Stadler receives €45m order for Italian network

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Stadler Rail has received an order from Ferrovie Appulo Lucane (FAL) for the supply of nine multiple-unit trains.

The modern, narrow-gauge vehicles will enter service on FAL’s network south-west of Bari in Apulia, Italy, from 2013.

The order volume amounts to around €45 million and includes 4 three-carriage and 5 two-carriage diesel-electric multiple-unit trains.

This takes the number of trains sold by Stadler to Italy across the 100 mark.

The nine trains for FAL are based on the Stadler vehicles operated by Southern Italian railway company Ferrovie della Calabria, as delivered in the past two years.

However, unlike Calabria’s, these vehicles will feature an adhesion transmission system. The gauge is 950 millimetres.

The three-carriage trains seat 157, 10 of which fold down. Top speed of these modern trains is 100 km/h.

The order takes Stadler across the 100 mark for trains sold to Italy (not counting SBB’s own TILO fleet).

Peter Spuhler, owner and CEO of Stadler Rail Group, is delighted with this latest success:

“I am utterly proud that over 100 of our trains will soon be running in Italy. It goes to show that our innovative and reliable multiple-unit trains are very popular with customers.”

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