ALSTOM TO SUPPLY REGIONAL TRAINS TO THE PAYS DE LA LOIRE REGION
Published at 23:15 on Tuesday 21st February 2012
Tags: World, France, Alstom, Hybrid, EMU
The interior of the new look Coradia Polyvalent range of Alstom-designed multiple units. Alstom
SNCF, on behalf of the Pays de la Loire Region, has placed an order with Alstom to supply five regional trains from the Coradia Polyvalent range for some €25 million.
The Pays de Loire Region now operates 54 Alstom regional trains and has already ordered 15 Coradia Polyvalent trains with an average seating capacity of 216, 10 of which are hybrid dual-voltage trainsets and five are electric dual-voltage trainsets.
In addition, the region has also ordered 24 Citadis Dualis tram-trains, some of which have been in service on the Nantes-Clisson line since 15th June last year. This order corresponds to an option exercised under the framework contract financed by the French regions, signed with the SNCF on 27th October 2009.
To date, 171 Coradia Polyvalent trainsets in total have been ordered by the regions of Alsace, Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Haute-Normandie, Lorraine, Midi-Pyrénées, Pays de la Loire, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. In the long term, the framework contract should be applied to 1000 trainsets for a sum of over seven billion euros, and promises to boost the industrial activity of our French production sites. The latest order from the Pays de la Loire Region confirms the ability of the Coradia Polyvalent range to meet regional rail transport needs in terms of performance, energy savings, comfort and interoperability.
The first Regiolis train off the production line at the Alstom plant in Reichshoffen was presented to the French regions and the SNCF on 14th June 2011. The test phases are currently under way, in accordance with the project schedule. The first deliveries are due in 2013.
Coradia Polyvalent is entirely designed, manufactured and assembled on Alstom Transport’s sites in France: train engineering and assembly in Reichshoffen (Alsace); bogies in Le Creusot (Bourgogne); motors in Ornans (Franche-Comté); traction drives in Tarbes (Midi-Pyrénées); and onboard computing systems in Villeurbanne (Rhône-Alpes).
The highly modular Coradia Polyvalent range is a single-level regional train offering various technical configurations and passenger amenities. It can travel at up to 160 km/h in both its electric and hybrid versions and operates at two different voltages (25 kV and 1,500 V). It is also available in a cross-border version for operation on the German and Swiss rail networks at a voltage of 15 kV. Its platform-height floor provides travellers with optimal accessibility and full all-point visibility for improved security. Motor bogies are positioned at the ends of the carriages to limit vibration and noise levels.
