Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF, ) is a Spanish publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment and buses through its

Solaris Bus & Coach Solaris Bus & Coach sp z o.o. is a Polish manufacturer of public transport vehicles (buses, trolleybuses and trams), with its headquarters in Bolechowo-Osiedle near Poznań. It is a subsidiary of Spanish rolling stock manufacturer Construcciones ...

subsidiary. It is based in

Beasain Beasain is a town and municipality located in the Goierri region of the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, northern Spain. It has an important industry of railway vehicles and related equipment ( CAF) that ...

Basque Autonomous Community Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous com ...

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

. Equipment manufactured by Grupo CAF includes

light rail Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from ...

vehicles,

rapid transit Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT) or heavy rail, commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas. A grade separation, grade separated rapid transit line below ground su ...

trains,

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s and

locomotive A locomotive is a rail transport, rail vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. Traditionally, locomotives pulled trains from the front. However, Push–pull train, push–pull operation has become common, and in the pursuit for ...

s, as well as

variable gauge axles Variable gauge systems allow railway vehicles to travel between two railways with different track gauges. Vehicles are equipped with variable gauge axles (VGA). The gauge is altered by driving the train through a gauge changer installed at the b ...

that can be fitted on any existing truck or

bogie A bogie ( ) (or truck in North American English) comprises two or more Wheelset (rail transport), wheelsets (two Railroad wheel, wheels on an axle), in a frame, attached under a vehicle by a pivot. Bogies take various forms in various modes ...

. Over the 20 years from the early 1990s, CAF benefited from the rail investment boom in its home market in Spain to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. CAF has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major

urban transit Public transport (also known as public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) are forms of transport available to the general public. It typically uses a fixed schedule, route and charges a fixed fare. There is no rigid definition of whic ...

operators around Europe, the US, South America, East Asia, India, Australia and North Africa.

History

''CAF'' was an acronym for the earlier name of ''Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles'', as well as for ''Construcciones y Auxiliar de Feres''.

Fábrica de Hierros San Martín

In 1860, Domingo Goitia, Martín Usabiaga and José Francisco Arana established this company, whose main activity was puddling furnaces and cylinder rolling.

La Maquinista Guipuzcoana

In 1892, Francisco de Goitia (Domingo Goitia's son and heir) joined the

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to set up La Maquinista Guipuzcoana, whose main activity was the operation of machinery and the forging and construction of railway rolling stock. In 1898, it set up its plant in

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. In 1905 it changed its name to Fábrica de Vagones de Beasain (FVB).

Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) was founded in 1917, specializing in freight car production and with a total of 1,600 employees. In 1940, the Irun factory was set up, following the expansion of activity after the Spanish Civil War (CAF took part in reconstructing the Spanish rail fleet). In 1954, CAF took over Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) from

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(

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), a company with extensive experience in manufacturing long-distance and subway trains. Since 1958, the company has modernized and enlarged its Beasain plant and expanded its activity to include all kinds of rolling stock. In line with this, in 1969 CAF created its

Research and Development Research and development (R&D or R+D), known in some countries as OKB, experiment and design, is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products. R&D constitutes the first stage ...

Unit, which increased the company's competitiveness and intensified the focus on in-house technology.

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

In 1971, the existing Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) merged with Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) and the company adopted its current name ''Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles''. Since the early 1990s, CAF has also been active internationally. In the early 2000s, CAF supplied high-speed trains to the Spanish

RENFE Renfe (, ), officially Renfe-Operadora, is Spain's national state-owned railway company. It was created in 2005 upon the split of the former Spanish National Railway Network (RENFE) into the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias ( ...

and in 2005, high-speed trains were exported for the first time (to Turkey). In 2018, CAF took over the Polish bus manufacturer Solaris. The company also acquired the Talent 3 platform from competitor

Bombardier Transportation Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Toronto and Berlin. It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry. ...

in 2022, as well as the Coradia Polyvalent platform and the plant in

Reichshoffen Reichshoffen (, or ; ; Alsatian: ''Risshoffe'') is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Église Saint-Michel de Reichshoffen was built in 1772. Economy Reichshoffen is home to CAF Reichshoffen railcar ...

from train manufacturer

Alstom Alstom SA () is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the fields of passenger transportation, signaling, and locomotives, producing high-speed, suburban, regional ...

