All Light Rail articles – Page 62

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    St Petersburg tenders for second fast tram PPP

    2017-12-14T11:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: The city of St Petersburg is tendering for a PPP concession to build and operate a fast tram line that would serve two of the city’s satellite towns. The route would run from Kupchino station on metro Line 2 to Shushary and Slavyanka. The winning bidder would invest ...

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    Yekaterinburg tram extension opens

    2017-12-13T13:49:36Z

    RUSSIA: A 2 km extension of the Yekaterinburg tram network opened on December 11. The new route runs along Ulitsa Tatishcheva between Ulitsa Moskovskaya and Ulitsa Krasnouuralskaya. It is being used by tram routes 2 and 18.

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    Basel gains third cross-border tram route

    2017-12-13T11:21:12Z

    SWITZERLAND: Basel tram operator BVB opened a 3 km extension of Route 3 into France on December 9. Revenue services on the new section started the following day. The extension to Gare de Saint-Louis has four stops. It cost SFr54m, with an additional SFr33m for the construction of station ...

  • The Innsbruck tramway extension runs from the former terminus at Höttinger Au to Peerhofsiedlung.
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    Innsbruck tramway extended

    2017-12-12T07:00:00Z

    AUSTRIA: Passenger services on a 3 km Y-shaped western extension of Innsbruck’s metre-gauge tram network were launched on December 10, following inauguration celebrations five days earlier. The extension runs from the former terminus at Höttinger Au to Peerhofsiedlung, with a branch to Technik West which has been built as the ...

  • CAF has supplied 21 trams to Luxtram. The vehicle design is intended to evoke local architecture while also providing a very high level of comfort, Luxtram says.
    Metro Report International

    Revenue operations begin on first section of Luxembourg tramway

    2017-12-11T16:05:47Z

    LUXEMBOURG: The first section of the city of Luxembourg’s 16 km tramway opened for public service on December 10, with free travel offered until the end of January. The starter section covers 8 km between Luxexpo and Pafendall-Rout Bréck in the Kirchberg district, serving six intermediate stops. The full route ...

  • Guests including Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attended celebrations the opening of the Luas Cross City extension of Dublin’s light rail Green Line.
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    Dublin’s Cross City tram extension opens

    2017-12-11T11:56:48Z

    IRELAND: Guests including Taoiseach Leo Varadkar attended celebrations on December 9 marking the opening of the Luas Cross City extension of Dublin’s light rail Green Line. The €368m project to build the 5·9 km extension north from St Stephen’s Green to Broombridge with 13 stops was given the go-ahead in ...

  • Alstom is supplying a fleet of 14 Citadis 302 low-floor cars for the Cuenca tramway.
    Metro Report International

    ACTN consortium to complete Cuenca tramway works

    2017-12-11T10:51:34Z

    ECUADOR: A consortium of Alstom, Compagnie International de Maintenance and the NGE Group joint venture of NGE Contracting and TSO has been selected to complete the civil works on the starter light rail line in Cuenca. Planning for a modern tramway in the mountainous southern city began in 2011 with ...

  • The Rail Accident Investigation Branch makes 15 recommendations to improve safety in its report into the derailment of a tram at Sandilands in Croydon.
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    15 recommendations in Croydon Tramlink derailment report

    2017-12-07T14:40:07Z

    UK: The Rail Accident Investigation Branch made 15 recommendations to improve safety on December 7 when it published its report into the overturning of a tram at Sandilands in Croydon, south London on November 9 2016. RAIB found that the Bombardier CR4000 tram had been travelling at 73 km/h ...

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    Qatar metro and light rail operating contract awarded

    2017-12-07T14:26:00Z

    QATAR: Public transport authority Qatar Rail has awarded the RKH Qitarat joint venture between a consortium of RATP Dev and Keolis (49%) and local construction, property and trading business Hamad Group (51%) a contract to operate and maintain the Doha metro and Lusail light rail networks. The contract awarded on ...

  • A memorandum of understanding for the development of urban rail projects in Baghdad and Basra has been signed by the Iraqi government and Alstom.
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    Baghdad and Basra urban rail memorandum signed by Alstom

    2017-12-06T14:25:00Z

    IRAQ: A memorandum of understanding for the development of urban rail projects in Baghdad and Basra has been signed by the Iraqi government and Alstom as part of a Franco-Iraqi inter-governmental meeting. A 20 km elevated light rail line is proposed for Baghdad, which would link Mustansiriyah, ...

