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43-482: The CAF Civity is a family of regional passenger trains which is manufactured by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles . Available as both diesel , electric and battery-electric multiple unit , the Civity was first launched in 2010 and received its first order two years later. As of 2023, 251 Civity units have been constructed, with a further 261 on order. The United Kingdom

86-602: A cartel with other 7 international companies which colluded in tenders over Spanish rail infrastructure . In April 2014, two carriages of an Urbos 3 tram in Belgrade separated during passenger service, due to the cracking of screws connecting the cars. Half of the Belgrade tramway's CAF fleet were found to have been affected by similar cracking of screws in the two weeks prior to the incident. In March 2016, 19 British Rail Class 332 units were taken out of service after

129-636: A consortium, JNET, together with the Israeli company Shapir Engineering and Industry, has won a tender promoted by the Israeli Ministry of Transport and Road Safety to supply railway equipment, in addition to building, extending and operating light rail lines from Jerusalem to nearby settlements in disputed territories , in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In turn, Shapir is on the list of companies that benefit from

172-618: A crack was discovered in the underframe of one unit during routine maintenance. In December 2017, the Besançon Tramway in Besançon , France discovered cracks in their Urbos 3s vehicles around the bogie box area of the bodies, which in December 2020 CAF paid for remedial work to be performed with each unit affected requiring one month downtime for the work to be completed. In January 2019, BM3 number 1322-2322 "Putna" of

215-556: A maintenance contract as part of the Regional Rail Project. The new trains, referred to as the R sets , will replace the XPT (19 power cars and 60 carriages), Xplorer (23 carriages) and Endeavour (28 carriages) trains. The 117 new carriages will make up 10 diesel-electric trainsets for use on long-distance services linking Sydney , Melbourne and Brisbane , plus nine short and 10 long multiple-units for regional routes,

258-472: A pick-up shoe or 15 kV or 25 kV AC power supplies with a pantograph. It has so far been ordered in either three, four or five car formations, with these being capable of speeds between 75–125 mph (120–200 km/h). In February 2019, Transport for NSW signed a contract with Momentum Trains PPP to supply 117 Civity bi mode (diesel and electric supply) carriages, a new maintenance centre in Dubbo and

301-519: A regional train operator in Bari , Apulia . They have been in use since 2014 and 2015. The El Insurgente commuter rail service between Mexico City and Toluca uses electric multiple units combining the Civity and the earlier Civia designs. Three Class 6111 three-car EMUs were delivered to Željeznički prevoz Crne Gore (ŽPCG), the national railway company of Montenegro , specifically to serve

344-709: A result of an agreement made between CAF and the Welsh Government . The Newport factory has built stock for Transport for Wales , Arriva Rail North , the Docklands Light Railway , and potentially High Speed 2 if CAF win the bid process. They also donated £150,000 to the Conservative Party . CAF Signalling was fined in 2021 with 1.7 million euros by the Spanish commission on markets and competition because of its participation in

387-673: A total of 29 trains. The trains have been heavily delayed and now due to commence in service in 2025. In June 2021, the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) and the Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe (NWL) announced that CAF, using its Civity platform, had been selected to build and maintain for 30 years, 63 battery electric multiple units (48 long and 15 short version) for the Niederrhein-Münsterland regional train network, comprising

430-669: A yaw damper bracket had detached from the body of unit 195121. On June 11, 2021, West Midlands Metro (operating between Birmingham and Wolverhampton , England ) were forced to suspend their services due to cracks being discovered in the bogie box areas of their Urbos 3s vehicles, with ongoing investigations continuing to identify any other issues relating to the cracks and to find options for remedial works to be performed. Full service only began once more in February 2022. On June 24, 2021, Flytoget were forced to withdraw their entire CAF Oaris fleet after 19 days of service due to

473-524: A €400 million order for 34 electric and seven diesel-electric multiple units. The order also included a 30-year maintenance plan for the units. The three car sets were to be built for the 1,520 mm ( 4 ft  11 + 27 ⁄ 32  in ) Russian gauge and capable of operating on lines electrified at 3000V DC with a maximum speed of 140 km/h (90 mph). The order was subsequently cancelled, with no units built. " El Insurgente " Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles Over

