SAUDI ARABIA: Talgo is to provide an additional 20 trainsets to be used on the Haramain Excessive Velocity Railway as a part of a wider package deal of funding agreed with the Spanish consortium that developed the road.
The 453 km electrified excessive pace line opened in 2018 connects Makkah and Madinah through Jeddah and King Abdullah Financial Metropolis. It’s at the moment labored by a fleet of 35 Talgo 350 trainsets working at as much as 300 km/h. The rolling inventory producer mentioned the newest batch of trains could be equipped to the same specification, providing a capability of 417 seats distributed in two courses throughout 13 coaches, along with devoted areas for catering and passengers with lowered mobility. The order has added €1·3bn to the corporate’s order guide, it mentioned when saying the order on February 8.
The Haramain railway has been developed and managed by the Consorcio Español Alta Velocidad Meca Medina, which incorporates Spanish nationwide operator RENFEas an working companion. On February 8, Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente joined officers from the Saudi authorities in Riyadh to announce the rolling inventory order and ensure that the operator would proceed to run trains on behalf of Saudi Arabia Railways till 2038. This represented an funding of €2·8bn throughout the consortium, Puente added.
Vital settlement with Saudi Arabia. We assure the continuity of @Renfe as supervisor of the Saudi excessive pace till 2038 and the acquisition of 20 new trains from @TalgoGroup with an injection of greater than €2,800 M for our corporations.
An vital present of confidence in our… pic.twitter.com/fCAMvMph3n
— Óscar Puente (@oscar_puente_) February 8, 2026
On February 10, one other member of the consortium, Indra, mentioned it had seen its contract to function and preserve rail site visitors administration, telecommunications, reserving, ticketing, entry management, security and IT methods on the railway for ‘a minimum of’ an additional 5 years. The contract extension is value roughly €130m, the corporate mentioned.
‘With the renewal of this contract, we reaffirm our dedication to the digital transformation of transport in a area which is witnessing important progress in mobility, with a transparent deal with modern answer’, mentioned Raúl Ripio, Managing Director of Mobility & Know-how at Indra Group.
