BRITAIN’s Rail Accident Investigation Branch (Raib) has published an interim report into a fatal accident at 06.07 on November 9 involving an LRV which derailed and overturned on the approach to Sandilands Junction on the Croydon Tramlink network south of London.
THE 2016-17 Transport for London (TfL) budget presented to the London Assembly includes funding for improvements to the Croydon Tramlink network including capacity enhancements and additional LRVs.
Aarhus is currently developing Denmark's inaugural light rail project which is on course to open in 2017 to coincide with the city becoming the year's European Capital of Culture. Kevin Smith took a trip to eastern Jutland to see how the project is progressing.
THE first of four additional Variobahn low-floor LRVs being supplied to Transport for London (TfL) by Stadler Pankow for the Croydon Tramlink network was delivered by road to Croydon over the weekend of May 3-4.
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) subsidiary London Tramlink has exercised an option for four additional Variobahn low-floor LRVs from Stadler Pankow, which will be used on the light rail network in Croydon.
The first of six Stadler Pankow Variobahn low-floor LRVs for Transport for London's Croydon light rail network was tested in the German city of Chemnitz during December and January.