Press releases

2021/04/14

Final award of the contract for the new RER B trains

The RATP / SNCF Voyageurs and Île-de-France Mobilités group are pleased to announce that the Alstom-Bombardier/CAF consortium will finally perform the MI20 contract the award of which was notified on 5  February 2021. 

Negotiations over  the past  few weeks meant  that  the new Alstom-Bombardier group has been able  to  apprehend the contract terms and clear up any concerns, whereby the Alstom-Bombardier/CAF group is  now in a position to implement the contract as per the award. 

The RATP/SNCF Voyageurs group and  the Alstom-Bombardier/CAF consortium met on Tuesday 13 April  at  which  time  the  latter's  commitment  to  the  contract  was  confirmed  together  with  their  intent  to  initiate the subsequent implementation stages. 

This major project, worth €2.56 billion, which was called  for and  financed by Île-de-France Mobilités, is  crucial  in  order  to  make  various  years  of  headway  with  the  order  for  the  new  RER  B  trains,  thereby  upgrading Europe's second busiest line after the RER A line, to the benefit of its passengers.  

With the aim of improving service quality on RER line B, 146 new trains will replace the MI79 and MI84  trains that are currently in service and the first train is scheduled to be delivered at the end of 2025.