Alpha Trains, Europe’s largest leasing company for rail rolling stock, has ordered seven Desiro Mainline (ML) regional trains from Siemens Mobility.
Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn GmbH (ODEG) will lease the trains, which it will run on behalf of Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (VMV).
Production has already started at the Siemens Mobility train-manufacturing facility in Krefeld.
The trains will initially be delivered as three-part units and will be used on the Rostock-Sassnitz, Stralsund-Binz and Rostock-Züssow lines.
Their capacity will be expanded to four-part units shortly after delivery.
Sabrina Soussan, CEO of Siemens Mobility (
www.new.siemens.com), said: “We are providing a train for our customer in record time.
“This speed is made possible by the high flexibility of our Desiro ML platform, which allows the easy addition or removal of an intermediate car, depending on the required transport capacity.”