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APRIL 2018 No. 964 AUSTRALIAn cities use lrt to combat sprawl

UK engineers debate fleet maintenance and safety German cities reject free transport plan US budget proposal threatens funding Montréal: 67km light metro work begins

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> Advancements in driver safety systems > Tram and LRV Design: Past, Present and Future > Condition-based maintenance and monitoring > Utrecht: A case study in high-floor to low-floor conversion > Vienna: Lessons in and metro energy efficiency > Software solutions for infrastructure, depots and the OCC > The future for tramway signalling > Urban transit’s role in the ‘Smart City’ > Enhancing the customer experience ...and more CONTENTS 130 T he official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association APRIL 2018 Vol. 81 No. 964 www.tautonline.com EDITORIAL Editor – Simon Johnston [email protected] Associate Editor – Tony Streeter [email protected] Worldwide Editor – Michael Taplin 136 [email protected] News Editor – John Symons [email protected] Senior Contributor – Neil Pulling Worldwide Contributors T ony Bailey, Richard Felski, Ed Havens, Andrew Moglestue, Paul Nicholson, Herbert Pence, Mike Russell, Nikolai Semyonov, Alain Senut, Vic Simons, Witold Urbanowicz, Bill Vigrass, 142 Thomas Wagner, Rick Wilson News 124 Production – Lanna Blyth SPECIAL FOCUS T el: +44 (0)1733 367604 German cities reject suggestions of free [email protected] ; US draft budget causes GOLD COAST READY FOR THE GAMES 134 DESIGN – Debbie Nolan uncertainty for LRT projects; Montréal light With Stage 2 open for the Commonwealth metro works to begin in April; 's Advertising Games, thoughts are turning to Stage 3. COMMERCIAL Manager – GeoffB utler EUR5.5bn urban rail masterplan. Tel: +44 (0)1733 367610 CONNECTING 136 [email protected] LRT ROLLING STOCK EXCELLENCE 128 Australia’s capital is in the final stages of its Publisher – Matt Johnston Howard Johnston summarises the key points first tram project, to open later this year. from the latest LRT Excellence Day. Tramways & Urban Transit 13 Orton Enterprise Centre, Bakewell Road, s un, sand, sea and lrt 138 Peterborough PE2 6XU, UK ROLLING STOCK market ANALYSIS 130 Newcastle is undergoing a transformation, Tramways & Urban Transit is published by Mainspring Michael Taplin looks ahead at the current with light rail at its heart. tram and LRV order books and makes his on behalf of the LRTA on the third Friday of each month preceding the cover date. predictions for rolling stock investment. RELINKING 140 This South Australian city is taking steps W ORLDWIDE REVIEW 150 to reinstate its once-extensive tramway. Avignon councillors agree to extend PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION tramline; Würzburg looks to replace entire sYSTEMS FACTFILE: 142 Warners (Midlands) plc, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK fleet; Test running begins on Izmir’s Konak Neil Pulling explores the NSW capital and LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) tramline; Transport for London fare income its existing network – and looks forward to Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up projected to fall below expectations. the exciting new tram and metro projects. members of the Light Rail Transit Association. mailbox 155 CLA SSIC : HADDON museum 156 Subscriptions, MEMBERSHIP ENQUIRIES Questioning Wellington’s ‘progress’; Mike Russell concludes his trilogy with a a nd back issues LRT A Membership Secretary (Dept T06), 38 Wolseley visit to a working museum at Haddon. remembering a key Metrolink figure. Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. T el: +44 (0)117 951 7785 [email protected] Website: www.lrta.info

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www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org APRIL 2018 / 123 News Cities reject free transport proposals German politicans consider radical ideas in pursuit of air quality as court allows diesel bans

uggestions by German free public transport, additional Government ministers incentives for electric cars and that cities could offer technical retrofitting of vehicles free public transport to to reduce emissions of nitrogen combatS local emissions have oxide and particulates. been rejected by places intended Operators’ association VDV to lead a pilot. says that before free public The government had said transport is considered, there Bonn, Essen, Herrenburg, must be an expansion of capacity Reutlingen and Mannheim and efficiency with the help could be the ‘lead cities’ in an of public funding. It estimates initiative intended to reduce an additional EUR12bn/year air pollution. However, local in subsidy would be needed as politicians have said the idea is a well as significant investment Essen would have been one of the cities where ‘free’ public transport could be non-starter without funding. in infrastructure. For instance, tested. LRV 5222 (formerly DLR P89 13) is seen in street-running mode. S. Smiler German cities have been Köln (Cologne) carried a consequences, ’s certain areas – the expectation under pressure from the record 280.6m passengers in Bundesvweraltungsgericht court is that any restrictions will be European Union over air quality; 2017 and peak-hour services ruled on 27 February that under brought in gradually. and the country’s Environment are overloaded, while the certain circumstances cities The court ruling came Minister, Transport Minister infrastructure through Neumarkt would have the right to ban about due to concerns about and Head of Chancellery wrote in the city centre cannot carry diesel vehicles. This decision air pollution in Düsseldorf a joint letter to EU Environment any more services at peaks. brings the possibility of vehicles and Stuttgart, in the states of Commissioner Karmenu Vella, However, in a development not built to the latest ‘Euro 6’ Nordhrein Westfalen and Baden- proposing low-emission zones, that could have far-reaching standards not being allowed in Württemberg respectively.

US budget threatens transit New Starts Dublin Metro by 2027? Dublin could have a ‘Metro Link’ by 2027 under a EUR3bn proposal detailed in ‘Project Ireland 2040’, the Irish government’s National Development Plan 2018-2027. Consultation is expected in early 2018 on an ‘Emerging Preferred Route’ that would see the proposed Metro running from Swords in the north, via Dublin Airport and a tunnel under the centre of Ireland’s capital, to Sandyford in the south. The latter would be reached by utilising the route Sacramento is a city that of the existing Green line. thought it would get federal Previous plans for a metro funding for its Streetcar project, were deferred in 2011, but the but now is not so sure. SACOG idea was reactivated in 2015. Also expected to be complete in 2027 is a EUR2bn expansion President Trump’s proposed 2019 Minneapolis-St. Paul Southwest increasing military, veterans and of the DART (Dublin Area budget, published on 12 February, and Bottineau light rail lines, homeland security expenditure ) network. Plans aspires to a 17.6% reduction in Sacramento Streetcar, Orange – despite cuts to welfare include high-frequency electric Department of Transportation County Streetcar and New York’s programmes and leaner budgets services to Drogheda (on the funding, including elimination BQX line. In the Seattle area, up across selected Federal agencies. ); Celbridge/ of TIGER grants and a wind to USD1.7bn in funding for light In early February, in order to Hazelhatch (Kildare line); and down of Capital Investment rail projects could be at risk. prevent a shutdown of the Federal Maynooth and M3 Parkway Grants by not entering into However, Congress must Government, the President (Maynooth/Sligo line). any new contracts for federal approve the budget and both signed a two-year bi-partisan Further expansion of funding. It also proposes halving sides of both houses have budget deal. The congressional Dublin’s Luas light rail Amtrak subsidies. reservations about the proposed budget does not include the cuts network, including of the Red The programme would have budget, particularly the rise mentioned above. line in the city centre and to implications for many schemes in the federal deficit. This Congress is due to pass a Poolbeg; the Green line to Bray; awaiting approval, including the would increase by USD984bn long-term funding package by and a line to Lucan, is listed as Durham – Chapel Hill light rail, in the next financial year from 23 March. being for delivery post-2027.

124 / APRIL 2018 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org Work to begin on Montréal light metro Construction of REM network to connect suburban Montréal to the city to start next month

DPQ Infra, promoters Canada and AECOM. Rolling Caisse de depot at placement du facing difficulties over late of Montréal’s 67km stock, systems, operations and Québec. CDPQ Infra is creating delivery of Canadian orders to (42-mile) REM maintenance will be in the hands a subsidiary to own the Mont Toronto and Waterloo-Kitchener. automated light metro, of another consortium, Group des Royal tunnel, Viaduc du Sud The La Pocatière plant will announcedC on 8 February that Partenaires pour la Mobilité des and rail infrastructure at Gare have no work once the current construction will start in April. Montréalais, formed by Alstom Centrale, and will offer track contract for Montréal metro Testing is due at the end of 2020 and SNC-Lavalin. Alstom will sharing with other operators. trains is completed. and passenger service on the first supply around 200 cars. The decision not to choose In moves to address this, section of the system in mid-2021. The CAD6.3bn (EUR4bn) Bombardier for the rolling stock Vancouver has brought forward Infrastructure, accounting for project cost is being met by a is a blow for the firm’s North delivery of 56 Skytrain vehicles 80% of the cost, will be provided mixture of federal/provincial American rail business (Caisse from 2024 to 2019-20, and by the Group NouvLR consortium, funding (CAD1.28bn/EUR815m holds a 30% stake in Bombardier Québec is buying 20 more including SNC-Lavalin, Dragados each) and private funding from Transportation) that is already Montréal metro trains.

Bombardier chosen for Brussels 175-tram order On 5 February STIB-MIVB, the but to a new design by Axel Brussels city transit operator, Enthoven, said to be based named Bombardier as preferred on Art Nouveau styling. bidder for a framework contract The new trams will be used that should see 175 new low-floor to complete the withdrawal of trams join its fleet in the next articulated PCCs of series 7700, decade. Subject to award of a and also facilitate the end of the contract, 60 vehicles will be 7900-series eight-axle cars. If the purchased for EUR169m, with full number is ordered it will also an option for a further 115. mean the end of the unpopular Delivery of the first tranche 2000-series, the first low-floor The new Flexity design promises more space, increasing passenger capacity on will start in 2020. trams in the Belgian capital (but the city’s tramway. STIB-MIVB There will be both 32m and too small for today’s traffic, and an 8.6% increase on 2016) and The new fleet will be 43m air-conditioned versions, with a design of that is allow for planned extensions to assembled at Bombardier’s and the contract includes spare said to be hard on the track and the network. factory in Brugge, which has a parts, maintenance and delivery generate significant vibration). The framework contract long history of tram building. of a driver-training simulator. The new vehicles will also forms part of the city’s 2015-25 The latest order should guarantee The new trams will be based on permit additional capacity to be public transport investment the plant seven years work, the 100% low-floorFlexity allocated to the network (STIB programme, worth EUR5.2bn although the bodyshells may (STIB already has 220 in its fleet), carried 401m passengers in 2017, in total. come from Wien.

Brest line B confirmed NEWS IN PICTURES The decision to build a second tramline in the French city of Brest TIG/m delivers third was announced on 14 February. Line B will run Gare to Hôpital de la tram to Doha Cavale-Blanche via Avenue Foch, TIG/m, the Californian builder of crossing the city’s first line at Place self-powered trams, has now de la Liberté. delivered three 15m single-ended Public service is planned for bogie cars to the Msheireb Downtown 2025, and the cost for the line will development in Doha, the capital be in the range EUR130-150m. city of Qatar. USD5.5bn is being spent reviving Doha’s old commercial Joint tram procurement centre as a modern ‘smart city’ for tramways commercial development, due for The Land government has issued completion in December 2018. a tender for 40 new trams that will Mesheireb Properties, a subsidiary be delivered to three tramways of the Qatar foundation, contracted in the state: Brandenburg (10) TIG/m to design, build, operate and Cottbus (20) and Frankfurt/Oder

maintain a standard-gauge tramway. TIG/m (10) systems by 2022. The tramway is a single-track 2.1km The state believes it can only (1.3-mile) loop operating around The modern design’s motive loop, so a six-minute service can be achieve the economies of scale the development with nine stops, power is provided by onboard provided. to obtain the vehicles each including a 400m hop-on, hop-off lithium-ion phosphate batteries with There will be interchange with city requires through a joint zone. The service operates 06.00- a regenerative braking function. the Doha metro at Msheireb station, procurement programme; the 01.00 on Sunday to Thursday, and Ancillary power comes from a which is itself to be the interchange low-floor cars will replace high- from 13.00 to 01.00 on Friday and small onboard generator. Each tram with the planned Red, Green and floor TatraKT4D that are all over Saturday, 365 days/year. takes 18 minutes to complete the Golden metro lines. 30 years old.

www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org APRIL 2018 / 125 News Munich’s EUR5.5bn urban rail plans Tramway and U-Bahn extensions feature in new 25-year transport plan for ’s capital

hree tramway an alignment that has been the extensions are among subject of plans and disputes for EUR5.5bn-worth of over a decade. This clears the projects intended way for the 13km (eight-mile) toT boost public transport in ‘Nordtangente’ line from the German city of Munich Neuhausen to Bogenhausen. (München). The line through the park will Presented in mid-January, be catenary-free. the plans were described by the Confirmation of the city’s mayor Dieter Reiter as an detailed route for the ‘Tram- historically-unique expansion Nordtangente’ is expected programme in public transport. in 2019; services could In addition to adding to the provisionally begin in 2025. Münchner Verkehsgesellschaft The costs of this project are (MVG) tramway, they include estimated at around EUR40m. extension of the Bavarian Next year should bring capital’s U-Bahn system. detailed route confirmation for No trams go through the Englischer Garten, although services on Paradiesstraße Described as being of a further tramway extension, run along its border (2144, since modernised to R2.2b specification is seen on this enormous significance, the taking northwards from route in 2010). This will change with a new line to open by 2025. Neil Pulling new ‘Tram-Westtangente’ Schwabing Nord through the could be completed by 2026. Neubaugebiet Bayernkaserne at construction phase is expected to U5 is currently being extended Confirmation of the detailed least as far as Heidemannstraße. take around ten years; operations from Laiumer Platz to Pasing, route is expected in spring, On the U-Bahn system, the could begin in 2035-40. Initial but planning is underway but it is anticipated that the 10.5km (6.5-mile) U9 scheme is estimates put the cost at around for a further extension to roughly 9km (5.6-mile) line from to create extra capacity through EUR3bn. Neubaugebiet Freiham. It is Romanplatz to Aidenbachstraße the city centre by the building A project dubbed U26 will estimated that this would be will run largely along the of a new line running between connect existing lines U2 and U6 completed in 2035-2040. Fürstenriedstraße. A previous Poccistraße/Implerstraße through building a link between estimate put the basic price of (currently separate stops that Am Hart and Kieferngarten. On 18 January it was confirmed this line at around EUR65-70m are to be brought together), Also planned is an extension that Munich’s trams and U-Bahn (2011 prices). Hauptbahnhof, Theresienwiese of U4 from Araballepark to trains would henceforth use 100% On 24 January the city council (on a spur), Pinakothekenviertel Englschalking to meet the ‘green’ electricity. The power confirmed the building of a and Münchner Freiheit. Detailed S-Bahn line S8. Further extension is largely supplied by hydro- new 2.2km (1.4-mile) tramline planning for this project is towards Messe is also considered electric stations of the city’s own through the Englischer Garten, underway, for which the main possible in future. municipal Stadtwerke München.

Graz invests in tram expansion Metro closes for a month

Graz (Austria) is to spend of emergency track repairs EUR117m on expanding the The Maryland Transit to gauge face wear as far back as recent physical inspections Grazer Linien tramway system Administration closed the November 2016. indicated that some sections over the next five years. Baltimore Metro SubwayLink Based on engineering could not wait until then. Three extensions are planned, system for a month from inspections conducted in 2015, MTA Administrator Kevin starting with a EUR44m 1.8km 11 February for emergency track it was projected that the rails Quinn said: “We made an (1.1-mile) route from Alte repairs. The decision, made at 24 would be safe for operation until engineering decision that the Poststrasse to Reiinghaus, hours’ notice, has been criticised this summer; an additional tracks were still safe to operate for passenger service in 2021. as it has emerged that the MTA USD20m had been committed on... Our riders were never in In the city centre, EUR27m will knew of serious issues related to fund this project. However, any danger.” be spent on the 1km (0.6-mile) The 25km (15.5-mile) link across the River Mur from Gauge face wear caused SubwayLink’s closure SubwayLink line runs on the Jakominiplatz to Annenstrasse from 11 February. Sturmovick / CC-BY 3.0 surface from Owings Mills to via Neutorgasse and Belgiergasse Mondawmin and underground to relieve the tramway on between Mondawmin and Herrengasse. This should be ready Johns Hopkins Hospital, serving by 2023. In the western suburbs around 40 000 passengers each lines 3 and 6 will be extended weekday. State Governor Larry by 1.1km (0.7 miles) from Hogan has allocated USD2.2m to Asperngasse to Peter-Tunnergasse run free buses along the subway’s (EUR22.4m, to open in 2021). route in addition to normal MTA Single-track sections of lines 1 routes during the closure. and 5 will also be doubled. Partial reopening could come The province of Styria is to earlier than March 11 as sections contribute EUR43.8m, with the are repaired, the MTA said. city providing EUR44.1m. It is On 16 February it was confirmed expected that the balance will be that a second closure is expected provided by Federal government. in August.

