{"id":843302,"date":"2026-08-04T14:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843302\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:30:13","slug":"alstom-to-supply-25-additional-xtrapolis-2-0-trains-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843302\/","title":{"rendered":"Alstom to Supply 25 Additional X\u2019trapolis 2.0 Trains in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alstom has announced the acceptance of a 270 million EUR order for the production of 25 X\u2019trapolis 2.0 trains across the company\u2019s facilities throughout Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows the exercise of a contract option by the Victorian Government, and will see new units join the initial trains first introduced into service in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27847776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Alstom-to-Supply-25-Additional-Xtrapolis-2.0-Trains-in-Australia.jpeg\" alt=\"The new trains will be built at Alstom's facilities across Victoria\" width=\"560\" height=\"931\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The new trains will be built at Alstom\u2019s facilities across Victoria<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Alstom<\/p>\n<p>Tailored from Alstom\u2019s Adessia commuter rail platform; the X\u2019trapolis 2.0 train is notable for its use of a 60% local content requirement, which necessitates the use of skilled manufacturers from across metropolitan and regional Victoria in an effort to support the broader supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise of the option brings the total number of Alstom-manufactured units currently in production within Victoria to 50 trains.<\/p>\n<p>Developed in partnership with Victorian Department of Transport and Planning; the X\u2019trapolis 2.0 train offers a passenger capacity of 1,225, a continuous walkthrough design, wider doors, accessibility features such as 20 dedicated wheelchair spaces, pram, bike and mixed-use areas, semi-automated ramps, tactile signage, assistive hearing technologies, and an improved passenger-driver interface.<\/p>\n<p>    \t\t\t\t\t\t\tTags<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProducts &amp; Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alstom has announced the acceptance of a 270 million EUR order for the production of 25 X\u2019trapolis 2.0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[415402,64,63,44,415403,415404],"class_list":["post-843302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alstom","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-rolling-stock","tag-xtrapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}