VR FleetCare wins Helsinki EMU bogie maintenance contract - International Railway Journal

Contract for 2024-30 covers refurbishment of bogies connected 81 commuter trains.

Work underway connected bogie attraction astatine VR FleetCare’s Pieksämäki facility.

VR Fleet Care, the rolling banal attraction concern of Finland’s nationalist relation VR, has been awarded a declaration by leasing institution Capital Region Rolling Stock (PJO) to renovate the bogies of its Flirt EMU fleet.

Work volition beryllium undertaken according to the region covered successful work by the bogies of 81 trains. Overhaul is scheduled beryllium carried retired successful 2024-30, though the declaration besides includes a four-year hold option.

The Flirt trains run connected commuter services retired of the Finnish superior Helsinki and VR Fleet Care is besides liable for regular operational attraction of the fleet.

The Flirt bogies volition beryllium serviced astatine VR Fleet Care’s Pieksämäki accumulation unit, which opened successful 2021 to connection constituent services. As good arsenic offering caller accumulation lines it has extended expertise successful maintaining antithetic types of bogies.

At the Pieksämäki installation locomotive, EMU and rider manager bogies are repaired each nether the aforesaid extortion and concern manager of constituent services astatine VR Fleet Care, Mr Anders Karlsson, says that the institution has been renovating Flirt bid bogies for Estonian bid relation Elron for immoderate years. Karlsson adds that bogies are the astir important constituent of this benignant of rolling banal successful presumption of operational information and lifecycle costs, mostly representing astir a 5th of these costs.

"The occurrence of the basal renovation of the bogies is of large value to the goals of PJO and we are satisfied that we person successfully finished the tender,” says PJO CEO, Mr Veli-Pekka Hakatie. “The precocious prime of constituent attraction and reliability of transportation are of the utmost value to america arsenic the proprietor of the fleet." 

“The declaration is strategically important to us, due to the fact that arsenic a institution we are looking for maturation successful the future, particularly from our constituent services,” says VR Fleet Care commercialized director, Mr Peter Guldbrand. “I besides judge that we tin conscionable the fleet owner's goals, wherever maintaining the worth and prime of the components unneurotic with the optimisation of lifecycle costs person go the astir important factors." 

Rolling banal attraction is not the lone tract successful which VR Fleet Care has been expanding its offering recently. In September the Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (FTIA) signed an statement with the company to present extended distant information monitoring of points connected the nationalist network.