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Translohr vehicles are now providing tram-like service in Clermont-Ferrand. Trams in Padua Translohr.. Translohr is a rubber-tyred tramway system, originally developed by Lohr Industrie of France and now run by a consortium of Alstom Transport and Fonds stratégique d'investissement (FSI) as newTL, [1] which took over from Lohr in 2012.
The Clermont-Ferrand tramway (French: Tramway de Clermont-Ferrand) is a transit system located in the city of Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is a Translohr system, meaning it is guided by a single rail and powered by electricity from overhead wires.
Rubber-tyred tram in Clermont-Ferrand, France. A rubber-tyred tram (also known as tramway on tyres, French: tramway sur pneumatiques) is a development of the guided bus in which a vehicle is guided by a fixed rail in the road surface and draws current from overhead electric wires (either via pantograph or trolley poles).
The T5 is operated by a fleet of Translohr STE3 rubber-wheeled trams. [1] During 2007, a contract for the delivery of 15 trams was awarded to Lohr Industries. The STE3 is a three-carriage tram vehicle; with a length of 25 metres, it provides sufficient capacity for the boarding of up to 127 passengers at a time.
The historic tramway having been closed down in 1954, first proposals for the reintroduction of tramways in Padua appeared in 1990. However, only in 1995 the Municipality of Padua was granted state contributions (for a total cost estimated at €61.3 million) provided by law 211 of 26 February 1992 (support for mass rapid transport systems).
Tramway Line 6 is a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) Translohr tram-on-tyres line serving 21 stations, from the Viroflay-Rive-Droite Transilien station to the Châtillon–Montrouge Métro station (the southern terminus of Paris Métro Line 13), through Vélizy-Villacoublay. The 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) westernmost part of the line (through Viroflay), is ...
Clermont-Ferrand's modern transport system, the Clermont-Ferrand tramway (opened: 2006), is a Translohr system rather than a traditional rail-based tram system. Évian-les-Bains: Electric 1898 1908 Grenoble: Electric 17 Apr 1897 31 Aug 1952 Gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) [1] Grenoble tramway: Electric 5 Sep 1987 [1] La Bourboule: Electric
A Translohr vehicle should be ideal for climbing the 12% grade on Calle 49 – also known as Avenida Ayacucho – which was the path of the Buenos Aires tram line until 1951 (see Trams in Medellin). From two points on the line aerial cableways (teleféricos, Seilbahnen), each with two sections, the line carries passengers even higher into the ...