DB Regio ordered 24 Coradia Continental regional trains from Alstom, under a EUR 130 million contract. The new three or four-car electric Coradia Continental trains will be used on the German Breisgau S-Bahn network as suburban trains from December 2019. The trains will be built in Alstom’s plant in Salzgitter, Germany.
The three- and four-car operating trainsets have a passenger capacity of 164 or 249 seats each. Special attention has been paid to passenger comfort: multi-purpose areas offer sufficient space for wheelchairs, bicycles and prams. The traction equipment is mounted on the roof so that the interior of the train can be wide and corridors with fewer steps for a better passenger flow inside the train. Throughout the whole train, the Coradia Continental is equipped with WiFi as well as sockets, video cameras and a real-time passenger information system displaying current train connection data.
Alstom’s Coradia Continental has been successfully operated by seven different customers in Germany. In total, 222 Coradia Continental trains are running in the country today, including over 100 ordered by DB Regio, circulating in the German states of Bavaria and North-Rhine-Westphalia. The company will operate the new vehicles in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on the lines of Freiburg – Endingen/Breisach, Freiburg – Titisee – Donaueschingen – Villingen and Freiburg – Titisee – Seebrugg.
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