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516-692: Is part because of implementation of ERTMS and part because of having more doors and toilets. In 2022 CAF won the Dubbeldekker Nieuwe Generatie  [ nl ] tender for NS with Civity Duo, the first double decker of the Civity platform. The contract consists of 60 double decker train sets with 4 or 6 coaches, with an option to expand the contract to 80,000 seats. In 2022, Renfe Viajeros placed an initial order for 28 EMUs for regional services with options for 42 additional trains, with an investment of €290 million. The next year, CAF received an extension for 32 more trains, extending

559-457: Is the largest customer of the platform with a total of 216 units ordered. The Civity is a modular platform available in four variants, which are diesel , diesel-electric, electric and bi/dual mode . Most variants of the Civity platform, with the exception of the Civity UK and NSW , have shared bogies and a low floor. As of 2024, the diesel variant has only been ordered by operators in

602-587: The Apulia region, it manages the Ferrovie del Nord Barese network, composed by the Bari–Barletta railway and the Bari metropolitan railway service . Ferrotramviaria operates two railway lines on the network of Ferrovie del Nord Barese : On the network are two commuter lines (FM 1 and FM 2) and two regional lines (FR 1 and FR 2) in service. The company also has two locomotives used on freight services along

645-663: The Bucharest Metro crashed in Metrorex's Berceni underground workshops, currently concessioned by Alstom under a long maintenance contract. The year long investigation by the AGIFER proved that the TCMS software was at fault. As of 2024, legal battles between Metrorex/Alstom and CAF are still carried. In April 2021, 22 British Rail Class 195 Civity units were temporarily removed from service after routine maintenance revealed

688-740: The Podgorica-Nikšić railway , cutting travel time to 50 minutes. The first of the new trains started with service on 13 July 2013. In 2014, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) placed a €510 million order for 118 Civity sets. These new trains, which will consist of three and four car formations, will replace the NS SGMm sets. The train is known as the Sprinter New Generation (SNG) by the NS. The trains will be delivered from 2018 and can operate at 160 km/h (100 mph). A mock-up of an SNG

731-673: The Sydney L1 Dulwich Hill Line would be decommissioned for up to 18 months, due to serious design flaws in all 12 of the CAF Urbos 3s tram sets that were running on the line. Stokes stated that the flaws (in the bogie boxes) were likely to be far broader in scope than those identified in Sydney due to the thousands of the same tram type operated around the world. In March 2022, the West Midlands Metro

774-517: The 20 years from the early 1990s, CAF benefited from the rail investment boom in its home market in Spain to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. CAF has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major urban transit operators around Europe, the US, South America, East Asia, India, Australia and North Africa. CAF was an acronym for

817-515: The 2020 project for 31 trains for the FEVE narrow-gauge lines in the northern regions of Cantabria and Asturias, Spain, asked for a carriage width that would not fit through the existing 19th-century tunnels. The change in specifications will delay the established delivery date of October 2024 by two years to 2026. In July 2023, body cracks were discovered in four British Rail Mark 5A "Nova 3" carriage sets, leading to daily inspections of all sets and

860-671: The European Commission's competition authority for the approval of the 2021 takeover of Bombardier Transportation by Alstom . CAF U.S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of CAF, was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Elmira, New York . It manufactures rolling stock for the North American market at a plant in Elmira that the company acquired from ADtranz in 2000. The company from Beasain continued its expansion during

903-646: The RB68 (Münster – Sendenhorst) and RB76 (Verl – Gütersloh – Harsewinkel) services from December 2025. In 2010, the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia placed an order with CAF for eight ETR 563 five-car units for Trenitalia . Four more units were subsequently ordered, with these units capable of operating services into Slovenia and Austria , with these being designated as ETR 564 units. The units were delayed into service as they could not be approved. Five four-car ETR 452 trains have been built for Ferrotramviaria ,

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946-582: The RE10, RB37 (lot 1), RE14, RE44, RB31, RB36, RB41 and RB43 (lot 2) train services in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The fleet will be owned by the VRR and NWL and will be made available to DB Regio (lot 1) and the other train operating company that has yet to be selected (lot 2). The operations on the individual services are due to start between December 2025 and 2028. In 2022, the Nahverkehr Westfalen-Lippe ordered an additional 10 long units for operation on

