Vossloh Kiepe and Vossloh Rail Vehicles were selected by Mid saxony Transport Authority (VMS) to supply four additional City Link tram-trains for use in the Chemnitz area after the state of Saxony agreed to fund 75% of the EUR 23.7 million order.
The first vehicles are now undergoing tests at the Vossloh Rail Vehicles plant at Albuixech near Valencia in Spain and deliveries to Germany are due to begin next month. The fleet will enter service in December.
The second batch will be delivered by October 2017 for phase 2 of the network, the line from Chemnitz to Thalheim and Aue.
The third stage of the project will involve extending tram-train services to the Chemnitz – Niederwiesa line, while the Limbach – Oberfrohna and Stollberg – Oelsnitz lines will also be converted in the longer-term, taking the total length of the netwok to 226km.
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