China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Company Ltd has won a contract to supply rolling stock for the Chengdu Subway Line 2.
The contract is worth around £48m and will provide vehicles for Phase 2 of the future subway line.
CSR has previously been successful in bidding for the Chengdu Subway Line 1 and Phase 1 of Line 2.
So far, CSR has received orders for 59 metro trains and 354 vehicles from Chengdu and has become a major rail transit partner of South West China.
The Line 1 order was delivered in May 2010 under the contract, and vehicles for Phase 1 of Line 2 have been designed and developed and entered into the stage of mass production.
With a full length of 41.9km, Chengdu Subway Line 2 will stretch from northwest Chengdu Pixian County to east Chengdu Longquanyi District via the central downtown.
The length of Phase 2 is about 19.5km. According to the technical staff at CSR, Phase 2 vehicles will ‘inherit the technical advantage’ of Line 1 vehicles.
