All Metro train articles – Page 2

  • Madrid Metro CAF train (Image CAF) (2)
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    ‘Extremely exacting’ Madrid metro train order signed

    2024-06-17T13:00:00Z

    SPAIN: Metro de Madrid has signed a contract for sole bidder CAF to supply 40 six-car trainsets to operate on large-profile lines 6 and 8. The €400m deal announced by CAF on June 17 includes a programme to optimise the fleet’s life cycle, and there is ...

  • Hitachi Rail delivers Genova metro photo Genova municipality (2)
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    Hitachi Rail delivers next-generation metro trainset to Genova

    2024-06-06T05:00:00Z

    ITALY: Hitachi Rail has delivered the first of 14 latest generation metro trainsets to Genova, the municipality reported on May 31. The vehicles are to be used to expand the capacity of the city’s automated light metro line, which is currently being extended at both ends. ...

  • Pune Metro Line 3 Alstom train (Photo Alstom)
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    First Pune Metro Line 3 train unveiled

    2024-06-05T11:00:00Z

    INDIA: Alstom has delivered the first of 22 trainsets for the Pune Metro Line 3 project. The three-car trains will have a capacity of 1 000 passengers, with a design speed of 95 km/h and an operating speed of 85 km/h. They are being manufactured at ...

  • Vancouver MkV SkyTrain on test (1)
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    Vancouver orders more SkyTrain light metro trainsets

    2024-05-29T14:34:00Z

    CANADA: Vancouver transport agency TransLink has awarded Alstom a C$13m contract to supply a further six five-car MkV trainsets for the SkyTrain automated light metro. They will follow on from a C$722·6m December 2020 order for 41 five-car trainsets which Alstom began delivering in December 2023. ...

  • Los Angeles Metro B Line train at Hollywood-Highland station
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    Los Angeles metro train upgrading contract awarded

    2024-05-29T11:00:00Z

    Source: AveryTheComrade/CC0/Wikimedia Commons USA: Los Angeles County MTA has awarded South Korean company Woojin Industrial Systems a $214m contract to modernise 74 metro cars ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympics. The A650 vehicles were originally supplied by Italian company Breda in the late 1990s. The modernisation ...

  • Oslo metro CAF M4000 train impression (Image Sporveien) (1)
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    Oslo orders CAF metro trains

    2024-05-08T16:03:00Z

    NORWAY: Oslo transport operator Sporveien has awarded CAF a €150m contract to supply 20 three-car metro trainsets to accommodate growing ridership and support expansion of the T-banen network. The order announced on May 8 includes spare parts, and there are options for a further 90 trainsets. ...

  • Torino Alstom metro production underway image Infra.To (3)
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    Torino driverless metro train production underway

    2024-04-29T04:21:00Z

    ITALY: Representatives from the city of Torino’s infrastructure manager Infra.To have visited the Alstom factory at Valenciennes in France to see the production of the first two cars of four four-car Metropolis trainsets on order. Infra.To awarded Alstom a €156m turnkey contract ...

  • do Santo Domingo orders more metro trains from Alstom image Alstom
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    Santo Domingo orders more metro trains

    2024-04-26T04:47:00Z

    DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Santo Domingo Metro operator OPRET has awarded Alstom a contract to supply and commission eight more three-car Metropolis trainsets to support the extension of Line 2. Designated ‘Line 2C’, the 7·3 km extension now under construction will run northwest from María Montez to Los ...

  • Moskva-2024 metro train (Photo Moskva Metro) (1)
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    Moskva-2024 metro train enters service

    2024-03-13T11:00:00Z

    RUSSIA: Moskva Metro put the first Moskva-2024 series trainset into service on March 11 as part of a three-year renewal of the Line 2 fleet. The trains are being produced by Transmashholding subsidiary Metrowagonmash. Features include wider aisles and through gangways to ...

  • Stockholm metro Movia C30 train (Photo Alstom)
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    Stockholm metro trains ordered

    2024-03-11T11:00:00Z

    SWEDEN: Transport authority SL has awarded Alstom a firm order to supply a further 20 Movia C30 metro trains for the Stockholm metro. The order announced on March 7 has been placed using an option on a SKr5bn 2013 contract with Bombardier Transportation which covered an ...

