ADA: Siemens manufactures Riyadh Metro’s first train ‎

On February 23, 2016, the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh revealed that Siemens has manufactured Riyadh Metro’s first train.

On this occasion, a joint delegation by ADA and BACS (the consortium working on Riyadh Metro Blue and Red lines), visited Siemens’s Vienna-based plant to inspect the project’s first train.

During the visit, Riyadh Metro Project Manager, Engr. Walid Al-Ekrish, said, “the project consists of 190 driverless trains currently being manufactured by three of the world’s largest train manufacturers — Siemens from Germany, Bombardier from Canada, and Alstom from France.”

According to Al-Ekrish, every train consists of 2/4 train cars, with 55-123 seats that can accommodate 251-522 passengers per trip, in addition to flexible separators that divide the train into 3 compartments (first class/families/individuals), electronic monitors, audiovisual information systems, surveillance cameras, and the latest safety/security systems.

Along the same line, Engr. Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Hazzani, ADA Architectural Projects’ Program Manager, referred that “design of the cars is friendly to people with special needs, and compatible with cleaning and maintenance requirements in the city of Riyadh.”