BeNEX places €100m Coradia order

2008-07-30T14:56:00+01:00

GERMANY: Alstom announced a €100m order for 26 Coradia Continental regional EMUs on July 30.

The 21 three-car and five four-car trainsets have been ordered by BeNEX, the company established by Hamburger Hochbahn to bid for operating contracts beyond the Hamburg area and now 49% owned by Babcock & Brown.

The trains will be used on the Regensburg-Donautalbahn regional network which BeNEX is to operate under a 12-year contract starting in December 2010.

Alstom said the order follows on from a total of 233 Coradia Continental and winterised Nordic trainsets which it has sold to operators in Germany and Sweden since the range was launched in 2002 (RG 5.08 p321).

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