  • Paris metro MF19 (Photo Alstom)
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    More Paris metro trains ordered

    2024-03-11T05:00:00Z

    FRANCE: Paris transport operator RATP has awarded Alstom a firm order to supply a further 103 five-car MF19 metro trainsets. The order comprises 67 trains for Line 13, 22 for Line 12 and 14 for Line 8. They will have driving cabs when they enter service ...

  • Napoli metro Line 6 Hitachi Rail train impression (Image Hitachi Rail)
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    Napoli metro Line 6 trains ordered

    2024-02-29T12:00:00Z

    ITALY: The city of Napoli has awarded Hitachi a €200m contract to supply 22 trainsets for light metro Line 6, which is to be reopened along with a new extension. The initial 2·3 km section of Line 6 from Mostra to Mergellina opened in February 2007, ...

  • Delhi Metro Phase IV train production begins (Photo Alstom)
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    Delhi’s Golden Line trains under construction

    2024-02-27T05:00:00Z

    INDIA: Alstom’s Sri City factory has begun production of Metropolis trainsets for Delhi Metro Rail Corp’s Phase IV expansion programme. The €312m contract awarded in November 2022 covers 52 six-car trainsets. These are needed for extensions of lines 7 (Pink) and 8 (Magenta), and the future ...

  • Meerut Metro train handover (Photo NCRTC)
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    First Meerut Metro train handed over

    2024-02-19T11:00:00Z

    INDIA: The first trainset for Meerut Metro services was handed over to National Capital Region Transport Corp at Alstom’s Savli plant on February 16. The Meerut Metro will provide local stopping services at 11 stations on the 25 km Partapur – Modipuram section of the 82 ...

  • Bengaluru receives first automated metro trainset (Photo CRRC) (1)
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    Bengaluru receives first automated metro trainset

    2024-02-16T11:00:00Z

    INDIA: The first of 15 six-car driverless metro trainsets that CRRC Nanjing Puzhen is supplying in partnership with domestic producer Titagarh Rail Systems for Bengaluru’s under-construction Yellow Line metro arrived at Hebbagodi depot on February 14. The trainset had been shipped to the port of Chennai ...

  • Chennai metro extension signature (Photo Alstom)
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    Dance inspires styling of Chennai driverless metro fleet

    2024-02-13T05:00:00Z

    INDIA: Alstom’s Sricity plant has begun production of 36 Metropolis trainsets with local-inspired styling for Chennai metro Phase II. They are scheduled to enter service with operator Chennai Metro Rail Ltd by the end of 2025 on the 26 km Orange Line which will run from ...

  • Siemens Mobility Goole factory aerial view (Photo Siemens Mobility)
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    Goole gets larger share of Piccadilly Line train contract

    2024-02-12T15:29:00Z

    UK: Siemens Mobility has revised its plans for the production of trainsets for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line so that up to 80% of the fleet will now be assembled in the UK, an increase from the 50% initially planned. This has no impact on the overall ...

  • Los Angeles metro train impression (Image Hyundai Rotem)
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    Hyundai Rotem USA wins Los Angeles metro train contract

    2024-02-12T09:27:00Z

    USA: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority has selected Hyundai Rotem USA as the winner of a contract to supply metro trains. The $663·7m order approved by the board on January 25 covers 182 vehicles, with an option to order 50 more. Designated HR5000, the trains ...

  • New York’s first open gangway trainset in service photos MTA (1)
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    New York’s first walk-through Subway trainset enters service

    2024-02-05T11:00:00Z

    USA: The first R211T open gangway trainsets being supplied by Kawasaki Rail Car for the New York Subway entered service on February 1 on the C/Eighth Avenue Local Line linking Washington Heights and East New York. New York state Governor Kathy Hochul, Metropolitan ...

  • Berlin U-Bahn Stadler Type JK trainset
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    ‘A good day for Berlin’ as first Type JK metro train handed over

    2024-01-22T05:00:00Z

    GERMANY: The first of the Type JK trainsets for the Berlin U-Bahn’s small-profile lines was ceremonially handed over to operator BVG by Stadler on January 11.