126 / APRIL 2018 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org Sutton tram Grand Paris Express extension back on? project timetable revised In late February, London Mayor Sadiq Khan revealed Criticism of delivery schedules prompts Government intervention an updated 25-year transport strategy for the UK capital ollowing last month’s St-Denis Pleyel and Olympiades Société du Grand Paris has that includes a possible West critical reviews of the – Aéroport d’Orly), line 15 awarded the Eiffage consortium London orbital rail line and expansive Grand Paris South between Pont de Sevres contracts for the extension of a specific proposal to develop Express metro by the and Noisy Champs and the metro line 14 from Mairie de the long-awaited Tramlink FFrench national audit body, Cour common section of lines 16 and St-Ouen to St-Denis Pleyel, the extension to Sutton. des Comptes, a revised timetable 17 between St-Denis Pleyel and common section of future lines The document states that was announced by Prime Le Blanc-Mesnil, plus the line 16 16 and 17 between St-Denis the Mayor’s office is to work Minister Edouard Philippe on extension to Clichy-Montfermeil. Pleyel and Le Bourget RER with the London Boroughs 22 February. Lines 15 East and West will station, a link to the future of Merton and Sutton to Construction of the 200km open in 2030, the section of line depot for lines 16 and 17, and the develop the major extension to (125-mile) 68-station metro 17 to Triangle de Gonesse in crossing of St-Denis Pleyel station Tramlink that was previously project is underway, partly 2027 (reaching Le Mesnil-Amelot by line 15 North. This involves announced under Mayor Boris driven by the needs of the 2024 in 2030), and the first part of bored tunnels totalling 19.3km Johnson in 2013. Olympic Games, but other line 18 from Aéroport d’Orly to (12 miles), a 600m cutting and The strategy also references sections will not now open Antonypôle by 2027 (continuing the supply and installation of longer-term projects such as a until at least 2030. to Versailles Chantiers by track and overhead on 16km potential DLR extension from The confirmation said that 2030). It is hoped to reduce the (ten miles) of lines 16 and 17 for Gallions Reach to Thamesmead priority would be given to EUR35bn cost of the project by completion in 2024. in a bid to deliver 90% the northern and southern 10% by allocating more staff to Funding of EUR1.84bn was increases in rail capacity in extensions of line 14 (St-Lazare – project management. approved on 13 February. the capital by 2041.

Gdansk chooses Pesa Darmstadt shows off new works tram On 15 February a PLN138.4m (EUR33m) contract was signed The German city of Darmstadt car purchased from glycerin to mitigate the effect of between Gdansk transport has to maintain 92km (57 miles) (where it was 8001). freezing conditions. undertaking GAiT and Pesa for 15 of tram tracks, including 150 Rail grinding is effected by During the conversion the double-ended, five-section, 29.7m points, and 97km (60 miles) 12 polishing stones, kept cool whole tram was dismantled, Jazz Duo trams, with an option for of overhead wire, in order to by 1500 litres of water held in apart from the steel frame, and 15 more. The Bydgoczsz-based firm ensure reliable operation of its four tanks. A magnet catches the new equipment installed before was the sole bidder for the contract passenger services. This requires fine metal shavings produced the refurbished panels were put that is 85% co-financed by the EU. a specialised works tram, and during grinding. In this mode back together. The vehicles will feature onboard supercapacitors to store the operator HEAG recently took it has a working speed of Wheelsets, gearbox and recovered braking energy. Delivery delivery of a new addition to its 30km/h (18.6mph). The tram transmission, traction motors will be completed by mid-2019. fleet for this purpose. can be used for and heating elements were The 26m, 45t, eight-axle maintenance as well, featuring overhauled, and the pantograph, Prague welcomes its double-ended tram is based upon a rooftop observation cabin and couplings and dashboard first rebuilt 14T a withdrawn 1985 -M a pantograph that can apply equipment adapted. Following successful prototype testing, the first series-modernised Škoda 14T tram has entered passenger service in Praha (Prague). Škoda supplied 60 14T trams to the city in 2005-09; three were scrapped and in 2014 the remaining vehicles were taken out of service after cracks were discovered in the frames. A modernisation programme is underway with frame modifications and new interiors. DPP plans to have 14 more in service by the end of the year, with the full fleet modernised by 2020. T69 fleet sold for GB12 000! Just GBP12 000 has been raised from the sale of 13 of the former Midland Metro fleet of AnsaldoBredaT69 trams, which are to go for scrap. The vehicles, mothballed in 2014-15 following their replacement by CAF Urbos 3 vehicles, were sold by auction in February (TAUT 962). Tram 7 has been acquired by UKTram as a rolling testbed, while Darmstadt 1501 is the new works tram, 11 (in Birmingham Corporation modified from a withdrawn Augsburg blue and cream) has been given to Stadtbahn-M, built by Düwag in 1985. HEAG Birmingham Museum.

www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org APRIL 2018 / 127 Rolling Stock Conference LRT ROLLING STOCK EXCELLENCE Operating a light rail system efficiently is a daily challenge. Some of the UK and Ireland’s senior figures met in London in February to share their knowledge – and some secrets. Howard Johnston reports.

nly a decade ago, the managers of the UK’s light and urban rail systems were virtual strangers. Now, they work as a close-knit The first nine-section Citadis 502 ran team, discussing best practice on Dublin’s Green line on 7 February, aOnd sharing innovation, and solving just days before the LRT Rolling Stock problems by talking openly about their Excellence Day. Delegates heard of the successes and challenges. challenges in bringing some of the world’s The outcome is a more co-ordinated industry longest trams into the city’s tight streets. TII that better serves the 313 million passengers that are carried each year. This impressive Wire-free in the West Midlands Tyne & Wear is braving it out ridership figure is rising year-on-year, matched There is a growing demand for wire-free A brand new fleet cannot come soon enough by customer satisfaction levels that most running through Birmingham’s streets. for the Tyne & Wear Metro, because it is sectors would give their right arm for. Trials with retrofitted onboard energy storage a daily burden to turn out enough of the In the latest of a series of one-day events systems (OESS) have been successful at the current 40-year-old fleet for the 450 daily supported by UKTram, held in London’s factory in Spain, but these systems are now services, said Metro Services Director Chris Docklands on 15 February, those with facing a very different climate and operating Carson. With distances between faults now as responsibility for the procurement, conditions on the streets of the West Midlands, low as 7000km (4350 miles), the near 40-year- management and operation came together to said Colin Robey, Midland Metro’s former old Metrocars are the worst performing discuss topics surrounding rolling stock. Head of Operations and current OESS Project comparable fleet in the UK, he explained. TAUT Editor and event chair Simon Sponsor for Transport for West Midlands. Reliability is an increasing problem despite Johnston said: “These days are vital in It has been confirmed that sections of extensive refurbishment, and the challenge understanding the everyday challenges the system’s next wave of extensions will be is to hold on during the procurement process; within the industry. We are here to encourage worked by CAF trams with SAFT batteries the UK Government confirmed its GBP3337m openness and honesty from our speakers that can run up to 20km (12.5 miles) on a (EUR385m) contribution at the end of 2017. with their presentations and need to be single charge and have a projected life of A great Christmas present for the region. asking often difficult questions of each other. seven years. The first modified vehicle (18) is The specification is for 42 two-car “Light rail is a success story in the UK, currently undergoing dynamic testing from dual-voltage sets (to replace the existing 90 but within this culture we can still improve the line’s Wednesbury depot and, it is hoped, two-car units) which will have longitudinal and offer even better services. However, this will carry passengers soon. Others will be seating and can run without catenary, naturally results in some potentially sensitive retrofitted in the UK, and any future vehicles coupled with a long-term maintenance information being expressed behind closed for the rapidly-expanding system will have deal. The contract is due to be awarded doors which cannot be fully revealed.” OESS capability fitted as standard. in November 2019, with the vehicles in service within 25 months. Alongside this investment, the current 100-year-South Gosforth depot (described as unfit for purpose) will also be replaced.

A challenge of magnitude Bedding in 55m 502 vehicles – for a brief period the longest trams of their kind in Europe – into the Irish capital of Dublin is making good progress, said Ciarán Mac Samhráin, Rolling Stock Manager, Transport Infrastructure Ireland. The success of Luas and the opening of the 13-stop cross-city connector to link the previously independent Green and Red lines last year has required a complete reorganisation of the fleet, and significant modifications to structures, platforms, and ABOVE LEFT: Arran Rusling explaining the procurement process for the DLR’s new fleet that will offer a substations, and also crew familiarisation. 35% capacity increase when introduced. L. Blyth / TAUT ABOVE RIGHT: Nexus Metro Services Director Chris All of this in a very tight city centre Carson gave delegates an honest insight into the issues of maintaining services with a tired fleet. L. Blyth / TAUT environment.

128 / april 2018 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org As well as these ‘super-trams’ (introduced innovations in the management of its 800 passengers/train, the new fleet will be a into passenger service at 07.47 on 7 February), rolling stock to meet the needs of its 380 000 step-change. The specification is demanding, plans are also in progress to extend 26 passengers every weekday. It is experiencing he explained, with “out of the box reliability” existing Citadis 402 trams for the Green line 13% annual growth, and is now the sixth- a key factor and the expectation of 30 000km to the ‘502 spec’, as well as expanding depot busiest UK rail operator. between service intervals. and maintenance facilities at Sandyford. Delegates were given a detailed Both Rusling and Smale also detailed the explanation of the successes and challenges plans for the expansion of the principal Operational tram-train lessons faced with a fleet that is well through its maintenance facility at Beckton. Despite Four Stadler tram-trains have been in daily design life by Programme Manager Arran some clear challenges, service reliability service with Stagecoach Supertram since Rusling of Docklands Light Railway Limited stands at a remarkable 99%-plus. last November, after a complex programme and KeolisAmey Engineering Director Dave to integrate them into the standard fleet to Smale, as well as the options for reliability Making tramways safer run through the centre of Sheffield, said IT Following the publication of the UK’s Rail and Major Projects Manager Dr Rob Carroll, “A new fleet cannot come Accident Investigation Branch report into Stagecoach Supertram. 2016’s fatal Tramlink accident at Sandilands, There are now over 100 drivers trained soon enough for the the UK is already advanced in improving its on the new cars, and they have to be fully safety standards for trams, said David Keay, compliant before they can venture over the Tyne & Wear Metro; it is a Director of Railway & Tramway Engineering heavy rail route north to Rotherham this and formerly HM Deputy Chief Inspector of autumn, a 26-minute journey with a three daily burden to turn out Railways at the Office of Rail and Road. times an hour frequency. The changeover Industry trade body UKTram has from 750v DC to 25kV overhead power enough of the current just published the first edition of its collection needs to be fully understood, TPG (Tramway Principles & Guidance) along with a complex range of alternative 40-year-old cars.” document, which is recognised by the signalling, safety and communications Government’s Office of Rail and Road, and systems. Compared to the Siemens tram fleet, improvements and the car replacement after consultation with operators, a revised the tram trains’ rail profiles are significantly procurement programme. version will follow in September. different, although very similar to that seen The system has gone about as far as it can From now on, there will be uniformity on on Manchester Metrolink. to optimise the timetable through signalling vehicles’ structural integrity, CCTV cameras Passenger and staff reaction has been upgrades and careful scheduling, both for drivers, lighting, cab controls, fire safety, positive so far, although teething issues with DLR presenters explained; to cope with the and braking. Driver vigilance devices are software systems, the vehicles’ air suspension, expected patronage increases (which could also likely to become a standard feature. differing pantograph carbon and OLE wear reach 160m passengers in the next decade as After Sandilands, when car windows shot out and couplers have seen the Citylink units development continues apace along the lines) causing fatalities, rules need to be devised modified a number of times. Modifications a new fleet is the only option. on vehicle glazing, what happens with side have been carried out in Sheffield’s Nunnery Transport for London’s Rolling Stock impacts, vandalism, emergency evacuation depot with “the support of a very good team Replacement Programme is therefore “the and weight, and also cost, he reported, inviting from Stadler,” Carroll explained. foundation for all of our plans to meet the industry to feed into UKTram’s work. growth, as it provides 35% additional Docklands gets to grips capacity and allows up to 34 more trains Mainspring’s LRT Rolling Stock Excellence Day Keolis Amey has been running London’s to be purchased,” Rusling explained. This was held at the Museum of London Docklands on Docklands Light Railway since 2014, and is in addition to the base 43-train order to 15 February. For information on further events, already made its mark with wide-ranging replace B90/B92 stock. With capacity for contact Mainspring on +44 (0)1733 367600.

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www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org APRIL 2018 / 129 Rolling stock review LRT rolling stock review Michael Taplin’s annual analysis of the global LRV market finds the future is looking better than ever.

ooking at the number of trams on order worldwide at February 2018, it can be seen that 3963 cars are due for delivery over the next five years (4478 in February 2017 – TAUTL 952), but the number of orders planned has increased from 1603 to 2144. There are also options for a further 1305 new trams (1102 in February 2017) as operators continue to place framework contracts that permit them to come back for more vehicles without going through complex and often expensive tender procedures. above: The In a climate of consolidation amongst Bombardier the bigger players, manufacturers are tram design for fighting for their market share and are not the Swedish slow to challenge what they perceive to be city of Göteborg (Gothenburg). irregularities in tendering. Bombardier Over the last 12 months, the market leader for the last few years, Bombardier, was in LEFT: A danger of falling back in the size of its order mock-up of the book in a major way – until news arrived from first CAF Urbos Brussels of a firm order for an additional 60 for Amsterdam trams as part of a wider framework of up 175 (designated 15G) new cars. CAF and Siemens seem to be on a was unveiled roll, though for the latter the North American at the city’s Lekstraat depot continent is particularly important. That in July 2017. GVB said, orders from and Copenhagen show that the company is still more than capable of winning significant European orders. CAF is pursuing a vigorous policy of trying to secure business in as many markets as it can, with a lot of success with smaller orders for new systems. These can be shored up with huge contracts such as the 146 new trams for Czech builders have dropped back as Belgium’s De Lijn, snatched from under the “Manufacturers are fighting domestic orders come to an end (and Ostrava nose of traditional supplier Bombardier, and for their market share and went to Stadler), leaving Škoda – under new large orders with equally large options for ownership as of November 2017 – to rely on Amsterdam and Utrecht. are not slow to challenge small orders elsewhere, while Pragoimex The CAF small tram for US city circulator (Alliance Team TW) is banking on the success systems has won a few orders in recent years, what they perceive to be of its firstEVO order for Olomouc in the although it has experienced a few difficulties perennial search for the successor to the in the severe weather conditions experienced irregularities in tendering.” Tatra T3. Škoda’s Finnish subsidiary, regularly in the Mid-West. Transtech, is currently turning in more where Modertrans, Pesa and Solaris – now in success than its parent company, albeit just Looking east and west partnership with Stadler – continue to fight for domestic systems at present. In Eastern Europe, any doubts about the it out. Pesa appeared to be under financial Hitachi Rail Italy (formerly AnsaldoBreda) ability of PK Transportnye Systemy of Tver difficulties at one stage (and lost the major is delivering what may be its last tram order to produce 300 new trams for Moscow to Kraków order for 50 new trams because of for a while, to Firenze, though the company a high specification have been laid to rest its lack of a financial guarantee), but is perhaps hoping that Milano’s plans for new with over 120 successfully entering service competitor Modertrans has won market share trams will come its way. It has managed to get in the first year. Belkommunmash in Minsk, in its own country, thanks to the Poznan its joint venture tram batches in Beijing and Belarus, no longer in partnership with order, while Pesa is relying on selling most of Zhuhai carrying passengers at last. Stadler (Stadler Minsk is a standalone its cancelled Moscow order to Kyiv, Ukraine. The various subsidiaries of Chinese giant company with its own factory), has also Solaris stepped into the Kraków order, CRRC are busy building cars for all the new ticked up another small order. in partnership with Stadler, but its other Chinese systems that keep popping up, and is There is more activity in Poland under the customers are in Germany (Braunschweig now technically well up to western standards latest EU Multiannual Financial Framework, and Leipzig). of production and reliability.

