With the clear aim to raise synergies, six German and Austrian public transport companies joined forces some time ago to develop a concept for a joint tender for tram-train trains. We reported about the tender already. It has now been completed: Stadler has been awarded the largest contract in the company’s history with a total volume of up to four billion euros. It has won an international tender for up to 504 vehicles as part of the “VDV Tram-Train” project.
In addition to vehicle production, the framework agreement also includes a maintenance contract lasting up to 32 years. Part of the framework agreement is a fixed order quantity of 246 CITYLINK vehicles representing a volume of around 1.7 billion euros. There is also an option to order up to 258 more vehicles.
The award of the contract marks the beginning of a long-standing partnership between Stadler and the project consortium, consisting of Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe (VBK), Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (AVG), Saarbahn Netz, Schiene Oberösterreich, the State of Salzburg and Zweckverband Regional-Stadtbahn Neckar-Alb. Over the next ten years, Stadler will produce 246 CITYLINK vehicles for the six operators. A total of 28 vehicles have been firmly ordered for Saarbrücken, another 73 for VBK Karlsruhe, 75 for AVG, 30 for Neckar-Alb and 20 each for Salzburg and Oberösterreich (Upper Austria).