network arrived in the Algerian city on October 18.
THE first of four Lint 54 DMUs ordered by regional operator Vias for the Odenwald network south of Frankfurt-am-Main has emerged from Alstom’s plant in Salzgitter, Germany.
ALSTOM announced on October 11 that it has begun production at its new locomotive manufacturing facility at Madhepura in the Indian state of Bihar, which will build a new generation of electric locomotives for Indian Railways.
ALSTOM managing director for west and central Asia Mr Bernard Peille presented the first of 10 type AZ4A Prima passenger locomotives for Azerbaijan Railways (ADY) to ADY deputy chairman Mr Hijran Valehov at the manufacturer’s plant in Belfort, France, on October 9.
AMTRAK has revealed the exterior livery for its new fleet of Alstom Avelia Liberty high-speed trains, which will replace the existing Acela fleet and increase capacity on the Washington DC - New York - Boston Northeast Corridor.
NETHERLANDS Railways (NS) has unveiled a mock-up of its Intercity New Generation (ICNG) EMU, 79 of which were ordered from Alstom in 2016.
IRJ at Expo Ferroviaria, Milan: The first of 12 Evo Pendolino trains being built by Alstom for Italian open-access high-speed operator NTV was presented to the company’s president Mr Luca Cordell Montezemelo and CEO Mr Flavio Cattaneo at the Expo Ferroviaria exhibition in Milan on October 3.
