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Tradition Meets Modernity THE INTERNATIONAL LIGHT RAIL MAGAZINE www.lrta.org www.tautonline.com JUNE 2015 NO. 930 HONG KONG: TRADITION MEETS MODERNITY Debunking the myths around stray current Dallas opens wire-free streetcar line Toshiba’s battery tram technology Tube expands new revenue streams ISSN 1460-8324 £4.25 Boston SMILE! 06 How snow brought UITP on reasserting a city to a standstill rail’s role in the city 9 771460 832043 LAST CHANCE TO BOOK 2015 INTEGRATION AND GLOBALISATION Nottingham Conference Centre, UK: June 17-18 2015 The tenth edition of the UK Light Rail Conference returns to Nottingham and promises to be the biggest and best yet. From planning and finance debates through to presentations on light rail construction, regulation and operation, the Conference brings you together with key industry players, whether attending as a delegate or exhibitor. Nowhere else can you join 300 light rail decision-makers to debate the burning issues of the day. • Unrivalled networking opportunities • Over 70 leading speakers and panelists • Biggest ever exhibition area • Technical tour of Nottingham Express Transit • Networking dinner hosted by international transport operator Keolis Download the schedule at www.mainspring.co.uk/events SUPPORTED BY CONTENTS The official journal of the Light Rail Transit Association JUNE 2015 Vol. 78 No. 930 www.tramnews.net EDITORIAL EDITOR Simon Johnston Tel: +44 (0)1733 367601 E-mail: [email protected] 13 Orton Enterprise Centre, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, UK ASSOCIATE EDITOR 220 Tony Streeter E-mail: [email protected] WORLDWIDE EDITOR Michael Taplin Flat 1, 10 Hope Road, Shanklin, Isle of Wight PO37 6EA, UK. E-mail: [email protected] NEWS EDITOR John Symons 17 Whitmore Avenue, Werrington, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST9 0LW, UK. E-mail: [email protected] SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR Neil Pulling WORLDWIDE CONTRIBUTORS Tony Bailey, James Chuang, Paul Nicholson, Richard Felski, Ed Havens, Bill Vigrass, Andrew Moglestue, Mike Russell, Nikolai Semyonov, 238 226 Vic Simons, Alain Senut, Thomas Wagner. PRODUCTION Lanna Blyth NEWS 220 COMMENT: LOCAL CHAMPIONS 236 Tel: +44 (0)1733 367604 E-mail: [email protected] Is Bombardier the next major manufacturer TAUT Publisher Howard Johnston argues DESIGN to leave the rail market?; Dallas Streetcar that LRT needs strong personalities. Debbie Nolan opens; Battery-powered tram trials begin ADVERTISING in Kagoshima; Liège tramway funding in SYSTEMS FACTFILE: HONG KONG 238 COMMERCIAL MANAGER Geoff Butler doubt; Santos tramway passenger trials. Over 80 years separate the openings of Tel: +44 (0)1733 367610 E-mail: [email protected] Hong Kong’s two light rail formats; Neil PUBLISHER COMMENT: URBAN RAIL’S ROLE 224 Pulling explores these distinctive systems. Howard Johnston UITP Secretary General Alain Flausch looks Tramways & Urban Transit is jointly published by the at some of the challenges in achieving WORLDWIDE REVIEW 244 LRTA and LRTA Publishing on the third Friday of each public transport’s aim of doubling Melbourne project will require diversion of month preceding the cover date. ridership figures by 2025. ten tramlines; Brussels run-out reaches 300; LRTA WEBSITE AND DIARY St Etienne approves third tramline plans; Brian Lomas E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] BLIZZARD BURIES BOSTON 226 Oslo to tender for 80 low-floor trams; Herbert Pence reviews the devastating Seattle’s Sound Transit approves Lynnwood LRTA MEMBERSHIP (with TAUT subscription) Tramways & Urban Transit is sent free to all paid-up effects of the snowstorms that crippled light rail extension. members of the Light Rail Transit Association. Boston’s transport services – and the SUBSCRIPTIONS AND MEMBERSHIP ENQUIRIES subsequent clean-up and political backlash. MAILBOX 249 LRTA Membership Secretary (Dept T06), Green track, bikes, and the need for detail. 38 Wolseley Road, Sale M33 7AU, UK. STRAY CURRENT: MYTH OR LEGEND? 232 Tel: +44 (0)117 9517785 James Snowdon examines some of the CLASSIC TRAMS: TROLLEY-POLES PT.3 251 BACK ISSUES issues around the electrical current that The development of the bow collector is Tel: +44 (0)1406 373070 feeds modern tramway systems. examined by Mike Russell and Alan Pearce. PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION Warners (Midlands) plc, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1778 391000. LRTA REGISTERED OFFICE Checking out the competition to urban rail c/o 138 Radnor Avenue, Welling, Kent DA16 2BY, UK. Private company limited by guarantee, No. 5072319 This month I’ve had the chance to spend a week living with a fully electric in England and Wales. car – and it’s been very nice. The model in question was almost silent in LRTA CHAIRMAN operation, very well built, comfortable, easy to charge and packed with Andrew Braddock E-mail: [email protected] clever technology that made my road journeys a