Finland’s VR orders sleepers and car carriers from Škoda Transtech - RailAdvent - Railway News

Škoda Transtech Oy, Škoda’s Finnish obstruction instrumentality subsidiary, has won a €50 cardinal declaration from the Finnish bid relation VR to proviso 9 sleeper coaches and 8 car-carrier coaches.

The caller rolling banal is to conscionable Finland’s increasing request for overnight bid travel, arsenic good arsenic rider expectations, and to marque travelling by bid astatine nighttime adjacent much popular.

They are owed for transportation by the extremity of 2025 for usage connected routes with overnight services from Helsinki, Turku, and Tampere, to Oulu, Rovaniemi, Kemijärvi, and Kolari.

New car bearer for nighttime bid postulation from Škoda Transtech // Credit: VR Group

VR’s existent nighttime bid fleet comprises 80 sleeper coaches and 33 car-carrier coaches, and these volition beryllium supplemented by the caller rolling stock.

Within the contract, determination is an enactment to acquisition an other 30 sleeper coaches and 30 car-carrier coaches, which would let VR e to summation the fig of its nighttime bid services oregon routes successful the future. They would besides let the replacement of its aged bluish sleeper coaches which are owed for withdrawal successful the aboriginal 2030s.

Sleeper compartment successful caller nighttime bid from Škoda Transtech // Credit: VR Group

Škoda Transtech’s Finnish mill astatine Otanmäki successful Kajaani volition physique the caller sleeper coaches and car-carrier coaches.

VR has a declaration with Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications to run nighttime postulation and funds the procurement of caller rolling stock. To wage for this procurement, immoderate of the costs are refunded to VR by the Ministry of Transport and Communications arsenic specified successful the contractual arrangements.

New nighttime sleeper manager from Škoda Transtech // Credit: VR Group

Elisa Markula, CEO of VR, said: “We are pleased to enactment that the popularity of nighttime bid question has grown by 17 per cent, compared to 2018. With these caller coaches, we privation to conscionable the wishes of our customers and further make the question experience. For instance, moving and having meals successful your ain compartment volition beryllium adjacent much comfy successful the future.”

Juha Vierros, CEO of Škoda Transtech, said:  “Our nighttime bid coaches are a bully illustration of modern rolling banal design, helping to make obstruction postulation arsenic an charismatic alternative. This woody volition fortify the bid publication of our Otanmäki mill and support the region’s vitality and competitiveness.”