Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (Grupo CAF, literally "Construction and Other Railway Services") is a Spanish publicly listed company which manufactures railway vehicles and equipment and buses through its

Solaris Bus & Coach Solaris Bus & Coach is a Polish producer of public transport vehicles (buses, trolleybuses and trams), with its headquarters in Bolechowo-Osiedle near Poznań. It is a subsidiary of Spanish CAF. Solaris owns four production sites: its main fact ...

subsidiary. It is based in

Beasain Beasain is a town and municipality located in the Goierri region of the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, northern Spain. It has an important industry of railway vehicles and related equipment ( CAF) that ...

Basque Autonomous Community The Basque Country (; eu, Euskadi ; es, País Vasco ), also called Basque Autonomous Community ( eu, Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, links=no, EAE; es, Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, links=no, CAPV), is an autonomous community of Spain. It ...

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. Equipment manufactured by Grupo CAF includes light rail vehicles,

rapid transit Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be c ...

trains,

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s and

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s, as well as

variable gauge axles A variable gauge system allows railway vehicles in a train to travel across a break of gauge between two railway networks with different track gauges. For through operation, a train must be equipped with special bogies holding variable gauge whe ...

that can be fitted on any existing truck or

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. Over the 20 years from the early 1990s, CAF benefited from the rail investment boom in its home market in Spain to become a world player with a broad technical capability, able to manufacture almost any type of rail vehicle. CAF has supplied railway rolling stock to a number of major

urban transit Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typical ...

operators around Europe, the US, South America, East Asia, India, Australia and North Africa.

History

''CAF'' was an acronym for the earlier name of ''Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles'', as well as for ''Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles''.

Fábrica de Hierros San Martín

In 1860, Domingo Goitia, Martín Usabiaga and José Francisco Arana established this company, whose main activity was puddling furnaces and cylinder rolling.

La Maquinista Guipuzcoana

In 1892, Francisco de Goitia (Domingo Goitia's son and heir) joined the

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to set up La Maquinista Guipuzcoana, whose main activity was the operation of machinery and the forging and construction of railway rolling stock. In 1898, it set up its plant in

Gipuzkoa Gipuzkoa (, , ; es, Guipúzcoa ; french: Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French depa ...

. In 1905 it changed its name to Fábrica de Vagones de Beasain (FVB).

Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) was founded in 1917, specializing in freight car production and with a total of 1,600 employees. In 1940, the Irun factory was set up, following the expansion of activity after the Spanish Civil War (CAF took part in reconstructing the Spanish rail fleet). In 1954, CAF took over Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) from

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(

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), a company with extensive experience in manufacturing long-distance and subway trains. Since 1958, the company has modernized and enlarged its Beasain plant and expanded its activity to include all kinds of rolling stock. In line with this, in 1969 CAF created its

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Unit, which increased the company's competitiveness and intensified the focus on in-house technology.

Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

In 1971, the existing Compañía Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) merged with Material Móvil y Construcciones (MMC) and the company adopted its current name ''Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles''.

Subsidiaries

CAF U.S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of CAF, was incorporated in 1998 and is based in

Elmira, New York Elmira () is a city and the county seat of Chemung County, New York, United States. It is the principal city of the Elmira, New York, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses Chemung County. The population was 26,523 at the 2020 cens ...

. It manufactures rolling stock for the North American market at a plant in Elmira that the company acquired from ADtranz in 2000. The company from Beasain continued its expansion during the third millennium. On 24 May 2019, it announced the acquisition of the Swedish company Euromaint at a cost of circa €80 million, following other international contracts to supply Flemish and English railway and underground networks in 2017. CAF Rolling Stock U.K. Ltd. is the CAF subsidiary in the United Kingdom. Its

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is based at Celtic Springs Business Park, at

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near

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as a result of an agreement made between CAF and the

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. The Newport factory has built stock for

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Arriva Rail North Arriva Rail North, branded as Northern by Arriva (legal name Arriva Rail North Limited) was a train operating company in Northern England which began operating the Northern franchise on 1 April 2016 and inherited units from the previous operato ...

