The vehicles will replace the previous ones, which date back to the seventies, and delivery of the first vehicle is planned for mid 2014. Subsequently, two to three vehicles will be delivered to Wuppertal every month. Delivery of the final vehicle is scheduled for December 2015.

Vossloh Kiepe, part of the Vossloh Group, will be supplying the next series of this type of transport. The Dusseldorf based company is specialized in the electrical equipment of vehicles for urban transport.

Vossloh España, at its technology centre in Albuixech (Valencia), will be responsible for manufacturing the bogies, the body shells fittings and the standard tests of the vehicles.

Wuppertal

Wuppertal is a city east of Germany with a population of about 400,000 inhabitants. It has the oldest suspension monorail in the world, which covers a line of 13.3 kilometres in 30 minutes at an average height of 10 metres above ground. 70% of the route is above the river Wupper