130 / APRIL 2018 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org The first of the remanufactured PCCs fromB rookville for El Paso returned to the Texan city at the start of the year. This tram was built in 1937 for San Diego. Sun Metro

Its first production hydrogen fuel cell trams ‘tram’ version of the S70 LRV. Brookville’s No doubt the enlarged organisation is are due to carry passengers in Foshan this year. other business of vehicle refurbishment and pinning its hopes on the decision to create The interaction between the market and modernisation is doing well. a joint order for several systems’ tram-train manufacturers in China is rather opaque, Last year we split orders between Stadler requirements (led by Karlsruhe – see TAUT and CRRC does not appear to have made and Stadler-Vossloh (the Spanish factory 961 for more on the proposed VDV TramTrain any serious effort to break into Europe yet. in Albuixech near Valencia), but there is alliance), definitely its area of expertise. This was not helped when it lost out in the no longer separation of marketing, with competition to acquire Škoda, but it is surely production allocated to whichever factory can Mixed fortunes for the Big Three only a matter of time as the requirement for produce vehicles most economically in the Bombardier is still wrestling with financial Chinese systems slows. CRRC is of course required timescale. The company has factories challenges resulting from its aviation building metro trains for North America, in Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Poland, activities, and is shedding jobs and closing with major orders across the country. Switzerland and Spain, but railway products plants such as the Görlitz factory and the Something appears to have gone awry are the major outputs, and tram orders are historic Hennigsdorf facility in . with the CRRC Dalian LRV delivery to allocated as main line contracts are completed. Overall, its rail business is very profitable Manila, with the cars said to be too heavy however, with President Laurent Troger for the infrastructure, and unable to “As Alstom and Siemens stating that 10% sales growth in 2017, and communicate with the existing signalling predicting the same this year. The rail unit’s system on line MRT-3. head towards a merger, order book was valued at over EUR21bn in Brookville Equipment Corporation has September, he claimed. had another good year in its domestic US both can be satisfied The company’s tramway orders are down market and continues to pick up orders for slightly this year, and the figure of 715 in the new city centre tramway circulators that their order books our table on the right may still be optimistic that are dear to planners’ hearts at present. as Toronto is still receiving revised delivery This again may be affected by changes in for trams and LRVs are dates and readies itself to test the market FTA funding during the Trump era. Siemens for alternatives. We would not be surprised has a small share of this market with its holding up well.” if, like Metrolinx, TTC does not cut back its Bombardier order and place the balance elsewhere, though Bombardier is promising a second production line to increase its rate of delivery to Toronto. In Europe, this year’s big wins for the company were Brussels and Duisburg, but from Oslo there is only silence; with six bidders the city seems to be having trouble sorting out the best deal. Bombardier has teamed up with Vossloh-Kiepe to bid for this significant order. There are plenty of small contracts for German systems that the company stands a good chance of winning, as well as holding options on previous contracts. As Alstom and Siemens head towards a merger – shareholders are due to approve the tie-up in July for financial closure by the end of the year, subject to clearance from the relevant regulatory and anti-trust authorities – both can be satisfied that their order books for trams and LRVs are holding up well. However, the Alstom figures for its joint venture factory in Algeria building trams for the new systems there and in Morocco (under the name CITAL) are seemingly being Over 120 Vityaz trams from PLTS are now operating the the Russian capital, Moskva. A. Liazov affected by the economic situation in Algeria.

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Worldwide trams and LRVs on order (+ options) as at February 2018

M anufacturer Orders + options Delivery M anufacturer Orders + options Delivery 3963 + 1305 3963 + 1305

Alstom 599 + 212 HeiterBlick/Kiepe 70 Annaba 72 Citadis 2018 With CITAL Bielefeld 24 Vamos 2018-19 Avignon 10 Citadis Compact 2018 Hannover 46 Typ 3000 2018-19 Batna 30 Citadis 2018 With CITAL Hitachi Rail Italy 29 Bordeaux 20 Citadis 2017-19 Firenze 29 Sirio 2017-18 Caen 23 Citadis 2018-19 Casablanca 50 Citadis 2017-18 Hyundai-Rotem 38 Doha 35 Citadis 2018-19 Izmir 38 low-floor tram 2017-18 Dubai 14 Citadis 2018 Kinkisharyo 100 + 97 Kaohsiung 15 Citadis 2018-19 Los Angeles 100 + 97 LRVs 2018-19 Lusail (Qatar) 35 Citadis 2017-18 Modertrans 105 + 2 Lyon 7 Citadis 2017-18 Elblag 3 Moderus Beta 2018 Mostaganem 25 Citadis 2018 With CITAL Poznan 50 Moderus Gamma 2017-18 Nice 25 Citadis 2018-20 Katowice 10 Moderus Beta 2018-19 Ottawa 38 Citadis 2020-21 Szczecin 2 + 2 Moderus Beta 2018 self-assembly Paris 22 + 68 Citadis 2018-19 Wroclaw 40 Moderus Beta 2018-19 Rabat-Salé 22 Citadis 2019 With CITAL Pesa 119 + 26 Sétif 20 Citadis 2018 With CITAL Czestochowa 10 + 5 Twist 2018-19 SNCF 15 + 116 Citadis Dualis 2018-20 Bydgoszcz 18 Swing 2017-18 Strasbourg Option 28 Citadis Gorzów 14 + 6 Twist 2018 Sydney 60 Citadis 2017-19 Gdansk 15 + 15 Jazz Duo 2018-19 Toronto (Metrolinx) 61 Citadis 2019-20 Kyiv 40 Fokstrot 2018-19 Belkommunmash 33 Lodz 12 Swing 2018-19 Daugavpils 8 Low-floor 2018 Warszawa 10 Twist 2017-18 Pavlodar 25 Low-floor 2018-19 PKTS/Metrovagonmash 199 Bombardier 715 + 409 Moskva 180 Vityaz 2018-19 Basel Option 48 Flexity 2 Rostov-na-Donu 13 Vityaz 2018 Berlin 17 Flexity Berlin 2018 Sankt Peterburg 3 Varyag 2018 Brussels 60 + 115 2020-22 Sankt Peterburg 3 Vityaz 2018 Duisburg 47 + 5 Flexity 2019-23 Pragoimex 8 Düsseldorf 42 + 16 Flexity Swift 2018-20 Olomouc 8 EVO1 2018 Edmonton 26 Flexity Swift 2018-20 Siemens 608 + 242 Göteborg 40 + 60 Flexity 2019-21 Bremen 77 Avenio 2019-21 Halle Option 4 Flexity Swift Calgary 23 S200 2018 Innsbruck 19 Flexity Outlook 2018 Den Haag 10 Avenio 2019 Karlsruhe 4 + 33 Flexity Swift 2018 Denver 29 SD160 2017-18 Köln (Cologne) 20 Flexity Swift 2020-21 Fort Lauderdale 5 S70 2019 Krefeld Option 7 Flexity Outlook København 27 Avenio 2022-23 25 Flexity 2018-19 Minneapolis-St Paul 27 S70 2019-20 Toronto (TTC) 140 Flexity Freedom 2016-19 München 20 + 124 Avenio 2018 Toronto (Metrolinx) 76 LRV 2017-19 Phoenix 11 + 67 S70 2019-20 Waterloo-Kitchener 10 + 14 LRV 2018 San Francisco 215 + 45 high floor 2017-21 Wien 119 + 37 Flexity 2018-26 Seattle 152 S70 2019-23 Zürich 70 + 70 Flexity 2018-23 Ulm 12 + 6 Avenio 2018 Brookville 33 + 24 Solaris 70 + 33 El Paso 6 PCC 2018 Remanufactured Braunschweig 17 2019-20 Milwaukee 5 + 19 Liberty 2018 Krakow 35 + 15 2020-21 with Stadler Oklahoma City 5 Liberty 2018 Leipzig 18 + 18 2018-19 Phoenix 6 Liberty 2019 Škoda 70 Tacoma 5 + 5 Liberty 2020 Chemnitz 14 27T 2018-19 Tempe 6 Liberty 2019-20 Ekisehir 14 27T 2018 CAF 458 + 139 Praha 29 15T 2018 Amsterdam 63 + 60 Urbos 3 2019-22 Sofia 13 26T 2018-19 Boston 24 low-floor LRV 2018-19 Škoda Transtech 79 + 49 Budapest 26 + 51 Urbos 3 2019-20 Helsinki 60 + 22 2018-19 Option 6 Urbos 2 Tampere 19 + 27 2019-20 Canberra 14 Urbos 3 2017-18 Stadler 209 + 12 Cosenza 11 Urbos 2 2019-20 Alacant 6 Electro-diesel 2019 De Lijn 146 Urbos 3 2018-21 Bern (RBS) 16 Tango 2017-18 Kansas City 2 low-floor 2019 Bochum 32 + 8 Variobahn 2018-19 Luxembourg 20 Urbos 3 2018-19 Chemnitz 4 tram-train 2018 Maryland () 26 Urbos 3 2019-20 Karlsruhe 15 Citylink 2018 Newcastle (NSW) 6 Urbos 3 2018 Odense 14 Variobahn 2019-20 Port Louis – Curepipe 18 Urbos 3 2019-20 Ostrava 40 Metelitsa 2018-19 Seattle 10 + 10 Urbos 3 2019-20 St Gallen (AB) 12 Tango 2018 Stockholm 30 + 12 Urbos AXL 2017-18 Sankt Peterburg (TKK) 23 Chizhik 2017-18 Utrecht 59 Urbos 3 2017-20 Stuttgart 20 DT8 2018-19 Vitoria-Gasteiz 3 Urbos 3 2019 Szeged 8 + 4 tram-train 2018-19 CRRC 253 + 30 Wuppertal 19 Schwebebahn 2018 Suspended Astana 19 LRV 2018 Chengdu 40 Citadis 2018-19 with Alstom Taiwan Rolling Stock 15 Foshan 10 27T 2017-18 with Skoda Taipei 15 low-floor 2017-18 with China Steel Foshan 8 fuel cell 2018 Tatra-Yug 15 + 30 Hong Kong 40 high-floor LRV 2018-19 Alexandria 15 + 30 high-floor 2018-19 Shenyang 30 low-floor tram 2017-18 Uraltransmash 26 Suzhou 16 15T 2018 with Skoda Kolomna 21 71-407 2018 Tel Aviv 90 + 30 LRV 2018-20 Novocherkassk 5 71-407 2018 Durmazlar 70 Ust-Katav 35 Bursa 60 LRV 2016-18 Magnitogorsk 15 71-623 2018 Bursa 10 Silkworm 2017-18 Volgograd 20 71-623 2018 Elektrotrans 7 Kyiv 7 Elektron 2018

132 / APRIL 2018 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org The company is beginning to make its mark in North America, with Toronto’s Metrolinx order following on from Ottawa’s choice of the Citadis Spirit. Siemens’ US order book is healthy, though some of the figures may have to be scaled back if the Trump Administration cuts back on federal support for transit schemes. The company’s plans to build a factory in Turkey seem on track to begin production this year, aiding its ability in local tenders through the government’s ‘Buy Turkish’ decree announced in November 2017. The Avenio built in Wien (Vienna) is starting to win orders, and is one of the options being evaluated by Oslo.

U sed trams slowdown The market for second-hand trams is still minimal, and declining further, after a flurry of activity in the early years of the century. With the continued growth of local producers and favourable loan terms or grants in some areas, the need to accept cascaded vehicles is reduced in favour of buying newer stock. Adelaide has bought some more Citadis In January, Bremer Straßenbahn added an option Oes rd r pending 2144 + 220 for a further ten Siemens Avenio trams to its 2017 cars from Madrid rather than tendering Athina 25 order for 67 vehicles. The first cars should enter Basel (Waldenburg) 10 for a small order for its East End extension. service in 2019. Siemens Moscow is disposing of its withdrawn cars Bergamo 11 to provincial systems, and there is a regular to aim for – and expect to see the results of Bergen 15 Berlin 80 cascade of Tatra trams from more to less the Oslo tender shortly. Large numbers of Bern 21 prosperous eastern European systems. trams will be required by Berlin, Bucuresti, Birmingham 50 One significant movement of modern low- Essen/Mülheim (Ruhrbahn), Mannheim Bonn 26 + 9 floor stock will be the problematic AdTranz- RNV and Warszawa, so whichever company Brandenburg 10 built Variotram cars that are likely to leave picks up any of these is going to be pretty Bucuresti 100 the city this year. Two of the 40-strong fleet pleased. New trams for Lisboa are an Calgary 70 (built 1998-2004) were transported to other intriguing possibility, while an order for Cottbus 20 Casablanca 100 German systems for assessment in July 2017. the replacement of the Kawasaki cars in Darmstadt 10 + 10 Remanufacturing existing cars rather Philadelphia inches ever closer. Dortmund 24 + 2 than buying new is still pretty much limited In the UK, it is reported that a new fleet Dresden 30 to Köln and Bonn. Duisburg considered of 50 low-floor trams to cater for the rapid Diyarbakir 33 the idea, and sent some of its fleet away for Midland Metro expansion programme is Erfurt 14 + 10 refurbishment, but in end opted to buy new. likely to reach tender stage this year – Frankfurt/Main 38 + 15 Frankfurt/Oder 10 + 2 Our Orders Pending section shows that these cars will have a requirement for Freiburg/Brg 6 + 10 there is still plenty for the tramway salesmen catenary-free running. Gera 15 Görlitz 3 Gotha 20 Graz 35 Hasselt 18 Jerusalem 46 Karlsruhe + others 300 Liege 19 Liepaya 6 + 1 Lisboa 30 Lugano–Ponte Tresa 9 Lund 7 + 3 Mannheim (RNV) 80 + 46 Milano 60 Nantes 61 Odesa 56 Olsztyn 12 + 12 Oslo 87 + 60 Philadelphia 120 Plzen 18 Portland 5 Rhein-Neckar 50 Riga 12 Ruhrbahn 51 High floor Ruhrbahn 26 Low floor Sassi 3 + 6 Stuttgart 3 Rack trams Surabaya 25 Tallinn 8 + 20 Tyne & Wear 84 Utsunomiya 17 Warszawa 68 Wien–Baden 12 + 6 Wiesbaden 26 48 LRVs delivered by CRRC Dalian to Manila in the Philippines have yet to carry a revenue passenger. Würzburg 41 Judgefloro Zürich (Limmattal) 8 + 8

www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org APRIL 2018 / 133 Australia Special Focus GOING FOR GOLD With Stage 2 of Gold Coast’s successful first LRT line opening three months ago, plans are now underway to go the distance with Stage 3.

ecember 2017 was a time to secondary waterways – and a 30 000m2 Stage 2: To Helensvale for the Games celebrate on the Gold Coast. maintenance depot. More than 60 000 tonnes Stage 2 opened two weeks ahead of schedule, Not only had the city’s G:link of landfill were excavated in the creation of with free rides on 17 December; revenue LRT line recently waved the this new facility on the site of on an old refuse services began the following day. The 7.3km banners for its third birthday and dump. Other technical features included (4.5-mile) projection established a connection witnessedD record-breaking patronage (eight real-time vehicle tracking, 36km (22.4 miles) from the northern terminus to the regional million passengers in its last financial year), of overhead line and six 1.4mW-rated rail network at Helensvale. Using existing but the Stage 2 section to Helensvale had also substations to supply 750V dc for the network. corridors, the alignment was seen as being just opened. There is more to come though, The first passengers were carried in July very cost-effective at AUD420m (EUR268m). for now the region is pushing ahead with 2014, using 14 2 low-floor CPB was selected as preferred design and Stage 3 – with further phases in the pipeline. trams designed to reflect the area’s heritage, construction partner in March 2016 and, These are significant ambitions for a city including interior surfboard racks and a bold as with Stage 1, the extension was delivered that has come a long way in a short time from yellow and blue livery. The 43.4m, as a public-private partnership between its initial feasibility study into light rail in seven-section, bi-directional vehicles are the Queensland Government (AUD270m), 2004. Australia’s sixth-largest city (current air-conditioned throughout, transporting up Commonwealth Government (AUD95m) and population 546 000) and one of its fastest to 309 passengers, 80 seated. the City of Gold Coast (AUD55m). growing, the Gold Coast was struggling under Despite public transport not being held in Construction began in July 2016 and was the weight of congestion. In just ten years the same regard in Australia as in Europe, by fast-tracked for completion ahead of the (2006-16), travel times in Southport, Surfers the end of March 2016 the line had carried city’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games Paradise and Broadbeach were expected to rise almost 12.5 million passengers, with average in April 2018. The Games will be the biggest 30%, and with no major new roads planned daily ridership growing to almost 23 000 – event the Gold Coast has ever hosted. Given it became imperative to look at sustainable also reducing vehicle traffic by 21% on the this magnitude, efficient transport is seen options to keep the region moving. congested Gold Coast Highway at Broadbeach. as critical to its success; an additional six After detailed planning and community The line contributed to a 23% growth in million network trips are forecast and the engagement, the city was deemed perfect public transport between 2013-16. At the time trams will run 24 hours a day for two weeks. for light rail due to its sprawling nature of Deputy Premier and Minister for Transport The extension includes two stops, interconnected communities running along Jackie Trad said: “The G:link has been a success Parkwood and Parkwood East, as well as a the coast. A single line could connect them all. on so many levels, fundamentally changing new terminus in the remodelled Helensvale In 2011, GoldLinQ (McDonnell Dowell the way people move around the Coast.” station. A new 1000-space park-and-ride has Constructors, Bombardier, KDR Gold Coast) been created at Parkwood and a 400-space was announced as the concessionaire for TOP: A busy Helensvale station on the opening day expansion of the existing facility at of the Stage 2 extension, 17 December 2017. Stage 1, with responsibility for the design, Helensvale. On a largely reserved alignment, construction, operations and maintenance. BOTTOM: With a great deal of segregation, the line it takes just 11 minutes for a trip on the The latter is undertaken by a joint venture of to Helensvale offers journey times of 11 minutes for new line. Four additional trams have been Keolis and Downer under a 15-year contract. the 7.3km route. All images courtesy of GoldlinQ supplied by Bombardier, and an extra 158 bus Tracks for the 13km (eight-mile) first services have been added to the Gold Coast stage were laid in Queen Street, Southport, network with several bus routes revised to in May 2012. The route runs from the Gold further integrate with the LRT system. Coast University Hospital in the north to Users are clearly already enjoying the Broadbeach in the south, with 16 stops over a benefits: data released in January shows that double-track alignment. Several key business, more than 78 000 trips have been taken from educational, tourism (including Surfers the three new stops in the first month of Paradise) and medical areas were thereby service, bolstering overall patronage by 25%. connected through the ‘heart’ of the city. The engineering challenge included 52 Stage 3 and onwards intersections, five new bridges – a viaduct These first two phases are just the beginning over the Smith Street motorway, two bridges for what is planned to be an eventual 40km spanning the Nerang River and two over (25km) network.