, the

Docklands Light Railway The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London, England and provides a direct connection between London's two major financial districts, Canary Wharf and the City of Londo ...

, and potentially

High Speed 2 High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway line in England, the first phase of which is under construction in stages and due for completion between 2029 and 2033, depending on approval for later stages. The new line will run from its m ...

if CAF win the bid process.

Train defects

In April 2014, two carriages of an

Urbos 3 The CAF Urbos is a family of trams, streetcars, and light rail vehicles built by CAF. The Basque manufacturer CAF previously manufactured locomotives, passenger cars, regional, and underground trains. In 1993, CAF started building trams for Met ...

tram in

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separated during passenger service, due to the cracking of screws connecting the cars. Half of the Belgrade tramway's CAF fleet were found to have been affected by similar cracking of screws in the two weeks prior to the incident. In March 2016, 19

British Rail Class 332 The British Rail Class 332 was a type of electric multiple unit passenger train built between 1997 and 1998 by CAF, with traction equipment supplied by Siemens Transportation Systems. Fourteen units were built for dedicated use on Heathrow Exp ...

units were taken out of service after a crack was discovered in the underframe of one unit during routine maintenance. In December 2017, the

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Besançon Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerl ...

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discovered cracks in their Urbos 3s vehicles around the

box area of the bodies, which in December 2020 CAF paid for remedial work to be performed with each unit affected requiring one month downtime for the work to be completed. In April 2021, 22

British Rail Class 195 The British Rail Class 195 '' Civity'' is a class of diesel multiple-unit passenger train manufactured by CAF, owned by Eversholt Rail Group and currently operated by Northern Trains. A total of 58 units have been built; 25 two-car units and 3 ...

Civity units were temporarily removed from service after routine maintenance revealed a yaw damper bracket had detached from the body of unit 195121. On June 11, 2021,

West Midlands Metro The West Midlands Metro (originally named Midland Metro) is a light-rail/tram system in the county of West Midlands, England. Opened on 30 May 1999, it currently consists of a single route, Line 1, which operates between the cities of Birmin ...

(operating between

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and

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) were forced to suspend their services due to similar cracks being discovered in the

box areas of their Urbos 3s vehicles, with ongoing investigations continuing to identify any other issues relating to the cracks and to find options for remedial works to be performed. Full service only began once more in February 2022. On June 24, 2021,

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were forced to withdraw their entire

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fleet after 19 days of service due to the discovery of cracks in the chassis. They remain out of service as of September 2022, with plans to reinstate them by the end of the year. In the meantime, CAF has paid an unknown amount to Flytoget in compensation. Following on from these instances, in November 2021 the

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transport minister

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announced that the Sydney L1 Dulwich Hill Line would be decommissioned for up to 18 months, due to serious design flaws in all 12 of the CAF Urbos 3s tram sets that were running on the line. Stokes stated that the flaws (in the bogie boxes) were likely to be far broader in scope than those identified in Sydney due to the thousands of the same tram type operated around the world. In March 2022, the West Midlands Metro was again forced to suspend its services due to the discovery of more cracks, this time on the bodywork of the trams.

Political activity

During the

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, CAF Rail UK Limited made a donation of £50,000 to the

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. In 2019, it entered into litigation that affects its corporate image. Participating in a consortium, JNET, together with the Israeli company Shapir Engineering and Industry, has won a tender promoted by the Israeli

Ministry of Transport and Road Safety The Ministry of Transport, National Infrastructure and Road Safety (MOT) ( he, משרד התחבורה, התשתיות הלאומיות והבטיחות בדרכים, ar, وزارة المواصلات والأمان على الطريق) is a gov ...

to supply railway equipment, in addition to building, extending and operating light rail lines from Jerusalem to nearby settlements in disputed territories, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. In turn, Shapir is on the list of companies that benefit from the occupation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, as denounced by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Rolling stock

Carriages

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* Mark 5A *

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Viewliner The Viewliner is a single-level railroad car type operated by Amtrak on most long-distance routes operating east of Chicago. The first production cars, consisting of an order of 50 sleeping cars, entered service in 1994. From 2015-2016, 70 View ...

