AUSTRIA: Linz Linien has ordered six more Cityrunner 100% low-floor trams for €19m, Bombardier Transportation announced on February 10.
The trams, from Bombardier’s Flexity family, are to be manufactured in Wien. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in mid-2015. The trams will be 40 m long and 2 300 mm wide with capacity for 224 passengers.
The vehicles will be needed to operate the 4·4 km extension of the 900 mm gauge Line 3 from Leonding to Traun, approved last year and planned to open in 2016.
Austria: Linz Linien has exercised an option for a further seven Bombardier Cityrunner low-floor trams. The 900 mm gauge cars will be 40 m long and 2300 mm wide with 70 seats. Azerbaijan: Baku Metro expected to sign a contract by the end of 2013 with Transmashholding to buy ...
AUSTRIA: The Linz city authorities confirmed on March 5 that the planned southwestern extension of the 900 mm gauge tram Line 3 from Leonding to Pasching and Traun is to go ahead next year. The StadtRegio-Tram project will add a further 4·4 km and eight stops to the 5·3 km ...
AUSTRIA: Celebrations were held on August 13 to mark the opening of a 5·3 km extension of Linz’s 900 mm gauge tram network. Under construction since 2009 at a cost of €140m, the line running southwest to Leonding is the first to be built outside the city boundary and ...
