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The first two battery-electric buses in Würzburg will start revenue service on routes 6 and 16 on 13 July 2020. The …

Spanish CAF group signed an agreement with SL AB (Storstockholms Lokaltrafik), the local entity responsible for Stockholm’s…

The first brand new CAF „Urbos 100“ tram for Belgium’s famous Coastal Tram has just arrived at its new home: After a 1,700 km trip on a RoRo…

29 May 2020 saw the end of the two outer sections of Utrecht’s light rail lines 60/61 between Nieuwegein Centrum and IJsselstein/Nieuwegein…

The design of Nantes’ new tram generation had been presented a year ago. To build them, Nantes Métropole has just chosen Alstom. It will…

Numerous high-floor Tatra trams are due to be replaced in Germany’s eastern German tram operations. Gera in southeastern Thuringia…

Last week we reported on the new tramway in Cuenca/Ecuador as one of the highest tramway systems in the world. (see: https://www.urban-transport-magazine.com/en/opening-under-covid-restrictions-tranvia-cuenca-in-ecuador/…

At 2,550 metres above sea level in Europe you may just find some mountain railways as public transport, but not so in the Americas: Cuenca…

For the first time in the history of the tram operations in Leipzig, Görlitz and Zwickau, a tram fleet is being jointly tendered as part…

After the delivery of 9 tramways to Plzeň and 3 to Most in 2019/20, the first two vehicles of the current EVO-2 model of the consortium …