The Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Singapore has received a delivery of the first of 19 new trains for the Bukit Panjang LRT (BPLRT) which is currently undergoing testing before it is put into service. The second delivery of trains is scheduled for June 2022 and the remaining cars will be delivered in the upcoming months. No concrete timeline has been announced yet.
Local testing of the train cars is expected to take three to six months to complete, and the new trains are scheduled to commence service on the BPLRT line by December 2022.
The new train cars, which have been supplied by France-based Alstom, is a part of a USD344 million modernisation project of BPLRT, scheduled to be completed by 2024. The 19 new cars will operate alongside the 13 existing trains. LTA also plans to upgrade these trains.
Two of the retrofitted trains were delivered in April 2021 and the remaining 11 train cars will also be upgraded by Alstom.
