These new trains will begin operating on the Lyon – Mâcon and Lyon – Valence lines in the summer of 2023. The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region is continuing to consolidate its Regio 2N fleet, which will comprise 59 Regio 2N.
“The Regio 2N is a high capacity, double-deck train that combines capacity, comfort and accessibility. This equipment has proved its worth and is perfectly suited to the needs of the regional and peri-urban lines of the Region Auvergne-Rhône Alpes, which, after Ile-de-France are the national rail network’s most heavily loaded. Designed and manufactured on our site in Crespin in the Hauts-de-France region, the Regio 2N has received the recognized certification ‘Origine France Garantie’. Also, the manufacture of the Regio 2N contributes to the entire French rail industry,” said Laurent Bouyer, President of Bombardier Transportation France.
The new 83-meter trainsets will offer a capacity of 385 seats, and can be operated in multiple units with the 40 Regio 2N fleet already operating in the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
The trains will be equipped with WIFI, a video surveillance system, six bicycle slots and will meet all European interoperability and accessibility requirements.
To date, ten French regions have ordered a total of 428 BOMBARDIER OMNEO/Regio 2N trains. The OMNEO platform offers trains for suburban, regional and intercity services. Orders per region are as follows: 337 Regio 2N for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (59), Brittany (26), Centre-Val de Loire (14), Hauts-de-France (25), Île-de-France (142), Nouvelle Aquitaine (24), Occitanie (18), Pays-de-la-Loire (13), Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (16); and 91 OMNEO Premium trains for Centre-Val de Loire (32), Hauts-de-France (19) and Normandy (40).
More information is available online.
— A Bombardier news release. March 29, 2020.
Like it or not like it, this is one strange looking trainset. I would however love to see TRAINS do an article on it. Brian are you there ?
This is an amazing looking machine.
M Singer
I think we lost Budd, ACF, etc. by selecting Boing. One of today’s problems is that the existing companies have difficulty building equipment that meets U. S. safety standards.
Again, why did the FRA and California pick Sumitomo which apparently tanked the bidding process for the Amtrak intercity bi-level car order?
Instead of selecting Bombardier which has been competently building bi-levels at its factory in Thunder Bay, this order was turned over from Sumitomo to Nippon Sharyo, which utterly failed to build even one car.
This was the end result of losing Budd, ACF, St.Louis CC, and Pullman in our rush to reward low ball bids from Japan, South Korea, and China. Too bad our railroad industrial base was not protected as the aircraft industrial base has been.
Beautiful? Ugly? Compared to our new Acela trainsets it’s the Mona Lisa.
At Troy, because its a joke here.
I agree with Robert, that is not the most attractive piece of rail equipment. On another note how is it that rail cars can get built in other 1st world countries but we can’t seem to get them built here.
These days, parlour cars with rows of single seats are perfectly ideal during the pandemic.
is it just me, or does anyone else think these things keep getting uglier??