EMU and DMU

Serie 121 de Renfe llegando a Roda de Bará

* Cepia * Oaris * Class 598 * IZBAN E22000 * TRD * TEMD * TDMD * Class 440 * Class 444 * Civity **

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Civia Civia is a class of electric multiple unit trains built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, CAF and Siemens for the Renfe Cercanías commuter railway networks in Spain. The first units entered service in 2003. The Civia train concept w ...

* Class 446/ 447 *

IE 29000 Class The 29000 Class is a type of four-car Diesel Multiple Unit operated by Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail). The units were built in Spain by CAF in two batches between 2002 and 2005. Description Each set comprises two driving end cars (DM1 and DM ...

* AM class EMU, Auckland *

VR Class Sm4 The Sm4 electric multiple unit (EMU) is a low-floor train used by the VR Group for longer-distance Helsinki commuter rail services. The initial order was for ten EMUs with the first unit entering service in 1999. Another 20 units were ordered in 20 ...

* MTR Adtranz-CAF EMU

Locomotives

* Class 250 * Class 252 For

FEVE Renfe Feve is a division of state-owned Spanish railway company Renfe Operadora. It operates most of Spain's of railway. This division of Renfe was previously a stand-alone company named FEVE (Ferrocarriles de Vía Estrecha,Law 11/1965 of 2 ...

, now part of Renfe Operadora: *

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Class 1900 * Class 2600 DMU * Class 2700 DMU * Class 2900 DMU For

Euskotren Euskotren, formally known as Basque Railways ( eu, Eusko Trenbideak, es, Ferrocarriles Vascos), is a public railway company controlled by the Basque Government and officially established in 1982 to operate several narrow gauge railways inside ...

: * UT200 * UT300 * UT900 * UT950 * UT3500 * Euskotren XXI For

Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca () or SFM is a company which operates the metre gauge railway network on the Spain, Spanish island of Majorca. The total length, including Palma de Mallorca Metro, Palma Metro, also operated by this company, is 85 ...

: * DMU Class 61 * EMU Class 71 * EMU Class 81 For other operators: * BITRAC CC 3600 (Class 601) electro-diesel (Ordered by FESUR, currently operated by Captrain España)

Metro

For Madrid: * Class 300 * Class 1000 * Class 2000 * Class 3000 * Class 5000 * Class 6000 * Class 8000 * Class 8400 For Barcelona: Metro Barcelona train type 5000

* Class 1000 * Class 2000 * Class 3000 * Class 4000 * Class 5000 * Class 6000 * Class S/2100 * Class S/300 For Helsinki: * M300 For Bucharest: * BM3 For Amsterdam: * Metromaterieel S3/M4 * Metromaterieel M7/M8 For Brussels: *

Trams

* Urbos 1 (Tranvía de Bilbao) * Urbos 2 (Tranvía de Vélez-Málaga, Tranvía de Vitoria and Metro de Sevilla). *

(Metrocentro de Sevilla, Tranvía de Zaragoza, Metropolitano de Granada, Metro de Málaga and Tranvía Metropolitano de la Bahía de Cádiz).

Outside Spain: trains

* Algeria: DMUs * Argentina: 9 articulated units for

Tren de la Costa Tren de la Costa (in English: "Train of the Coast") is a suburban , 11-station light rail line in Greater Buenos Aires, between Maipú Avenue station in the northern suburb of Olivos and Delta station in Tigre, on the Río de la Plata. The l ...

* Brazil:

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EMUs and

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* Germany: Commuter train NEXIO for

Schönbuch Railway The Schönbuch Railway (german: Schönbuchbahn) is a branch line in the Stuttgart region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is single-track and standard gauge, and is long. It links Dettenhausen with Böblingen, where a connection is ...