. This was a condition imposed by the European Commission's competition authority for the approval of the 2021 takeover of

Subsidiaries

CAF U.S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of CAF, was incorporated in 1998 and is based in

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. It manufactures rolling stock for the North American market at a plant in Elmira that the company acquired from

ADtranz Adtranz was a multi-national rail transportation equipment manufacturer with facilities concentrated in Europe and the US. The company, legally known as ABB Daimler-Benz Transportation, was created in 1996 as a joint venture between ABB and Daim ...

in 2000. The company from Beasain continued its expansion during the third millennium. On 24 May 2019, it announced the acquisition of the Swedish company Euromaint at a cost of circa €80 million, following other international contracts to supply Flemish and English railway and underground networks in 2017. CAF Rolling Stock U.K. Ltd. is the CAF subsidiary in the United Kingdom. Its

factory A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. Th ...

is based at Celtic Springs Business Park, at

Llanwern steelworks Llanwern steelworks is located in Llanwern, east of the City of Newport, Wales, Newport, South Wales. History Built for Richard Thomas and Baldwins, Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd, the works was originally referred to locally as "The RTB", bef ...

near

Newport, Wales Newport ( ) is a city and Principal areas of Wales, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. The population grew considerably between the 2011 and the 2021 Unit ...

as a result of an agreement made between CAF and the

Welsh Government The Welsh Government ( ) is the Executive (government), executive arm of the Welsh devolution, devolved government of Wales. The government consists of Cabinet secretary, cabinet secretaries and Minister of State, ministers. It is led by the F ...

. The Newport factory has built stock for

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Arriva Rail North Arriva Rail North Limited, branded as Northern by Arriva, was a train operating company in Northern England which began operating the Northern franchise on 1 April 2016 and inherited units from the previous operator Northern Rail. A subsidiary ...

, the

Docklands Light Railway The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated medium-capacity rail system, light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped London Docklands, Docklands area of London and providing a direct connection between London's two major financi ...

, and potentially

High Speed 2 High Speed 2 (HS2) is a high-speed railway which has been under construction in England since 2019. The line's planned route is between Handsacre – in southern Staffordshire – and London, with a Spur line, branch to Birmingham. HS2 is to ...

if CAF win the bid process. They also donated £150,000 to the Conservative Party. CAF Signalling was fined in 2021 with 1.7 million euros by the Spanish commission on markets and competition because of its participation in a

cartel A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collaborate with each other as well as agreeing not to compete with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. A cartel is an organization formed by producers ...

with other 7 international companies which colluded in tenders over Spanish rail infrastructure.

Train defects

In April 2014, two carriages of an

Urbos 3 The CAF Urbos is a family of trams, streetcars, and light rail vehicles built by CAF. The Spanish manufacturer CAF previously made locomotives, passenger cars, regional, and underground trains. In 1993, CAF started building trams for Metrovale ...

tram in

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separated during passenger service, due to the cracking of screws connecting the cars. Half of the Belgrade tramway's CAF fleet were found to have been affected by similar cracking of screws in the two weeks prior to the incident. In March 2016, all 14

British Rail Class 332 The British Rail Class 332 electric multiple unit passenger trains were built between 1997 and 1998 by CAF, with traction equipment supplied by Siemens Transportation Systems. Fourteen units were built for dedicated use on Heathrow Express se ...

units were taken out of service after a crack was discovered in the underframe of one unit during routine maintenance. In December 2017, the Besançon Tramway in

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discovered cracks in their Urbos 3s vehicles around the

box area of the bodies, which in December 2020 CAF paid for remedial work to be performed with each unit affected requiring one month downtime for the work to be completed. In January 2019, BM3 number 1322-2322 "Putna" of the

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crashed in Metrorex's Berceni underground workshops, currently concessioned by

under a long maintenance contract. The year long investigation by the AGIFER proved that the TCMS software was at fault. As of 2024, legal battles between Metrorex/Alstom and CAF are still carried. In April 2021, 22

British Rail Class 195 The British Rail Class 195 is a class of diesel multiple-unit passenger train from the CAF Civity, Civity family manufactured by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, CAF, owned by Eversholt Rail Group and currently operated by Northern T ...

