Constructed 2018-2028 (planned) | ||
Number under construction 50+ 6-carriage sets (planned) Number built none (planned entry to service in 2018) Number in service none (planned entry to service in 2018) Formation 6 car sets and coupled as 12 and 18 car sets | ||
The C-series trains are a planned class of electric multiple unit for Transperth. The new trains will be longer than existing Transperth trains and will feature four doors along the side of each carriage, rather than the two on the A and B series trains.
History
The C-series trains will be roughly equivalent to two three-car B-series trains coupled together, which is normal practice on the North-South (Joondalup-Mandurah) lines of the Perth urban network.
On 21 August 2014, the Minister for Transport, Dean Nalder, announced that the Public Transport Authority was going to market with a request for information (RFI) for the manufacture and supply of 50 new railcars (to be called C-series), to be constructed at a rate of at-least five trains per year from 2018 to 2028. The RFI specified that the railcars:
The project would also encompass the upgrading, maintenance and operation of facilities to maintain the new C-series trains.