France’s Alstom said on Monday it had won a 150-million-euro
($170 million) contract to provide metro trains and signalling for the northern
Indian city of Lucknow.
The French manufacturer said it had inked an accord with
Lucknow Metro Rail Corporation (LMRC) to provide 20 four-car Metropolis trains
fitted with air conditioning for a 23-kilometre (14-mile) line comprising 22
stations.
“This is an important project for Lucknow’s inhabitants and
its visitors as they will soon be able to commute from the north to the south
of the city onboard a metro that is safe, fast, reliable and environmentally
friendly,” said Dominique Pouliquen, Senior Vice-President for Alstom Transport
Asia-Pacific.
The company said the metro cars for Lucknow, capital of
Uttar Pradesh, will be produced in its Sri City train manufacturing facility in
India with the signalling system jointly supplied by Alstom’s sites in
Bangalore, India and Saint-Ouen, France.
Alstom’s latest inroad into Indian rail infrastructure adds
to the previous award of major metro projects in other cities including
Chennai, Delhi and Kochi.
The firm’s Metropolis train already operates in several
major cities including Paris, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Amsterdam.
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