Alstom expands its Very High Speed portfolio adding a new
train platform

In a market environment where very high speed is growing
worldwide, operators in various countries have different needs,
strategies, and demands. The very high speed market has reached
a level of maturity that drives customers to refine the
identification of their passengers needs and hence to
fine-tune their technical specifications. Applying a logic of
continuous progress for its Very High Speed offer, Alstom keeps
on developing new offerings in order to provide its customers
with the largest range of options, to allow them to configure
their specific train. The operators can then position its
business on the most relevant market segment for them and
address their own targets more precisely.

As a result, Alstom is further enlarging its portfolio of Very
High Speed trains, adding new options that are combined in a
third platform: a new very high speed, high capacity, single
deck, fully interoperable train. It is based on the best of
Alstom technology, which has proved itself over 30 years of
experience with the articulated Very High Speed platforms (TGV,
TGV Duplex and AGV) and the non-articulated High Speed
platforms (Pendolino).

The train, designed to reach a maximum speed of 400 Km/h ,
relies on 8 traction systems with 8 motors in powered bogies,
delivering a total power of 10 MW and is capable of a
commercial speed of up to 360 km/h. To free all possible space
for passenger, all technical equipments have been placed under
the chassis. The interior room for passengers has been
maximised thanks to the wide bodyshell and to the positioning
of pantographs, so as to keep constant roof height throughout
the length of each car. It offers the best ratio in terms of
floor surface, number of seats (600) and total train length (8
cars, 200 m). The train will be able to travel across European
borders: it can be equipped with 3 redundant pantographs of
different kind (1.500 volts DC, 3.000 volts DC, 15.000 volts
AC, 25.000 volts AC) and can install on board 10 different
signaling systems.

This new train is the proof of Alstoms continuous
leadership and innovation drive in the field of Very High
Speed. It attests to Alstoms will and capacity to offer
products that can satisfy all the different needs of the market
and the most diverse requirements of operators, especially in
countries where very high capacity is a requirement, and the
wider body shells used in their railways entail a non
articulated train. declared Gian Luca Erbacci, Alstom
Transport General Manager for South Europe.

The train is targeted at a worldwide market, with the first
real opportunity being Italy and the Trenitalia tender for 50
very high speed trains. Alstom has submitted its bid to this
tender on May 20 2010, proposing a specially customized
version.

About Alstom and Very High Speed

Alstom manufactured 50% of the trains that nowadays travel
across the whole world at over 300 kph. Since the launching of
the first TGV in 1981, Alstom sold 670 high speed trains, which
covered more than 2.5 billion kilometres and carried 1.5
billion passengers.

Furthermore, today 400 Pendolino trains operate throughout the
world at speed up to 250 kph; they covered more than 200
million kilometres and carried 200 million passengers. The last
model of the Pendolino family is ETR600
Frecciargento, which has been operating on the
Italian rail network since more than one year.

Press contact
Laurent Gerbet Tel: + 33 (0)1 57 06 92 83

laurent.gerbet@transport.alstom.com

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