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Public consultation on Stage 3 was undertaken in December 2015, with various routes proposed. These included a southern extension from Broadbeach South to Burleigh Heads (with options for a westward link from Nobby Beach to Robina) and two routes from Burleigh Heads to Gold Coast Airport. Almost 80% of respondents supported an extension to Burleigh Heads, with 70% supporting a further continuation to the airport. The full route south to Coolangatta carries an estimated cost of AUD2.1bn (AUD600m for the first section to Burleigh Heads); the City Council is expected to contribute around AUD160m, but the majority requires a significant commitment from Government. Stage 3 is to be divided into two sections (3A and 3B), with construction potentially beginning in 2020-21. The feasibility study and reference design was awarded to WSP in January 2017, and a stakeholder engagement and consultation process for Stage 3A followed in June 2017; over 2100 residents responded to the survey, with 63% citing a preference for ‘option A’ for the Burleigh Heads stop to be sited along the Gold Coast Highway, as opposed to ‘option B’ of Park Avenue. The survey also found that 71% were either ‘extremely likely’ or ‘likely’ to use the light rail extension if built. These results will help form the planning for the next stage, of which Stage 3A will run for around 7km (4.4 miles) with seven stops to Burleigh Heads, and 3B to the airport and from Coolangatta adding a further 15km (9.3 miles).

A broad-scale plan for the future The Gold Coast’s population is forecast to expand to almost 800 000 by 2031 (and 930 000 by 2038) – huge increases for a city constrained on one side by the Pacific Ocean and dense forests and national parks to the west. With 12 million tourists visiting the area annually, an even larger-scale plan for future sustainable transport is required. In March 2013, a transport vision was launched to support the Gold Coast’s maturation into a world-class city. This vision and supporting strategy recognises the city’s increasing travel demands resulting from its rapid population growth and is underpinned by a ten-year implementation programme. The City Transport Strategy 2031 provides for further extensions once the route to Coolangatta is completed, alongside wider improvements to the region’s public transport system. Further consideration is to be given to new routes inland to Robina, Nerang, Bundall and north to Biggera Waters. A further southern projection into Tweed Heads could also be on the cards longer-term, subject to agreement by the NSW Government. It is hoped the private sector will become involved in funding and construction of many of these future lines. By offering a more balanced, sustainable transport system it is hoped that the offer of an appealing alternative will give 80% of Gold Coast residents no more than a ten-minute walk to a high quality public transport link; protecting this world-famous stretch of coastline from the dominance of the private car. In doing so, people will be given much more freedom and choice than ABOVE: The new Parkwood stop is located on the corner of Napper Road and Smith Street and features a they have ever had before. large park-and-ride facility with 1000 car spaces and a ‘kiss-and-ride’ area for drop-offs and taxi services.

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Manning GUNGAHLIN Clark Gungahlin North Place

Mapleton Avenue Clark Dr. Clark Manning Manning Mapleton Ave. Gungahlin Pl. Gungahlin

Nullarbor Avenue Nullarbor Ave.

FRANKLIN HARRISON Well Station Dr. Well Station Drive

MITCHELL Flemingtin Rd. Flemingtin Sandford St. Morisset Rd.

EPIC and Racecourse

Randwick Rd. WATSON Phillip Avenue Phillip Ave. Barton Hwy.

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Swinden St. Swinden Street Mouat St. Antill St.

Dickson LYNEHAM Interchange CONNECTING Macarthur Avenue Wakefield Ave. Macarthur Ave.

Condamine St. Ipima Street Ipima St. TURNER BRADDON

CANBERRA Gould St. Ave. Northbourne Elouera St. Elouera Street TAUT outlines the transformational light rail project Rudd St. Bunda St. Alinga St. for the Australian capital. Alinga Street CITY

n recent decades, citizens of cities the selected due to the potential redevelopment world over have become used to the idea “Australia’s modern light benefits, while Gungahlin is growing five of urban sprawl – particularly in the times faster than the capital overall. years after World War Two when new rail era is comparatively Northbourne Avenue was established car-based developments encouraged new. The particular as a wide boulevard with a central median Isuburban living and out of town shopping. strip, which will now be used for the light However, in the Australian capital, the challenge was obtaining rail line; the route is to be double-track prospect is for new developments that in the throughout. years up to 2030 will create a more compact experienced resources.” Including the termini at Northbourne city. Canberra’s population is expected to Avenue in the city (north of Alinga Street) increase to more than 500 000 in the next system that is convenient, efficient and and Hibberson Street in Gungahlin, there 15 years, up from around 400 000 today. affordable has fallen to Transport Canberra. will be 13 stops with provision for a further The city currently has a population This organisation combines the former Public two to follow. Stops are to have a mixture of density of under 450 residents per square Transport Division with the Capital Metro island and side platforms, and in addition kilometre – low compared to other capital Agency, established by the ACT Government to canopies will incorporate aspects such cities around the world. The plan to drive in July 2013 as the body responsible for as CCTV, digital information screens, help this in the coming decades will help support planning, design and delivery of the first points and hearing induction loops. Seven are both more efficient public transport and stage of a possible Canberra-wide network. in areas in the National Capital Authority area vibrant neighbourhood centres. Light Rail Stage 1 (LRS1) is progressing of planning jurisdiction, the others in that of Canberrans recognise the relationship well with project milestones on track the ACT Planning and Land Authority. between this evolution and greater along the Gungahlin – City Corridor. Although the LRS1 contract did not accessibility. However they also understand This scheme was a 2012 election specify the method of power supply the convenience of having a car; as such, a commitment, and contract and financial (subsequently decided as OLE throughout symbolic moment in the push to reduce the close were both achieved in 2016. the first phase), future extensions may reliance on private vehicles came in December Following a ‘first sod’ ceremony at Mitchell include areas where overhead wires will 2017, with the arrival of the first of 14 CAF in July 2016, by October 2017 the laying of be prohibited. Therefore it was a condition LRVs for the first stage of Canberra’s light rail. track slab had progressed sufficiently to allow that vehicles would be future-proofed for Opening of the first line between the city the first rails to be installed on Flemington adaptation to wire-free operation. and Gungahlin is expected late this year. Road between Nullarbor Avenue and The chosen location for the depot and It has been estimated that light rail could Gungaderra Creek Bridge. control centre is in Mitchell, alongside an make public transport travel times 30% faster The project involves construction of 12km existing ACT Government site on Sandford than that of general traffic. (7.5 miles) of route between Canberra’s Street. The design package includes a stabling Central Business District and Gungahlin yard; maintenance hall and administration Delivering light rail town centre, via Dickson. It is to run building (incorporating the Operations Since 2016, delivery of the Australian Capital Hibberson Street – Flemington Road – Control Centre, or OCC); back up OCC and Territory (ACT) Government’s vision of a Federal Highway – Northbourne Avenue; the security building; traction power substation; high quality integrated public transport so-called ‘Northbourne Corridor’ was and LRV wash shed.

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FAR LEFT: The first CAF Urbos low-floor LRV for Canberra, delivered in December.

LEFT: Construction of the new workshop, on Flemington Road in Mitchell, is progressing well.

RIGHT: Concrete slipforming ahead of the first rail laying in suburban Canberra in August 2017.

LEFT: Trackwork underway in January 2018.

RIGHT: A computer- generated image of one of the system’s new stops; these wil feature artworks from noted Canberra artist Hannah Quinilivan.

All images courtesy of Transport Canberra / ACT Government.

Canberra’s PPP model for Friday/Saturday night services; and The Canberra Metro consortium has been “Canberra’s population Alinga Street at 23.30 Sunday to Thursday chosen to build, maintain and operate this and 01.00 (next day) for Friday/Saturday first stage under a 20-year Public Private is expected to increase night services. End-to-end journey times are Partnership, involving not only the line’s expected to be 24 minutes. construction, but also the supply of vehicles, to more than 500 000 in It is estimated that the service will attract operations, maintenance and finance. around 3900 passengers during morning The expected total project out-turn the next 15 years, up from peaks in 2021, rising to about 5200 by 2031. cost is AUD707m (EUR450m). The annual around 400 000 today. Daily boardings are estimated at over 13 000 availability payment – which covers (in 2021) and more than 20 000 (2031). operational costs plus capital costs – is Opening of the first line averaging around AUD67m (EUR42.5m). Future expansion Canberra Metro is made up of Pacific between Gungahlin is Over the next generation, Canberra will Partnerships; CPB Contractors; John deliver its Light Rail Masterplan, extending Holland; Mitsubishi Corporation; Aberdeen expected late this year.” the reach of the system to help shape Infrastructure Investment; Deutsche Bahn the city’s future. The network will boost International and CAF. are due in March; the remaining 11 are to Canberra’s sustainable growth by changing Excepting the colossal Melbourne network follow at the rate of one per week. and improving transport options, settlement and the remarkable survivor that is the Fully low-floor, the air-conditioned patterns and employment opportunities; it is Glenelg line in Adelaide, Australia’s modern 33m-long and 2.65m-wide vehicles are fundamentally about urban renewal. light rail era is comparatively new. This gave designed to carry 207 passengers, 66 seated, A southern projection to Woden has been the particular challenge of obtaining suitably with space for up to four bikes. Maximum selected as the next stage in a sequenced experienced resources with technical operational speed for the five-section units future development of a city-wide network. experience. The heated market and large- is to be 70km/h (43.5mph). Bespoke features Light Rail Stage 2 (LRS2) will create a public scale projects elsewhere in the country has include the layout and livery and local transport ‘spine’ for the city, connecting meant that engagement practices and offers indigenous artist Uncle Jimmy Williams employment hubs, community services and for key personnel and construction resources was involved in the seat fabric design. commuters from the north to the south in an have had to be tailored to meet the market. Another Canberra artist, Hannah Quinlivan, approximate 11km (6.8-mile) expansion. The buoyant Canberra housing and will have her designs incorporated into In May/June 2017 Canberrans were asked development market has also meant that civil platform screens. for their input on these route options and contractors have been nearly fully engaged Ten trams are needed for the expected stop locations. This community feedback on other projects and there have been opening timetable of six-minute headways was included as critical input to the business challenges in enticing local contractors to in the peak (off-peak headways are to be case that is currently being considered by work on the project at competitive prices. 10-15 minutes). This is to be supplemented the ACT Government. The business case Yet the project continues to achieve local by an additional four vehicles which allows includes the precise route, the procurement employment targets, and construction has for maintenance spares, special events and approach, detailed costs estimates, benefits, continued to ramp up to the stage where any increase in service levels to five-minute and economic analysis. there is now a workforce of over 700 staff and headways if demand requires. contractors engaged on a daily basis during Planned operating hours see the first the current phase of construction. service departing Gungahlin at 06.00 FIND OUT MORE Monday to Saturday (08.00 Sunday) and For regular updates on Transport Canberra's Vehicles and operation Alinga Street at 06.00 (08.30 Sunday). light rail projects, visit www.transport.act.gov.au/ Following the arrival of the first CAFUrbos Last services are to leave Gungahlin at 23.00 light-rail-network LRV in December 2017, the second and third Sunday to Thursday and 00.30 (next day)

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N ew road projects are also being undertaken in Newcastle to assist with diversions during construction and leave a legacy of improved connections once the line opens in 2019. Revitalising Newcastle

Sun, sand and light rail N ewcastle is embarking on a new AUD650m investment to rejuvenate the city and tie it more closely together with the beaches the area is famous for – a new light rail line will be the knot that holds it all together.

unny climes and sandy, plentiful and more attractive public spaces are all on and training institution that has five of its beaches typify Newcastle, a the agenda. This programme, combined with 15 campuses in Newcastle), Civic, Crown harbour city in the State of the rapidly growing population, means that Street and Market Street. With a capacity for New South Wales. Located just the city’s current transport offering is deemed up to 1200 passengers/hour, services will run 160km (100 miles) north of Sydney, below standard in terms of connectivity. every 7.5 minutes during peak times. Australia’sS seventh-largest city is a popular This is where light rail will play a key part Following project approval in August destination for those seeking to immerse in taking Newcastle to the next level. 2016, major works began in September 2017 themselves in the nation’s history, as well as under the management of Downer EDI and proving a lure to holidaymakers thanks to its The project the first rails arrived in the city in December. picturesque coastline. , which shares an Construction will progress across ten zones With a population of over 440 000 (around AUD290m (EUR184m) portion of the overall over the next two years, during which time 575 000 for the Greater Newcastle region), the pot for its construction, will run for 2.7km each zone will be temporarily closed to city has its own airport, rail, ferry, bus and (1.7 miles) along the coast and through the traffic. Enhanced bus services and careful coach services – and soon light rail will join the city from Newcastle Interchange at Wickham, traffic planning will therefore be required public transport offering as part of a shake-up a multi-modal transport hub, to Pacific Park in to maintain mobility along this key travel to revitalise the economy, drive urban renewal Newcastle East, a mere 200m from the beach. corridor along the riverfront. and draw people back into the city. Some When it opens in 2019, the new line will CAF is supplying six 32.3m low-floor estimates suggest that the city could grow by follow an existing rail corridor for around Urbos vehicles for the line, options from as much as 15% in the next two decades. 500m (between Wickham and Newcastle Sydney’s Extension (IWE) light This growth and densification will owe stations), before moving onto Hunter and rail contract (for more on this project see page its thanks in part to the NSW Government’s Scott streets – two areas that it is hoped 143). Capacity for each vehicle will be 270. Revitalising Newcastle programme, an will be reinvigorated by light rail’s arrival As the city has further reaching plans, the AUD650m (EUR410m) investment that with new residential, commercial and retail five-section LRVs have been future-proofed seeks to attract more people, businesses developments. to accommodate. Modular by design, any and tourism to the city by transforming the In addition to the western and eastern changes could be incorporated to ensure easy urban core and CBD, and strengthening termini, four further stops will be located integration between stages 1 and 2, and with connections between the city and waterfront. along the route at Honeysuckle (near Hunter catenary-free operation the trams feature The creation of job opportunities, housing Street TAFE – a major vocational education roof-mounted energy storage.

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Newcastle Interchange NOBBY’S HUNTER RIVER BEACH

DEPOT Wharf Road Crown QUEENS NEWCASTLE Hon WHARF eys Street EAST uckle Drive Civic Honeysuckle Hunter Street King Street NEWCASTLE Market King Street Street Pacific CIVIC Park PARK Tyrrel Street Church Street Pacific Street NewcombeTHE Street HILL NEWCASTLE BEACH Watt Street

Depending on the nature of any proposed because the decisions we make now will drive through Aboriginal (Awabakal) land. Further future routes, the LRVs can run up to 70km/h the success of local businesses, tourism and to this, Newcastle saw the first European (43mph), and part of the future-proofing the character of the city.” settlement in 1804 and the new alignment includes enhanced design characteristics runs through historically significant land so any reasonable combination of grade, for both the city and the nation as a whole. stops and speeds can be catered for without “This investment will Located around the new line are significant significant upgrades. archaeological artefacts, including part of The fleet will be stabled and maintained at breathe new life into the Australia’s first rail line which delivered coal a new facility at the Newcastle Interchange to the harbour in the 19th Century. Care is end of the line on the site of the former CBD. A more reliable and therefore being taken to preserve as much of Wickham railway station that closed in this heritage as possible during excavations December 2014. The station building was efficient public transport for the line’s foundations. demolished in May 2017 and work began in system will create a Another consideration – common to earnest on construction of the new light rail most new-build light rail projects – has buildings in February. network that is attractive been the need to relocate thousands The line will be operated by Newcastle of underground utilities, including Transport, a joint venture of Keolis to new users.” telecommunications, gas, electricity, water and Downer EDI under an AUD450m and sewerage. This included replacement of (EUR283m) ten-year combined operating and sections of Newcastle’s century-old sewerage maintenance contract covering the city’s bus Unusual challenges network, which lies up to six metres below and ferry services that began in July 2017. CEO A key consideration during the planning the surface; this involves micro-tunnelling Campbell Mason believes that an integrated and construction of Newcastle’s first light to replace the mains away from the light transport solution across Newcastle will play rail line has been maintaining respect for rail alignment. an important role in the revitalisation of and preserving the city’s rich cultural and the city: “Newcastle is undergoing a major industrial history. The future transformation. This investment in light rail The project has already seen some unusual Already Newcastle is placing an eye on the will breathe new life into the CBD and a more challenges. Foremost, sections of the mainly future, as when the line is completed it will reliable and efficient public transport system twin-track line (in the road median with form the country’s first majority wire-free will create a network that is attractive to new island platforms, reducing to a single-track light rail system: groundbreaking and users… It’s important that we get this right at the eastern Pacific Park terminus) run forward-thinking indeed for a city that has only just taken its first steps in light rail. Six CAF Urbos low-floor The system has been designed so that it can trams have been procured easily be extended, and there are numerous by Transport for NSW as an ideas under consideration as well as proposals option to an existing order for projects and future for expansion of the light regional rail improvements. rail network in Sydney. Revitalising Newcastle The NSW Government’s ‘Future Transport’ plan includes the long-term desire to extend light rail westwards to suburban hubs such as Broadmeadow and onwards to the John Hunter Hospital and Lake Macquarie Transport Interchange; south to Mereweather and Bathers Bay; and north to serve the University and perhaps even as far as the airport. A number of these potential routes include significant engineering challenges such as locations on a ridge line, paralleling major road corridors and running through environmentally sensitive bushland. Any expansion will first be based on customer need and demand – of which the inaugural line will no doubt be a good indicator of the promise of great things to come.

