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The Alstom Metropolis Saint-Laurent [66] is a type of light metro train built by Alstom for the Réseau express métropolitain, using the Alstom Metropolis platform. Trains run as a single two-car train at quieter times and as paired four-car trainsets during rush hour. [ 67 ]
The Alstom Metropolis Saint-Laurent [27] entered service on 31 July 2023, with the opening of the first five stations of the REM network. [28] [29] In April 2024, CDPQ Infra announced that they would run two-car trains on weekends and other off-peak periods instead of four-car trains, thereby reducing energy consumption and wear on the vehicles ...
Alstom SA is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional and urban trains along with trams.
The Westinghouse motors were retained on the Alstom C (C1) and Morrison-Knudsen C2 cars and the motors that were removed from the Rohr cars were kept as spares. Cars have a starting acceleration of 3.0 mph/s or 4.8 km/(h⋅s) and are capable of holding that acceleration up to 31 mph (50 km/h).
In June 2017, the first six Alstom 300 started operating in the line. [64] After the project to add CBTC to the line in 2024, Line D's fleet was made up of exclusively Alstom 300 cars, with the Alstom 100 cars previously assigned to the line were overhauled and transferred to Line E.
In 2022 tests were carried out on a test track at an Alstom factory in the north of France. On June 22, 2023, the first MR6V train arrived at the Champigny depot on line 15. The second arrived on July 3 and will allow static tests to be carried out until November 2023, when dynamic tests will begin on the now completed East section, of line 15.
The Dandenong rolling stock factory was built by Commonwealth Engineering opening in 1954. [1] [2] In 1990, the plant was sold to ABB.[3] [4] It was included in the 1996 merger of ABB and the Daimler-Benz rail division, as Adtranz, [5] the 2000 takeover of Adtranz by Bombardier, [6] and the 2021 takeover of Bombardier by Alstom.
In 2000, Amtrak introduced the Acela service along the Northeast Corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C., via New York City and Philadelphia.The service uses a dedicated Acela Express trainset that was built by a consortium of Alstom and Bombardier between 1998 and 2001.