26 additional Coradia Max trains for Baden-Württemberg
posted on 31st Jan 2026 16:48
On 15 January 2026, Alstom has signed a contract for the delivery of 26 additional Coradia Max double-deck EMUs to the Landesanstalt Schienenfahrzeuge Baden-Württemberg (SFBW). The order also includes an agreement for the maintenance of the vehicles until the end of 2055, its worth is around 500 million EUR. The trains are scheduled to be delivered from mid to late 2028.
The order is part of an option contingent agreed in May 2022 as part of a major order for 130 Coradia Max trains and associated FlexCare Perform maintenance and servicing. At that time, the contract included the possibility of ordering up to 100 additional trains.
Winfried Hermann, Minister of Transport of the State of Baden-Württemberg, said: “We are investing a total of around 3 billion euros in 156 state-of-the-art and comfortable Coradia Max trains. This puts us at the forefront in Germany with numerous new high-performance trains. We are thus creating capacity for the high passenger demand of recent years. More capacity helps where it is already full today. More comfort ensures that passengers feel comfortable on board with us.
With these vehicles, we will be able to significantly improve local and regional transport services, especially after railway hub Stuttgart 21 goes into operation. We have made sure that the very powerful vehicles with high top speed are nevertheless energy-efficient. Baden-Württemberg is a pioneer in sustainable and climate-friendly mobility in rail transport. We attach great importance to high-quality vehicles.”
The double-deck Coradias will be introduced from December 2026 and will be gradually used on various routes in Baden-Württemberg. They will be made available to DB Regio Baden-Württemberg and Arverio in rail network 35’s Lot 1 and Lot 2 (Stuttgart-Bodensee-Netz) and will thus run on various Regionalexpress and Metropolexpress lines in the future.
With a top speed of 200 km/h, the Coradia Max train for Baden-Württemberg provides the fastest travel experience in German regional transport. The four-car trains consist of two double-deck driving trailer and two single-deck intermediate cars with a total of 380 seats. They have a length of 106 m and can run in multiple traction. The trains are also equipped with modern signalling and automation technology as part of the lighthouse project “Digital Hub Stuttgart” (DKS), the first digitised railway hub in Germany. The trains will run in the well-known bwegt colours of white-yellow-black.