ONLINE RESOURCES For detailed updates and projects timelines see www.revitalisingnewcastle.nsw.gov.au

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he modern tramway in the South Australian city of Adelaide has seen only incremental growth since mass closures in the 1950s and ’60s saw the once extensive networkT reduced to the current single line from the beachside centre of Glenelg to its city terminus in Victoria Square. That may soon all be subject to change, however, as the results of March’s State elections could give the green light for key sections of the major AdeLINK programme that seeks to deliver new lines across the city. A re-assessment of the value of the mostly- reserved track Glenelg line in the early 2000s resulted in a 1.2km (0.75-mile) extension from Victoria Square to North Terrace in October 2007, following infrastructure renewal in 2003-05. At the same time a fare-free service was introduced at both ends of the line. Since then it has grown further north-west Adelaide Flexity 106 (one of 15 of the type delivered between 2005 and 2010) is seen on North Terrace, to its current terminus at the Adelaide ready to turn into King William Street. The truncated Grand Union has double tracks here only. There is a Entertainment Centre, serving the Royal single track from King William Street turning east (no return) and a single track from North Terrace East into Adelaide Hospital en route. Opening in King William Street (south). H. Graalman March 2010, this is also included within the fare-free zone. Election commitments progress”, while Adelaide Airport declared it is The Government of In February 2018 the ruling Labor government “supportive of an affordable light rail service acknowledges challenges in addressing committed to significant tramway expansion between the airport and Adelaide’s CBD”. congestion in Adelaide due to its population if re-elected on 17 March. Downer’s proposal would kick-start the density. As one of the most car-centric cities This includes AUD259m (EUR165m) for WestLINK portion of AdeLINK, terminating in the nation – perpetuated by a prevalence of a route from Adelaide Festival Plaza into outside the airport’s new AUD50m (EUR32m) cheap car parking in the CBD – around 9.3m North Adelaide. This pledge would form the hotel, expected to open later in 2018. It is journeys a year are recorded on the existing first 2km (1.2-mile) stage of ProspectLINK, believed that Downer would work with its line. This represents just 12% of Adelaide’s requiring eight new trams to bolster the current Australian operations partner Keolis to 74.7m annual public transport trips. network and reinstate service along O’Connell generate a return by operating the line as part Street for the first time in over 60 years. of the Adelaide Metro network under a 30-year Trams to the East End It would also form part of the free travel zone. PPP contract with the State Government. Mid-January 2018 saw the reopening of The other pledge is an AUD279m Should talks with the SA Government be the intersection of North Terrace and King (EUR178m) continuation further eastwards successful, Downer proposes to begin work William Street after a two-week period of from East Terrace to Norwood. Work on both after finishing the East End extension. 24-hour works to lay tracks and resurface the lines could begin in late 2018 and would roads for the ‘East End Extension’. A new take about two years to complete, according part-Grand Union is one element of an to incumbent South Australia Premier Jay AUD80m (EUR51m) project that includes Weatherill. He said: “South Australian jobs WHAT IS ADELINK? 1km (0.6 miles) of twin tracks heading are our number one priority which is why a The Government of South Australia’s Integrated eastwards on North Terrace, including re-elected Labor Government will expand our Transport and Land Use Plan (updated in 2017) three new stops, and a 350m northern tram network to North Adelaide – supporting proposed the following routes for investigation: route along King William Road to the an average 133 construction jobs a year.” Adelaide Festival Plaza precinct. PortLINK: Conversion of the Outer Harbor rail line into a tram service to Port Adelaide and Grange, The project is being delivered by a joint PPP west to the airport? and new lines to West Lakes and Semaphore. venture of Downer EDI Works and its South In a separate development, a privately-funded EastLINK: A line along The Parade to Magill. Australian partner York Civil. The majority of 6km (3.7-mile) line to the airport, costing up WestLINK: Henley Beach Road to Henley Square, the works are complete and it is hoped that to AUD500m (EUR320m), has been proposed with a branch to Adelaide Airport. The Glenelg the new line can open in the coming months. by the , lodging an unsolicited line will also be upgraded as part of WestLINK. To cater for the expansion, a further bid with the State Government to finance, ProspectLINK: Northwards along Prospect three Alstom Citadis 302 trams have been build and operate the link in December 2017. Road and O’Connell Street. purchased from Madrid for a reported The route would be a further spur from the UnleyLINK: Unley Rd and Belair Rd to Mitcham. AUD9m (EUR5.7m). The 32.3m five-section North Terrace route, near the Royal Adelaide CityLINK: A loop along the Morphett Street, Sturt cars are effectively ‘as new’ having never Hospital, connecting West Terrace, Henley Street, Halifax Street and Frome Street corridors, been required for passenger service (despite Beach Road and Airport Road. with transfers available from other tram lines delivery to the Spanish capital in 2007) and Transport Minister Stephen Mullighan said and railway stations. with six ex-Madrid Citadis already in service in January that the proposal would “need to For more detail, see www.transportplan.sa.gov.au the move also offers fleet consistency. offer something unique and innovative to

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Existing and new light rail resources systems form part of the New South Wales Government’s AUSTRALIA factfile long-term transport No. Sydney, plan – ‘Sydney’s 126 Australia Rail Future’. Sydney

plaque set in the 1961. The last service left Hunter Street Past, present car ownership has put significant pavement near Bennelong terminus in the city centre. Running and future: An L1 commuter traffic onto the roads. Point commemorates with passengers to La Perouse on the service approaches However, the inherent limitations of a tram depot that once edge of Botany Bay, the stock then Central Station heavy rail or roads for meeting local on old tramway stood nearby – the site left for Randwick depot. Parts of the transport needs in a highly developed infrastructure on Ais now much better known for being area covered by that last public service 13 October 2017, area prompted public sector authorities the location of Sydney Opera House. and a new facility not far from the passing over works to re-assess light rail’s role. Closed in 1955, Fort Macquarie depot old depot site are now being readied for the new CSELR. was part of a network of tramways with for Sydney’s second modern light rail Sydney Central The return of trams 290km (181 miles) of route in 1933. line, projected to open during 2019 Business District is Sydney is the capital of New South Trams were present on Sydney (although delays may see this as 2020). in the background Wales (NSW), the government of Harbour Bridge from the opening in The population of metropolitan beyond Belmore which administers public transport. Park. 1932 until being removed to increase Sydney, now at around five million, Formed in 2011, the executive body road space in 1958. This cut-back spreads over a wide area reflecting Transport for New South Wales has exemplified a different approach to years of sprawl outwards rather than promoted a cohesive network identity. that of the long-standing rival city upwards, particularly when land was This was soon exemplified by the of Melbourne in Victoria state that readily available and affordable by requirement for bus contract holders claims “...the largest operating tram many. A long-established electrified to adopt a common livery. Since network in the world with 250km suburban railway provides intensive April 2013, suburban rail has been [155 miles] of double track”. services with double-deck stock. Words and images branded as , with longer- Sydney’s tramway electrification Whether between the suburbs and by Neil Pulling distance services distinguished as NSW that began in 1893 was complete by the centre or amongst commercial unless otherwise TrainLink. It also regulates ferries, a 1910; the system closed on 25 February areas around the conurbation, high stated. significant part of the network, serving

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THE FLEET

Sydney’s first modern tram fleet comprised seven 28m AdtranzVariotram vehicles (2101-07) assembled at the former /ABB works in Dandenong, Victoria. With one withdrawn for use as spares, it was decided to replace them all rather than rebuild and have a long-term mixed fleet. As a stop-gap measure until new Urbos 3 stock became fully available, manufacturer CAF helped to facilitate a deal for four Urbos 2 vehicles to be brought in from Spain: three (2108-10) were leased from the suspended Vélez-Málaga system, and one (2111) from Seville. As 105, this was previously used to test CAF’s ACR fast-charge accumulator system. L1 uses 12 five-sectionUrbos 3 trams numbered 2112-24 (there is no 2113), the numbers being abbreviated to two digits on vehicle ends. CAF identifies a capacity for 271 at six passengers/m2. Built in Zaragoza, Spain, these vehicles were received between December 2013 and May 2015. There was an overlap with outgoing Variotrams (final service May 2015) and Urbos 2 vehicles, the latter withdrawn by July 2014. The 32.9m, 2.65m-wide Urbos 3 is fully low-floor and air conditioned. The first of the 60 AlstomCitadis X05 ordered for CSELR was officially presented at Randwick on 1 August 2017. Six Urbos 3 trams are also on order for NSW’s light rail project in Newcastle (see page 138 for more). Similar models are being supplied for the new Canberra system in the Australian Capital Territory (see page 136). ABOVE: Urbos 3 2114 nears Paddy’s Markets stop in the Chinatown area.

ABOVE: New housing near Lewisham West on the Dulwich Hill section, which opened in 2014.

LEFT: The L1 Central tramstop extends from Sydney Central Grand Concourse.

BELOW: City-bound 2122 arrives at the elevated Taverners Hill stop.

“Trams were present on from 1932 until their removal to increase road space in 1958.”

One of four CAF Urbos 2 trams briefly leased from Spanish systems, The former goods railway viaduct between Glebe and stops Vélez-Málaga 102 as Sydney 2109 at Glebe on 12 May 2014. Clare Pulling stretches for a total of 274m and was converted for light rail use in 1996.

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many points around the multi-inlet Port Jackson. This incorporates Sydney Harbour and the River, which extends west into an area undergoing high population growth. Construction for a tentative return of trams began in early 1996. Despite a short history, this operation that began as a private venture has used three tram types and accumulated several titles. Originally as Sydney Light Rail, then Metro Light Rail, the service opened with 3.6km (2.2 miles) in August 1997. Acquisition by NSW in 2012 and extension saw it gain the designation in reference to the ABOVE: The old tramway is commemorated near area served; the Dulwich Hill line name Sydney Opera House. arrived with the final extension to a terminus in the south-west of the city. It is designated L1 in the context of the wider network. In a family of colour-themed NSW mode symbols, a white L in a red circle denotes light rail; T in an orange circle is used for trains. LEFT: The latest generation of suburban stock, A-set ‘Waratah’ at Milsons Point. ABOVE: Tram 2121 awaits access to the Central ramp. A nearby tramstop and tracks were The viaduct carries trains using the through-platforms on the removed to increase road space on the east side of Central Station. northern bridge ramp.

Circular Quay

Grosvenor Street

Wynyard John Street The Star Square Pyrmont Bay Queen Victoria Building Bay Fish Market Convention Centre Lilyfield Town Hall Leichhardt North Wentworth Park DEPOT

Jubilee Park Exhibition Chinatown Centre Glebe Hawthorne Capitol Square Paddy’s Markets Rawson Place Central Station Marion Central Station

Taverners Hill Surry Hills

Lewisham West Moore Park

Waratah Mills

Arlington

Dulwich Grove Carlton Street Alison Road

DEPOT Todman Avenue Dulwich Hill Wansey Road

UNSW Anzac Parade UNSW High Street

Randwick Strachan Street

Kingsford

Airport

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O riginal electric system: 1898-1961 Lin es: 1 L ength: 12.7km (7.9 miles) D epots: 1 S tops: 23 A pprox. weekday hours, L1: 05.30-23.00 M ain line frequency: 8-10 minutes G auge: 1435mm P ower: 750V dc, overhead supply F leet, L1: 12 CAF Urbos 3 O perator: www.transdevsydney.com.au N etwork: www.transport.nsw.gov.au C ivic and visitor information: www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au T ourist information: www.australia.com

At the eastern (city) end of the first section to open, trams re-used a loop of original tramway around at the south of the Central Business District (CBD). A clockwise single-track circuit includes ramps to serve the upper level of Sydney Central, the track level of the station’s terminus platforms. After descending the westerly ramp to street level, and becoming double-track, trams pass through the Chinatown district of Haymarket, the original name of Paddy’s Markets stop. This is a reference to the market halls that, like much of this area, are popular with locals and tourists. Nearby, the track leaves the roadway when it joins the course of a former goods railway. The line had been part of the infrastructure supporting industry former Harbourside station remains; ABOVE: Pyrmont a stop that previously had a monorail and docks along the harbour’s south the 3.6km (2.2-mile) monorail circuit depot alongside station overhead. shore. It is that old line’s service role opened in 1988. Lack of patronage L1 tracks near West of Wentworth Park stop, the that explains the circuitous progress led to a state buyout of the company Convention Centre. limit of the 1997 opening, L1’s heavy Using an elevated of trams around the peninsula west of in 2012, enabling redevelopment traverser, the rail origins become more obvious with the redeveloped . following closure in June 2013. Tightly monorail system’s such structures as the brick viaduct The route was next to Sydney’s hemmed in, L1’s Pyrmont depot is depot was nearby. across the park, Glebe tunnel and hefty monorail between Paddy’s Markets parallel to revenue track between girder bridges. Near Jubilee Park stop, and near where the Exhibition Centre and Convention, the Rozelle tram depot that closed in

LEFT: Trams once passed either side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s eastern pylons. The brackets with ornamental lights were used to support the overhead power lines.

RIGHT: Viewed towards Exhibition Centre, 2115 is about to join the road near Powerhouse technology museum. Ahead of the tram, the alignment becomes linear park.

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1958 was converted to Tramsheds, air routes and Circular Quay station a market and restaurant complex, opening in 1956, it became more of a opening in 2016. A preserved R1 tram city interchange, and now hosts trains, on display is identified as being used in buses and ferry quays. Trams are to Sydney’s final public service in 1961. return to the station’s landward Adding 5.6km (3.5 miles) up to side on Alfred Street when it the limit of available trackbed, trams becomes the northern terminus for the reached Lilyfield in August 2000; in under-construction CBD and South a restricted and covered location, East Light Rail (CSELR) project. this is the only L1 stop with an In late 2014, the consortium . With the main line Connecting Sydney (later ALTRAC) connection severed, the final addition won the contract to finance, design, ABOVE: Wentworth Park opened BELOW: Next to Lilyfield L1 with a single platform, being doubled stop, the new maintenance was to Dulwich Hill, which opened as build and operate the next Sydney for the westwards extension. depot site in October 2017. the western tram limit on 27 March light rail project, then valued at 2014. There is a single platform about AUD2.1bn (EUR1.45bn – 2014 rates). a 100m walk from Dulwich Hill station The consortium included Acciona on the Sydney Trains T3 (civil works), Alstom (rolling stock and Line. Upgrading of earlier stops brought systems), Transdev (operations and all of the line up to the standard set by maintenance) and Capella Capital. the Dulwich Hill extension. With the NSW Government favouring As well as L1’s non-passenger railway integration of extant and future origins limiting the scope for parallel light rail operations, ALTRAC added foot- and cyclepaths, it also required responsibility for Inner West Light Rail major works to create accessible stops. (L1) in July 2015. Fares go to Transport There is new residential development for New South Wales. along the route and tram frequencies Similar in length to L1 at 12km have increased to a mainly eight-minute (7.5 miles), the 19-stop, bi-directional weekday service. Subject to space, the CSELR is a much more ambitious carriage of cycles and surfboards is scheme. A higher proportion will be allowed. Most L1 services run end-to- road-based, including where it passes end, being timetabled for around 36 through Sydney’s most intensively minutes. The longest operating hours developed area. Identified by the are on the eastern section between NSW Government as “the highest Central and John Street Square/The Star concentration of people and jobs in that covers many leisure venues. Australia,” the CBD spreads south of Circular Quay as far as Central Station. CSELR The traditional business and retail Around the inlet between the Opera heart, it is now also the country’s main House and Sydney Harbour Bridge, financial centre. Modern high-rises and Circular Quay is unlike these other a historic structures line the narrow Australian icons in that it is about to streets; this helped the selection of the once more host trams. Sydney Cove, broad George Street – as used by the the site of Circular Quay, saw original tramway – for the district’s early landings by non-Indigenous CSELR thoroughfare. Between Circular ABOVE: Randwick Stabling Yard on 13 October 2017. The line's first Australians. It became symbolic of Quay and Bathurst Street about 2km Citadis X05 is just visible to centre-right behind the blue mobile lift. arrivals and departures, bound up with (1.2 miles) of Alstom’s ground-based BELOW: Alstom’s APS power supply system being installed along immigration and wartime service. APS system is being installed, with George Street in the CBD. With the ascendance of long-distance some parts becoming a pedestrian zone. Overhead supply will be used elsewhere. In this area where the new tramline shadows Sydney Trains’ underground route, there will be eight stops between and including Circular Quay and Central Station. As well as the CSELR Central stop, Rawson Place will serve the opposite side of the station’s considerable span. At ground level, a spur at the George Street/Hay Street intersection will allow stock transfers. After passing beneath the L1 ramps, from Central the CSELR passes through the suburb of Surry Hills. A 500m tunnel takes the line under Moore Park and Anzac Parade; it parallels this wide avenue on a dedicated right of way. The Allianz Stadium and Sydney Cricket Ground will be served by the “The first dynamic testing on the new tramline began on 22 February.”