  • The half-hourly service on the single track route linking Naumburg's old town with the main station is operated using a fleet of historic East German trams.
    Metro Report International

    Smallest tramway gets longer

    2017-12-06T07:00:00Z

    GERMANY: What claims to be Germany’s smallest tramway grew by 440 m to reach a total of 2·9 km on December 1, with the opening of a one-stop extension from Vogelwiese to Salztor in Naumburg. The extension returns trams to a further section of what was once a circular route ...

  • Helsinki transport authority HKL and Bombardier Transportation have reached an agreement which will see the 40 Variotrams withdrawn from service in the Finnish capital by the end of 2018.
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    Helsinki and Bombardier agree Variotram settlement

    2017-12-05T16:27:30Z

    FINLAND: Helsinki transport authority HKL and Bombardier Transportation have reached an agreement which will see the 40 Variotrams withdrawn from service in the Finnish capital by the end of 2018. The Variotrams were delivered by Adtranz (later Bombardier Transportation) in 1998-2003, but the track profiles and operating conditions on Helsinki’s ...

  • Brookville Equipment Corp is to supply Seattle’s Sound Transit with five Liberty light rail vehicles.
    Metro Report International

    Sound Transit orders Tacoma Link extension LRVs

    2017-12-05T14:13:48Z

    USA: Terms have been agreed for Brookville Equipment Corp to supply Seattle’s Sound Transit with five Liberty light rail vehicles for $26·5m plus tax, the manufacturer announced on December 4. The LRVs are required as part of the project to build a 3·9 km extension of the 2·6 km Tacoma ...

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    Metro Report International

    Los Angeles light rail extension groundbreaking

    2017-12-04T15:08:05Z

    USA: The Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority held a groundbreaking ceremony on December 2 for the next phase of the light rail route. The 19·8 km eastern extension from APU/Citrus College in Glendora to Montclair will add six stops. Main construction work is due to begin in 2020, with ...

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    Solaris Tram wins Kraków order as Pesa pulls out of tender

    2017-12-04T11:12:29Z

    POLAND: MPK Kraków announced on November 30 that it is to sign a framework contract for the supply of up to 50 trams with a consortium of Solaris and Stadler, after Pesa withdrew its bid. MPK Kraków selected Pesa as preferred bidder for the contract on August 8. Pesa’s ...

  • Siemens is supplying 12 Avenio M trams to Ulm from its Wien factory.
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    Siemens completes first Avenio M tram for Ulm

    2017-12-01T14:00:00Z

    GERMANY: The first of 12 Avenio M trams that Siemens is supplying to Ulm has left Siemens’ factory in Wien and is on its way to the supplier’s Wegberg-Wildenrath test track. Stadtwerke Ulm ordered the trams in May 2015 under a €32m contract that includes an option for six ...

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    Duisburg selects Bombardier trams

    2017-12-01T10:03:24Z

    GERMANY: Duisburg transport authority DVG announced on November 29 that it had selected Bombardier Transportation as preferred bidder for a contract to supply 47 trams. The €135m contract is expected to be signed on December 8 following the mandatory standstill period. A prototype tram is due to enter service ...

  • Plzeň is to receive up to 16 EVO2 trams.
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    Trams ordered for Plzeň

    2017-11-29T12:35:13Z

    CZECH REPUBLIC: Sole bidder Krnovské Opravny a Strojírny is to supply up to 16 Pragoimex EVO2 trams to Plzeň under a KC524m framework agreement. The 100% low-floor two-section trams will be 21·7 m long. Pragoimex, which is majority-owned by KOS, has to date produced one EVO2 tram, which entered ...

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    Dudley extension receives government funding

    2017-11-28T14:27:46Z

    UK: The government is to provide £250m from its Transforming Cities Fund towards the construction of an extension of the Midland Metro light rail network serving Birmingham, the West Midlands Combined Authority announced on November 20. The 11 km branch would serve 17 stops. It would run southwest from ...

  • Tatra-Yug has tested the K1M6 tram in Kamianske.
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    Latest Tatra-Yug tram tested in Kamianske

    2017-11-28T11:45:33Z

    UKRAINE: Tatra-Yug has completed tests of its latest tram design on the network in Kamianske. The Dnipro-based tram manufacturer began testing the K1M6 in September on the 33 route-km 1 524 mm gauge network in Kamianske. Tests were undertaken every day. Tatra-Yug says that it deliberately chose a ...