Alstom and DB Regio AG have signed a new contract for 25 Coradia Continental electric multiple units for the region of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. This contract is worth around EUR 150 million. This order is part of a frame contract concluded between the DB Regio AG and Alstom in 2012 for the delivery of up to 400 Coradia Continental trains. The trains will be manufactured in Salzgitter, Germany.
Running at a maximum speed of 160 km/h, the 25 four-car Coradia Continental trains are fitted with up to 200 seats. The trains are characterized by excellent acceleration properties, as well as a particularly smooth and quiet running.
This order has been initiated by the contract won by DB Regio AG for the operation of the Saar RB electrical network batch 1 on the routes Schweich – Trier Hbf – Saarbrücken Hbf – Kaiserslautern Hbf (from December 2019) and Trier Hafenstraße – Konz – Saarburg (from December 2020). Purchasers of the these transport operations are the Ministry for Economy, Labour, Energy and Transport in Saarland as well as the administration unions SPNV-North and ZSPNV-South associations in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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