Light rail news – Page 2
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NewsSalt Lake City doubles ‘built in Utah for Utah’ light rail vehicle order
USA: Utah Transit Authority has ordered a further 20 Stadler Citylink light rail vehicles for TRAX services around Salt Lake City, taking its total order to 40.
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NewsKøbenhavn tramway opens to make it faster and more comfortable to get around
DENMARK: Trams have returned to København after 53 years, with music, family entertainment and a day of free travel marking the opening of the first phase of the Hovedstadens Letbane line.
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NewsTram driver assistance system on test
BELGIUM: De Lijn has been testing a driver assistance system on Antwerpen tram Route 1.
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NewsŠkoda challenges its exclusion from Helsinki tram procurement
FINLAND: Škoda Transtech has filed a legal complaint following the disqualification of its bid for a contract to supply up to 183 trams to Helsinki.
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NewsMapna to supply 60 light rail vehicles for Mashhad Line 1
IRAN: Mapna Group’s rolling stock business Wagon Pars has won a contract to supply 60 light rail vehicles for Mashhad Urban Railway’s light metro Line 1.
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NewsMelbourne’s first G Class tram arrives at purpose-built depot
AUSTRALIA: Victoria’s Minister for Public & Active Transport Gabrielle Williams has officially opened the depot in Melbourne where Alstom will maintain 100 G Class trams which it is supplying for the world’s largest tram network.
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NewsEveryone onboard to finance US$800m 'electric centipede' tram-train project
COSTA RICA: An international financing package has been agreed to fully-fund the US$800m launch of two electrified tram-train routes in the San José metropolitan area.
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NewsBatman to build light rail line
TURKEY: Plans have been announced for the construction of a 37·7 km Bat-Ray light rail network in the city of Batman.
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NewsHelsinki selects Stadler to supply up to 183 trams styled for the city
FINLAND: Helsinki metropolitan area transport operator Pääkaupunkiseudun Kaupunkiliikenne has selected Stadler for a major contract to supply and maintain 63 Tango Nordic trams customised to the city’s requirements, with options for up to 120 more.
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Rail Business UKModelling seeks to optimise energy use on Manchester Metrolink’s Bury line
UK: Manchester light rail operator Keolis Amey Metrolink has worked with University of Birmingham spin-out EneRail to optimise energy consumption on the section of the network linking Manchester Victoria with Bury Interchange.
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NewsHong Kong’s Light Rail Voyager sightseeing service expanded
CHINA: Hong Kong operator MTR Corp has expanded its Light Rail Voyager tourism-oriented services with the introduction of a second route.
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NewsTrabzon light rail plans confirmed
TURKEY: The General Directorate for Infrastructure Investments has announced details of the first stage of the long-mooted Trabzon light rail project.
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NewsMoovit aims to simplify public transport for visitors to Roma
ITALY: The Moovit app can now be used to both plan and pay for multi-modal journeys around Roma, in a development which public transport operator ATAC expects to be particularly useful for the millions of tourists who arrive in the eternal city every year.
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NewsUtility companies test ways of working under Very Light Rail track
UK: Utility companies have trialled impact moling, horizontal directional drilling, vacuum excavation and keyhole coring to install new or access existing equipment underneath the trial section of Very Light Rail track in Coventry.
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NewsBozankaya signs Elbląg tram contract, as Iași car presented at Trako
INTERNATIONAL: Bozankaya signed a 95m złoty contract to supply 10 trams for Elbląg at the Trako fair, where it showcased one of the 18 vehicles being delivered to the Romanian city of Iași.
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NewsSouth Yorkshire seeks the ‘best of the industry’ to inform Supertram fleet replacement
UK: South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority has launched an early market engagement exercise to inform its plans for the future procurement of 25 trams to replace the original Sheffield Supertram fleet.
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NewsCatenary-free tramway extension opens in Moskva
RUSSIA: Moskva tram Route 90 has been launched, using a newly-built section of catenary-free track.
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NewsOpening of Los Angeles extension creates ‘the longest light rail line in the world’
USA: The opening of a 14·7 km extension to Pomona has taken the Los Angeles Metro’s A Line to 93 km and 48 stations, which the operator said makes it the longest light rail line in the world.
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Rail Business UKLondon Trams to trial VibeSafe alert system
UK: London Trams is to trial technology which uses track vibrations to alert pedestrians when trams are approaching crossings.
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NewsHalle takes a leap into the future as its first Tina tram enters trial service
GERMANY: The first of 56 Stadler TINA trams ordered by Halle municipal operator HAVAG has entered trial operation on routes 1, 2 and 3.