posted on 15th Aug 2024 10:37
CAF has sent its first of a batch of 28 Civity Nordic EMUs and EDMUs for Swedish operator Krösatågen from its plant in Spain to the VUZ test centre Velim. The four-car unit 803 001 (incomplete EVN: 94 74 0 803 001-5, no country code, no vehicle keeper code, indication on paper behind windows EMU 2942) has been transported by ship from Spain to the maritime port of Moerdijk, about 30 km South of Rotterdam, arriving there in the end of July 2024. The 76 m long train has been coupled on a quai in the port of Moerdijk and is to be transported by rail to Velim.
Specifically, these will be units of the Civity Nordic version, designed for operation at temperatures of between -40 and +40 °C. Twenty of them will be 15 kV four-car EMUs with a length of about 76 m, and eight will be EDMUs, with a length of about 67 m. The latter will consist of three cars and a Power module.
Quintus Vosman