Finland: VR Group Orders New Sleeping Coaches and Freight Wagons from Škoda - railway-news.com

Škoda Group has received an bid for 9 sleeping coaches and 8 freight wagons for cars from Finnish authorities railway institution VR Group.

The second enables passengers to besides transport their conveyance erstwhile taking overnight obstruction services.

The contract, valued astatine 50 cardinal EUR (54.25m USD), includes an enactment for a further 30 coaches and freight wagons if VR wishes to summation work frequence oregon widen its routes.

The enactment besides includes the replacement of aged bid cars arsenic they travel to the extremity of their utile lives.

VR made this bid successful effect to the increasing popularity of overnight bid question successful Finland.

The trains volition beryllium manufactured astatine Škoda’s Otanmäki tract successful Finland, with the idiosyncratic cabins designed to lucifer edifice rooms, truthful that passengers tin enactment comfortably and remainder undisturbed during the journey.

Special attraction has besides been paid to soundproofing truthful that travellers tin slumber undisturbed.

All cabins are equipped with a toilet, and immoderate with their ain shower. Family cabins are besides disposable for travellers with children, which tin accommodate a babe cot.

The trains are expected to participate work earlier the extremity of 2025 connected VR’s existent nighttime routes: Helsinki to Turku and Tampere to Oulu, Rovaniemi, Kemijärvi and Kolari.