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essential facts L ocal travel: NSW’s Opal system for public transport in the Greater Sydney area is explained on www.opal.com.au. If arriving by air and wishing to use Opal for onward travel, cards may be bought at the Sydney Airport International and Domestic stations. Customer Service Centres are located at Sydney Central Grand Concourse and Circular Quay near Wharf 5. Opal machines are sited at L1 stops. Opal single trip tickets are available, but at a higher cost than the card counterpart. With distance-based and tap-in/tap-out charging, Opal CSELR, which splits to two branches GlebeTop: Station and Capitol Square/Chinatown. covers train, bus, ferry and light rail further south. The core frequency Tunnel, listed A large facility is being built on the services, but currently does not handle should be four minutes, with eight for by NSW Office of north side of the L1 Lilyfield stop mixed-mode journeys. On Sundays each branch. Environment and to meet the L1 and CSELR heavy the total fare is capped at AUD2.60 Heritage as “an (for other days it is AUD15.40), ideally Taking central road space, the line important relic of maintenance needs. This arrangement along Anzac Parade will pass through will see X05 stock running empty suited to longer trips such as to the the inner-city freight Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Hunter, Kensington and end in Kingsford. between Lilyfield and the George system.” Illawarra and Southern Highlands. The easterly branch using Alison Road Street/Hay Street connection. passes Royal Randwick Racecourse, Above left: The first dynamic testing on the What is there to see? With notable another sporting venue generating A location that new line began on Alison Road in views and including the Opera House, high short-term loadings. The terminus formerly hosted Randwick on 22 February. Harbour Bridge and The Rocks, the greatest concentration of leading will be at the eastern end of Randwick trams and will do so again with the attractions spreads from the Royal High Street. Unlike L1 where the CSELR project, Botanic Garden westwards to Darling old alignment minimised terrain Circular Quay The Sydney Metro project is currently Harbour. Themed self-guided walking variations, the CSELR is more subject Railway Station Australia’s biggest public transport routes are listed on the Sydney City to undulating locations. opened with the City scheme. A 66km (41-mile) line with website. Taking ferries along the The main storage space is under Circle line in 1956. 31 stations, it will have driverless Parramatta and to Manly give an construction between the racecourse automatic operation. Due to open in appreciation of the east-west spread. and Doncaster Avenue. Randwick Above right: 2019, the initial 36km (23-mile) phase Bondi and Manly are perhaps the Stabling Yard will also carry out light Dynamic testing on runs north-west from Chatswood best-known city beaches. Sydney Harbour Bridge has walkways maintenance on the line’s Alstom the Sydney Metro based on conversion of the modern began in February; in on both sides; there are charges for Citadis X05 fleet. Sydney is to be the the coming months Epping to Chatswood link line. the Pylon Lookout and Bridge Climb. first operator of the type, using this will extend to The system will also provide 4000 new Sydney Tower Eye observation deck five-section trams running as pairs – Cudgegong Road park-and-ride spaces. is located above the CBD Westfield the 67m long formations offer capacity Station before trials The first of the six-car Alstom shopping centre. Sydney Tram for 450 passengers. Despite some through the new Metropolis trains was delivered from museum, with an extensive collection common features and shared support twin 15km tunnels India in September 2017. South of of Australian tramcars and a few facilities, L1 and CSELR will operate as between Bella Vista Chatswood, the new line will extend overseas examples, is near Loftus station in south Sydney – separate passenger services. The closest and Epping. Courtesy beneath the harbour and the CBD, of Sydney Metro www.sydneytramwaymuseum.com.au. interchanges will be around Central and have a new Central Station

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Promoting the interchange. West of Sydenham and the new system, estimated to cost The first 12km (7.5-mile) stage will future Sydney Metro including Dulwich Hill (where the L1/ AUD12bn (EUR7.65bn). connect Westmead to Carlingford service at the site of station transfer is due for upgrading), via Parramatta CBD. Joining this station in the suburban tracks will be converted route, a more easterly 9km (5.7-mile) the CBD. for metro use as far as Bankstown. Upon A city in its own right and a focus of second phase will extend south completion, Chatswood-Bankstown economic activity, Parramatta is about of the to Sydney services are expected to start in 2024. 20km (12.5 miles) west of central Olympic Park, created for the 2000 The NSW Government has Sydney. A near-54% increase from Summer Olympics and due for new awarded Northwest Rapid Transit 2018 is forecast to take Parramatta’s developments. consortium (John Holland, UGL Rail population to 387 000 by 2036. Contracts to build, operate and and CPB Contractors responsible for The Parramatta Light Rail project maintain the first stage should be construction, with MTR Corporation (www.parramattalightrail.nsw.gov.au) is awarded during 2018, with five and UGL responsible for operations intended to support the development consortia shortlisted in late 2017. and maintenance) a 15-year contract of Sydney’s second CBD and other Public services by trams with capacity of for operations, trains and systems for growth around the western suburbs. around 300 are expected in 2023.

LEFT: The Carlingford first phase of the Parramatta Light Rail project.

RIGHT: Harbourside station, a remnant of the Telopea near Pyrmont Bay L1 stop. Cumberland Hospital Factory Street Dundas Children’s Hospital at Westmead Fennell Westmead Street Hospital Prince Alfred Westmead Square Rydalmere Station Eat Street Parramatta Square Camellia Tramway Street Avenue DEPOT

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ARGENTINA BELGIUM BUENOS AIRES. Metro authority ANTWERPEN. It has been SBASE has issued tenders for confirmed that double-ended ex- a 12-year contract to operate Gent PCCs are to be used on line and maintain the system from 12 (Sportpaleis – Melkmarkt) on a 1 January 2019. A decision should temporary basis. be made in October. At present the Tuesday 20 February was a bad system is operated by Metrovias day for De Lijn and its PCC fleet. under a concession awarded Firstly there was a head-on collision by the national government. RGI between a coupled PCC set led by 7107 on line 10 and an articulated AUSTRALIA bus at Deurne. Then a couple of ADELAIDE. The newly-arrived hours later at Wommelgem P+R Alstom Citadis trams are 207-9 another set on line 8 derailed, with (ex-Madrid 150/4/5). To make 7163 ending up on its side. T-2000 room at the depot, H class BRUXELLES/BRUSSELS. trams 351/2 were transferred to The last rails were laid for the off-site storage. TW new line 9 (Hauts de Jette – Simonis) MELBOURNE. B1 articulated on 23 January. tram 2001 has been withdrawn, Tram testing has started on Sydney’s new tramway, which is being supplied joining sister car 2002 in store. TA BRAZIL with Alstom Citadis X05 trams. Alstom SYDNEY. The first testing of an SÂO PAULO. On 23 January Alstom Citadis on Alison Rd at Higienópolis-Mackenzie station on the Expo and Millennium lines by 24 January to 10 February due to Moore Park took place on 22 metro opened. urbanrail.net the end of 2019; half of this order record water levels in the River February. However construction has been brought forward from Seine. TR consortium ALTRAC is behind CANADA 2024 to provide continuity of work SAINT-ÉTIENNE. After 26 schedule for building the CSELR EDMONTON. A mock-up of the at Bombardier’s La Pocatiere plant years of service, the Alstom-Vevey line, with just 14km (8.7 miles) of low-floor Bombardier tram for the in Montréal. D. M. Johnston trams 901/3/4/10/1 have been the 24.7km (15.3 miles) of track Valley line was unveiled at Bonnie withdrawn. lineoz.net laid in February, and is considered Doon shopping centre in early CZECH REPUBLIC unlikely to meet the April 2019 February. The first car should be BRNO. DPMB has sold two GEORGIA prediction for opening. delivered in July, with testing Tatra RT6N trams to Poznan in TBILISI. Fourteen were injured Dynamic testing of the first of scheduled for September. Passenger Poland – 1801/2 were sold for at the end of January when the 22 six-car Alstom metro trains for service is planned to start on 15 CZK510 000 (EUR20 000) each and ceiling at Warketili metro station the 23km (14.3-mile) Chatswood– December 2020. Edmonton Journal will be refurbished by Modertrans collapsed. The 1980s station had started from OTTAWA. The new opening before entering service. infotram been renovated in 2017. infotram Rouse Hill depot in early February. date for the 12.5km (7.8-mile) Passenger service should Confederation light rail is FRANCE GERMANY start in the first half of 2019. RGI 2 November. Rideau Transit AVIGNON. Councillors have BERLIN. Siemens failed in its Group is reportedly facing no agreed to extend the initial challenge to the direct award of AUSTRIA financial penalty for handing over tramline by 3.5km (2.2 miles) a contract for 20 new four-car INNSBRUCK. The tramway the line six months late. CBC to Porte St-Lazare (P+R). This U-Bahn trains to Stadler on section between Leipziger Platz and MONTRÉAL. STM will be should open in 2023 at a cost of ‘emergency’ grounds. rbb24 Roseggerstrasse, which has been provided with two additional EUR60m. lineoz.net BOCHUM-GELSENKIRCHEN. operating along Pradler Strasse Azur metro trains by the Alstom/ NICE. The first stage of tramline From 5 February the headway on for 107 years, ceased to be used Bombardier consortium to make 2 will open on 30 June, between line 302 between Gelsenkirchen from 5 March. Route 3 reversed at up for late deliveries. D. Drum Cadam and Magnan, and the line Hbf and Buer Rathaus was reduced Leipziger Platz for about ten days, TORONTO. Bombardier has will reach Aéroport in September. to every five minutes between with bus replacement to and from told the TTC that it is setting up The underground section from 06.00 and 19.00. This increased Amras, while new track in Amraser a second tram production line, at Magnan to Jean Medecin will open the tram run-out by six vehicles. Strasse was connected. R. Deacon its Kingston, ON, plant, to speed on 30 June 2019, and be extended to This is a pilot project to see if JENBACH – MAYRHOFEN. up deliveries with all 204 cars on Port Lympia in September. The end better public transport leads to The 750mm-gauge Zillertalbahn the property by the end of 2019. of 2019 should see the first section an improvement in air quality has abandoned electrification Car 4466 was delivered on of inaugurated between in the area. Park-and-ride will be plans in favour of hydrogen fuel 21 February, but its trolley pole the Aéroport and St-Isidore. available at VELTINS-Arena. cell-powered EMUs. A prototype became untethered during the The first of the 25 new 44m ERFURT. Bids closed on 5 March is under construction from a rail freight movement from Alstom Citadis X05 t ra ms for the supply of 14 40m low-floor withdrawn ÖBB class 4090 EMU. Thunder Bay and was damaged (1029-53) arrived on 10 February trams, with an option for a further If this is successful a new series will on passing infrastructure, as were and was put on public display at ten. Delivery of the first 14 is be acquired by 2022. IRJ other roof components. Trams the Charles Gineesy depot near required in 2020-21. IRJ WIEN – BADEN (WLB). The from 4461 onwards should have Cadam. Six will be available for GOTHA. The six-month closure tender for 18 new LRVs has been had just pantographs, but the service by 30 June. I. M. Nicol of the Hbf – Hersdorferstrasse restarted after the original exercise overhead conversion programme PARIS. Twenty MP14 five-car section of tramway started on attracted just one bid. The number is so far behind schedule that rubber-tyred metro trains have 1 March, with lines 1 and 4 of trams in the new framework new cars are continuing to arrive been ordered from Alstom in a diverted to Ostbahnhof, and contract has been increased to fitted with both trolley poles contract worth EUR157m. They suspended. DS 34 (18+16 options). Delivery is and pantographs. D. Drum will be used on line 11, which is to HALLE. The new tramstop and required to start in 2020. EB VANCOUVER. A contract has be extended from Mairue de Lilas bus interchange at Südstadt, been signed with Hyundai Rotem to Rosny-Bois-Perrier. The order is Veszpremer Strasse, for lines 1 and AZERBAIJAN to supply 24 automated light metro part of a framework agreement that 2, was brought into use from 5 BAKU. An order has been placed cars for the Canada line in 2019- has already seen 55 trains ordered. February. DS with Metrovagonmash for two 20; the new cars promise a 30% RER line C was closed between HAMBURG. Tenders have been five-car metro trains, with delivery capacity increase. At the same time Gare d’Austerlitz and Champ invited for the supply of 120- this year. RGI Bombardier will supply 56 cars for de Mars/Boulainvilliers from 200 metro cars, 90 type A cars

150 / APRIL 2018 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org for automated operation on the The Department of Infrastructure new line U5 and 70-110 type F (DoI) has engaged specialist cars for conventional driver-only advisors to determine what operation (with an option up to changes can be made to modernise 200) for existing lines U1-U4. Type SMR safety systems; the last F cars would be delivered from re-equipment was in the 1970s. 2024 and type A from 2028. IRJ Regular meetings between KASSEL. The revised tram route the Health and Safety at Work network was to come into effect Inspectorate and DoI in advance of on 25 March with the following the season are hoping to identify services: 1, Wilhelmshöhe – how to introduce new technology Vellmar; 2, Baunatal – Brückenhof without compromising historical (school service only); 3, integrity. The HSWI served a Mattenberg – Ihringhäuser Strasse; prohibition notice on the SMR’s 4, Druseltal – Hessisch Lichtenau; operation following last year’s 5, Baunatal – Holländische Strasse; tram ‘runaway’. 6, Brückenhof – Ihringhäuser Strasse; 7, Mattenberg – Wolfsanger; ITALY 8, Hessenschanze – Kaufungen BRESCIA. State railway FS is (Papierfabrik). to invest EUR150m to build a The ex-Rostock low-floor trailers tramline that will replace bus line Now in its third country of operation, this Swiss-built bogie car came to Romania will be introduced on line 6. 2 between Pendolina in the north- from Stern & Hafferl in Austria to relaunch tramway operation at Rasinari in Sibiu, KÖLN (Cologne). The 15th west suburbs and Pala Eib in the Romania. C. Misinger rebuilt Stadtbahn-B LRV, 2405 south-west via the city centre and (ex-2105) entered service on the main station. No timescale has ROTTERDAM. Fifty years of four-car trains. The Department 15 February. DS been given for the project. RGI metro operation was marked on of Transportation has hired a MÜLHEIM/Ruhr. Stadtbahn-M CAGLIARI. The Sardinian 9 February by the display of restored German TÜV company to assess trams 283/9/90/3 were dispatched Government has announced original car 5024 at Station Blaak. the fleet to determine their fate. to the Romanian city of Iaşi on an investment of EUR60.1m for The fleet now consists of 5301-63, Voith is to replace traction and 25 January. DS construction of a tram extension 5401-18, 5501-22, 5601-42 and auxiliary inverters and vehicle WÜRZBURG. The city council from Vesalio to Quartucciu 5701-22 (the last batch destined control systems on 24 LRVs dating has agreed to replace the complete Centro Commerciale Le Vele. RGI for the line to Hoek van Holland). from 1999 that operate on LRT-1. tram fleet in 2021-28, with a tender FIRENZE. The firstSirio tram for digitaletram.nl, OR The LRVs date from 1999. Voith about to be issued for 41 low-floor the 4.1km (2.5-mile) line T3 (a 32m UTRECHT. Construction of will start work at the end of the 36m cars. The order is expected to double-ended car) was delivered on the Uithof line has been further year and expects to complete the be worth EUR65m. The system’s 9 February. Seven trams should run delayed by the need to rebuild upgrades by 2020. Manila Times, IRJ last new trams were delivered in on the line to Careggi hospital this track foundations in the station 1996, and high-floor Düwag cars summer. IRJ area, and opening this year is POLAND can still be seen in peak-hour ROMA. The city council has made no longer feasible. The extra work ŁÓDZ. Interurban tram routes service. It is also planned to extend budget provision of EUR5m towards and the delay will reportedly 45 (Zgierz) and 46 (Ozorkow) the 20km (12.4 miles) system. IRJ the EUR20m cost of a 1.5km (0.9- increase costs by EUR84m. OR were converted to bus operation mile) extension of lines 5 and 14 from 4 February due to conerns INDIA from Piazza Vittorio Emanuele to NEW ZEALAND over infrastructure. This is said MUMBAI. Alstom has been Largo Corrado Ricci via Via dello CHRISTCHURCH. Sydney R to be temporary, and the local awarded the contract for the 25kV Statuto, Via Lanza and Via Cavour. class tram 1808 entered service authorities are trying to raise funds ac electrification of the 33.5km An application for government on the heritage tramway on 25 for repairs to track and overhead. (20.8-mile) north–south metro funding has been made with the December, painted blue and There is also the possibility of line 3. Bids for rolling stock were hope that construction can take cream and renumbered 1888. applying for EU funding for to be opened on 21 March. RGI place in 2019-21. A second phase The car is on a long-term lease from complete reconstruction. infotram of the project will take trams to the Sydney transport museum. TW OLSZTYN. The tender for 12 IRELAND Piazza San Marco. new doubled-ended trams, with DUBLIN. The National Transport SASSARI. EUR31.6m has been NORWAY an option for 12 more, attracted Authority and the city council are allocated for a new tram depot OSLO. Work has started on a new just one bid, from the Turkish to discuss traffic light sequencing and the purchase of three tram depot at Holtet, which will be company Durmazlar which bid to relieve city centre congestion. additional trams. RGI ready to receive the first 43 cars of PLN98.3m (EUR23.5m). infotram There have also been calls to TRIESTE. The regional council the new tram fleet from early 2020. WROCŁAW. The first of 40 make College Green a no-go area has made a grant of EUR3.1m Modertrans Moderus Beta MF24AC for non-Luas transport. The Cross- to secure the re-opening of the PHILIPPINES partly 27% low-floor trams, 2902, City line’s opening has seen more Opicina tramway, closed since an MANILA. The 48 LRVs delivered was delivered on 19 February, passengers than anticipated and accident in August 2016. EB in 2016-17 by CRRC Dalian for introducing a new design with LED with the delivery of longer trams orbital LRT line MRT-3 have been lighting and a new drive system the service is likely to be improved LUXEMBOURG found to be currently unusable with AC motors. At the unveiling from 22 to 40 trams per hour. The LUXEMBOURG. The new due to being overweight (49 700kg it was stated that the city has an first of the 55mCitadis 502 trams tramway is exceeding predictions, instead of specified 46 300kg) and option for a further 50 cars. infotram entered service on 7 February. with up to 17 000 passengers/day incompatible with the signalling NTA research conducted in recorded compared with pre- system. DOTr-MRT3 is reportedly PORTUGAL Autumn 2017 shows 98% of Luas opening estimates of 8400/day. seeking a full refund on the PORTO. Metro do Porto is testing customers are satisfied with the Luxemburger Wort contract (PHP3.769bn/EUR59m). longitudinal seating on one of its tram service, beating all other It is also seeking to ban the Chinese Eurotram LRVs in order to increase transport providers in Ireland. NETHERLANDS builder from future contracts. capacity on lines D and E. If DEN HAAG. The new tramstops at MRT-3 is operated by 72 LRVs successful the remaining 71 cars ISLE OF MAN Station HS were officially opened in 20 three-car trains built in the of this type will be modified. SNAEFELL MOUNTAIN by the mayor on 26 January, Czech Republic in 1996-97 by The annual tram parade will be RAILWAY. The Isle of Man and tram operation returned to CKD-Tatra as type RT8D5, and on 5 May, probably departing from Government expects the railway normal through this area from the Chinese order was intended Massarelos depot between 14.30 to open as planned on 29 March. 29 January. digitaletram.nl to increase capacity by using 20 and 15.00. RGI, M. J. Russell

