PESA Bydgoszcz has signed a contract in Bucharest to supply 62 electric trains to Romanian Railways. This is the second contract between the manufacturer and the Romanian Railway Reform Agency (ARF). The trains will be destined for the Bucharest, Iasi and Cluj regions. The signing ceremony was attended by the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure of Romania, Sorin-Mihai Grindeanu, and the Polish Ambassador to Bucharest, Paweł Soloch.
“The vehicles to be supplied to Romanian Railways will be a development of the Pesa 654/655 family of electric trainsets, which have been receiving good reviews in the Czech Republic and are being produced for the private Czech carrier RegioJet. For us, this is another important step in building the company’s position as a supplier of modern, comfortable ‘Intercity’ class vehicles. We want to supply them, also in the HS version, to hauliers operating connections within Via Baltica and further south in Europe, in the whole Trimarium region’, said Krzysztof Zdziarski, CEO of PESA Bydgoszcz.
The Inter-Regio vehicles that PESA will produce for the Romanian Railways are 3-unit electric multiple units built on separate bogies, developing speeds of up to 160 km/h, with 192 seats in 1st and 2nd class, enabling barrier-free operation of 550 mm platforms, powered by AC 25kV catenary and equipped with the Romanian PZB 90 safety system.
The total value of the project is between 3,237,711,753 and 4,150,288,451 Romanian lei net (between PLN 2.9 billion and PLN 3.72 billion net).
As part of the contract, PESA will also provide the ARF with vehicle maintenance services for 15 years and to this end PESA will set up local service centres together with the state-owned CFR Calatori Railways. In this regard, PESA has already signed preliminary agreements with State Railways CFR Calatori and CFR SA.
To date, Pesa has supplied trams to the Romanian market between 2012 and 2023. A total of 37 of them are already running, in Cluj, Iasi and Craiova.
Adrian Andrzejewski