Tram

The Swiss company Stadler provided Kharkiv with a three-section tram for operational testing.This was reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply.

A low-floor 7-section tram by the Chinese CRRC with traction from supercapacitors has been put into operation in Kunming, China.

As part of a contract to supply 20 trams to Kyiv, financed by the European Investment Bank, Tatra-Yug sent the first one to the capital.

The first two of the 16 Swing 122Na trams that Pesa has built for Iasi have already arrived in the city, and nine more are due to arrive this year.

The current two Durmazlar trams will be joined by others this week. Olsztyn (Poland) received two more cars from the manufacturer (3017 and 3018).

Durmazlar Rail Systems, which implemented the first tram production in Turkey with the support of Durmazlar Makina, one of the leading technology companies in Turkey, is starting production of trams for the Romanian city of Resita.

Modertrans presented the first Polish low-floor single-section tram. A rolling stock manufacturer from Poznan presented the first Polish single-section tram with a low floor, the Gamma LF 05 AC.

A tram was launched without a contact network in ChinaThe first of 20 low-floor trams built by CRRC Changchun for the light rail network currently under construction in Jiaxing County entered service on March 17.

Hong Kong introduces dynamic tram track monitoring Following the derailment of a tram car bogie in August 2020 due to wear of a switch point, Hong Kong's urban rail operator MTR decided to gradually deploy a system for dynamic monitoring of track parameters in real time.

First Pesa Twist 2017N tram delivered to Tramwaje ŚląskieTramwaje Śląskie’s Pesa Twist 2017N tram entered revenue service on October 23.

Končar Električnih Vozila unveiled the tram for Latvia.The first of 12 trams ordered for the city of Liepāja was unveiled at Croatian manufacturer Končar Električnih Vozila’s factory on October 25, reports railway magazine «Railway Supply» referring  Railwaygazette«Railway Supply» magazine №2-2021Liepāja ordered six trams from Končar in November 2018, and a further six in August 2020, taking the total value of the orders to €17,6m.