EGYPT: Alstom delivered the first of 55 nine-car trainsets it is supplying for Cairo metro Line 1 on May 22. The train arrived in the capital a week after its unloading at the port of Alexandria.
Under a November 2021 contract valued at €876m, Alstom is supplying 55 Metropolis trainsets for Line 1. The order is being financed by the French government under an agreement between the two countries. It includes maintenance of the vehicles and the provision of spare parts for eight years.
The new trainsets are intended to boost capacity on Line 1, which carries 2·5 million passengers per day on its existing 44 km route, while they will also be used to support a planned northern extension from New Marj to Shabin Al-Qanater.
The fleet will be the first rolling stock on Line 1 to have air-conditioning.
Other features include wide gangways, internal and external CCTV cameras, real-time passenger information, dynamic route maps, video displays and spaces for wheelchairs.
As part of the modernisation of the city’s first metro line, which opened in 1987, CAF and original supplier Mitsubishi were appointed to refurbish 23 existing trainsets and maintain them for two years.
Under an €850m contract let in September 2024, a consortium of Colas Rail, Orascom Construction and Hitachi Rail is to upgrade the signalling, control and telecommunication systems, power supplies, catenary and electromechanical systems, and renew the tracks.
