CAF wins the order for Boston’s Type 10 ‘Supercars’
USD810m order for the new 37.4m Green line low-floor LRVs comes as the FTA imposes ‘special directives’ over safety concerns on the ‘T’.
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Yekaterinburg – Verkhniaya Pyshma interurban tramway opens
Passenger service began on the 9km interurban between Yekaterinburg and Verkhniaya Pyshma began on 31 August, offering eight-minute peak headways.
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Honolulu begins intensive metro testing
Trial running on the first section of Honolulu’s light metro began on 29 August – trains are undertaking test runs on the 16km section between East Kapolei and Hālawa 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Reșița’s new low-floor tram is revealed
Durmazlar low-floor tram for the Romanian city of Reșița is unveiled in late August. The first is due for delivery in November and will be tested in Timișoara.
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Bonn ForCity visits Wien climate chamber
The first Škoda ForCity Smart 41T for German operator SWB rolls off the Plzeň production line ready to undergo climatic testing at Rail Ten Arsenal.
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Kursk tramway modernisation PPP signed
25-year concession includes track renewals, replacement of eight traction substations, and upgrades to Vostochny depot as well as the delivery of 22 new low-floor trams.
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Sankt Peterburg trams reach occupied Ukraine
The city of Yenakiieve receives a further six donated Ust-Katav 71-623 four-axle bogie trams, delivered by road at the end of August.
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Hong Kong Peak Tram re-opens
The 1.4km cable tramway linking the commercial district of Hong Kong with Victoria Peak re-opens following a 14-month refurbishment and upgrade programme.
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Halle orders 56 Stadler TINA trams
Announced on 23 August, EUR168m order for Sachsen-Anhalt city includes 30m and 45m variants. Deliveries to begin in 2025.
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Praha opens Depo Hostivař tram interchange
CZK193.96m (EUR8m) interchange includes three tram platforms, three bus platforms and access to Praha Metro line 1.
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‘While tramways do come at a cost, the barriers to new systems are clearing…’
SYSTRA CEO Pierre Verzat offers us his insight into today’s light rail landscape, new technologies, and a few predictions for the future.
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Grand ambitions in Szczecin
A comprehensive and historic tramway network which is seeing significant reconstruction as it moves to low-floor operation; Andrew Thompson reports from north-western Poland.
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Coventry VLR: Roll on 2024
Monday 4 April was momentous for the Very Light Rail team at Coventry City Council. This was the day that the West Midlands’ ‘ask’ of GBP1.05bn (EUR1.25bn) for a package of rail, tram, bus and active travel improvements for the coming five years received formal approval under the UK Government’s City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS).
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SmartWindows into the future
Passengers in Karlsruhe can now access timetabling and disruption information… through their window. The team behind the SmartMMI project explains how it works.
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Empowering operations teams with real-time information
The team from Transit9 explores the importance of user-friendliness when implementing new technology and processes.
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A vision of the urban tram’s future
Imagine a modular autonomous tram which carried passengers during the day and freight in the evening. Such a vision was recently confirmed as the winner of the prestigious DESING+ competition organised by the University of West Bohemia…
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Always ahead of the game
Patrick Lamb, Managing Director of Severn Lamb, describes the process of creating bespoke vehicles for some of the more unusual light rail projects.
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Coming of the Tempe Streetcar
With an innovative new urban streetcar due to open on 20 May and expansion of its existing LRT system underway, Vic Simons revisits Arizona.
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A life without wires
Mott MacDonald’s Chris Tindall assesses the positives and negatives of a range of technologies promoted as an alternative to traditional LRT electrification.
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Tram-train learning
Simon Coulthard and Alex Dodds of Network Rail’s Light Rail Team describe the creation of the innovative online data resource which presents a ‘warts and all’ overview of the UK’s tram-train pilot.
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UK Very Light Rail Conference
Attendees to this one-day event in June will hear from the teams involved in delivering the Coventry Urban VLR project and Revolution VLR.
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Light rail: The key to sustainable mobility
The European Light Rail Congress brings together many senior and key professionals from across Europe for two days of debate covering innovation and new technologies with light rail being a key driver to sustainable mobility.
read moreLight rail events for 2022
Mainspring’s 2022 events diary: Details about the European Light Rail Congress, 16th Annual UK Light Rail Conference, and Global Light Rail Awards.
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Mainspring LRT Excellence Day: From theory to practice
Sharing innovation, new technologies and best practice between engineers and the supply chain in Wolverhampton.
read moreRail Live 2021
Rail Live is a unique event bringing the full railway industry together to explore technology, innovation and strategy for the entire rail supply chain.
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Dates for your diaries for 2022’s events
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Sharing experience in Zaragoza
Geoff Butler rounds up the highlights from this year’s European Light Rail Congress in north-eastern Spain, a further return for face-to-face events for a mobility sector disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Celebrating success…. virtually
Global pandemic didn’t stop the sector recognising excellence and innovation.
read moreCOVID forces InnoTrans cancellation
The 2020 running of the world’s largest rail exhibition – held in Berlin biennially since 1996 – has been cancelled.
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Rail Live!
Rail Live! is now firmly positioned as one of the world’s most exciting rail events. This event brings top tier leaders of the rail industry together to discuss topics critical to future developments in the premium conference, alongside an action-packed exhibition which attracts the full rail supply chain.
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