Bombardier to supply 19 OMNEO Premium trains for the Hauts-de-France region’s intercity lines
November 19 2018 - 9:31AM
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Mobility technology leader Bombardier Transportation announced
today that it received an order for 19 BOMBARDIER OMNEO Premium
double-deck trains from the French National Railway Corporation,
Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) on behalf of
the Hauts-de-France region. This call-off order is part of the
contract signed in 2010 with SNCF to provide up to 860 double
deck-trains to French regions and is valued at approximately 256
million euro ($291 million US), including price escalations based
on best faith assessment of assumptions.
The Hauts-de-France region plans to roll out these new spacious,
highly comfortable trains on the high-frequency Paris to Amiens and
Paris to Saint Quentin – Maubeuge / Cambrai lines. The first trains
are scheduled for delivery in 2022.
"Passengers riding on the new OMNEO train will
discover a new level of rail mobility combining high capacity,
greater comfort, and increased accessibility, " said Laurent
Bouyer, President of Bombardier Transportation France. "These
trains are designed and produced by Bombardier's Crespin site in
the Hauts-de-France region, a region highly committed to the
rail industry and its local rail ecosystem.”
Bombardier’s engineers have developed a new interior design
which optimizes available space to the benefit of passengers and
seating arrangements. The train will feature a newly developed wide
seats with integrated lighting, power and USB plugs. The interior
design and configuration will be fine-tuned in a color scheme
matching the region’s colors in the coming months in cooperation
with the client. In addition, the train offers improved access via
large, platform-level doors, wide corridors and gangways for easy
movement throughout the length of the train.
The 135m-long trainset for Hauts-de-France will offer a seating
capacity reaching 463 seats, with large baggage racks, a dedicated
area for two wheel-chairs and space for twelve bicycles. It will be
capable of operating in multiple units of two offering up to 926
seats per-train.The OMNEO platform, which includes the OMNEO
Premium and the Regio 2N, is a family of extra-large double
deck-trains which brings greater capacity, comfort and
accessibility to urban, regional and intercity services. To date,
ten French regions have ordered a total of 401 OMNEO/Regio 2N
trains. The OMNEO platform offers trains for suburban, regional and
intercity services. Orders per region are as follows: 91 OMNEO
Premium trains for Centre-Val de Loire (32), Hauts-de-France (19)
and Normandy (40); and 310 Regio 2N for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (40),
Brittany (26), Centre-Val de Loire (14), Hauts-de-France (25),
Île-de-France (134), Nouvelle Aquitaine (24), Occitanie (18),
Pays-de-la-Loire (13), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (16).
Renowned as France's first industrial rail site, about 2,000
people work on Bombardier's facility in Crespin (Nord), including
500 engineers and managers. The company designs, builds and
commissions different types of equipment and is specialized in
double deck platforms. Three emblematic projects are now in
production: 1) OMNEO (in the Premium and Regio 2N regional
versions) is an extra-capacity, double-deck train for the various
French regions, which ordered 401 train sets in a contract signed
in 2010. 2) Francilien is an ultra-modern commuter train for
Greater Paris. Île-de-France Mobilités has ordered 313 trains.
Operating since December 2009, it is the best performing train of
the SNCF Transilien network, servicing the P, L, J, K and H lines
3) RER NG, under a contract signed in 2017 as part of a consortium
for Île-de-France Mobilités, will operate on the E and D lines of
the RER.About Bombardier Transportation Bombardier
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