* Hungary:

MÁV Hungarian State Railways ( hu, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV) is the Hungarian national railway company, with divisions "MÁV START Zrt." (passenger transport), "MÁV-Gépészet Zrt." (maintenance), "MÁV-Trakció Zrt." and "MÁV Cargo Zrt" (freig ...

vagon * Italy: DMUs for Sardinia * Netherlands:

for the

Nederlandse Spoorwegen Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, "Dutch Railways") is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest in the European Union, and the ...

. * Portugal: EMUs (UQE´S) for Lisboa * Saudi Arabia:

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/ SRO Diesel Push-Pull Trainsets * UK:

British Rail Class 331 The British Rail Class 331 '' Civity'' is a class of electric multiple unit built by CAF, owned by Eversholt Rail Group, and currently operated by Northern Trains. A total of 43 units have been built31 three-car units and 12 four-car units. ...

(

Northern Trains Northern Trains, branded as Northern, (legally Northern Trains Limited) is a State-owned enterprises of the United Kingdom, publicly owned train operating company in England. It is owned by DfT OLR Holdings for the Department for Transport (DfT) ...

) * UK:

in partnership with

Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...

(

Heathrow Express Heathrow Express is a high-frequency airport rail link operating between London Heathrow Airport and . Opened in 1998, trains run non-stop, with a journey time of 15 minutes. The service is operated jointly by Great Western Railway and Heathrow ...

) * UK:

British Rail Class 333 The British Rail Class 333 are electric multiple unit passenger trains built by CAF between 2000 and 2003 for Northern Spirit (later Arriva Trains Northern), with traction equipment supplied by Siemens Transportation Systems. All have passed ...

in partnership with Siemens (

Arriva Trains Northern Arriva Trains Northern was a train operating company in England owned by Arriva that operated the Regional Railways North East franchise from March 1997 until December 2004. Arriva resumed operating Northern train services again on 1 April 2016 ...

) * UK: Northern Ireland Railways Class 3000 and Class 4000 * UK:

British Rail Class 397 The British Rail Class 397 '' Civity'' is a class of electric multiple unit built by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF for lease to TransPennine Express by Eversholt Rail Group. A total of twelve five-car units were built to operate serv ...

(

TransPennine Express TransPennine Express (TPE), legally First TransPennine Express Limited, is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup that operates the TransPennine Express franchise. It runs regional and inter-city rail services between the major c ...

)

Newport factory, South Wales, UK

CAF Rolling Stock U.K. Ltd announced in 2017 its UK factory location was selected as Celtic Business Park at

in Newport,

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. It has at least five confirmed UK projects from 2019 onwards and would have been the construction site for their unsuccessful bid to deliver stock for High Speed 2. The site was funded with support from the

Inward Investment Programme. * UK:

( Prospective bid for HS2) * UK:

(

) * UK:

British Rail Class 196 The British Rail Class 196 '' Civity'' is a class of diesel multiple unit built for West Midlands Trains by Spanish rolling stock manufacturer CAF. A total of 26 units have been built; 12 two-car units and 14 four-car units. They are the first ...

(

West Midlands Trains West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom. It operates passenger trains on the West Midlands franchise between London and the English Midlands under two trade names: West Midlands Railway (WMR) (within the ...

) * UK:

British Rail Class 197 The British Rail Class 197 is a class of diesel multiple unit passenger train built by CAF, based on its '' Civity'' platform. They are currently operated by Transport for Wales, split into 51 two-car units and 26 three-car units. The first t ...

(

)

Outside Spain: metros and trams

* Algeria:

Algiers Metro The Algiers Metro ( ar, مترو الجزائر العاصمة, french: Métro d'Alger) is a rapid transit system that serves Algiers, the capital of Algeria. Originally designed in the 1970s, it opened in 2011 after decades of delays due to ...

* Argentina:

Buenos Aires Underground The Buenos Aires Underground ( es, Subterráneo de Buenos Aires, links=no), locally known as Subte (), is a rapid transit system that serves the area of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first section of this network (Plaza de Mayo–Plaz ...