Civity units were temporarily removed from service after routine maintenance revealed a yaw damper bracket had detached from the body of unit 195121. On June 11, 2021,

West Midlands Metro The West Midlands Metro is a light-rail/tram system in the county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. The network has List of West Midlands Metro tram stops, 33 stops with a total of of track; it currently consists of a single r ...

(operating between

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

and

Wolverhampton Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of ...

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) were forced to suspend their services due to cracks being discovered in the

box areas of their Urbos 3s vehicles, with ongoing investigations continuing to identify any other issues relating to the cracks and to find options for remedial works to be performed. Full service only began once more in February 2022. On June 24, 2021,

Flytoget Flytoget (') is a high-speed rail, high-speed airport rail link, airport railway service connecting Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, Oslo Airport to Oslo Central Station. Run by Flytoget AS (formerly NSB Gardermobanen AS), it operates on the high-speed ...

were forced to withdraw their entire CAF Oaris fleet after 19 days of service due to the discovery of cracks in the chassis. The first unit was returned to service after modifications to the cracked part on the 9th of January, 2023. By the end of June 2023, two years after the withdrawal, six out of eight units had been returned to service. In the meantime, CAF has paid an unknown amount to Flytoget in compensation. Following on from these instances, in November 2021 the

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transport minister

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announced that the Sydney L1 Dulwich Hill Line would be decommissioned for up to 18 months, due to serious design flaws in all 12 of the CAF Urbos 3s tram sets that were running on the line. Stokes stated that the flaws (in the bogie boxes) were likely to be far broader in scope than those identified in Sydney due to the thousands of the same tram type operated around the world. In March 2022, the West Midlands Metro was again forced to suspend its services due to the discovery of more cracks, this time on the bodywork of the trams. On February 17, 2023, the Department of Transportation of the Philippines revealed that nearly 80 of the new

light rail vehicles Light rail (or light rail transit, abbreviated to LRT) is a form of passenger urban rail transit that uses rolling stock derived from tram technology National Conference of the Transportation Research Board while also having some features from ...

for Manila's

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cannot be used due to water leaks in the cars. Fortunately, these issues were eventually resolved, enabling the entire fleet to be utilized. In February 2023, CAF revealed that the 2020 project for 31 trains for the

FEVE Renfe Cercanías AM, formerly known as Renfe Feve, is a division of state-owned Spanish railway company Renfe Operadora. It operates most of Spain's of metre-gauge railway. This division of Renfe was previously a stand-alone company named F ...

narrow-gauge lines in the northern regions of Cantabria and Asturias, Spain, asked for a carriage width that would not fit through the existing 19th-century tunnels. The change in specifications will delay the established delivery date of October 2024 by two years to 2026. In July 2023, body cracks were discovered in four

British Rail Mark 5A The British Rail Mark 5A is a type of railway vehicle in use in the UK. 52 standard carriages and 14 driving trailers were built by Spanish manufacturer CAF, and were operated by TransPennine Express. They first entered service on 24 August ...

"Nova 3" carriage sets, leading to daily inspections of all sets and the temporary withdrawal of five sets from service. That August, the operator

TransPennine Express TransPennine Trains Limited, trading as TransPennine Express (TPE), is a British train operating company that has operated passenger services in the TransPennine Express franchise area since May 2023. It runs regional and inter-city rail ser ...

confirmed its intention to cease usage of all sets from the December 2023 timetable change.

Political activity

During the

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, CAF Rail UK Limited made a donation of £50,000 to the Conservative Party. In 2019, it entered into litigation that affects its corporate image. Participating in a consortium, JNET, together with the Israeli company Shapir Engineering and Industry, has won a tender promoted by the Israeli

Ministry of Transport and Road Safety Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian mi ...

to supply railway equipment, in addition to building, extending and operating light rail lines from Jerusalem to nearby settlements in disputed territories, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In turn, Shapir is on the list of companies that benefit from the occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as denounced by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Rolling stock

Carriages

EMU and DMU

* Oaris * Class 598 * IZBAN E22000 * TRD * TEMD * TDMD * Class 440 * Class 444 * Civity **

Sprinter New Generation The Sprinter New Generation (SNG) is an electric multiple unit train from the Dutch Railways or Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The trains are designed and built by the Spanish train builder Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), who bases t ...

