All Light Rail articles – Page 3
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Metro Report InternationalSiemens Mobility to replace Europe’s largest light rail interlocking
GERMANY: Ruhrbahn has awarded Siemens Mobility a €180m contract to replace 1970s relay-based light rail signalling and control technology in Essen and Mülheim an der Ruhr with Trackguard digital equipment by 2031. The supplier says this includes digitalising Europe’s largest light rail interlocking at Essen Hbf, ...
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Metro Report InternationalStrasbourg tramway expansion gains momentum
FRANCE: Tracklaying has begun on Strasbourg’s Tram Ouest project, and planning is under way for a northern expansion of the network. A ceremony was held on August 26 to officially install the first rail for the 4 km double track Tram Ouest extension of Route F ...
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Metro Report InternationalMinistry of Transport to develop Samsun tram line
TURKEY: The national Ministry of Transport & Infrastructure is to take over responsibility for developing a planned tram line in the Black Sea port city of Samsun. The 10·2 km line with 11 stops would link the city’s main hospital (Şehir Hastanesi) with the existing 33 ...
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Metro Report InternationalZagreb tram order signed
CROATA: A firm order for Končar KEV to supply a further 20 low-floor trams to Zagreb operator ZET was signed by Mayor Tomislav Tomaševićs on September 3. A €37·8m order for an initial 20 trams was signed in June 2023, financed by the EU-backed National Recovery ...
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Metro Report InternationalDriverless tram begins passenger-carrying test runs
RUSSIA: A tram converted for driverless operation has begun passenger-carrying test running on Route 10 in Moskva. Operator Moskva Metro and the Centre for Electric Transport & Driverless Technologies have fitted the PK TS 71-911EM Lvyonok singe-section tram with six cameras and four lidar and three ...
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Metro Report InternationalLocally built low-floor light rail vehicles enter service in Sacramento
USA: ‘This is a historic moment’ for the operator and the region, General Manager & CEO Henry Li said when the first of Sacramento Regional Transit District’s Siemens Mobility S700 low-floor light rail vehicles entered passenger service. ’The launch of our new S700 light rail vehicles ...
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Metro Report InternationalKarlsruhe tram-trains get smarter operations control
GERMANY: Tram-trains operating around Karlsruhe are to be equipped with the DatNet operations control system from ETC Solutions GmbH, boosting the capability of the existing onboard Intermodal Transport Control System supplied by Karlsruhe-based INIT. ITCS provides constant communication between moving vehicles and the operator’s central control ...
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Metro Report InternationalBudget squeeze curtails Liège tram plans
BELGIUM: Test running has started on the north-south tram route in Liège, which is now expected to open on January 31 2025, around three years later than envisaged.
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Metro Report InternationalSeattle light rail extension is ‘the biggest thing to happen in Snohomish County since the first 747’
USA: A ribbon cutting, food trucks, face painting, live music and prizes for people who visited all four new stations were among the celebrations marking the opening on August 30 of a 13·7 km extension of Seattle’s light rail 1 Line north from Northgate to Lynnwood ...
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Metro Report InternationalHigher capacity tram arrives in Göteborg
SWEDEN: Alstom has delivered the first of 60 longer and higher capacity trams that it is building for Göteborg.
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Metro Report InternationalTampere tramway extension plans could be scaled back
FINLAND: Plans for the third phase of the Tampere tramway could be scaled back, after the national government’s 2024-25 budget allocated €55m rather than the expected €100m. The planned 9·3 km, 11-stop extension to Suuppa in Pirkkala would be reduced to 4·7 km and five stops ...
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Metro Report InternationalBremen tram depot rebuilding completed
GERMANY: Bremen transport operator BSAG has completed a €100m four-year project to rebuild the Gröpelingen public transport interchange and the adjacent century-old tram depot. The 11 000 m2 fully accessible transport interchange opened two years ago, and the rebuilt 13 000 m2 depot with nine stabling ...
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Metro Report InternationalBielefeld buys narrow gauge rail grinder
GERMANY: Windhoff has delivered the first narrow gauge version of its VentuS NV rail grinder to Bielefeld tram operator moBiel. The VentuS SF 50 has been designed for the grinding and cleaning of various types of rail head across the 1 000 mm gauge network. It ...
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Metro Report InternationalLogIKTram freight tram demonstrates urban distribution alternative
GERMANY: Small volumes of freight can be handled on urban rail networks using freight trams or similar vehicles, a research project conducted in Karlsruhe has concluded.
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Metro Report InternationalKøbenhavn tram test running begins
DENMARK: København’s Hovedstadens Letbane has carried out the first test run between the light rail line’s depot at Rødovre Nord and Glostrup, 6 km to the south. The daytime test on August 14 was the first time one of the fleet of 29 Avenio LRVs built ...
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Metro Report InternationalBerlin calls tramway extension planning tender
GERMANY: Berlin transport operator BVG has called tenders for the provision of planning services to support the development of a proposed extension of tram Route M17 from Johannisthal to Gropiusstadt in the southeast of the capital. Preliminary feasibility and economic viability studies were completed in 2023, ...
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Metro Report InternationalChildren with Down’s syndrome act as tram conductors
NETHERLANDS: Staff on Amsterdam tram Route 26 gave children with Down’s syndrome the chance to be conductors for a day, opening and closing the doors and announcing the stops.
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Metro Report InternationalConstruction starts on Istanbul’s next tram line
TURKEY: Construction has started on a 3·2 km section of tramway in central Istanbul, linking Feshane on tram Line T5 with Bayrampaşa Meydan. Known as the Eyüpsultan – Bayrampaşa Tramway, the route will form a tangential link between the existing T5 light ...
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Metro Report InternationalTram Route 13 is lucky for Helsinki
FINLAND: Tangential tram Route 13 serving northeast Helsinki opened on August 12. Developed at cost of €79·3m, it includes 4·5 km of new 1 000 mm gauge infrastructure in its route from the northern terminus at Maistraatintori (Pasila) to Nihti in the port area east of ...
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Metro Report InternationalHyundai Rotem to supply 34 hydrogen trams to Daejeon
SOUTH KOREA: Daejeon municipality signed a 293·4bn won contract with Hyundai Rotem on July 25 for the supply of 34 hydrogen vehicles to run on Daejeon’s planned first light rail route, Line 2. The trams are scheduled to be delivered from the first half of 2026 ...