5000 and 6000 series;

* Australia:

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Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle ...

and Sydney light rail. * Belgium:

Brussels Metro The Brussels Metro (french: Métro de Bruxelles, nl, Brusselse metro) is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It consists of four conventional metro lines and three ''premetro'' lines. The me ...

M6 and M7 Series * Brazil:

São Paulo Metro The São Paulo Metro ( pt, Metrô de São Paulo, ), commonly called the ''Metrô'' () is one of the urban railways that serves the city of São Paulo, alongside the São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company (CPTM), forming the largest metropolit ...

* Brazil: Cuiabá tram * Brazil:

Recife Metro The Recife Metro (Portuguese: ''Metrô do Recife'', Metrorec) is a rapid transit system serving the Metropolitan Region of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. It is operated by the federally-owned ''Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU)'' and cu ...

* Canada:

Calgary Transit Calgary Transit is the public transit agency which is owned and operated by the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In 2019, an estimated 106.5 million passengers boarded approximately 1,155 Calgary Transit vehicles. It operates light metro (LRT), u ...

Urbos 100 (On Order) * Chile:

Santiago Metro The Santiago Metro ( es, Metro de Santiago) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Santiago, the capital of Chile. It currently consists of seven lines (numbered 1-6 and 4A), 136 stations, and of revenue route. The system is managed by th ...

* Colombia:

Medellín Metro The Medellín Metro (Spanish: ''Metro de Medellín'') is a rapid transit system that crosses the Metropolitan Area of Medellín from North to South and from Centre to West. It first opened for service on 30 November 1995. As one of the first impl ...

* Estonia:

Tallinn tram The Tallinn tram network (''Trammiliiklus Tallinnas'') is the only tram network in Estonia. Together with the four-route trolleybus network ( et), the four tram lines (currently allocated into five routes), with a total length of 19.7 km (1 ...

* Finland:

Helsinki Metro The Helsinki Metro ( fi, Helsingin metro, sv, Helsingfors metro) is a rapid transit system serving Greater Helsinki, Finland. It is the world's northernmost metro system. It was opened to the general public on 2 August 1982 after 27 years of p ...

, M300 series * France:

Nantes Tramway The Nantes tramway (french: Tramway de Nantes) is a tramway system operating in the city of Nantes in Pays de la Loire, France. The first tramway in Nantes opened in 1879 and closed in 1958 due to bombing damage during World War II, while the pr ...

* France:

* Germany: Freiburg tram and

Bonn Stadtbahn The Bonn Stadtbahn ('' en, city rail'') is a part of the local public transit system in Bonn and the surrounding Rhein-Sieg area, that also includes the Bonn Straßenbahn. Although with six actual Stadtbahn lines (as well as three tram lines) the ...

(on order) * Hungary: Debrecen public transport * Hungary: Budapest public transport * India:

Delhi Airport Metro Express The Delhi Airport Express Line or Orange Line is a Delhi Metro line from New Delhi Metro Station to Dwarka Sector 21, linking Indira Gandhi International Airport. The total length of the line is 22.7 km, of which 15.7 km is underground ...

* Indonesia:

Greater Jakarta LRT The Greater Jakarta LRT or Jabodebek LRT is a light rail system currently under construction in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, as well as the adjacent areas of West Java and Banten, both within the Jakarta Metropolitan area. It is being ...

* Italy:

Rome Metro The Rome Metro ( it, Metropolitana di Roma) is a rapid transit system that operates in Rome, Italy. It started operation in 1955, making it the oldest in the country. The Metro comprises three lines – A (orange), B (blue) and C (green) � ...

* Italy:

Naples Metro The Naples Metro ( it, Metropolitana di Napoli; nap, Metrupulitana 'e Napule) is the rapid transit system serving the city of Naples, Italy. The system comprises three underground rapid transit lines ( Line 1, Line 6 and the Naples-Aversa Me ...

* Luxembourg: :fr:Tramway de Luxembourg Urbos 3 * Mexico:

Mexico City Metro The Mexico City Metro ( es, Metro de la Ciudad de México) is a rapid transit system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City, including some municipalities in Mexico State. Operated by the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo (STC), it is ...