Civia Civia is a class of electric multiple unit trains built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, CAF and Siemens for the Renfe Cercanías commuter railway networks in Spain. The first units entered service in 2003. The Civia train concept w ...

* Class 446/

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* AM class EMU, Auckland *

VR Class Sm4 The Sm4 electric multiple unit (EMU) is a low-floor train used by the VR Group for its VR commuter rail services. The initial order was for ten EMUs with the first unit entering service in 1999. Another 20 units were ordered in 2002 and the delive ...

* Inneo

Locomotives

* Class 250 * Class 252 For

, now part of

Renfe Operadora Renfe (, ), officially Renfe-Operadora, is Spain's national State-owned enterprise, state-owned railway company. It was created in 2005 upon the split of the former Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles, Spanish National Railway Netwo ...

: *

Electro-diesel locomotive An electro-diesel locomotive (also referred to as a dual-mode or bi-mode locomotive) is a type of locomotive that can be powered either from an electricity supply (like an electric locomotive) or by using the onboard diesel engine (like a dies ...

Class 1900 * Class 2600 DMU * Class 2700 DMU * Class 2900 DMU For

Euskotren Euskotren, formally known as Basque Railways (, ), is a public railway company controlled by the Basque Government and officially established in 1982 to operate several narrow gauge railways inside the autonomous community of the Basque Coun ...

: * UT200 * UT300 * UT900 * UT950 * UT3500 * Euskotren XXI For

Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca () or SFM is a company which operates the metre gauge railway network on the Spanish island of Majorca. The total length, including Palma Metro, also operated by this company, is . Overview In 1977, the line P ...

: * DMU Class 61 * EMU Class 71 * EMU Class 81 For other operators: * BITRAC CC 3600 (Class 601)

electro-diesel An electro-diesel locomotive (also referred to as a dual-mode or bi-mode locomotive) is a type of locomotive that can be powered either from an electricity supply (like an electric locomotive) or by using the onboard diesel engine (like a Diese ...

(Ordered by FESUR, currently operated by Captrain España)

Metro

For Madrid: * Class 300 * Class 1000 * Class 2000 * Class 3000 * Class 5000 * Class 6000 * Class 8000 * Class 8400 For Barcelona: Metro Barcelona train type 5000

* Class 1000 * Class 2000 * Class 3000 * Class 4000 * Class 5000 * Class 6000 * Class S/2100 * Class S/300 For Helsinki: * M300 For Bucharest: * BM3 For Amsterdam: * Metromaterieel S3/M4 * Metromaterieel M7/M8 For Brussels: * For Caracas: * 60000 series

Trams

* Urbos 1 (Tranvía de Bilbao) * Urbos 2 (Tranvía de Vélez-Málaga, Tranvía de Vitoria and Metro de Sevilla). *

(Metrocentro de Sevilla, Tranvía de Zaragoza, Metropolitano de Granada, Tranvía de Vitoria, Metro de Málaga and Tranvía Metropolitano de la Bahía de Cádiz).

Outside Spain: trains

* Algeria: DMUs * Argentina: 9 articulated units for Tren de la Costa * Australia:

New South Wales R set The R sets are a class of bi-mode multiple units (EDMU) being built by as part of the Regional Rail Project to replace NSW TrainLink's ageing Xplorer and XPT fleets for long-distance services, as well as Sydney Trains' Endeavour fleet for di ...

s * Brazil:

CPTM The Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) () is one of the rapid transit companies serving the city of São Paulo, alongside the São Paulo Metro, Via Quatro and Via Mobilidade, all four forming the largest metropolitan rail transpo ...

