Talgo has announced the signing of an agreement with the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) for the supply and comprehensive maintenance of a new fleet of long-distance daytime and overnight trains.
The new units, which will cover routes between the south of the country and its northernmost cities, will consist of 10 locomotives, 9 daytime compositions, and 11 overnight compositions of the Talgo 230 intercity platform.
The Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) and the Basque company signed today a contract for the supply and comprehensive maintenance of a new fleet of long-distance trains that will cover routes from Stockholm to northernmost cities
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Valued at approximately 756 million EUR; the contract also includes 10 years of comprehensive maintenance, as well as the supply of spare parts and special tools.
Trafikverket has been given the option to extend the initial order by an additional 9 locomotives, 7 daytime compositions, and 11 overnight compositions, as well as extending the maintenance period by two years.
The signing ceremony of the contract was attended by the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing of Sweden, Andreas Carlson, the CEO of Trafikverket, Roberto Maiorana; the Spanish ambassador to Sweden, Luis Cuesta; and the president of Talgo, José Antonio Jainaga.
All modular trains supplied will be capable of operating at a maximum commercial speed of 200km per hour in Sweden and Norway, with full interoperability allowing for cross-border operations, which may in the future be extended to other Central European countries. They will be designed to operate normally in scenarios where temperatures regularly drop to -40ºC during the boreal winter.
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