(NE-92, NM-02, FE-07, FE-10, NE-16) * Mexico: Mexico City suburban rail * Mexico:

Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail The Toluca–Mexico City commuter rail (Spanish: ''Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México'') project is a commuter rail line currently under construction. Also known as Interurban Train Mexico City–Toluca, the passenger ...

(under construction) * Netherlands: S3 and M4 units of the

Amsterdam Metro The Amsterdam Metro ( nl, Amsterdamse metro) is a rapid transit system serving Amsterdam, Netherlands, and extending to the surrounding municipalities of Diemen and Ouder-Amstel. Until 2019 it also served the municipality of Amstelveen but thi ...

and from 2018 the Uithof tram line in

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...

* Norway: Oslo trams, delivery from 2022 * Philippines:

Manila LRT Line 1 The Light Rail Transit Line 1, commonly referred to as LRT Line 1 or LRT-1, is a light rapid transit system line in Metro Manila, Philippines, operated by Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) and owned by the Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA ...

* Romania:

Bucharest Metro Line M2 M2 () is one of the five lines of metro of the Bucharest Metro. The M2 Line runs from Pipera to Berceni, thus linking the north to the south of the city. The line is the busiest on the system, passing through a multitude of neighbourhoods, and al ...

* Serbia: Belgrade Tram * Sweden: Stockholm Tram * Taiwan:

Kaohsiung Tram The Circular light rail () is a light rail line in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, operated by Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation. The southern part of this line makes use of the defunct tracks of the Kaohsiung Harbor Railway Line. Construction cost ...

* Turkey: Antray(Antalya LRT) * Turkey:

Istanbul Metro The Istanbul Metro ( tr, İstanbul metrosu) is a rapid transit railway network that serves the city of Istanbul, Turkey. It is operated by Metro Istanbul, a company (formerly known as ''İstanbul Ulaşım A.Ş.'' before 2016), a public enterpris ...

* UK: CAF DLR replacement programme (

, TfL) * UK: New

vehicles * UK:

Edinburgh Trams Edinburgh Trams is a tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland, operated by Edinburgh Trams Ltd. It is a line between St Andrew Square in the New Town and Edinburgh Airport, with 15 stops. Construction began in June 2008, and after encountering delays ...

* US: Light Rail of Sacramento, California Class 200 * US:

Pittsburgh Light Rail The Pittsburgh Light Rail (commonly known as The T) is a light rail system in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and surrounding suburbs. It operates as a deep-level subway in Downtown Pittsburgh, but runs mostly at-grade in the suburbs south of the ci ...

, Pennsylvania Class 4300 * US:

Washington Metro The Washington Metro (or simply Metro), formally the Metrorail,Google Books search/preview

, 5000-Series * US:

METRORail METRORail is the light rail system in Houston, Texas (United States). In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . METRORail ranks as the second most-traveled light rail system in the Southern United States and the 12th ...

, (

Houston, TX Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...

) * US: Kansas City Streetcar * US: Cincinnati Streetcar * US:

MBTA Green Line The Green Line is a light rail system run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area. It is the oldest MBTA subway line, and with tunnel sections dating from 1897, the oldest subway ...

Type 9 LRV and Type 10 (on order - delivery starting 2027) * US:

MTA Maryland The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) is a state-operated mass transit administration in Maryland, and is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation. The MTA operates a comprehensive transit system throughout the Baltimore-Washingt ...

Purple Line (On order) * Venezuela:

Caracas Metro The Caracas Metro ( es, Metro de Caracas) is a mass rapid transit system serving Caracas, Venezuela. It was constructed and is operated by Compañía Anónima Metro de Caracas, a government-owned company that was founded in 1977 by José Gonz� ...

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History

Fábrica de Hierros San Martín

La Maquinista Guipuzcoana

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Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles

Subsidiaries

Train defects

Political activity

Rolling stock

Carriages

EMU and DMU

Locomotives

Metro

Trams

Outside Spain: trains

Newport factory, South Wales, UK

Outside Spain: metros and trams

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