In the second quarter of this year, Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) will award train contract for North-South and East-West Lines, which will undergo rigorous testing before entering passenger service from 2022. They will replace the old trains as LTA intends to retire the NSEWL’s original fleet of 66 trains.
As part of authority’s renewing existing rolling stock fleet, in the second half of 2018, LTA will put into commercial operation 10 new trains on North-South and East-West Lines (NSEWL).
Provided by Kawasaki Sifang Consortium (KSF), under a contract signed in 2015, the new trains are tested on Singapore MRT network. The consortium comprises Kawasaki Heavy Industries, CSR Qingdao Sifang and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (Singapore).
Until now, 47 trains have been delivered (with the last 10 due by the end of this year), and, by the middle of 2019, all 57 trains will be put into service.
With all these new vehicles, the fleet of NSEWL will have 198 trains, three times the size of the starting fleet. Over the years, more trains were added to the network, including 57 new trains progressively put into service between 2017 and 2019. 12 of these trains will be delivered with an improved Current Collector Device (CCD) shear-off detection feature to provide timely alerts if any of the CCD shoes unexpectedly lose contact with the third rail.
In addition to the 57 new NSEWL trains, since 2015, LRT put into service 24 new Circle Line (CCL) trains and 18 new North-East Line (NEL). This brings the total number of new trains for NSEWL, CCL and NEL to 99, at a cost of about USD 1.1 billion.
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