Manchester Metrolink’s new £350 million Trafford Park line (TPL) will start operating from April, subject to final testing and driver training. Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham made the announcement to mark the start of […]
Discussion continues about the use of hydrogen-power for trains and trams, with four Alstom Corradia iLint trains in service in Germany on the Buxtehude-Bremervörde-Bremerhaven-Cuxhaven line in Lower Saxony and a further 27 units on order […]
Bombardier people-movers for two of Bombardier Transportation’s Chinese joint ventures have won a contract to provide rolling stock, services and signalling for Beijing Capital International Airport’s (BCIA) automated people mover (APM) system. The contract, awarded […]
Patrick Jeantet has been appointed as the new executive chairman of the Keolis Group. The appointment was confirmed by Keolis Group Supervisory Board chairman Joel Lebreton at an extraordinary Supervisory Board meeting on Tuesday 5 […]
Friends and supporters of Manchester’s Heaton Park Tramway, which is run by the Manchester Transport Museum Society, were devastated to find that it was targeted by thieves. During the night of Monday 23 September 2019, […]
Technology that Alstom originally developed for trams in historic cities has now crossed over and is being used to recharge electric buses. First used in 2003 on trams in Bordeaux, APS (Alimentation par Sol – […]
Bombardier Transportation has signed a contract with Dresden’s transport authority Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) to supply and maintain 30 Flexity trams, equipped with an Obstacle Detection and Assistance System (ODAS) for preventing collisions. The contract, worth […]
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) has announced that work on the West Midlands Metro extension from Grand Central to Centenary Square is nearing completion and is anticipated to open in December 2019. So that work […]
Manchester’s Metrolink – the UK’s largest light rail network – has launched contactless payment in a bid to simplify the way passengers pay for their travel. The new, easy-to-use system cuts out the need to […]
The Canadian city of Ottawa has moved to commence construction of Stage 2 of the Confederation line before Stage 1 of the new light-rail metro has even been completed. The CAN$2.1 billion east-west cross-city line […]
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