Stadler preferred bidder to supply VR with 20 new EMUs - International Railway Journal

Contract would see spare parts, tools, grooming and documentation.

VR wants caller EMUs to regenerate Sm2 trains similar this 1 presently moving connected the Helsinki commuter network.

FINLAND’s nationalist obstruction operator, VR, has confirmed Stadler arsenic its preferred bidder to proviso 20 caller EMUs to regenerate the 34 Sm2 trains moving connected the Helsinki suburban web and dating from 1975-1981.

VR Group launched the tender to get caller EMUs successful 2019 and Stadler was named preferred bidder connected October 24, with ceremonial grant of the €250m declaration taxable to a 14-day appeals period.

The declaration volition see the proviso of spare parts, tools, grooming and documentation, on with options to acquisition up to 50 further EMUs and attraction services.

VR Group wants to person the caller trains successful commercialized work successful 2024 and aims to regenerate each its Sm2 EMUs successful 2026.

Stadler has antecedently won a declaration to proviso VR with 60 diesel-electric locomotives with an enactment for up to 100 further locomotives arsenic good arsenic maintenance.

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