The first of 22 four-car metro trains for Bangkok’s Green Line extension has been manufactured and is ready to be shipped to Thailand from Turkey. In May 2016, the Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company (BTSC) had placed an order for 22 four-car metro trains on a consortium of Siemens and Turkish public transportation vehicle manufacturer Bozankaya. The production of the train had started in April 2017 at the Bozankaya factory in Ankara. Once the train, weighing 140 tonnes, reaches the Turkish port of Borusan-Gemlik from the factory, it will take about six weeks to reach Bangkok. It is scheduled to arrive at the Thai port of Laem Chabang by August 2018.
The static and dynamic commissioning of the train will be carried out in Bangkok after its arrival. This will include test runs on the Green Line tracks in the city. The trains will run on the current BTS (Skytrain) system, as well as its extensions and will increase the line’s daily capacity to over a million passengers. Four doors on each side of the cars enable passengers to board and leave the train rapidly, reducing dwell times at stations and increasing system capacity. The trains will have 112 seats, room for 1,460 standing passengers at crush load and a maximum speed of 80 km per hour.