29.01.10
Stadler Pankow receives considerable order: 20 Light Rail Vehicles for Stuttgart
On 26 January 2010, in Berlin, Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen AG signed the order for 20 Light Rail Vehicles from Stadler Pankow GmbH. The order is for the Tango, which corresponds to the public transport company’s S-DT8 Light Rail Vehicle. The order is worth EUR 77 million.
“We are very happy about this considerable achievement. Stadler Pankow has once again succeeded with its concept for modular Light Rail Vehicles” says Michael Daum, Director of Stadler Pankow GmbH. “This order confirms that we are accepted as an established market provider of trams and Light Rail Vehicles.”
The two-section Light Rail Vehicles for Stuttgart have a length of 38.6 metres and a width of 2.65 metres. The appealing interior has 108 seats and 144 standing places as well as air conditioning for both passengers and driver. Four doorways on each of the bidirectional vehicle’s sides permit a rapid exchange of passengers. The completely high-floor Light Rail Vehicles per-form at a top speed of 80 km/h.
Stadler Rail Group, system supplier of customer-specific solutions for rail vehicle construction, has locations in Switzerland (Altenrhein, Bussnang and Winterthur), in Germany (Berlin-Pankow and Velten), in Poland (Siedlce), in Hungary (Budapest, Pusztaszabolcs and Szolnok) and in Algeria (Algiers). The Group has a workforce of over 2,400 people around the world. The best-known vehicle series from the Stadler Rail Group are the articulated multiple-unit trains GTW (501 trains sold), the Regio-Shuttle RS1 (404 trains sold), the FLIRT (547 trains sold), the double-decker DOSTO (73 trains sold) in the railway segment, and the Variobahn (264 trains sold) and the newly-developed Tango (110 trains sold) in the tram segment. Furthermore Stadler Rail manufactures passenger carriages and two-axle locomotives and is the world’s leading manufacturer of rack-and-pinion rail vehicles.