Stadler has presented MTR Express with the first of six intercity trains it has ordered to operate a new open access service between Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Factory acceptance testing has now been completed at the manufacturer’s Bussnang factory, which has delivered the first train within a year of the CHF 85 million order being placed.
In March 2015, the five-car electric-multiple unit (EMU) will enter passenger service on the Gothenburg-Stockholm corridor – a route MTR will share with Sweden’s state-owned operator SJ.
Speaking to Global Rail News in August, MTR Express chief executive Johan Söör said the operator expects to initially have three trains available – two in service and one spare.
From August 2015, Söör said MTR Express will be running a full service of 110 trains a week along the 455-kilometre route.
