Talgo and Trafikverket, Sweden’s national transport administration, signed a contract on Monday 20 April in Stockholm valued at approximately €756 million for the supply and comprehensive maintenance of a new long-distance intercity train fleet.
The agreement, filed with Spain’s CNMV securities regulator, lifts Talgo’s order backlog to a record high of nearly €6,500 million.
The firm initial order, announced on 4 April, comprises 10 Siemens Vectron locomotives, nine day-train formations and 11 night-train formations based on the Talgo 230 platform, together with 10 years of maintenance and the supply of spare parts and special tooling.
The contract includes purchase options for a further nine locomotives, seven day-train formations and 11 additional night-train formations, with a two-year maintenance extension.
The trains, capable of 200 km/h, will link southern Sweden with cities above the Arctic Circle and will also operate into Norway, with full cross-border interoperability. They are designed to function at temperatures as low as -40 °C.
The new rolling stock will replace a fleet of sleeping coaches approaching four decades of service. Sweden’s Infrastructure Minister, Andreas Carlson, and Talgo’s chairman, José Antonio Jainaga, attended the signing ceremony.