Metro train news – Page 5
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Metro Report InternationalLos Angeles metro train upgrading contract awarded
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalOslo orders CAF metro trains
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. ...
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Metro Report InternationalTorino driverless metro train production underway
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalSanto Domingo orders more metro trains
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalMoskva-2024 metro train enters service
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalStockholm metro trains ordered
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalMore Paris metro trains ordered
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalNapoli metro Line 6 trains ordered
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, ...
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Metro Report InternationalDelhi’s Golden Line trains under construction
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalFirst Meerut Metro train handed over
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalBengaluru receives first automated metro trainset
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalDance inspires styling of Chennai driverless metro fleet
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalGoole gets larger share of Piccadilly Line train contract
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalHyundai Rotem USA wins Los Angeles metro train contract
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 ...
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Metro Report InternationalNew York’s first walk-through Subway trainset enters service
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 ...
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Metro Report International‘A good day for Berlin’ as first Type JK metro train handed over
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.
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Metro Report InternationalLondon Underground train refurbishment underway
UK: Work has been completed on the first trainset to be overhauled as part of London Underground’s £500m Central Line Improvement Programme. TfL is working with more than 30 suppliers on the project, which is being undertaken at Acton depot by more than 125 fitters and ...
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Metro Report InternationalGlasgow Subway’s Stadler trains enter passenger service
UK: The first two of 17 trainsets that Stadler is supplying to replace the Glasgow Subway fleet entered passenger service with a soft launch on the afternoon on December 11. The trains have been custom-made to the unique specifications of the 10·5 km circular underground line, ...
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Metro Report InternationalLondon Underground's Piccadilly Line train on test
UK: The first of 94 trainsets that Siemens Mobility is to supply for London’s Piccadilly Line is now undergoing intensive dynamic testing at the Wegberg-Wildenrath Test & Validation Centre in Germany.
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Metro Report InternationalNapoli Arcobaleno line fleet renewal starts
ITALY: CAF has delivered the first of 10 six-car Inneo metro trainsets ordered by Napoli regional transport EAV for use on the 10·5 km Arcobaleno line between Piscinola Scampia and Aversa Centro in the north of the city. An order for ...