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Publish Date : 30-Jan-2014

A fleet of new trains ordered by the Queensland Government will be made in India, the Treasurer has confirmed.

On 29 January 2014, Transport Minister Scott Emerson and Tim Nicholls announced they inked deal with the Bombardier NGR Consortium to construct 75 new six-car trains for a bargain price.

Nicholls said the $4.4 billion deal guaranteed the government would get "twice the train for the same amount of money" earmarked for the project by the previous Labor administration.

He said, "For the same price Labor was paying, we're getting an extra three cars per train set so this is a value for money outcome. It will also involve the creation of approximately 500 new jobs, 150 of those in maintenance at the new facility that will be constructed at Wulkuraka near Ipswich."

He denied the cost was due to the fact the trains were being constructed in India, rather than by local manufacturers.

Nicholls said, "The contract and consortia initially involved an Australian component of it but Downer withdrew from the consortia as a result of their own decision-making.”

Emerson said Downer had the contract for the new $200 million Spirit of Queensland tourist train.

He said, "They were initially part of the consortium with Bombardier but for their own reasons they decided to withdraw from that. We would've loved to have had them there as part of the tendering process."

The first of the new trains would be on the tracks in late 2014.

He said, "We'll have new state of the art facilities providing enhanced comfort and services, things like wifi on board, wider corridors and those sorts of facilities as well as the latest equipment running on our rail network here in Qld.”

Each train will cost around $13.7 million to construct-down from an estimated $25 million each.

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