All Light Rail articles – Page 60
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Metro Report InternationalGraz tram project funding agreement signed
AUSTRIA: Graz Mayor Siegfried Nagl and Steiermark Infrastructure Minister Anton Lang signed an agreement on February 5 for financing of six tram projects in the city. The Land of Steiermark will provide €43·8m of the €117·4m total in 15 yearly instalments, with the city council providing a further €44·1m. ...
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NewsSecond tram route opens in Samarkand
UZBEKISTAN: Trial operation began on the second tram route in Samarkand on February 3. Route 2 runs from the main railway station to Siab Bazaar on a 5·1 km partly segregated alignment, of which 250 m is shared with Route 1, which opened on March 29 last year. ...
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Metro Report InternationalEdmonton Valley Line LRV mock-up presented
CANADA: A mock-up of a light rail vehicle for Edmonton’s Valley Line was presented to officials on February 2. Bombardier Transportation is supplying 26 LRVs for the first phase of the project as part of the TransEd Partners consortium, which has a PPP contract to design, build and finance ...
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NewsIași receives ex-Mülheim trams
ROMANIA: CTP Iași has taken delivery of four second-hand M6D trams from Mülheim an der Ruhr. The trams were ordered along with seven M8C vehicles from Essen, one of which has already arrived in Iași. Following tests, all 11 trams are to enter passenger service on Iași’s 1 000 ...
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NewsTest running begins on St Petersburg fast tram route
RUSSIA: Test running on the fast tram route being developed in St Petersburg began on January 31. Stadler Minsk has so far delivered nine trams of the 23 that it is supplying under a contract signed in 2016. These are currently being kept in a provisional depot at Khasanskaya ...
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Metro Report InternationalTracklaying starts on Manchester’s Trafford Park tram extension
UK: Tracklaying on the Trafford Park extension of the Manchester Metrolink light rail network began on February 1 at Parkway Circle. Civil works on the 5·5 km mostly segregated route with six stops began in late 2016 and is being undertaken by the MPact Thales consortium of Laing O’Rourke, ...
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Metro Report InternationalSardinia transport funding approved
ITALY: Sardinia regional government approved the allocation of €117·6m from EU funds for four public transport projects on January 23. The proposals must now be approved by the country’s Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport. The largest investment would be €60·1m to build a light rail line in Cagliari from ...
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NewsBKM trams ordered for Volgograd
RUSSIA: Sole bidder Avtotekhkom was awarded a 257·5m rouble contract on January 29 to supply 10 Belkommunmash trams to Volgograd. Deliveries are due before April 10 and VEB-Leasing is providing financial backing. The 37% low-floor BKM-802 trams will be 15·5 m long and 2 500 mm wide. Fitted with ...
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NewsSiemens to supply more trams to Bremen
GERMANY: Bremer Straßenbahn has ordered an additional 10 Avenio trams from Siemens. The order announced on January 31 is an option on a contract signed in June 2017, which included a base order of 67 trams and options for up to 17 more. Deliveries of the 10 trams are ...
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Metro Report InternationalNationwide transport smart card to be launched
TURKEY: Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced on January 25 that a nationwide public transport smart card will be launched in June. Every citizen will be able to apply for a Türkiye Kart, which will be designated for a named user. This would be valid on urban public transport in ...
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Metro Report InternationalIndra wins Amsterdam ticketing contract
NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam public transport authority GVB has awarded Indra a contract to supply 130 ticket vending machines. Indra is to supply TVMs that accept credit card payments for installation at metro stations, tram stops and bus stops, as well as machines that only accept cash and card payment for ...
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NewsUTM begins tram deliveries to Kolomna
RUSSIA: Uraltransmash delivered the first of 21 single-section Type 71-407-01 trams to Kolomna on January 27. The partly low-floor 15·9 m long tram has 27 seats and three 1 300 mm double doors. Operator Mosoblyelektrotrans placed the 430·5m rouble order in November 2017.
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NewsFS to fund Brescia tram construction
ITALY: State railway FS Group intends to finance the construction of a tram line in Brescia, CEO Renato Mazzoncini told an industry forum organised by local newspaper Giornale di Brescia on January 21. Expected to cost €150m to build, the line would run from Pendolina in the northwest to ...
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NewsNew trams enter service in Kazan
RUSSIA: Three BKM-84500K trams supplied by Belkommunmash and assembled at operator Metroelektrotrans’ workshops entered revenue service on route 5 in Kazan on January 25. BKM delivered kits for the three-section trams between July and September 2017 under a 161·7m rouble contract signed in late 2016. This includes a guarantee ...
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NewsFirst Lusail tram completed
QATAR: Alstom has presented the first Citadis for the Lusail Tram project to officials from Qatar Rail, following the completion of factory acceptance tests in France. Alstom is supplying 28 trams for the Lusail network. Branded Al Mehmel, the vehicles’ design is inspired by a type of ...
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Metro Report InternationalTram collision detection system on test in Basel
SWITZERLAND: Baselland Transport is testing a collision warning system on a light rail vehicle. If it proves successful, the operator intends to equip its entire fleet of Tango LRVs. BLT is working with rolling stock supplier Stadler and Bosch Rail Transport, which has supplied its Tram Forward Collision Warning ...
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Metro Report InternationalKøbenhavn light rail contractors selected
DENMARK: Siemens has been selected to supply 27 Avenio trams to operate on the Ring 3 light rail line in København. It will supply the 36·9 m long vehicles as part of a consortium with Aarsleff Rail that is preferred bidder for the railway systems contract. Project promoter Hovedstadens ...
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Metro Report InternationalFunding agreed for T9 in Paris
FRANCE: Construction of light rail route T9 in the inner southwestern suburbs of Paris is expected to begin later this year following the signature of a funding agreement for the €404m project. The Ile-de-France region is providing 52∙5% of this total, its funding partners being central government (22∙5%), the département ...
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NewsFlexity Wien starts test running
AUSTRIA: Transport Leader for Wien city council Ulli Sima joined officials from Wiener Linien and Bombardier Transportation to present the first Flexity Wien tram to the public on January 18, as testing of the vehicle started. Bombardier handed over the tram from its Wien factory at the end of ...
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Metro Report InternationalDüsseldorf tests new ticket vending machines
GERMANY: Düsseldorf light rail operator Rheinbahn has started testing new ticket vending machines on its trams. The operator is purchasing 263 TVMs for its trams and LRVs at a cost of €4·4m. Dortmund-based ICA Traffic is installing the machines at Rheinbahn’s main workshop, and is also supplying the back-office ...