IRAN: The city of Qom has awarded Mapna’s rolling stock company Wagon Pars a contract to design and build three five-car metro trainsets as part of a project to develop domestic urban rail technology in Iran.
Mapna says this would be the first metro train to be fully designed and built by an Iranian company, and success could pave the way for similar contracts in other Iranian cities.
Previous Iranian metro trains have been mostly supplied by Chinese companies, with localisation by Wagon Pars.
The scope of the contract announced on September 28 includes the use of Iranian technology for subsystems such as traction, control and braking systems, as well as doors, gangways, couplers, ventilation and passenger information systems.
Testing of the first trainset on Qom Line A is planned by March 2026.
