- 75 Charger diesel-electric locomotives
- Includes a 20-year Technical Support Spares Supply Agreement
- Locomotives are expected to begin passenger service in the fall of 2021
Siemens Mobility has been awarded a €744 million contract to design and manufacture 75 Charger diesel-electric locomotives for Amtrak, the United States‘ National Railroad Passenger Corporation. These 75 locomotives will replace and supplement Amtrak’s aging national network diesel locomotive fleet used on long-distance and state-supported routes. It also includes a multi-year Technical Support Spares Supply Agreement (TSSSA). Delivery of the new locomotives will begin in summer, 2021, with passenger service starting in fall, 2021.
- Hesse's state capital commissions Siemens Mobility to implement Digi-V
- Intelligent infrastructure to analyze environmental and traffic data
- Environment-sensitive traffic controls reduces emissions
Hesse's state capital Wiesbaden has commissioned Siemens Mobility to implement its "Digitalization of Traffic" (DIGI-V) project, which is based on the city's "Green City Plan – Masterplan WI-Connect." The project aims to implement measures that will reduce traffic-related emissions. To achieve this, environmental and traffic data will be recorded, analysed and processed in real time.
- 32 bi-directional trainsets offering more than 9,100 seats
- Passenger service expected to begin in 2022
- Enhanced passenger experience
Siemens Mobility has been awarded a €650 million contract in Canada to design and build the next generation of VIA Rail Canada's trainsets. This includes 32 bi-directional trainsets, with a supplemental 15-year service agreement for VIA Rail, Canada's government-owned intercity transportation operator. The new trainsets will service passengers on VIA's busiest route, the Quebec City – Windsor Corridor, which connects Canada's two largest cities, Toronto and Montreal, and spans more than 2,200 kilometers in a northeast-southwest direction. The line carried more than 4.5 million passengers in 2018, representing an increase of more than 30 percent over the past four years. The trainsets will ensure the highest level of safety while also significantly enhancing the passenger experience, with excellent ride quality including more comfortable seats, quieter cars, modern climate control and a high-performance passenger Wi-Fi and digital information system. Delivery of the trainsets will begin in 2021 and passenger service in 2022.
- All twelve trams handed over to SWU Verkehr GmbH
- First series service for multi-articulated Avenio M
- First Avenio fleet with "Siemens Tram Assistant" collision warning system
The Avenio M from Siemens Mobility has begun service on the new Line 2 in Ulm, Germany. The approximately ten-kilometer long tram line, which connects Ulm's Science City with the Kuhberg district, was officially inaugurated yesterday by SWU Verkehr GmbH. The new trams from Siemens Mobility will be used on the city's entire tram network (Lines 1 and 2).
- 12-car trains in service on the VDE 8 (German Unity Railway Project Nr. 8)
- Nineteen ICE 4 trains under way daily in Germany as of December 9
- Trains provide substantially more capacity
With the Deutsche Bahn (DB) timetable change on December 9, 2018, the ICE 4 will inaugurate service on the high-speed line between Berlin and Munich. In addition to the ICE 3 trains operating as Sprinters along the route, the ICE 4 will make more stops along the way. Compared to the Sprinter's five intermediate stops, the ICE 4 will make eight. The new trains will connect Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, Berlin Central Station, Berlin-Südkreuz, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Leipzig, Erfurt, Bamberg, Erlangen, Nürnberg and Munich Central Station. With the launch of ICE 4 service and additional Sprinters, there will be around 3,000 more seats available on this route every day. The new DB flagship also operates on the Cologne-Rhine-Main route, and between Hamburg and Munich, and to Stuttgart. All in all, nineteen 12-car ICE 4 trains will be in service beginning on Sunday.
- Siemens Mobility begins extensive test program
- DB Regio to operate the Rhine Valley network as of 2020
- Profitable over the entire lifecycle with enhanced passenger comfort
The first trainset of the new Mireo regional train platform has been completed. In the coming months, a total of eight pre-production trains will be commissioned at the company's Test and Validation Center (PCW) in Wegberg-Wildenrath. Before the train is allowed to operate for the first time in Germany's rail network, an extensive test program must be completed at the PCW. In June 2020, the Mireo is scheduled to begin service in the Rhine Valley network in Southwest Germany that is operated by the DB Regio Regional Business Unit of Deutsche Bahn. DB Regio AG has ordered a total of 24 Mireo trains, the first order Siemens Mobility received for the newly developed platform.
South-west Germany is counting on Siemens: from 2020 onward, DB Regio AG will be operating its Rhine Valley rail network exclusively with new trains from Siemens. The German Railways order covers 15 Desiro HC and 24 Mireo trains in total, and goes hand in hand with a restructuring of the rail transport services in the Rhine Valley. There is a clear separation between a rapid train system for fast cross-regional services and a regional suburban rail system (S-Bahn) with stops at all stations. The Mireo will be deployed as a regional train (RB) service along the line section from Offenburg via Freiburg to Basel/Neuenburg (Switzerland) as well as in the Kaiserstuhl area on Sundays between Freiburg and Endingen/Breisach. The line section from Karlsruhe via Offenburg and Freiburg to Basel (Switzerland) will be operated with the Desiro HC as a regional express service.
- Trafikverket awards 75 million Euro contract
- Siemens Mobility, with Eltel Networks Infranet, to deliver intelligent infrastructure technology
- Communications, control and monitoring systems for tunneling
The Swedish Transport Administration, Trafikverket, has announced that it awarded Siemens Mobility a 75 million Euro contract to deliver communications, control and monitoring technologies for a section of the European route number four (E4), the Stockholm Bypass. The new bypass will connect the southern and northern parts of the surrounding Stockholm communities. The bypass is a 21-kilometer road, including 18 kilometers of tunneling around one of Europe's busiest capitals. It will relieve intercity and main thoroughfare congestion, significantly reducing delays for residents and visitors. The construction of the tunnel started in 2014 and is expected to be completed in 2026. Installation and testing of Siemens Mobility technologies will begin in 2021.
- VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg exercises first option
- A total of 27 metro trains to be delivered
- Greater passenger comfort and optimized passenger flows
VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft, Nuremberg's public transport operator, has ordered six additional type G1 metro trains from Siemens Mobility, exercising one of two options in the contract signed in December 2015. All in all, Siemens Mobility will now be supplying 27 new metro trains for Nuremberg. The new four-car G1 trains in the first option are planned for use on the U1 metro line as of 2021 and will replace twelve type DT2 two-car trains.The metro trains will be built at the Siemens Mobility plant in Vienna, Austria. Various vehicle components, such as drive converters, motors, auxiliary converters and control systems, will be manufactured in Nuremberg. Project management, development and service support will be handled in Erlangen.