EGYPT: Egyptian National Railways has awarded Talgo a €280m contract to supply seven night train sets and maintain them for 15 years.
The contract was announced on August 9. Talgo expects financing to be put in place in the coming months, and deliveries from its Alava (Rivabellosa) and Madrid (Las Matas) plants in Spain to begin in 2024.
It said the trains would be from the same family as the inter-city coaches it supplying to DB in Germany and DSB in Denmark.
Talgo has already delivered six day trains ordered by ENR in 2019 under a contract worth €126m plus €32m for eight years of maintenance. Comprising a locomotive, 14 coaches and a generator car, these 160 km/h sets will be used along the River Nile from Alexandria to Cairo and Aswan.
