San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit announced that will launch tests on the new Bombardier trains. The trains may make stops at stations and doors may open, but test trains are made only with staff aboard.
Already, the trains have been put through their paces on a test track, and have been doing test runs during the overnight hours when no passenger trains are running. This marks the first time they’ll be running tests during business hours on the mainline, albeit with no paying passengers aboard. Not all of the train cars will be out at the same time, because some are being used off the main tracks for operator training.
In 2016, Bombardier delivered 10 pilot cars that will be tested on BART test tracks and throughout the BART system.
In 2014, Bombardier announced that BART confirmed an order for 365 additional rail cars for its “Fleet of the Future”. The order, valued at USD 639 million, is part of a contract signed in June, 2012.
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