Alstom receives an 62 million order for 14
double-decker TER trainsets

The share of the value of this contract attributable to
Alstom is 62 million. In placing the order, the two
companies are exercising an option written into a contract
signed in 2000 and financed by the French regions. The 14
trains are destined for the Loire region (3 trains ordered in
August 2008), the Upper Normandy region (1 train) and Chemins
de Fer Luxembourgeois (10 trains). The first of the new trains
are due to be delivered from June 2010.



With this highly-flexible new generation of self-propelled
coaches from the Coradia Duplex range, the same basic rolling
stock can be used to form trainsets of two to five coaches with
distributed power, while offering high levels of on-board
comfort and a high passenger capacity. These trainsets are
capable of carrying up to 339 passengers and can travel at a
maximum speed of 160 km/h.



There are currently 168 of these trainsets in service in the
French regions (Centre, Upper Normandy, Lorraine,
Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Pays de la Loire, Picardy,
Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur and Rhône-Alpes) and
12 have been supplied to Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois.



Alstoms sites at Valenciennes, Tarbes, Villeurbanne, le
Creusot and Ornans in France, and its Charleroi site in Belgium
will be involved in fulfilling the contract. Bombardier, in
collaboration with Alstom, is also handling part of the
production at its Crespin site.



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