The First Driverless Train of New Lima Metro, manufactured by Hitachi Rail Italy, arrives in Lima

Manfellotto: "Our world leadership in driverless metros is very strong"

Today Hitachi Rail Italy delivered train number 1 of the new automatic Lima Metro.

The first 6 cars of the innovative train, built in Reggio Calabria manufacturing plant of Hitachi Rail Italy (HRI), were unloaded at the port of the Peruvian capital. The train, made of aluminum is 108 m long and 2,85 m wide, has a capacity of 166 seated and 1,105 standing passengers, and is capable of reaching a max speed of 90 km/h.

The contract value is about US $500 million for manufacturing a total of 42 vehicles that will be employed on Line 2 and section 4 Faucett – Gambetta, comprised of 35 stations and 35 km of tunnels. These HRI metro trains have been designed with open gangways to allow free movement of passengers along the entire length of the train.

Applying Italian excellence in design, the train has large windows throughout, which combined with ergonomically arranged seating, creates a bright and pleasant passenger environment. Each car has air conditioning, new passenger information systems and new generation video surveillance cameras.

HRI is a partner of the consortium concessionary Metro de Lima Linea 2, together with Salini-Impregilo, Ansaldo STS, Iridium Concesiones de Infraestructura SA, Vialia Sociedad Gestora de Concesiones de Infrastrutructura SL and Cosapi SA.

“Once again we have met the delivery target” – comments Maurizio Manfellotto, CEO of HRI – “proving and strengthening our worldwide leadership in train manufacturing, together with Ansaldo STS, one of the world’s leading suppliers of signaling systems in the driverless market segment.”

“We are however, not only celebrating this success” –Manfellotto explains– “but that of another step towards achieving high levels of customer satisfaction. Our goal is to continuously improve our performance.”

Only a week ago, HRI delivered the first automatic train for Taipei Metro, also from Reggio Calabria.