EMUs and São Paulo Metrô * France : Confort200 * Germany: Commuter train NEXIO for Schönbuch Railway * Hungary:

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vagon * Italy: DMUs for Sardinia * Ireland:

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coaches for

Iarnród Éireann Iarnród Éireann, () or Irish Rail, is the operator of the national Rail transport in Ireland, railway network of Ireland. Established on 2 February 1987, it is a subsidiary of CIÉ, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ). It operates all internal I ...

* Ireland: IE 29000 Class * Netherlands:

for the

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (, , NS ) is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The rail infrastructure is maintained by network manager ProRail, which was split off from NS in 2003. Freight operato ...

. * Norway: SL18 * Portugal: EMUs (UQE´S) for Lisboa * Saudi Arabia: SAR/

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Diesel Push-Pull Trainsets * UK: British Rail Mark 5 (

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) * UK:

(

) * UK:

British Rail Class 331 The British Rail Class 331 ''CAF Civity, Civity'' is a class of electric multiple unit built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, CAF, owned by Eversholt Rail Group, and currently operated by Northern Trains. A total of 43 units hav ...

(

Northern Trains Northern Trains, Trade name, trading as Northern, is a British train operating company that operates Commuter rail, commuter and Inter-city rail, medium-distance intercity services in the North of England. It is owned by DfT Operator for the Dep ...

) * UK:

in partnership with

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational technology conglomerate. It is focused on industrial automation, building automation, rail transport and health technology. Siemens is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the positi ...

(

Heathrow Express Heathrow Express is a high-frequency airport rail link operating between London Heathrow Airport and . Opened in 1998, trains run non-stop, with a journey time of 15 minutes. The service is operated jointly by Great Western Railway (train operat ...

) * UK:

British Rail Class 333 The British Rail Class 333 is a class of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train built by CAF between 2000 and 2003 for Northern Spirit (later Arriva Trains Northern), with traction equipment supplied by Siemens Transportation Systems. ...

in partnership with Siemens (

Arriva Trains Northern Arriva Trains Northern was a train operating company in England owned by Arriva that operated the Regional Railways North East franchise from March 1997 until December 2004. History As part of the privatisation of British Rail, the Regio ...

) * UK: Northern Ireland Railways Class 3000 and Class 4000 * UK:

British Rail Class 397 The British Rail Class 397 '' Civity'' is a class of electric multiple unit built by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF for lease to TransPennine Express by Eversholt Rail Group. A total of twelve five-car units were built to operate servic ...

(

) * US:

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II (

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)

Newport factory, South Wales, UK

CAF Rolling Stock U.K. Ltd announced in 2017 its UK factory location was selected as Celtic Business Park at

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. It has at least five confirmed UK projects from 2019 onwards and would have been the construction site for their unsuccessful bid to deliver stock for High Speed 2. The site was funded with support from the

Inward Investment Programme. * UK: CAF Oaris ( Prospective bid for HS2) * UK:

(

) * UK: British Rail Class 196 (

West Midlands Trains West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a British train operating company. It operates passenger trains on the West Midlands franchise between London and the English Midlands under two trading names: within the West Midlands region as West Midlands Rai ...

) * UK:

British Rail Class 197 The British Rail Class 197 is a class of diesel multiple unit passenger train built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, CAF, based on its ''CAF Civity, Civity'' platform. They are operated by Transport for Wales Rail (TfW), split in ...

(

)

Outside Spain: metros and trams

* Algeria:

Algiers Metro The Algiers Metro (; ) is a rapid transit system that serves Algiers, the capital of Algeria. Originally designed in the 1970s, it opened in 2011 after decades of delays due to financial difficulties and security issues. The Algiers Metro was t ...

* Argentina:

Buenos Aires Underground The Buenos Aires Underground (), locally known as Subte (), is a rapid transit system that serves the area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first section of this network (Plaza de Mayo–Plaza Miserere) opened in 1913, making it the L ...

5000 and 6000 series; Tren de la Costa * Australia:

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Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area ...

and Sydney light rail. * Belgium:

Brussels Metro The Brussels Metro ( ; ) is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It consists of four conventional metro lines and three '' premetro'' lines. The metro-grade lines are M1, M2, M5, and M6 wi ...

M6 and M7 Series * Brazil:

São Paulo Metro The São Paulo Metro (, ), commonly called the ''Metrô'', is one of the rapid transit companies serving the city of São Paulo, alongside the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos, São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM), Via Quatro ...

