Alstom has delivered the first three of 22 six-car trains to the Sydney Metro Trains Facility at Rouse Hill, under the EUR 280 million contract. The trains ar part of the EUR 5.2 billion Sydney Metro Northwest project, which is Stage 1 of Sydney Metro. The new vehicles are being tested over the coming months.
The trains include three double-doors per side in each car for improved access and passenger flows, large windows and ambient LED lighting. The trains will offer the highest levels of customer safety including constant CCTV monitoring, emergency intercoms and the latest way-finding aids for customer information and real time travel information.
The new metro system will provide a high level of service, with a train every four minutes in the peak in each direction. Services will extend into the city in 2024 and will have an ultimate capacity of a metro train every two minutes in each direction under the city. The system will operate Alstom’s world leading computer based train control system (CBTC), Urbalis 400, which minimises the time stopping at stations and the times between each service.
“We are extremely proud to be able to deliver another first for Sydney with our latest and most innovative automated metro technology. This train and associated technologies will transform Sydney and provide a step change in the city’s public transport capability and reliability,” Mark Coxon, Managing Director for Alstom in Australia and New Zealand said.
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