Egypt to start operation of luxurious Talgo train between Cairo, Alexandria

CAIRO – 23 December 2022: Egypt will start the operation of the first luxurious train (Talgo train) round trips on Saturday.

The train will take off at 2:00 PM from Ramses Railway station in downtown Cairo for Alexandria’s Sidi Gaber station.

Starting on Sunday, December 25, 2022, two trains will depart from Misr station in Alexandria and Sidi Gaber station at 5:55 AM and 6:05 AM, respectively, per week. They are bound for Ramses Railway station, where two trips would return heading for Alexandria’s stations.

On August 9, 2022, Egypt and Spain's Talgo signed a contract for the latter to supply seven luxurious sleeper trains, which will be a total of 126 railcars, and provide maintenance and spare parts for 15 years.

Every train will consist of 10 second-class passenger railcars, five first-class passenger railcars, two dining cars, and a power car. The contract also provides that Talgo and Egypt's Semaf Locomotives join forces on localizing sleeper train production.

This signing is the second protocol in the field of localizing the mobile unit industry in Egypt, after the contract to localize 320 subway vehicles with 40 trains, which was previously signed with the Hyundai Rotem and Nerk companies union to localize the metro train industry, with the aim of meeting the expected increase in the number of passengers in the coming years.