much more pleasant LRTA DEPUTY CHAIRMAN experience. It even had a regenerative braking system to charge the Paul Rowen lithium-ion battery in stop-start traffic – recognise that technology? LRTA PUBLISHING REGISTERED OFFICE: Yet while any move to electrified transport is a step in the right direction, the good c/o 8 Berwick Place, Welwyn Garden City, Herts AL7 4TU, news for the public transport supporter is that it didn’t get rid of traffic congestion or UK. Private Limited Company, No. 06169422 idiot drivers, and the infrastructure is still woefully inadequate in supporting their use in England and Wales. without the dreaded range anxiety. It was also expensive – even with the UK’s GBP5000 © LRTA Publishing 2015. (approx. EUR7000) grant to encourage EV adoption. With a range of just under 100 Articles are submitted on the understanding they may also later be used on our websites or other media. A contribution miles (160km) on a single charge, and a kerbweight 275kg above a combustion-engined is accepted on the basis that its author is responsible for the equivalent, it was heavy and still felt more like a toy than a credible everyday vehicle. opinions expressed in it, and such opinions are not those of The valuable taxation applied to the motorist that contributes to every major economy LRTA Publishing or the LRTA. All rights reserved. means the car as we know it is likely to stay for a good few decades yet, so while the past No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including month has given me a glimpse into a future, I still believe that light rail offers a better photocopying, recording or by any information storage and vision of the future. But the automotive lobby has a powerful voice, and we can’t rest on retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from our laurels as EV technology is getting better each year and the prices will only drop to the copyright owner. Multiple copying of the contents of the bring such vehicles into reach of the average household. Our two Comment pieces this magazine without prior written approval is not permitted. month both make reference to the need to broadcast the message of public transport more strongly, but are we doing enough to keep up? Simon Johnston, Editor COVER: Hong Kong’s tram tracks diverge around the Western Market area – March 2015. Neil Pulling www.tautonline.com . www.lrta.org JUNE 2015 / 219 News Will Bombardier bail out of rail? Chinese interest reported in the western world’s largest rail manufacturer to help with losses n 10 April suggestions new CRRC Corporation. arose in the financial Bombardier currently has markets that a number of joint ventures Canadian-based in China, including those to OBombardier Inc might sell its market its Flexity 2 low-floor transportation interests for as tram platform to planned much as CAD5.4bn. Alternatively modern tramways across it has been suggested that the the nation, while CNR and parent company could invite CSR have so far focused their an initial public offering in its export efforts on Asia, South rail business that would enable America and Africa. Acquiring it to retain a stake in its most Bombardier’s rail unit would successful division. give the merged conglomerate The company is Canada’s a major international presence, leading aerospace manufacturer, enabling it to take advantage of but is having difficulty financing surging exports as well as major its new C Series jet airliner due manufacturing capabilities in to delays and cost overruns. The both Europe and North America. company reported an annual loss Bombardier builds trams in Canada, its home country, at the former GE plant in Major changes to the in 2014 for the first time in nine Thunder Bay; TTC 4406 is the latest delivery for Toronto. D. Drum landscape of the rolling stock years, had to raise CAD2.4bn in market have already taken place the markets, and its shares fell Vevey (Switzerland) and Talbot at the moment, any detailed in 2015. Aside from the CNR/ by 34%. Rail showed a profit of and Deutsche Waggonbau in discussions cannot move CSR merger, the sale of Alstom’s CAD429m compared with a loss Germany. It was the acquisition forward until after the Chinese power business to GE in return of CAD995m on the aircraft side. of ADtranz in 2001 that turned manufacturers complete a for the latter strengthening Bombardier started out as a it into the western world’s largest planned USD26bn merger next the former’s rail business could manufacturer of snowmobiles, rail manufacturing business. month – creating the world’s be approved as soon as July, and acquired its first interest Our March analysis of the LRV largest rail manufacturer. while Hitachi’s acquisition of in rail with the purchase of market (TAUT 928) showed the That deal has now received AnsaldoBreda and a 40% stake in Montreal Locomotive Works company held orders for more final approval from China’s signalling specialist Ansaldo STS in 1975.
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