Stadtwerke München (SWM) and Munich Transport Company (MVG) ordered from Siemens Mobility 18 additional six-car type C2 metro trains. The train will now be made ready for operation, undergo extensive tests and be approved for passenger service.
The vehicles will be manufactured at the Siemens Mobility plant in Vienna and delivered in 2024 – 2025.
“I am pleased that today we can transfer the first train of the C2.13 series to the depot to begin approval process. The commissioning of the C2 vehicle series can then continue on a continuous basis,” District President Konrad Schober said.
The metro trains are particularly ecofriendly and energy-saving. The trains feed energy back into the power grid when they brake, further improving the CO2 balance in Munich and making public transport even more sustainable. In selecting the materials, priority was given to environmentally friendly components that are up to 97% recyclable.
The bogies will be supplied by the company’s factory in Graz.
The order was announced on April 27 when SWM and MVG took delivery of the first of a total of 22 type C2 metro trains ordered in 2020, part of the third delivery series (the so-called second option) at SWM’s technical base in Fröttmaning near Munich.
“I’m especially pleased that we are taking a further important step today in modernizing Munich’s metro fleet with the first delivery from the third delivery series. We’ve been operating this train type since 2016, so our order of additional trains from this series is relying on a proven concept to replace the aging A-trains step by step,” Ingo Wortmann, the Chairman of the Management Board of the Munich Transport Company (MVG) said.
The option is part of a framework agreement for the delivery of 67 trainsets totalling 402 cars and together with latest contract, from 2024, the total number of type C2 metro trains will increase to 85 units which will operate on Munich metro system.
In October 2020, the first C2 trainsets entered regular service on U2 line.
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