Stadler Valencia and Captrain España signed a contract for the supply of eight EURO6000 multi-voltage electric locomotives which will be able to run on both standard gauge and Iberian gauge tracks. The new locomotives will also be used in Spain and Portugal.
This acquisition has been funded in part by a EUR 15 million grant from the Sustainable and Digital Transport Support Programme of the Spanish Government within the NextGenerationEU Recovery plan for Europe.
The new EURO6000 locomotives will be added to the 12 Captrain España already operating, as the result of an agreement with Stadler Valencia and other suppliers in 2020, and another four that will enter into service in the coming months.
Together with the current fleet, these locomotives will lead to further growth in transport in the Mediterranean Corridor, crossing Spain and France and, in the near future, reaching Luxembourg.
Stadler Valencia will deliver the new locomotives in 2025 when the operator’s fleet of state-of-the-art multi-voltage electric locomotives to 24.
Under a partnership between Captrain España and Alpha Trains signed in 2020, Stadler received an order for the delivery of up to 21 Euro6000 electric locomotives, with five standard gauge units and six Iberian gauge locomotives to operate the 25-km Pajares tunnel. For Stadler, this was the first order for this locomotive model.
In 2022 SNCF announced the acquisition of Takargo to continue to promote rail freight in Europe and to accelerate modal shift. From the beginning, the transaction has been designed to be incorporated into Captrain network.
Following last year’s acquisition of the Portuguese railway company Takargo by the Captrain holding company, this operation will provide Captrain’s Iberian network with a fleet of at least 62 modern locomotives. Captrain España and Takargo operated a total of 18,136 trains for their customers in 2022, 27% of which were international, either between Spain and Portugal or between Spain and France. This avoided the emission of nearly 170,000 tonnes of CO2.
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