GERMANY: Hannover transport operator Üstra exercised an option to buy 50 light rail vehicles from Vossloh Kiepe on November 15.
The follow-up order is worth €90m and coincides with the delivery of the first TW 3000 high-floor LRV ordered from a Vossloh Kiepe-Alstom consortium in 2011 under a €126m contract for 50 with an option for 96 more.
The first of the new fleet is expected to enter passenger service in March. The two-section bidirectional air-conditioned LRVs are 25 m long.
GERMANY: Assembly of the first TW3000 high-floor light rail vehicles ordered by Hannover transport operator Üstra has begun at the HeiterBlick factory in Leipzig. The first vehicles will be delivered to Hannover later this year for testing, with revenue services likely to commence in early 2014. In April 2011 ...
GERMANY: Hannover transport operator Üstra has ordered 50 high-floor TW 3000 light rail vehicles from a consortium of Vossloh Kiepe and Alstom Transport. The contract announced on April 8 is worth €126m, with half of the cost being met by Land transport agency LNVG. Consortium leader Vossloh values its share ...
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