(Reuters) -Swiss state railways SBB will purchase 116 commuter trains from Siemens, awarding the German engineering group a contract worth 2 billion francs ($2.5 billion), it said on Friday.
The contract includes options for 84 additional trains, SBB added.
The new trains are scheduled to enter service in the 2030s in the Zurich metropolitan area and western Switzerland.
Siemens’ Swiss rival Stadler Rail said it was a “great disappointment” that it wasn’t awarded the contract.
“Stadler will carefully analyse SBB’s reasoning,” the company said.
($1 = 0.7931 Swiss francs)
(Reporting by Thomas Seythal, editing by Thomas Escritt)