989-703: The Spanish RENFE and in 2005, high-speed trains were exported for the first time (to Turkey). In 2018, CAF took over the Polish bus manufacturer Solaris. The company also acquired the Talent 3 platform from competitor Bombardier Transportation in 2022, as well as the Coradia Polyvalent platform and the plant in Reichshoffen from train manufacturer Alstom . This was a condition imposed by

1032-513: The United Kingdom ( Northern , West Midlands Trains and Transport for Wales ), with these units being constructed in either two, three or four-car formations. These trains will be fitted with MTU powerplants which produce 523 horsepower (390 kW) per engine (one engine per car), which will give them a maximum speed of 100 mph (160 km/h). The electric variant is capable of operating on 1500 V or 3000 V DC power supplies with

1075-402: The company's competitiveness and intensified the focus on in-house technology. In 1971, the existing Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) merged with Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) and the company adopted its current name Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles . Since the early 1990s, CAF has also been active internationally. In the early 2000s, CAF supplied high-speed trains to

1118-581: The discovery of cracks in the chassis. The first unit was returned to service after modifications to the cracked part on the 9th of January, 2023. By the end of June 2023, two years after the withdrawal, six out of eight units had been returned to service. In the meantime, CAF has paid an unknown amount to Flytoget in compensation. Following on from these instances, in November 2021 the New South Wales transport minister Rob Stokes announced that

1161-481: The earlier name of Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles , as well as for Construcciones y Auxiliar de Feres . In 1860, Domingo Goitia, Martín Usabiaga and José Francisco Arana established this company, whose main activity was puddling furnaces and cylinder rolling. In 1892, Francisco de Goitia (Domingo Goitia's son and heir) joined the Marquess of Urquijo to set up La Maquinista Guipuzcoana , whose main activity

1204-642: The expansion of activity after the Spanish Civil War (CAF took part in reconstructing the Spanish rail fleet). In 1954, CAF took over Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) from Zaragoza ( Aragon ), a company with extensive experience in manufacturing long-distance and subway trains. Since 1958, the company has modernized and enlarged its Beasain plant and expanded its activity to include all kinds of rolling stock. In line with this, in 1969 CAF created its Research and Development Unit, which increased

1247-406: The four-car Class 350 /4 units which were previously used on these services. They have a maximum speed of 125 mph (200 km/h). It was announced in late 2017 that CAF will also supply 26 Class 196 diesel multiple units for West Midlands Trains , which will be in two-car and four-car formations. They will operate services for the company's West Midlands Railway sub-brand. In June 2018 it

1290-673: The leasing company Transitio . The trains will be of Civity Nordic version, designed for operation at temperatures of between −40 and 40 °C (−40 and 104 °F) and are set to arrive 2024–27 and will replace the X11s , X14s , Itinos and Y2s currently running in the regions. The maximum speed of EMUs will be 200 km/h (125 mph), that of the BMUs will be 200 km/h (125 mph) in electric mode and 140 km/h (90 mph) in diesel mode. In January 2016, Arriva Rail North placed an order for 98 (later increased to 101) units, with

1333-479: The line's platform screen doors , the trains will have a 20,000 mm (65 ft 7 in) car length, 2,950 mm (9 ft 8 in) width and be 4,150 mm (13 ft 7 in) in height. It will also have a high platform design of 1,150 mm (3 ft 9 in) height as measured from the rails. The trains can fit up to 800 passengers with 392 seated, 8 wheelchair spaces and 400 standees. In 2012, Latvian railway operator Pasažieru vilciens placed

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1376-407: The majority of these trains due to operate on the company's Northern Connect regional express services (now under operator Northern Trains ). The order breakdown is for 58 (originally 55) Class 195 diesel multiple units (two and three-car) and 43 Class 331 electric multiple units (three and four-car). All of these trains were planned to gradually enter service throughout 2019. In early 2018, it

