Alstom To Supply 4 Additional Pendolino High Speed Trains To SBB

(RTTNews) - Speed-train maker Alstom SA (AOMFF.PK, ALS.L) said it has been awarded a contract worth around 115 million euros by SBB, the Swiss federal railway operator, for the supply of four Pendolino high speed trains.

The first two trains will be delivered in 2016 and the two others in 2017. Designed to meet European interoperability standards, the trains will run between Milan and Geneva or Bern-Basel and between Milan and Zurich or Luzern-Basel, to cope with the increase of passengers on those lines.

The Pendolino train for SBB is a seven-car train set which can accommodate up to 430 passengers at a commercial top speed of 250 km per hour.

The train is equipped with the latest generation of flexible bogies reducing track and wheel wear. It also benefits from Alstom's tilting technology that allows for trains to run safely at a speed 35 percent faster through curves on conventional lines.

Designed to be eco-friendly, Pendolino is 95 percent recyclable and is equipped with an electric braking system enabling almost 10 percent reduction in energy consumption.