Australia: Recently, a six-car trainset was delivered to a depot in Newport for trial operation in 2025. The train will provide passenger service on the 1,600 mm gauge commuter network of the Australian city by the end of that year.
A fleet of 25 trains, worth €300 mln, has been ordered by the Melbourne transport department in 2021. They will replace the trains built by the local train builder, Comeng, in the 1980s. The X’Trapolis can carry 10% more passengers (1,225), has a 15 km/h higher maximum speed (130 km/h) and a 0.4 m/s2 bigger acceleration (1.2 m/s2). Inside the train, there are 20 places for passengers in wheelchairs and multifunctional spaces for prams and bicycles.
The vehicles are assembled in Ballarat, Australia, with the achieved localisation level of 60%.
Between 2002 and 2020, Alstom delivered 106 X’Trapolis 100 EMUs to Melbourne, which belong to the previous generation.
