FRANCE: Saint-Etienne has selected CAF to supply 16 Urbos trams for its metre gauge network. The contract, announced on December 10, is worth €42m, with the first vehicles scheduled to be delivered in early 2016.
In contrast to the current fleet, the 100% low-floor five-section trams would be bidirectional. They would be 33 m long and 2 150 mm wide.
CAF has supplied trams to Nantes and Besançon in France, and was recently awarded a contract to refurbish 36 two-car metro trainsets in Lyon.
FRANCE: National passenger operator SNCF Voyageurs and Paris transport operator RATP have confirmed their selection of a consortium of Bombardier Transpoartion and CAF as preferred bidder for a contract to supply 146 suburban trainsets for the jointly operated north-south RER Line B.
FRANCE: Lyon transport authority Sytral has awarded CAF a €23m contract to undertake heavy overhaul and refurbishment of 36 two-car MPL 85 trainsets. Built by Alsthom, the rubber-tyred driverless cars entered service in 1991 on Line D of the Lyon metro. Due to start during autumn 2014 for completion by ...
FRANCE: A weekend of ‘modest celebrations’ marked the inauguration of Besançon’s 14·5 km tram line on August 30-31, with local residents attending wearing turquoise-blue to match the trams’ colour scheme. The tramway has been explicitly developed as a low-cost project by the Grand Besançon municipality, which had hoped to reduce ...
