Abstract

Siemens Mobility has received an order for 1,200 locomotives of 9,000 hp from Indian Railways, a total value of approximately €3 billion. It marks the single largest locomotive order in company history and single largest order in the history of Siemens India. Siemens Mobility will design, manufacture, commission, and test the locomotives, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 1</xref> . Deliveries are planned over an 11-year period, and the contract includes 35 years of full-service maintenance. The locomotives will be assembled in the Indian Railways factory in Dahod, in the state of Gujarat, India. Maintenance will be performed in four Indian Railways depots located in Vishakhapatnam, Raipur, Kharagpur, and Pune, as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Figure 2</xref> . Locomotive assembly and maintenance will be implemented together with the staff of Indian Railways.

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