{"id":13886,"date":"2024-03-20T22:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13886"},"modified":"2024-03-20T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:40:12","slug":"alstom-secures-maintenance-contract-with-vr-sverige-in-gavleborg-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13886","title":{"rendered":"Alstom secures maintenance contract with VR Sverige in Gavleborg, Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph\"><strong>March 19, 2024 <\/strong>\u2013 Alstom, a global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, will maintain the X-trafik fleet consisting of nine two and three carriage trains. The maintenance is to be carried out through VR SverigeAB&#8217;s new contract as operator for the X-trains in Gavleborg County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">The eleven year contract includes both operations and maintenance. While VR Sverige AB takes over the role of operator, Alstom&#8217;s workshop in Gavle will handle the maintenance of X-trafik&#8217;s trains.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Alstom renewed its maintenance agreement with VR Sverige AB, which was initially valued at approximately one billion SEK and covered 30 regional trains over a ten-year period. Now, Alstom will also be responsible for the maintenance of X-trafik&#8217;s fleet consisting of nine two and three carriage trains in the Regina model, serving routes from Gavle to Ljusdal and Sundsvall.<\/p>\n<p>VR Sverige AB is part of the Finnish VR Group. VR Sverige is responsible for the Pagatagen in southern Sweden on behalf of Skanetrafiken, Skane&#8217;s public transport, and the Ostgotapendeln, Smaland&#8217;s railway network. In Stockholm, VR Sverige operates buses, trams, and local trains on behalf of SL, Stockholm&#8217;s public transport. The Finnish VR Group is Finland&#8217;s railway network that has been operating trains, buses, and trams in Finland for 160 years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Xtrafik i Sundsvall\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PgWqTq7tFpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 19, 2024 \u2013 Alstom, a global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, will maintain the X-trafik fleet consisting of nine two and three carriage trains. The maintenance is to be carried out through VR SverigeAB&#8217;s new contract as operator for the X-trains in Gavleborg County. The eleven year contract includes both operations and maintenance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13890,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions\/13890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}