Saudi Railways cancels Talgo order

[CHamilton]

Saudi Railways Organization cancels Talgo order

SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Railways Organisation has announced that ‘following the reassessment of our rolling stock needs’ it has decided not to proceed with an order for six 200 km/h Talgo diesel trainsets for use on the Riyadh – Dammam line.
The US$201m contract was announced on February 12 but will not now be signed, SRO said on July 15. A final decision regarding a new tender will be made once SRO’s internal analysis of its needs is finalised.

 

[cirdan]

Is this the base order that was cancelled, or a follow-on order?

 

[jis]

Looks like they may have decided to go whole hog with Alstom. If there is following action on an Alstom diesel offering that will validate that. If not I guess they will go for some other source for the 200+ kph diesel sets for which there are at least half a dozen vendors in the world now. The next six months to a year will tell