The public transit operator serving the Amsterdam region, GVB, has awarded CAF the supply of thirteen additional metro units, an order that joins the 2018 contract, which envisaged the initial manufacture of thirty trains.
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(28/11/2024)
The thirteen additional trains that GVB has ordered from CAF for the Amsterdam metro network will be identical to the thirty delivered in 2018 (see piece of news). Each unit, called M7, will comprise three cars and can be coupled to form six-car vehicles.
The vehicles will be equipped with the CBTC communication system and capable of fully unattended train operation (GoA 4). These new metro units will replace the oldest units in the fleet, which CAF also originally supplied in the 1990s and are now at the end of their service life.
This latest order brings the total number of CAF rail vehicles for the Dutch transport networks, both delivered and currently in the order book, to 445 units over the last ten years. These include the 72 trams also recently delivered to GVB, and contracts for customers such as the operators NS and Qbuzz, and the Province of Utrecht.
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