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Another success in Australia: Siemens locomotives for Queensland Rail

Erlangen, Apr 04, 2006

Siemens Transportation Systems (TS) is to supply 20 new Class 3800 electric freight locomotives to Queensland Rail (QR) in Australia. Including a spare parts package, the order is worth € 97 million. "This is the second major contract from Queensland Rail within three months", commented Joern F. Sens, TS Group Vice-President. The new locomotives will be developed and built by Siemens in Munich. Delivery is planned for 2008.

Queensland Rail is one of Australia’s largest rail operators and will use the new locomotives as traction units for its coal transportation services. With a transport capacity of 157 million metric tonnes of coal per year, QR is the market leader in Australia. QR is planning to increase capacity to over 250 million metric tonnes by 2010. The new locomotives will play an essential role, because fewer locomotives than before will be needed for the coal trains due to the high traction power of 4000 kW and the tare weight of 132 metric tonnes.

It was only in December of last year that Siemens received a € 150 million order from Queensland Rail to upgrade sixty Class 3100/3200 electric freight locomotives.

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The Transportation Systems Group (TS) of Siemens AG is one of the leading international suppliers to the railways industry. As single source supplier and system integrator, the Group combines in its business segments Automation & Power, Rolling Stock, Turnkey Systems and Integrated Services all the expertise necessary to cover the spectrum from signaling and control systems to traction power supplies, as well as rolling stock for mass transit, regional and main line services. Extensive experience in project management and forward-looking service concepts complement our portfolio. In fiscal 2005 (ended September 30) TS generated sales of around €4.2 billion with a staff of 18,400 the world over.
Further information on TS can be found at

www.siemens.com/transportation

Bernd Edelmann

Press Department Transportation Systems P.O. 3240, 91050 Erlangen

Phone: +49-9131-7 27338; Fax.: +49-9131-7 24598

bernd.edelmann@siemens.com

Siemens Transportation Systems

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