First CRRC-Built Train Arrives in Mexico for the Mexico City-Pachuca Line: 15 Electric Trains for a 100-km, 75-Minute Route
Mexico's Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT) announced on November 12 that the first train for the Mexico City-Pachuca passenger line has arrived in Mexico, received on November 7 at the Pantaco rail terminal in northern Mexico City by the Agency of Trains and Integrated Public Transport (ATTRAPI). The fully electric train was built by China's CRRC at its workshops in Zhuzhou and left China in August.
According to SICT, the lead unit is 102 metres long and can carry 893 passengers, with priority seating, space for luggage and bicycles, and video surveillance inside and out. A fleet of 15 trains will serve the line linking the Buenavista terminal in Mexico City with Pachuca, the capital of Hidalgo state, over a route of about 100 kilometres, with an estimated journey time of one hour and 15 minutes and projected daily demand of more than 100,000 passengers.
Some 58 kilometres of the route is new electrified track being built with the "Felipe Angeles" engineers group of the Secretariat of National Defence on the AIFA-Pachuca section. This stage includes seven stations and one terminal connecting communities across the Pachuca metropolitan area and the Valley of Mexico. The rest of the fleet will be assembled in Queretaro to support local jobs and regional economic development.
The line is part of President Claudia Sheinbaum's programme to revive passenger rail in Mexico. The statement gave no opening date; Sheinbaum has previously said she expects at least part of the AIFA-Pachuca section to start operating in 2027. Mexico's passenger railways largely shut down in the late 1990s, and her government is building several new lines, including Mexico City-Queretaro.
Source: Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT)
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 图：墨西哥城—帕丘卡客运线首列列车在中车株洲工厂下线，车头显示屏写着「Pachuca」。墨西哥交通部（SICT）发布。 / The first train for the Mexico City-Pachuca line rolls off the line at CRRC's Zhuzhou plant, its destination board reading 'Pachuca.' Photo: SICT, Government of Mexico.
