NEW TRAINS FOR GLASGOW’S UNDERGROUND ON TEST
The Glasgow Subway, with its 10.6km twin tunnel loops beneath the city, is in the midst of modernisation. In 2016 Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, which owns and operates the Subway, let a £200 million contract to provide new trains and signalling to a consortium of Stadler and Ansaldo (now Hitachi), known as ANSTA. This forms part of an overall £288 million modernisation of the system, with £246 million of that funding coming from Transport Scotland. The first three new trains are now in Glasgow and installation of new signalling equipment has begun, with plans to eventually move to Unattended Train Operation with no on-board staff.
NEW TRAINS AND SIGNALLING
The contract with the ANSTA joint venture is essentially in two halves. Stadler is supplying 17x4-car trains to replace the existing fleet of 41 vehicles, which are formed into three-car trains. Hitachi is providing a new signalling and control system to facilitate a future move to Unattended Train Operation.
The first train was unveiled by Stadler at the InnoTrans trade show in Berlin in September 2018.
Three trains were subsequently delivered to Glasgow, where testing has begun on two tracks at E…
