MADRID Metro has ordered 40 six-car trains from CAF for \u20ac450m. They will be deployed on lines 6 and 8 to replace some of the oldest rolling stock currently in service such as the series 5000 trains.<\/p>\n
The 23.5km circular Line 6 serves 28 stations and is the busiest on the Madrid Metro network. It carried 110 million passengers in 2023, an average of 618,000 every working day.<\/p>\n
Line 8 runs for 16km from Nuevos Ministerios in the city centre to Aeropuerto T4 station at Madrid Barajas Airport, serving a total of eight stations. Both Line 6 and Line 8 are to be converted to automatic train operation (ATO).<\/p>\n
As well as increasing capacity on the network, Madrid Metro says that the new trains, which feature full-width gangways between the cars, will enable it to meet increased demand when the extension of Line 11 to Conde de Casal is completed.<\/p>\n
The contract awarded to CAF also includes technical assistance for fleet maintenance over 10 years.<\/p>\n
Under the second phase of Madrid Metro\u2019s fleet renewal programme, an additional 40 six-car trains will be ordered for \u20ac518.4m in the next few months. They will be deployed on the 24km Line 1 which runs from Pinar de Chamart\u00edn to Valdecarros, serving 33 stations.<\/p>\n
For detailed data on metro rolling stock orders, subscribe to IRJ Pro<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Madrid Metro orders 40 new trains from CAF<\/a> appeared first on International Railway Journal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MADRID Metro has ordered 40 six-car trains from CAF for \u20ac450m. They will be deployed on lines 6 and 8 to replace some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rail-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}