SPANISH train builder Construccionesy Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) has won a contract worth in excess of 500 million Euros (approximately £437 million) to build and maintain a 10-strong fleet of 10- car tri-mode multiple units for London North Eastern Railway.
To be assembled at the company’s Newport plant in South Wales, the trains will be capable of taking traction power from 25kV AC overhead wires, as well as from on board batteries and diesel engines.
They will be part of CAF’s ‘Civity’ family, which includes the TransPennine Expressoperated Class 397 ‘Nova 2’ EMUs, to which they are expected to bear a strong resemblance.