All Urban transport vehicles articles – Page 39
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NewsMore X’Trapolis EMUs for Melbourne
AUSTRALIA: Public Transport Victoria has signed a €100m contract for Alstom to supply a further nine six-car X’Trapolis 1·5 kV DC electric multiple-units for Melbourne's 1 600 mm gauge suburban network. Announcing the order on February 21, Alstom said production was expected to begin at its Ballarat plant later ...
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NewsStadler signs Merseyrail EMU contract
UK: The contract for Stadler Bussnang AG to supply and maintain 52 electric multiple-units was signed by Liverpool region transport authority Merseytravel on February 16. The deal is worth ‘up to £700m’, including maintenance throughout the EMUs’ expected 35-year lifecycle at the Kirkdale depot which will be designed, built and ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst Waterloo LRV leaves Bombardier factory
CANADA: The first light rail vehicle for the ION light rail project in the Region of Waterloo left Bombardier’s Thunder Bay plant on February 15. Delivery is expected to take 10 to 12 days. The project promoter aims to unveil the vehicle to the public in April at an ...
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NewsTramino XL presented in Leipzig
GERMANY: The first Solaris Tramino XL was presented to the public in Leipzig on February 11, and is on display until February 19 at the Leipziger Messe. In February 2015 Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe selected Solaris to supply five trams for €7·7m, with options for up to 36 more. LVB exercised ...
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NewsTrams delivered to Nizhny Tagil
RUSSIA: Uraltransmash has delivered 30 trams to Nizhny Tagil. Three are already in regular service, with the remaining 27 expected to enter service by the end of February. The partly low-floor Type 71-407 trams are being purchased under a seven-year leasing deal with Sberbank Leasing. The total cost is ...
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NewsPesa to supply more trams to Łódź
POLAND: Pesa submitted the best offer to supply 12 trams to Łódź, city transport operator MPK Łódź announced on February 10. The Bydgoszcz-based supplier is to supply five-section trams from its Swing family for 99·6m złoty, with deliveries due to be completed before the end of September 2018. ...
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NewsCAF delivers first Luxembourg tram
LUXEMBOURG: The first tram for the line under construction in Luxembourg City arrived in the early hours of February 9 from CAF’s factory in Zaragoza. CAF is supplying 21 Urbos trams under an €83m contract signed in 2015. Nine are required for the first section of the line, which ...
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NewsTatra-Yug to supply trams to Alexandria
EGYPT: Alexandria Passenger Transportation Authority signed a contract on February 6 for Tatra-Yug to supply 15 trams. The Ukrainian manufacturer beat Stadler and CRRC to win the order; three other bidders did not make it to the second round. To be used on Alexandria’s 32 km standard gauge network, ...
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NewsFinal Leonardo option exercised in Milano
ITALY: Milano transport operator ATM signed a €106m contract on February 8 for Hitachi Rail Italy to supply nine trainsets for metro Lines 1 and six trains for metro Line 2. The Leonardo trains will be built at HRI’s plants in Reggio Calabria and Napoli, with deliveries to be ...
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NewsACC to refurbish Paris metro cars
FRANCE: The board of Paris metro operator RATP has named ACC Ingénierie et Maintenance as preferred bidder for a contract to refurbish up to 130 steel-wheeled MF77 trainsets operating on lines 7 and 8. Potentially costing up to €82m, the refurbishment programme is being equally funded by RATP and Ile-de-France ...
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Metro Report InternationalAlstom wins Shanghai metro traction equipment order
CHINA: Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co has awarded Alstom a €17m contract to supply traction equipment, static inverters and train control monitoring systems for 64 metro that CRRC Nanjing Puzhen is supplying for Shanghai metro Line 2. Alstom will supply its Onix traction equipment, which includes regenerative braking. The ...
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NewsTenders called for up to 213 trams in Warszawa
POLAND: Tramwaje Warszawskie called tenders on February 3 for up to 213 trams with an estimated value of 2·3bn złoty including VAT. The base order includes 85 bidirectional and 18 unidirectional trams 33 m long, as well as 20 unidirectional trams 24 m long. Deliveries are due to take ...
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NewsHyundai Rotem awarded Cairo metro Line 3 train contract
EGYPT: Hyundai Rotem announced on February 6 that it had been awarded a 433bn won contract to supply 256 cars for Cairo metro Line 3 and maintain them for eight years. Deliveries are scheduled for 2018-20. Extensions to the initial phase of Line 3 will take the ...
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NewsAlstom to refurbish Paris RER Line B trains
FRANCE: Paris public transport authority RATP has selected Alstom to renovate up to 41 MI84 four-car electric multiple-units in service on Line B of the Paris RER network. The €75m contract is expected to be approved by Ile-de-France transport authority STIF on March 22. The base order covers 31 ...
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NewsMore Citadis trams ordered for Strasbourg
FRANCE: Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois has exercised an option to order 10 more Alstom Citadis trams for €28m. This will bring the number of Citadis trams operated by CTS to 63, with the first order placed in 2003. The option announced on February 3 forms part of a framework ...
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NewsHyundai Rotem wins Jakarta light metro order
INDONESIA: Hyundai Rotem announced on February 2 that it had been selected to supply rolling stock for the first phase of the light metro network under construction in Jakarta. Hyundai Rotem will work with Woojin Industrial Systems for the supply of eight two-car trainsets. Deliveries are due to take ...
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NewsPesa sole bidder in Gorzów Wielkopolski tram tender
POLAND: Pesa is the sole bidder to supply up to 20 trams to Gorzów Wielkopolski, city transport authority MZK announced on January 31. The 115·1m złoty bid includes a firm order for 14 bidirectional trams from Pesa’s Fokstrot family. These would enable most of the existing fleet of 11 ...
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NewsMinsk metro selects Stadler rolling stock
BELARUS: Stadler Minsk CEO Philipp Brunner told local media on January 23 that Stadler had been selected to supply 10 trainsets for the Minsk metro. Brunner gave no further details, but it seems likely that the rolling stock is to be used on metro Line 3, currently under construction. ...
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NewsModertrans wins first order for fully low-floor Gamma trams
POLAND: Modertrans has submitted the best offer to supply 50 trams to MPK Poznań, the transport authority announced on January 23. The Poznań-based supplier beat Pesa and a Stadler-Solaris consortium. Modertrans will supply 30 unidirectional and 20 bidirectional trams of 30·5 m to 32·5 m long under the 397m ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst Guadalajara Line 3 train presented in Mexico
MEXICO: The first train for the future Line 3 of the Guadalajara metro was presented to the Secretariat of Communications & Transport on January 24. It had started its journey from Alstom’s factory in Barcelona in October. Alstom is supplying 18 three-car Metropolis trainsets under a contract ...