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ROMANIA will be replaced by 30 articulated IAŞI. CTP Iași has taken delivery cars, ten from Belkommunmash of four modernised M6D trams and 20 from Ust-Katav. N. Semyonov from Mülheim an der Ruhr (283, YEKATERINBURG. Tenders 289, 290, 293) for its metre-gauge have been invited for the network. The trams were purchased construction of a 17km (10.6-mile) in 2017 along with seven M8C express tramline linking the city cars from Essen, one of which has with Verkhnyaya Pyshma, for already arrived in the city. completion in 2020. transphoto.ru CTP Iași has reportedly spent EUR485 000 on the vehicles, SLOVAKIA including transport and spares BR ATISLAVA. Attempts to and is looking to buy a further restore Tatra T3 tram set 7602+7610 nine trams (five M8C and four to reliable operation have not M6D) in 2018. RGI, Curierul Iasi been successful and the cars are withdrawn. Thyristor-equipped RUSSIA trams 7733+7734 of this type INDUSTRY. PK Transportnye remain in service. DS Sistemy of Tver, which is delivering 300 71-931 Vityaz 27.5m THAILAND The first Liberty 70% low-floor cars are arriving for the new Oklahoma City articulated trams to Moskva, has BANGKOK. T h e 3 4 . 5 k m tramway. Brookville announced development of a 19m (21.4-mile) monorail Pink line proposed. The service makes There are now basically single-articulated 71-923 Bogatyr PPP project will be managed by use of the additional platform face two services, with trams from design, with prototypes to be tested a consortium of Egis and Team at Victoria. The early morning Wimbledon operating every five in Sankt Peterburg. N. Semyonov Group. Bombardier is supplying Airport service still terminates at minutes Monday to Saturday KAZAN. The three 28.4m double- 42 Innovia four-car trains. IRJ Deansgate-Castlefield. daytimes to Arena, where the ended BKM-84500K three-section TfGM has apologised for service splits to run every ten articulated trams that were TURKEY disruption on 19 February, after minutes to/from Beckenham assembled in the undertaking’s IZMIR. Test running on the damage to overhead lines at Bury Junction and Elmers End. The New workshops from kits supplied by 12.9km (eight-mile) Konak and Cornbrook closed the network Addington service will run every Belkommunmash entered service tramline started in February; 21 and led to passengers abandoning 7-8 minutes from the Croydon on line 5 from 25 January. RGI Eurotem low-floor trams will be trams and walking beside the track. town centre loop, providing KOLOMNA. Uraltransmash used on this operation. RGI LONDON (DOCKLANDS). direct connections to London is delivering 21 71-407 15.9m An ‘Adopt-a-Station’ trial was Overground and bus services bogie trams. The order is worth UKRAINE launched at Poplar on 15 February. from West Croydon and allowing RUB430.5m (EUR6.25m). RGI LVIV. Plans to buy 30 withdrawn This will utilise space to publicise easy interchange with the other MOSKVA. Rusakov depot is taking Tatra KT4D trams from BVG events, classes and workshops tram service. Two early morning over tram route 25 from Bauman Berlin have been approved by taking place in the local area, trams will continue to operate from depot, and it will be extended the city council. The price is said while also providing a platform for New Addington to Wimbledon. over depot access tracks to offer to be EUR800 000. infotram art and activities. LONDON (UNDERGROUND). passenger service to Matrosskaya LONDON (GENERAL). Transport Kennington station will be closed Tishina prison gates. Bauman UNITED ARAB EMIRATES for London fare income is to Bank branch trains from 26 May depot is operating some peak DUBAI. The hydrogen- projected to fall GBP239m to mid-September. This will allow journeys on (a Rusakov powered Dubai Trolley has not (EUR268m) below expectations construction of four passageways allocation) using articulated trams operated since late December, this financial year, with for the Northern line extension of type 71-931. and suspension is likely to last income from advertising, retail to Battersea, due to open in 2020. On 26 February the 10.5km for months. Meanwhile the and property also GBP160m Bank Station is to undergo a (6.5-mile) section of metro line 11 double-deck tram is displayed on (EUR180m) down. Some 20m GBP600m (EUR673m) revamp. from Delovoy Tsentr to Petrovskiy the depot trackfan. M. J. Russell fewer journeys were made on the New pathways, a new entrance, Park was opened by Mayor Sergei Underground between September and new concourse will be created. Sobyanin. This is part of the UNITED KINGDOM and December last year. So far The Bank branch is unlikely to future 67km (41.6-mile) Large BRISTOL. A pre-feasibility this year, passenger numbers are see Night Tube services until 2022 Circle line. N. Semyonov study is being carried out into a 4% below target. when the upgrade of Bank and PROKOPYEVSK. T he cit y light rail network that would run TfL is to lose the last of its Monument Stations is completed. council has announced that it above ground other than in the Government subsidy to help run NOTTINGHAM. The Rail plans to replace tramlines 3 and city centre. It follows a previous the Tube and bus network, once Accident Investigation Branch 7 with buses in March, but local suggestion for an underground worth GBP700m (EUR785m) has issued urgent safety advice to people have started a petition metro being deemed too a year. London Mayor Sadiq UK operators after a pram became against the move. transphoto.ru ambitious. A light rail route would Khan has also committed to a trapped in tram doors. While the SANKT PETERBURG. The first allow incorporation of part of a fares freeze for four years. The passenger was exiting the vehicle, test runs on the new 14km (8.7- former Midland Railway line into agency also faces the additional the doors closed and caught the mile) reserved track tramway in the network; this is currently a GBP200m (EUR225m) annual cost pram by its plastic rain guard. the Krasnogvardeisky district cycle path. of running the new Elizabeth line The pram was dragged from took place on 31 January from a GREATER MANCHESTER. (Crossrail) services from December. Radford Road to the next stop at temporary depot in Khasanskaya Trafford Bar tramstop is to be Various economies have been Hyson Green Market, while the Ulitsa. Stadler Minsk has delivered re-modelled with a permanent made, including deferring the mother and child were aboard the nine of the 23 Metalitsa low- barrier-based queuing purchase of more new trains. tram trying to alert the driver. floor trams; it is hoped to start system similar to that at Old LONDON (TRAMLINK). A new The RAIB has issued advice to passenger service in March. RGI Trafford station. timetable from 25 February was ensure drivers do not place sole VOLGOGRAD. Ten 15.5m New timetables from to see additional early morning reliance on the door interlock BKM-802 bogie trams with a 37% 28 January saw extension of the services on the New Addington system when deciding whether low-floor central area have been daytime Manchester Airport branch, extra evening services anything outside the tram is ordered from Belkommunmash for service to Victoria, running via on the Beckenham Junction and trapped in the doors, and to carry delivery this year. In readiness for the Market Street line in the city Elmers End branches, and in out a visual check before departing. the 2018 FIFA World Football Cup, centre rather than the Second both the morning and evening on STOURBRIDGE. An exercise the Tatra trams on the light rail line City Crossing as originally the Wimbledon branch. has been undertaken to examine

152 / APRIL 2018 www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org CHARLOTTE, NC. A ribbon- on plans to replace its initial fleet cutting ceremony for the LYNX of type 1 LRVs, dating from 1984-85; Blue line light rail extension took 26 new low-floor type 6 LRVs place on 26 February, with public would enter service in 2021-23. service from 16 March. E. B. Havens The type 1 cars, built FORT LAUDERDALE, FL. City by Bombardier/BN, cost 28% commissioners voted 3-2 in favour more to maintain than later of The Wave tramway project at vehicles and will each have covered their 6 February meeting, keeping two million miles by time of the project on track. E. B. Havens withdrawal. IRJ HUDSON – BERGEN, NJ. The SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Muni). plan to extend the light rail line to F-line PCC 1055 was accepted by North Bergen, Englewood Hospital, Muni on 10 January after returning is being submitted to the North from refurbishment at Brookville Jersey Transportation Planning Equipment Corporation. This Authority for incorporation in its ex-Philadelphia car carries 1948 regional transport plan. J. May Philadelphia livery (green and LOS ANGELES, CA. T he cream with a thin red stripe). groundbreaking ceremony for the The ninth car in the 15-car Line 2 of the Samarkand tramway in Uzbekistan started limited passenger Purple line metro extension from contract returned from Brookville service in February. Hotaru Wilshire/La Cienega to Century in January and was being tested the feasibility of lengthening the expected before the end of March. City/Constellation (4.2km/2.6 in February; 1050 carries red and two-car Parry People Movers This will operate as a pair with miles) took place on 23 February, cream St Louis livery. Class 139 vehicles used on the car 6, leaving refurbished car 4 to with passenger service predicted Car 1063 in Baltimore blue Stourbridge Town branch. The 10m operate as a single unit. for 2025. colours was badly damaged vehicles are currently designed The Brighton line was expected A consortium including Balfour when a truck swerved into its path for high platform use; if stretched to be fully open from the Beatty and Bombardier has been on 3rd St on 1 January. to 14m with bogie running gear, Easter weekend with a 15-minute selected as preferred bidder for a Currently undergoing they could become a 90-passenger daytime service. USD1.95bn 25-year PPP concession refurbishment are 1052/3/61. compact tram-train with the to build and operate a 3.6km (2.2- Next to go east was double-ended design adaptable for low platform USA mile) automated peoplemover at PCC 1015. MSR boarding. ATLANTA, GA. Siemens has Los Angeles International Airport. SEATTLE, WA. Sound Transit SOUTH YORKSHIRE. VolkerRail been selected as the long-term The line should be ready to open saw 47m passengers in 2017, a has been appointed to carry out service provider for the Atlanta in early 2023 and will be worked 10% increase over 2026. The the second phase of Supertram Streetcar, using its Railigent by 44 Bombardier APM cars. RGI Central Link light rail was up 22% rail replacement. The company digital asset management platform MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, MN. to over 23m riders. was also responsible for the first for preventative and corrective Patronage on the Blue light rail Friends of the Benson Trolleys phase of the scheme (2013-15). maintenance of the four S70 line grew by 4% in 2017, while the has revived its campaign for an British Steel, which provided the LRVs it supplied for the route. RGI Green line was up 3.5%. Total engineering study to determine rails for the first phase, will supply BOSTON, MA. The Federal Transit light rail patronage was 23.8m. if the two ex-Melbourne trams the second phase in a separate Administration has released the Patronage on the Northstar in store can be refurbished for contract. first USD100m of the approved line grew by 12% to operation on the new Center Work is due to take place in stages USD1bn for the Green line light 794 000. Bus patronage fell by 2%. City Connector. Five Melbourne until 2020. This year work will be rail extension from Lechmere to About a third of the 63 000 W2 trams ran on the Waterfront focused on the section between Medford, which will be built by fans attending the Superbowl on tramway until 2005; three were Middlewood and Hillsborough, GLX Constructors for USD1.08bn. 5 February used light rail, with sold to St Louis for the Delmar and in the Gleadless – Birley area. The total cost of the project is shuttles between Stadium Village Loop, while the other two remain The intended closure of the outer USD 1.319bn. Work is expected to and Mall of America stopping only in store. section of the Meadowhall line on be complete in 2021. at Downtown East (within the They would need upgraded 24-25 February did not take place; One of the PCCs involved in the stadium security zone). Any non- electrical systems to run on the it had been planned to allow collision at Cedar Grove, 3262, has game passengers were handled by line that is under construction connection of the OLE at Tinsley to been written off, but will provide replacement bus. After the game, to connect the South Lake Union the new Parkgate tram-train line. parts for the rebuild programme. 90 of the 91 LRVs in the fleet were and First Hill tramlines. E. B. Havens TYNE AND WEAR. Nexus Meanwhile a 6.5-minute headway used to handle the departing WASHINGTON, DC. As the is to refurbish three Metro using four cars from the surviving crowds with 30 three-car trains. second year of operation on the stations in North Tyneside to fleet of five (3087/230/54/63/8) is J. DeWitt H St/Benning Rd tramline is improve access. The GBP700 000 in operation. BSRA NASHVILLE, TN. There will be completed, DDoT has revealed (EUR786 000) project was due BUFFALO, NY. On 22 February a referendum on 1 May to enable that difficulties obtaining to start at the end of February at the NFTA board voted to award citizens to express their view on spare parts are leading it to Cullercoats, Monkseaton and a USD4.8m contract to WSP to the mayor’s transit plan, including consider replacing the fleet, thus West Monkseaton. The schemes review environmental and light rail and an expanded also ensuring compatibility with will seek to improve security and engineering design for the planned bus system. E. B. Havens planned extensions. energy efficiency while preserving 11km (6.8-mile) branch of the OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. The The demonstration tramway, original structures. All of the works light rail line from University to first Liberty 70% low-floor tram which is free to ride, has three are being delivered ‘in-house’ by Amherst. USD5m in state funding from Brookville Equipment trams from Czech manufacturer the Nexus Capital Delivery team. has been allocated for the work. IRJ Corporation was delivered on 13 Inekon (built in 2007) and three Cullercoats opened in 1882 BURBANK, CA. A USD200 February, and the second on 25 from United Streetcar (delivered and is among the Metro’s oldest 000 grant from the Southern February. The seven trams being in 2014 from a company no longer stations; the station at Monkseaton California Association of delivered are equipped with trading). E. B. Havens was completed in 1915; and West Governments will permit work batteries for off-wire operation. Monkseaton opened in 1933. to start on planning a modern Dynamic testing will start this UZBEKISTAN VOLK’S ELECTRIC RAILWAY. tramway connecting San summer, ahead of opening of the SAMARKAND. The second The second refurbished car, 6, Fernando Valley destinations 7.4km (4.6-mile) system at the tramline, 5.1km (3.2 miles) from returned from Alan Keef in mid- along Brand and Glenoaks end of the year. E. B. Havens the railway station to Siab Bazaar, February. This leaves car 10 still boulevards to reach Hollywood PORTLAND, OR. TriMet has carried passengers on a trial basis at Alan Keef, with completion Burbank Airport. E. B. Havens launched a public consultation from 3 February. Two Pragoimex

