Question regarding the number of new railcars to be purchased for the proposed Forrestfield-Airport rail line and whether they will be part of the 50 new Perth C series railcars.

AnsweredQoN 922Legislative Council
Asked
11 September 2014
Portfolio
Transport

QuestionView source ↗

FORRESTFIELD–AIRPORT LINK
922. Hon KEN TRAVERS to the parliamentary
secretary representing the Minister for Transport:
I refer to the proposed Forrestfield–airport
rail line.
(1) How many new railcars will be
purchased for this line?
(2) Is it
intended that these railcars will be part of the 50 new Perth C series railcars
proposed in tender PTA2014063?
(3) If no to (2), what railcars will
be purchased for this line?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the member for some notice of this question.
(1) The project will fund the
acquisition of an additional 24 railcars for the Transperth fleet.
(2) The C series
train deliveries will provide the passenger capacity to allow eight
three-railcar sets of B series capacity to be available for the Forrestfield–airport
line.
(3) Not applicable.

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