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Québec City announces preferred tram supplier
Alstom is announced as the preferred supplier for the new 19.3km tramway, with a fleet of low-floor vehicles to be designed and built in Canada.
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Alstom to supply 130 new LRVs to Philadelphia
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has confirmed Alstom as the supplier of 130 new low-floor LRVs as it embarks on its biggest modernisation programme in decades.
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Vélez-Málaga tenders for tramway re-opening
Tenders launched to rehabilitate the Andalucían tramway which closed in 2012, using a EUR4.1m subsidy from the Spanish Government which forms part of the Next Generation EU coronavirus recovery package.
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New MiNiN low-floor tram enters passenger service
Following network trials earlier in the month, the first of 170 new MiNiN low-floor trams produced by the joint Russian-Belarusian venture Nizhekotrans has entered service on route 22 in Nizhny Novgorod.
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Geneva tramway extensions funded
EUR42m commitment from the Swiss Government towards two new projects to take the canton’s expanding tramway across the border into France.
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Mannheim – Heidelberg resumes through operation
Following five months of infrastructure work, it is again possible to make the circular journey Mannheim – Heidelberg – Viernheim – Mannheim (RNV line 5) from 20 February.
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Modernised Combino returns to service in Poznań
The first of MPK Poznań’s 14 five-section Siemens Combino trams to undergo mid-life refurbishment re-entered service in the Polish city on 16 February.
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Addis Ababa tram spares challenge resolved
Ethiopia’s Finance Minister and China’s ambassador sign a deal to supply spares for the sidelined CRRC Changchun LRVs to allow full service to return in the capital.
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Mostaganem welcomes Algeria’s seventh new tramway
Passenger service on the new 14.5km two-line tramway in the Mediterranean coastal city of Mostaganem is inaugurated on Algeria’s national Day of the Martyr, 18 February.
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Great Western Railway secures the rights to Vivarail assets
UK rail operator agrees to acquire rolling stock, staff and intellectual property to safeguard trials of fast-charge battery technology on a 3.8km branch line in west London.
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