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    The Alstom Aventra (sold as the Bombardier Aventra until 2021) is a family of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger trains produced at Derby Litchurch...
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    completed at Derby Litchurch Lane Works. The family was superseded by the Alstom Aventra. The Electrostar was also selected for use on the Gautrain system in...
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    Alstom SA (French: [alstɔm]) is a French multinational rolling stock manufacturer which operates worldwide in rail transport markets. It is active in the...
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    The British Rail Class 730 Aventra is a type of electric multiple unit passenger train built by Alstom for West Midlands Trains. Two separate batches...
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    train built by Bombardier Transportation (now Alstom) at Derby Litchurch Lane Works. Built on the Aventra platform, they are operated by South Western...
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    The British Rail Class 345 Aventra is a fleet of electric multiple unit passenger trains built by Bombardier Transportation for use on London's Elizabeth...
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    The British Rail Class 720 Aventra is a class of electric multiple unit (EMU) passenger train designed and produced by the rolling stock manufacturer...
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  • San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit, Flexity streetcars for Toronto, Aventra EMUs for the London Overground and Twindexx EMUs for Switzerland's SBB...
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    that year, c2c announced an order with Porterbrook for six Class 720/6 Aventra EMUs in response to growing demand; these were introduced in September...
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    Retrieved 12 December 2023. Briginshaw, David (25 August 2020). "First Aventra EMU for South Western Railway unveiled". International Railway Journal...
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    (90 mph). The order was subsequently cancelled, with no units built. Alstom Aventra Siemens Desiro Stadler FLIRT Pesa Elf Skoda 7Ev HZ series 6112 "Civity...
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    British Rail's APT and latterly the Class 390 Pendolino trains constructed by Alstom and introduced by Virgin Trains in 2003. A 'conventional' attempt to raise...
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    £1 billion. It included a firm order for 65 units from Bombardier's new Aventra family, plus an option for a further 18. The trains have air-conditioning...
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    (32 km/h) speed restriction over five level crossings on the Bittern Line. Alstom Aventra CAF Civity Siemens Desiro Official Website Flirt160 Official Website...
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    production of hundreds of Aventra vehicles for Greater Anglia, South Western Railway and West Midlands Trains. In January 2021, Alstom acquired Bombardier Transportation...
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  • applied. In the UK the most recently built Multiple Units such as the Alstom Aventra family still use friction (disc) brakes which are operated by electro-pneumatic...
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    Zürich S-Bahn, where 61 four-car sets have been in operation since 2006. Alstom Aventra CAF Civity Stadler FLIRT TMH Ivolga Streckenportrait Kempten-Reutte/Tirol...
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  • British Rail Class 600 (category Alstom multiple units)
    ten three-car hydrogen-powered multiple units based on the Aventra EMU platform, which Alstom had acquired as part of its takeover of Bombardier Transportation...
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    2021 Alstom and Eversholt announced that they had decided to switch their primary focus to developing a hydrogen-fuelled variant of Alstom's Aventra EMU...
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    British Rail Class 458 (category Alstom Coradia Juniper)
    later 5-JUP) is a class of electric multiple-unit passenger trains of the Alstom Coradia Juniper family, built at Washwood Heath between 1998 and 2002 for...
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    720 Alstom Aventra in 2019/20, all maintenance staff and facilities were transferred to Bombardier Transportation, which was acquired by Alstom in 2021...
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    Class 701 Aventra units from 2019; however this was initially deferred to mid-2020 and was deferred again to 2021. The first Class 701 Aventra EMUs began...
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    bid was rejected in October 2009. Bombardier Transportation offered the Aventra, a design incorporating a development of the FLEXX Eco inside frame bogie...
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  • commuter rail LRC coaches TwinDexx Double-Deck coach Superliner II cars Aventra - EMU, replacement for the Electrostar AGC (Autorail à grande capacité)...
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  • use None Class 720 Aventra Greater Anglia c2c Greater Anglia c2c Bombardier/Alstom Derby 2018-2020 145 x 5-car sets Class 730 Aventra West Midlands Trains...
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    24 June 2024 – via Twitter. Briginshaw, David (25 August 2020). "First Aventra EMU for South Western Railway unveiled". International Railway Journal...
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    Families 1959 design 1972 design Mark 2-derived Mark 3-derived A-Train APT Aventra Citylink Civity D-Train Desiro Electrostar FLIRT Coradia Juniper METRO...
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  • August 2022 TBC The programme features Alstom's Derby Litchurch Lane Works and shows how a Class 720 Aventra 5-car electric multiple unit for Greater...
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    fleet – Bombardier, Siemens, CAF, Stadler Rail, and a consortium of Mitsui, Alstom, and the East Japan Railway Company. On 16 December 2016, Merseytravel announced...
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    Families 1959 design 1972 design Mark 2-derived Mark 3-derived A-Train APT Aventra Citylink Civity D-Train Desiro Electrostar FLIRT Coradia Juniper METRO...
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