First train for Nhon-Hanoi Station railway to be delivered next year
The first train for the Nhon-Hanoi Station railway project manufactured by a French company will arrive in Vietnam next June, according to the capital city’s urban railway management board.
The first trains for the Nhon-Hanoi Station railway project was launched at Alstom's assembly plant this month. — (Photo courtesy of Hanoi's urban railway management board)
Hanoi (VNA)- The first train for the Nhon-Hanoi Station railway project manufactured by aFrench company will arrive in Vietnam next June, according to the capitalcity’s urban railway management board.
Alstom, which ismanufacturing ten trains for the railway line in Hanoi, just launched its firsttrain in France and expects that four trains will be integrated into therailway system in Vietnam by August next year and run on a trial basis for twomonths before they are put into official operation.
The Nhon-Hanoi Stationrailway project has ten trains, each of which has four carriages spanning morethan 78m. Each train can carry 944 passengers.
The train speed isexpected to reach 35km per hour on average and 80km per hour maximum, the samespeed as metros in Paris, Berlin and other Asian cities.
The project kicked offin September 2010 and was scheduled to be completed in September 2017. TheHanoi People’s Committee then decided to extend the project deadline. The 8.5kmelevated section will be finished in April 2021 and the remaining 4kmunderground line will be opened in December 2022.
Its investment of about 30.1trillion VND (1.29 billion USD) comes from official development assistance ofthe French Development Agency and loans from the French Government.
The urban railway lineNo.3, connecting Nhon and Hanoi Station, will span 12.5km, running through sixdistricts: Nam Tu Liem, Bac Tu Liem, Cau Giay, Ba Dinh, Dong Da and Hoan Kiem.It consists of 12 stations including eight elevated and four underground./.
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The first trains for the Nhon-Hanoi Station railway project was launched at Alstom's assembly plant this month. — (Photo courtesy of Hanoi's urban railway management board) 
