Piccadilly progress: 2024 stock reaches Wildenrath

New trains should be in service on the Piccadilly Line in 2025, Siemens Mobility’s SAMBIT BANERJEE tells JAMES ABBOTT

Rolling off the production line: the first new 2024 stock train for the Piccadilly Line at the Siemens factory in Vienna. COURTESY SIEMENS
 

The first of the 94 Siemens Mobility-built new trains for Transport for London’s (TfL’s) Piccadilly Line has arrived at the Test and Validation Centre in Wegberg-Wildenrath, Germany. The first nine-carriage train came off the production line in Vienna at the end of July before being transported to the Test and Validation Centre.

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