1419-589: The occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as denounced by the United Nations Human Rights Council. For FEVE , now part of Renfe Operadora : For Euskotren : For Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca : For other operators: For Madrid: For Barcelona: For Helsinki: For Bucharest: For Amsterdam: For Brussels: CAF Rolling Stock U.K. Ltd announced in 2017 its UK factory location

1462-565: The order of 7 Civity trains from Mitsubishi –CAF joint venture in 2023. These 8-car trains shall be used on the North–South Commuter Railway 's Airport Express service with a maximum speed of 160 km/h (100 mph). Its design is based on the Mexican El Insurgente trains, distinguished by the use of 1.5 kilovolt DC electrification, gangway doors and the adoption of Japanese Shibata couplers. For compatibility with

1505-470: The order to 60 trains. Those EMU will have a maximum speed of 200 km/h (125 mph), and will have three- and five-car versions. The public transport agencies of Jönköpings län , Kronobergs län and Kalmar län have made a joint order for 20 electric units (EMU) and 8 units that can be powered either by an external electricity supply or by using the onboard diesel engine ( BMU ). The contract also contain an option for another 19 EMUs and 7 BMUs through

1548-413: The temporary withdrawal of five sets from service. That August, the operator TransPennine Express confirmed its intention to cease usage of all sets from the December 2023 timetable change. During the 2019 United Kingdom general election , CAF Rail UK Limited made a donation of £50,000 to the Conservative Party . In 2019, it entered into litigation that affects its corporate image. Participating in

1591-533: The third millennium. On 24 May 2019, it announced the acquisition of the Swedish company Euromaint at a cost of circa €80 million, following other international contracts to supply Flemish and English railway and underground networks in 2017. CAF Rolling Stock U.K. Ltd. is the CAF subsidiary in the United Kingdom. Its factory is based at Celtic Springs Business Park, at Llanwern steelworks near Newport, Wales as

1634-578: Was again forced to suspend its services due to the discovery of more cracks, this time on the bodywork of the trams. On February 17, 2023, the Department of Transportation of the Philippines revealed that nearly 80 of the new light rail vehicles for Manila's LRT Line 1 cannot be used due to water leaks in the cars. Fortunately, these issues were eventually resolved, enabling the entire fleet to be utilized. In February 2023, CAF revealed that

1677-477: Was announced that KeolisAmey Wales had ordered 51 two-car and 26 three-car diesel multiple Civitys, to be based at Chester and Machynlleth depots. These have since received the TOPS designation Class 197 . In November 2023 it was announced that London North Eastern Railway had ordered 10 ten-car tri-mode Civitys. They have since been classified as Class 897 units. The Philippine National Railways confirmed

1720-520: Was presented in September 2015, featuring sockets, recycling bins and a toilet. An additional 88 sets were ordered in December 2018, with deliveries expected to continue through 2023. In 2024 Qbuzz placed an order for 10 three car Civity sets. These sets will replace 2 Stadler GTW 2/6 and 8 GTW 2/8 trainsets delivered in 2008-2011. The new trainsets will be in service by the end of 2027 and can operate at 160 km/h (100 mph). The replacement

1763-599: Was revealed that there is an option for an undisclosed number of additional carriages. There is also a provision available to extend the four car Class 331 units to five carriages in the future. The extra three Class 195 units were ordered in November 2018. CAF built twelve Class 397 five-car electric multiple units for TransPennine Express for its West Coast Main Line services, which operate from Liverpool and Manchester Airport to Glasgow and Edinburgh . These units were due to be delivered between 2018 and 2019, replacing

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1806-606: Was selected as Celtic Business Park at Llanwern steelworks in Newport , Wales . It has at least five confirmed UK projects from 2019 onwards and would have been the construction site for their unsuccessful bid to deliver stock for High Speed 2 . The site was funded with support from the Welsh Government Inward Investment Programme. Ferrotramviaria Ferrotramviaria is a private railway company of Italy . Based in Bari , in

1849-512: Was the operation of machinery and the forging and construction of railway rolling stock. In 1898, it set up its plant in Beasain , Gipuzkoa . In 1905 it changed its name to Fábrica de Vagones de Beasain (FVB). Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) was founded in 1917, specializing in freight car production and with a total of 1,600 employees. In 1940, the Irun factory was set up, following

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