* Brazil: Cuiabá tram * Brazil:

Recife Metro The Recife Metro ( Portuguese: ''Metrô do Recife'', Metrorec) is a rapid transit system serving the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is operated by the federally-owned ''Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU)'' and ...

* Canada:

Calgary Transit Calgary Transit is the public transit agency which is owned and operated by the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 2019, an estimated 106.5 million passengers boarded approximately 1,155 Calgary Transit vehicles. It operates light metro (LRT), ...

Urbos 100 (On Order) * Chile:

Santiago Metro The Santiago Metro () is a rapid transit system serving the city of Santiago, the capital of Chile. It currently consists of seven lines (numbered 1-6 and 4A), 143 stations, and of revenue route. The system is managed by the state-owned Metro S. ...

* Colombia:

Medellín Metro The Medellín Metro (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Metro de Medellín'') is a rapid transit system that crosses the Metropolitan Area of Medellín from North to South and from Centre to West. It first opened for service on 30 November 1995. As one ...

* Ecuador:

Quito Metro The Quito Metro (), abbreviated as MDQ, is a rapid transit system consisting of a single line in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. History Construction on the main south and north stations began in December 2012. Construction of the metro line it ...

* Estonia: Tallinn tram * Finland: Helsinki Metro, M300 series * France: Nantes Tramway#CAF Urbos 3, Nantes Tramway * France: Besançon Tramway * Germany: Freiburg tram and Bonn Stadtbahn (on order) * Hong Kong: MTR Adtranz-CAF EMU, Adtranz-CAF EMU in partnership with Adtranz (MTR Tung Chung line and Airport Express (MTR), Airport Express line) * Hungary: Trams in Debrecen, Debrecen public transport * Hungary: Trams in Budapest#Current fleet.5B18.5D, Budapest public transport * India: Delhi Airport Metro Express * Italy: Bologna tramway * Italy: Rome Metro and trams in Rome * Italy: Naples Metro * Luxembourg: :fr:Tramway de Luxembourg Urbos 3 * Maurtius: Metro Express (Mauritius), Metro Express Urbos 3 * Mexico: Mexico City Metro#Rolling stock, Mexico City Metro (NE-92, NM-02, FE-07, FE-10, NE-16) * Mexico: Tren Suburbano, Mexico City suburban rail * Mexico: El Insurgente, El Insurgente commuter rail * Netherlands: S3 and M4 units of the Amsterdam Metro#Rolling stock, Amsterdam Metro and from 2018 the Uithof tram line in Utrecht * Norway: Trams in Oslo, Oslo trams, delivery from 2022 * Philippines: Manila LRT Line 1 (LRTA 13000 class) * Philippines: North–South Commuter Railway Airport Express Trains (with Mitsubishi) * Romania: Bucharest Metro Line M2 * Serbia: Trams in Belgrade, Belgrade Tram * Sweden: Trams in Stockholm, Stockholm Tram * Taiwan: Kaohsiung Tram * Turkey: Antray (Antalya LRT) * Turkey: Istanbul Metro * UK: DLR B23 stock (

, Transport for London, TfL) * UK: New

vehicles * UK: Edinburgh Trams * US: SacRT light rail, California Class 200 * US: Pittsburgh Light Rail, Pennsylvania Class 4300 * US: Washington Metro, Washington Metro rolling stock#5000-series, 5000-Series * US: METRORail, (Houston, TX) * US: Kansas City Streetcar * US: Cincinnati Streetcar * US: MBTA Green Line Type 9 LRV and Type 10 (on order – delivery starting 2027) * US: Maryland Transit Administration, MTA Maryland Purple Line (Maryland), Purple Line (On order, 5 delivered as of October 15th) * Venezuela: Caracas Metro

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History

Fábrica de Hierros San Martín

La Maquinista Guipuzcoana

Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Subsidiaries

Train defects

Political activity

Rolling stock

Carriages

EMU and DMU

Locomotives

Metro

Trams

Outside Spain: trains

Newport factory, South Wales, UK

Outside Spain: metros and trams

See also

References

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