Alstom Transport India has awarded a contract to Wabtec to ship braking techniques for trains on the Metro Line 3 challenge within the Indian metropolis of Pune.
The contract contains 22 trains with 66 vehicles in a three-car configuration, which can function on the 23km-long Hinjewadi-Shivajinagar elevated Metro Line 3.
These vehicles are at present being manufactured at Alstom’s Sricity plant in India.
The brand new braking know-how is claimed to supply essential security options to the trains.
In response to the seller, the system can even cut back the trains’ upkeep intervals.
Wabtec is a most well-liked brake supplier for the SMART Metro Platform, having already offered comparable braking options for the Chennai, Kochi, Lucknow, and Mumbai metro initiatives in India.
Its newest order for Pune IT Metropolis Metro Rail Restricted and Pune Metro Rail Improvement Authority additional strengthens its India portfolio.
Scheduled to start out service by April 2025, Pune Metro Line 3 will hyperlink the Hinjewadi IT hub to the central district of Shivajinagar.
Wabtec Transit gross sales and advertising and marketing director for India Preetam Ganguly stated: “This order reinforces Wabtec’s steady dedication to ship excessive efficiency and security essential merchandise for the metro rolling inventory section in India.
“This braking system additionally has a considerable ‘Make in India’ content material and is primarily designed by our in-country engineering crew.”
Working primarily out of Hosur, Tamil Nadu, the agency’s Indian Transit enterprise makes subsystems for the transit sector reminiscent of brake techniques, passenger-access doorways, pantographs, and couplers.
Wabtec presents technical and repair help by means of its engineering presence in Bangalore.
In March 2022, the agency obtained a contract for the On-line Monitoring of Rolling Inventory (OMRS) challenge, as a part of the ‘SMART Yard’ initiative of Indian Railways.
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