Lagos State government has taken delivery of new trains from Milwaukee, United States (US) for its Red Line Rail Services.
The state’s commissioner for information and strategy, MrGbenga Omotoso, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said the state government had achieved another major milestone in its determination to deliver the operation of the Red Line Rail System by the first quarter of 2023.
Omotoso said, “The TALGO SERIES 8 Trains acquired for the Red Line have finally arrived in Lagos. The 2 Nos. 10 and 11 car trains which were bought from Milwaukee are here.”
He said it was necessary to decouple the train into 21 individual cars for effective transportation to Lagos, adding that the trains will be recoupled with the help of rolling stock Engineers from Talgo, the company that manufactured the trains in the United State of America.
Omotoso continued, “The engineers will also take the opportunity to train our local engineers whilst they are here to equip our young people with the requisite skills. Once the recoupling is complete, the testing and commissioning will commence followed by full passenger operations in the first quarter of 2023.
“Each train can carry 1,500 passengers and is expected to run on the Red Line Rail from Agbado to Oyingbo, with the journey taking less than 30 minutes,” he said.
