Urban Rail in the Hanseatic City
The well-known author and editor Robert Schwandl describes the different variants of local rail transport…
Right on time for the Olympic Games in 2004 Athens started the regular service on its brand new three-line tramway network. As so many…
In Brussels tram line 9 has been extended from previous Arbre Ballon/Dikke Beuk terminus to the metro station Roi Baudouin/Koning …
New Saxon future project: The transport companies from Zwickau, Görlitz and Leipzig are jointly procuring new and modern trams. After…
After about two years of construction, the 4.6-kilometre extension of tram line 3 from the previous terminus at Inninger Straße in …
For decades, the tram network has been the backbone of public transport in Graz, the capital of the province of Styria (Steiermark) …
On 28 November 2021, after more than two years of construction, Magdeburg’s municipal public transport operator Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe…
Most sectors were hit extremely hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but none more so than retail. The British high street all but closed down…
VAG Nürnberg (Nuremberg) strengthens its tram fleet with new Siemens Avenio trams ordered last year (see: https://www.urban-transport-magazine.com/en/vag-nuernberg-design-of-new-siemens-trams-released/…
Calcutta (Kolkata) has the last surviving tramway system in India. The system has been in decline for many years due to a lack of investment…