• Saudi Arabia Railways exercised a 2024 contract option to order 10 additional intercity trains from Stadler Rail.
• Order lifts the bespoke desert-train fleet to 20 units; contract volume exceeds CHF 300 million.
• Maintenance agreement extended to cover the additional trains; production largely in Switzerland with car bodies from Valencia.
• Commercial passenger service expected to start in H2 2029 on SAR’s East-West line linking Riyadh with Dammam.

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