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Vario LF trams shuttle to and on 12 May, and 10.00-12.00/ fro without a fixed timetable, 14.00-18.00 on 13 May. M. J. Russell 06.00-23.00. transphoto.ru LOFTUS (AU). Saturday MEETINGS & EVENTS 2 December saw the launch Compiled by the LRTA. For a full list of the year’s meetings see www.lrta.org MUSEUM NEWS of restored 1903 freight tram BEAMISH (UK). The area to the 24s at the Sydney tramway Mrcha 2018 rilAp 2018 front of the tram depot is being museum. TW Saturday 17. Blackpool Rigby Road Tuesday 3. Southampton 19.30. altered with the construction of depot visit/tram tour: Pre-booking Mark Greening: Hampshire rail from an apron for shunting trams and CONTRIBUTORS essential as space is limited. (TLRS) the 1950s to the 1970s. (LRTA/SEG) turning Colliery bus services. Worldwide items for inclusion Saturday 17. Norfolk 14.00. Phil Monday 9. Liverpool 20.00. Sheffield 264 is likely to be the should be sent to Michael Taplin Carver: Etrams: Trams and models Jim Saunders: Tramway films taken highest mileage car in 2018, with Flat 8, Roxan Villa, 33 Landguard on the internet. Venue: 26 Geoffrey 1980-2002. (TLRS Mersyside) Newcastle 114 and Porto 196 also Manor Rd, Shanklin PO37 7HZ. Road, NR1 3BG (TLRS Norfolk) Monday 9. Thames Valley 19.30. being used as front-line vehicles. Fax: +44 (0)1938 862810 or Saturday 17. Taunton 14.00. Mark Martin Eady: Tramways in German Blackpool 31 is currently being e-mail: [email protected] Blackstone: Rails in Majorca (TLRS) speaking lands: Part two. (TLRS) reassembled; Sunderland 16 is UK and Ireland items are Monday 19. Liverpool 20.00. Sharon Wednesday 11. Brighton 19.40. Dave being re-tyred and should be welcomed by Home Editor, John Brown: Frank Hornby, the British Warren: Germany 40yrs ago. (TLRS) available later in the year. Symons, 17 Whitmore Avenue, inventor of Meccano and Hornby Friday 13. Glasgow 19.30. Alan Binnie: CRICH (UK). Track renewal at Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent, ST9 trains. (TLRS Merseyside) Trains, trams in ’70s Australia. (STTS) Cliffside has taken place over the 0LW, UK. E-mail [email protected] Monday 19. Sheffield 19.30. Andy Saturday 14. Oxford & Chilterns 14.00. winter closure period to address Acknowledgements are due to Barclay: Europe via Peter Fox’s slides. Call 01865 370634 for details. (TLRS) problems with drainage. A Boston Street Railway Association Monday 19. Wickham 19.30. AGM & Saturday 14. Taunton 14.00. Peter former stone-based level crossing (BSRA), CBC News, Curierul Iasi, model/slides comp. (TLRS Solent) Davey: The end of Bristol’s trams. has been replaced by a timber digitaletram.nl, Drehscheibe (DS), Tuesday 20. Leeds 19.00. Mike (One week earlier than usual) (TLRS) crossing to allow for ease of future Eisenbahn (EB), Edinburgh Evening Waring: Amsterdam & Berlin. Saturday 14. West Midlands 14.00 track inspections. News, Edmonton Journal, infotram, Tuesday 20. London. 19.00. Eddie General modelling meeting. (TLRS) LILLE (FR). To mark its 50th Irish Times, International Rail Journal Dawes: London Trams in WWII. Monday 16. Sheffield 19.30. Robert Friday 23. Leicester 20.00. Pritchard: St Petersburg by tram. anniversary, the AMITRAM (IRJ), lineoz.net, Luxemburger Wort, Brian Edwards: New Zealand. (TMS) Monday 16. Wickham 19.30. Terry museum group is holding an Manchester Evening News, Manila Friday 23. Edinburgh 19.30. George Chase: Poetry in motion. (TLRS Solent) open day at its off-site workshop Times, Market Street Railway Lowder: Transport for Edinburgh. Tuesday 17. Leeds 19.00. Mel Reuben: at Rue Lavoisier (at the limits (MSR), Nottingham Evening Post, Saturday 24. Garstang 14.00. Vernon Hong Kong Trams. of the communities Marquette Op de Rails (OR), rbb24, Railway Linden: Manchester & Salford. (TLRS) Tuesday 17 London 19.00. Alan and St-Andre, bus 14 to Pont Gazette International (RGI), Tram Thursday 29. Manchester 19.00. Pearce: Kiwi Electric Review 2017. l’Abbé). A shuttle bus will provide 2000 (T-2000), Transit Australia Mark Ovenden: Metrolink @ 25. Saturday 21. Garstang 14.00. Visit services between the workshop (TA), Today’s Railways (TR), Saturday 31. Beeston 14.00. Bruce to Festival of Model Tramways at and the tram depot/museum line. transphoto.ru, Trolley Wire (TW) MacCormick: From the Archive. (TLRS) Manchester Boyle St depot. (TLRS) Opening times are 14.00-18.00 and urbanrail.net.

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How is removing overhead wires for diesel-hybrid progress? Beginning in 1984, officials in the Ministry of Transportation, As for retrofitting the current trolley fleet with some hybrid politicians and some management personnel at the Hamilton drive system, that too is a dubious upgrade. Unless this can be Street Railway (HSR) set a course to end the trolley service in entirely roof-mounted or placed underfloor it will intrude into Hamilton and Toronto, Ontario. In Hamilton the wires finally the passenger compartment and reduce capacity. It will also came down ten years later in 1994. The article on Wellington add substantial weight, resulting in additional wear and tear (TAUT 961) was therefore déjà vu all over again for me. on the road surface. It will also be more complex to maintain. It seems an odd move to dismantle a city’s trolley service And while regenerative braking offers the possibility of energy and replace it with diesels in the hope that this will get you to recovery and reduced brake wear, the storage system would also becoming “New Zealand’s first electric public transport city”. add additional weight. Inevitably, the hybrid drive system will The roar of diesels lumbering up steep gradients spewing also be noisier than the pure electric trolley it will replace. toxic emissions, rather than trolleys quietly humming up the It strikes me once again that the novelty of the ‘new’ might same slopes, hardly represents an improvement to nearby be driving this process... at taxpayers’ expense. residents or passengers. Andy Hyslop, Burlington, ON (Canada)

Urban Tram Forum debates safety (Centre d’études et d’expertise sur les risques, The next morning, the team visited In the late autumn of 2017, the Urban Tram l’environnement, la mobilité et l’aménagement). St–Étienne for a presentation and visit to the Forum held its second meeting in Lyon, Among the topics discussed were: local tram network. After this, we returned to France, to discuss tram safety issues. – The Croydon (UK) tram accident of Lyon to continue the technical workshop. The Forum is an international group of November 2016; The Forum meeting was chaired by Laetitia experts drawn from operators, engineers, – Interactions between cycles and trams; Fontaine of the French safety authority government authorities and universities, – Interactions between pedestrians and trams; STRMTG (Service Technique des Remontées from countries across Europe – from Portugal – F rench tram accident statistics and Mécaniques et des Transports Guidés), and to Poland and Ireland to Italy. It was formed methodology; facilitated by Dominique Bertrand of Cerema. after the completion in 2015 of COST Project – ‘Trafficable platforms’ for street stops; The representatives from the UK were David TU1103 “Operation and safety of tramways – T ram safety and international boundary Walmsley and Tony Young of UKTram. in interaction with public space,” when issues in Basel (Switzerland); The Final Report of the COST TU1103 members of the study team decided to go on – Use of video to increase safety awareness study (in English), and a short summary can sharing experiences about tram safety. in Brussels (Belgium); be downloaded from www.iutcs.fr/ (follow After a get-together lunch in the Part Dieu – Los Angeles’ (USA) interurban light rail the links to Urban Tram Forum). neighbourhood, the group met for a technical system; The next meeting is scheduled to take place workshop at the offices of the French – The First/Last Mile Strategic Plan for tram in Dublin (Ireland) in November 2018. interdepartmental research body Cerema accessibility. David Walmsley, by e-mail

Obituary: Milan Touška (1929-2018) Milan’s contribution did not stop with one of his boyhood loves – Prague there. Interest in expansion both off and 180 – at the National Tramway Museum The name Milan Touška is probably not beyond the original core local rail lines at Crich in 1987. Thankfully, Milan was one that is familiar to most regular, even was strong amongst local authorities and soon allowed back into his home city long-term, readers of TAUT. development corporations in the county. as a result of the political changes that Milan passed away on 19 January 2018; Several joint working groups were formed flowed from the fall of the Berlin Wall this is worthy of marking in TAUT due for Salford Quays & Eccles, Trafford in 1989. to his considerable influence in the Park and for the town centre extension A quiet and modest man, Milan had second-generation of UK tramways. in Oldham and Rochdale, with Milan the highest of personal and professional In 1982, Milan – an engineer with providing engineering input to all of these. standards. His key skill, it seemed to me, Mott, Hay and Anderson (today’s I convened these groups and over the years was origami. He insisted that the plans Mott MacDonald) – was one of a small grew to know Milan well. Much of this for all tram routes must be folded into team invited to assess the feasibility work was completed or well underway by A4 – readers familiar with the sinuous of a proposal from within Greater the time Her Majesty the Queen formally nature of the Salford Quays Metrolink Manchester Transport’s (GMT) planning opened Metrolink in 1992. line will appreciate that is no mean feat! department that suggested short sections By that time Milan had other reasons Particular passions of his were skiing of street running in central Manchester to be happy. Following the Prague Spring and Swiss mountain railways, the visits could be the key to a modern light rail of 1968 Milan was persona non-grata in he made usually resulting in the gift of network for the county. Czechosolvakia. The house he had built bottles of local lager with twist-off tops. As a proud Czechoslovak, equally proud was sequestered by the state and for many Milan also contributed to other UK of his country’s engineering and tramway years he was unable to return home, tramway schemes, notably the first stage prowess, Milan put everything he had working in the Middle East and Africa of the Nottingham system. Significantly, learned into his work for GMT. Suffice to for British engineering consultancies. the advice he developed in those years say, the feasibility case was proven. Trams Eventually he settled in the UK. is still being called on today by the returned to Manchester’s streets just over A combination of TAUT contributors, generation of engineers within Mott ten years later – an extraordinarily short notably Tony Young and David Holt, MacDonald following in his footsteps. timescale in the UK context. made it possible for him to be reunited David Tibke

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Vict oria’s working museum The final part of Mike Russell’s trilogy on tramcar PART preservation in Australia’s Melbourne area considers the THREE collection at the operating museum site at Haddon. 1

f the Melbourne Tramway Museum The car remained in MMTB service until 1968 Car 849 is an SW5, built in 1940 to a revised contains representatives covering the and was purchased for preservation in 1977. design with two sliding doors to the centre entire tramway period in Melbourne; It rides on examples of the MMTB’s own type section after the success of prototype car 850. that at Haddon is complementary by 1B and again has Metrovick MV101A It remained in Melbourne service until 1998 demonstrating tramcars operationally. motors and General Electric K35 controllers. and was ultimately presented to the MTPS by IThe Melbourne Tramcar Preservation It is currently maintained in operational W2 Victrack in 2008. It now appears in the Association (MTPA) is based 12km (seven condition, but the intention is to return it to latter-day green and yellow ‘Met’ livery applied miles) from . Its origins date from original W layout with a repaint into initial to former MMTB tramcars in the 1990s. 1974, when a group of individuals formed MMTB chocolate and cream livery. the Haddon Tramway Workshops (HTW). The second W2 is 407, also originating in Outstanding ‘rescue car’ Purchase of the Haddon site allowed erection 1926 as a Preston works-built W and later The star of the Haddon show is Victorian of a building for tram restoration work, the rebuilt to W2 form. It was damaged in a Railways (VR) drop-centre bogie car 41, an first project being Ballarat 30. Following a 1972 collision and rebuilt using parts from outstanding restoration of a ‘rescue car’. reorganisation of HTW this tram moved to withdrawn sister car 259. On acquisition 407 It was one of 20 built at the VR Newport the USA, where it has been restored. came without bogies, which were sourced workshops in 1923, with 16 (including car The HTW was incorporated as the MTPA from car 499. These are of the MMTB 1A 41) destined for the broad-gauge St Kilda in 1984, and development has continued type, with British Thomson-Houston 265D – Brighton Beach line, where it remained as its restoration programme has proceeded traction motors and GE K35 controllers. until 1958. Some 19 years later, its body and an operating line has been created. Now Examples of the small W3 and W4 class was discovered in the garden of a house in that regular operation of heritage tramcars in cars built at Preston are included in the fleet. Brighton, and it was acquired for eventual Melbourne has ceased, Haddon has become W3 663 was one of 16 built in 1933, the restoration. Two sister cars yielded valuable the operating museum for Melbourne trams. first of theW type to feature steel frames fittings and equipment. and exterior panels and mounted on the Three broad-gauge Brill 77E bogies were Most comprehensive collection bigger 33in-diameter (838mm) wheels of found in a scrapyard but transferred to the Haddon specialises in the preservation of the MMTB’s No. 9 bogies to improve riding Tramway Museum Society in Christchurch, Melbourne tramcars with no exhibit from quality. Later in life many were found New Zealand, for use under Brill car 178. In beyond the metropolitan area. By a judicious to suffer from a fault, resulting in their turn, standard-gauge Brill 77E trucks and collection policy, the MTPA has assembled premature withdrawal. Car 663 was one of imported GE K35 controllers were transferred examples of almost the entire range of the few not to suffer the defect, remaining from MMTB L car 105, acquired to provide W-Class drop-centre bogie cars, illustrating available for service, and was acquired for parts for restoration of 103. design and livery changes over the years. preservation in 1976. Restoration work has From 2001 the bodywork on VR 41 was W-Class cars have found their way to many included repainting into the first MMTB renovated at the workshops, whilst tramway museums and heritage lines, not green and cream livery, featuring a lighter mechanical components were overhauled at just in Australia; however, all MTPA cars are shade of green than that adopted later. Haddon, and in 2004 the car moved under maintained in full operational condition and The small W4 class comprised five cars, all its own power for the first time in almost 46 the collection is the most comprehensive of built at Preston in 1933. Vehicle 670 was the years. Car 41 is the first former VR tramcar these iconic cars on any single museum site. first tramcar fully restored by the MTPA and is to be returned to operating condition and its The oldest Melbourne & Metropolitan shown in its 1950s condition. These vehicles restoration has been recognised by awards. Tramways Board (MMTB) car is class L 103, did not have a long life in MMTB service, The superb restoration work by the one of six ordered in 1919 by the Prahran & being withdrawn in 1968 after discovery of Haddon team cannot be over-estimated. Malvern Tramways Trust. These drop-centre the same design defects as on the W3 cars. The acquisition of a huge quantity of spare bogie cars paved the way for the MMTB’s They were unpopular with staff because of parts and equipment from the MMTB and W-Class cars, production of which continued alleged braking inconsistency, whilst the other sources has enabled a high standard of in various forms until 1956. Bodywork on the tumblehome to the panels surrounding the authenticity to be attained. L cars was built by James Moore & Sons and drop-centre entrances made it difficult to see Haddon tramway museum is located off featured four open entrance/exits within the the footboard in the mirrors. Sago Hill Road, not normally accessible by centre section. Car 103 has been restored to Class W5 car 792 has endured a peripatetic public transport. Further, it is not regularly the 1930s condition to which it was rebuilt existence since withdrawal in 1990. It was open to the public, being operated by a small by the MMTB, with the three-doorway unusual amongst W5 vehicles in having group of volunteers. Two open days are held configuration adopted for theW-Class cars. neither been reduced from three to two- each year, the next being 16 September 2018. It rides on Brill 77E equal-wheel bogies and is entrance drop-centre layout, nor converted In addition to the depot tracks and fan, a now fitted with Metrovick MV101A motors to class SW5 by fitment of sliding doors, and running-line of around 0.5km has been and General Electric K35 controllers. as such was selected for preservation by the created around most of the site perimeter, There are two W2 cars at Haddon, of which . Space limitations permitting demonstrations. Admission is 357 is the older. This was built by the MMTB restricted the restoration programme and AUD10 (EUR6.40) for adults or AUD5 as a W-Class car, the last constructed at its from 2006-10 it was loaned to the Glenreagh for children. Pre-arranged group openings Street tramway works before the 1926 Mountain Railway. In 2013 the car was are subject to staff availability. move to the new . As built acquired by MTPA and transported to Combining a visit with the nearby it was of W layout but, along with others of Haddon where, during the author’s visit in operating tramway at Ballarat has much to this type, was rebuilt to the more satisfactory April 2017, it was receiving the association’s commend it and the chance to visit Haddon’s W2 design during the 1930s. usual meticulous restoration attention. exhibits should not be missed.

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1. This interior view of bogie car 41 illustrates the high standard of restoration work evident on the cars contained at this museum.

2. Without doubt the pride of the fleet is VR car 41, rescued from use in a suburban garden and fully restored at Bendigo and Haddon.

3. A view of the Haddon site looking towards the running shed on 15 April 2017. The three operable cars are (left to right) W2 407, L 103 and W4 670, whilst just visible behind the trestle on the left is the shell of W5 car 792 undergoing restoration.

4. A comparison between two almost contemporary cars from the Greater Melbourne area. On the left is Victorian Railways bogie car 41 of 1923, resplendent in chocolate and cream livery, whilst on the right is M&MTB L-Class car 103, one of six delivered two 2 years earlier and whose overall design was the precursor for the long-lived series of W-Class cars. They are seen outside the three-road running shed.

5. Class W3 car 663 has been restored in the light green livery which it initially carried after entering service in 1933. The weather-proof canvas blinds in the drop-centre section are well displayed in this view at the site entrance off Sago Hill Road.

6. Early days at Haddon. 3 4 This view from 16 February 1991 shows W3 car 663 in the process of restoration, in operating condition but with extensive paintwork primer on the bodywork, and a relatively undeveloped site entrance.

7. The thorough restoration process is evident from this view of the carcass of W5 car 792, rescued from its earlier nomadic existence and returned to the State of Victoria.

8. Car 407 was extensively 5 6 rebuilt following a collision in 1972 and returned to service with the latest W2 modifications including the panels of head and tail lighting being fitted to cars of this class. On 2 April 1999 it was seen at the Sago Hill Road terminus of the operating line by the site entrance.

All photography by Mike Russell 7 8 on 15 April 2017 except where otherwise stated.

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