Don't worry, they all do this. In its advertising in the past, Bombardier
was claiming Comeng's products as its own. What goes around, comes around.
There will be quite a long runout phase for Bombardier models as there are
still many orders in progress, some with extensions. It'll be at least a
couple of years before we get an indication of where the Alstom product
range is going to land.
I was hoping that we might have upset Macron so much that we won't get any
more French trams or French operators, but I guess that is too much to wish
for. I see that Transdev has been chucked out of Melbourne, replaced by an
Australian operator, Kinetic.
Tony P
On Tuesday, October 5, 2021 at 12:19:35 PM UTC+11a...@... wrote:
> Classic PR puffery and self congratulation.
>
> How good it is to be able to boast about selling a tram designed and built
> by a former competitor before it was bought out, while also claiming credit
> for something that maybe shouldn’t be boasted about, the Citadis X02s.
>
> The pic is of 6001, a Bombardier built car, not 6100, but who notices
> details?
>
> Note they didn’t mention that other Alstom product with an aversion to
> going around corners, the ex-Mulhouse cars. Why not - they’re just as
> “local” as the X02s.
>
> Tony
>
>
> https://www.railexpress.com.au/101996-2/
>
> Alstom scores century with Flexity
> Ray Chan https://www.railexpress.com.au/author/ray-chan/4 days ago
>
> Alstom has delivered the 100th, and final, Flexity light rail vehicle
> (LRV) to the Department of Transport in Victoria.
>
> As Australia’s only end-to-end manufacturer of LRVs, Alstom designed the
> vehicles to meet the specific characteristics of the Melbourne tram
> network, including increased accessibility.
>
> The trams were locally manufactured at Alstom’s Dandenong rolling stock
> facility, including more than 50% local content, supporting around 75
> employees and a thriving ecosystem of local suppliers in Victoria.
>
> The tram is based on Alstom’s popular low-floor Flexity LRV platform,
> which is the largest fleet of modern low-floor trams operating on the
> world’s largest tram network, spanning more than 250km of double track.
>
> The fleet is about one fifth of the network’s overall fleet.
>
> The original contract for the first 50 trams was signed in 2010, with
> further orders for an additional 20, 10, 10 and 10 vehicles awarded between
> 2015 and 2019, proving the performance, quality and accessibility
> credentials of the platform.
>
> Alstom’s LRV fleet in Victoria also includes 41 Citadis X02 LRVs, taking
> the total number of vehicles operating on the network to 141.
>
> Alstom’s Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, Mark
> Coxon, said, the company was thrilled to have delivered the
> 100 Flexity LRVs to its customer, creating a new milestone for Melbourne’s
> much-loved tram network.
>
> “In Australian rolling stock terms, this is a truly iconic fleet –
> the Flexity was made in Melbourne, for Melbourne – and Alstom is proud to
> be part of this story for Victoria,” he said.
>
> Alstom has been providing sustainable infrastructure solutions across
> Australia for more than 100 years and currently employs about 1600 people
> across 25 sites that include engineering centers, manufacturing facilities,
> project delivery offices and maintenance depots and workshops. Alstom’s
> installed base of LRVs in Australia exceeds 250 vehicles.
>
> *More reading*
>
> A-City trains delivered https://www.railexpress.com.au/101971-2/
>
> Revival for WA train manufacturing
> https://www.railexpress.com.au/alstom-brings-train-manufacturing-back-to-life-in-western-australia/
>
>