Tram and light rail vehicle news – Page 4
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Metro Report InternationalLonger trams increase capacity in Göteborg
SWEDEN: Göteborgs Spårvägar began putting its longer and higher capacity Alstom trams into passenger service on Route 11 on January 19, following a preview trip for invited guests two days before. Regional transport authority Västtrafik ordered 60 Type M34 trams in two batches in 2021-22. They ...
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Metro Report InternationalMinsk trams delivered
BELARUS: Belkommunmash has delivered 20 Type T811 low-floor four-axle trams to Minsk transport operator Minsktrans.
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Metro Report InternationalAccessibility changes in latest Vitoria-Gasteiz tram order
SPAIN: Euskotren has awarded CAF a €20m contract to supply three more trams to Vitoria-Gasteiz in the second half of 2027. Announcing the contract on December 11, CAF said the additional vehicles would be same length as the seven-section Urbos trams it previously supplied to the ...
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Metro Report InternationalAutonomous battery LRV tested in Indonesia
INDONESIA: Test running of a domestically developed, battery-powered, autonomous light rail vehicle began in Solo on November 6. The LRV was designed and built by PT Inka and its AI-enhanced control equipment was developed by the Bandung Institute of Technology in a project started in 2021 ...
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Metro Report InternationalPalermo orders more trams
ITALY: Comune di Palermo has awarded CAF a firm order to supply a further 14 trams.
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Metro Report InternationalPavlodar to order battery trams
KAZAKHSTAN: The city of Pavlodar is planning to acquire up to 25 energy-efficient trams with traction batteries to help renew its fleet. The order will be financed with a €10m loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and a €4m loan from the Clean ...
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Metro Report InternationalMadrid trams to get mid-life overhaul
SPAIN: Madrid tram operator Metro Ligero Oeste has appointed manufacturer Alstom to undertake the mid-life general overhaul of the 27 Citadis vehicles which has been in operation since the opening of lines ML2 and ML3 in 2007. The contract announced on October 29 includes the inspection and ...
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Metro Report InternationalStadler awarded its first US light rail vehicle contract
USA: Stadler has announced its first US light rail vehicle order, covering the supply of up to 80 Citylink cars tailored for Utah Transit Authority’s TRAX service in Salt Lake City. An initial $129m firm order for 20 LRVs was signed on October 23. This is ...
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Metro Report InternationalNext generation of trams for Paris T1 unveiled
FRANCE: Transport authority Ile-de-France-Mobilités, operator RATP and Alstom have unveiled the first of the TW20 trams being supplied as part of a major programme to modernise and increase capacity on the busy T1 route across northern Paris. The 17 km route through the capital’s suburbs from ...
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Metro Report InternationalTurku plans tram procurement
FINLAND: The city of Turku’s tramway project promoter Turun Raitiotie has begun market consultation ahead of the procurement of a fleet of trams. It plans to order 1 435 mm gauge trams 37 m long and 2 650 mm wide with a capacity of 220-260 passengers ...
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Metro Report InternationalLong tram unveiled in Mannheim
GERMANY: ‘We are now launching the new flagship of our fleet — the 60 m long tram’, said Christian Specht, Mayor of Mannheim and Chair of the Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr supervisory board at the unveiling of the operator’s first Škoda ForCity Smart 38T LRV. Specht reported that the ...
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Metro Report InternationalBologna and Roma tram orders placed
ITALY: CAF has been awarded a framework contract to supply and maintain a fleet of trams for the network under construction in Bologna, while Roma transport operator ATAC has exercised an option to increase a previous order. The orders announced on October 8 have a total ...
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Metro Report InternationalAstra Vagoane eyes the international market with prototype tram
INNOTRANS: Romania’s Astra Vagoane Călători unveiled a prototype tram at InnoTrans 2024. The two-module standard gauge tram prototype was manufactured for display at the show. Astra Vagoane says that it aims to target both the domestic and international market with the design. ...
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Metro Report International10-elephant tram for Berlin tramway trunk line
INNOTRANS: Alstom is showing a nine-section version of the Flexity Berlin family which with a length of 50·89 m – or, as is marked out along the floor, 10 elephants – is the longest tram ordered by the capital’s public transport operator BVG. ...
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Metro Report InternationalSt Petersburg light rail vehicle unveiled
RUSSIA: The first vehicle for the future Kupchino – Shushary – Slavyanka fast light rail route in St Petersburg has been rolled out at PK TS’s Nevsky factory in the city. The line is being developed by the BaltNedvizhService joint venture of ABZ-1 and Gazprombank under ...
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Metro Report InternationalFour suppliers invited to bid to renew Croydon tram fleet
UK: Four companies have pre-qualified for a potential contract to replace the oldest trams on the London Trams network centred on Croydon. Transport for London announced on September 10 that it had issued invitations to tender to Alstom, CAF, Hitachi Rail and Stadler Valencia. Any order ...
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Metro Report InternationalZagreb tram order signed
CROATA: A firm order for Končar KEV to supply a further 20 low-floor trams to Zagreb operator ZET was signed by Mayor Tomislav Tomaševićs on September 3. A €37·8m order for an initial 20 trams was signed in June 2023, financed by the EU-backed National Recovery ...
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Metro Report InternationalDriverless tram begins passenger-carrying test runs
RUSSIA: A tram converted for driverless operation has begun passenger-carrying test running on Route 10 in Moskva. Operator Moskva Metro and the Centre for Electric Transport & Driverless Technologies have fitted the PK TS 71-911EM Lvyonok singe-section tram with six cameras and four lidar and three ...
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Metro Report InternationalLocally built low-floor light rail vehicles enter service in Sacramento
USA: ‘This is a historic moment’ for the operator and the region, General Manager & CEO Henry Li said when the first of Sacramento Regional Transit District’s Siemens Mobility S700 low-floor light rail vehicles entered passenger service. ’The launch of our new S700 light rail vehicles ...
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Metro Report InternationalHigher capacity tram arrives in Göteborg
SWEDEN: Alstom has delivered the first of 60 longer and higher capacity trams that it is building for Göteborg.