THE government of the German state of Saxony has allocated Leipzig City Transport (LVB) €7.3m to fund 50% of an order for nine Solaris Tramino LRVs.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2016: POLISH tram and bus manufacturer Solaris and Stadler Rail announced on September 20 that the two companies will launch a new strategic partnership to bid for contracts to supply light rail vehicles in Poland and elsewhere in central and eastern Europe.
BRAUNSCHWEIG Transport (BSVAG) has issued a tender for nine LRVs for delivery by 2019 to be funded largely by the state of Lower Saxony.
SOLARIS, Poland, has delivered the first of 15 standard-gauge Tramino S111O low-floor LRVs for the first phase of the light rail network in the Polish city of Olsztyn.
THE mayor of Braunschweig Mr Ulrich Markurth and Braunschweig Transport CEO Mr Jörg Reincke launched the German city's new fleet of 18 Solaris Tramino low-floor LRVs on April 13, when the first vehicles entered passenger service on the 1100mm-gauge tram network.
LEIPZIG City Transport (LVB) has awarded Solaris a framework contract for the supply of up to 41 Tramino LRVs for the city's 1458mm-gauge light rail network.
KRAKOW Transport Authority (MPK) began three months of trial operation with a Solaris Tramino low-floor LRV on February 23 to evaluate the performance of a vehicle equipped with a supercapacitor energy storage system on the city's standard-gauge tram network.
LEIPZIG has become the third German city to order Tramino low-floor LRVs from Polish manufacturer Solaris.
IRJ at InnoTrans 2014: Solaris, Poland, is exhibiting one of 18 Tramino low-floor LRVs for Braunschweig Transport (BSVAG) at InnoTrans this week.
BRAUNSCHWEIG Transport (BSVAG) has exercised an option for three additional Tramino low-floor LRVs with Solaris, Poland.