Tramways & Urban Transit March 2025

INSIDE THE MARCH ISSUE

NEW TRAMWAYS FOR 2025
Mike Taplin shares his annual round-up of tramway openings we can expect for the year ahead. Will it be a bumper one..?

ŁÓDŹ: POLAND’S PIONEER
Andrew Thompson visits Poland’s vast legacy system which has seen modernisation spanning 30 years: now it can start to look to the future.

ALTERNATIVE POWER
Richard Foster looks at some of the evolving methods of powering public transport, which we could start to see creeping into the realm of LRT in the coming years.

ZWICKAU
A small German system is set to receive its most significant updates in over 20 years: Andrew Thompson finds out about the changes.

SYSTEMS FACTFILE : CADIZ
Neil Pulling explores Spain’s most southerly light rail operation, which is also the country’s only tram-train system connected to the main line network.

CLASSIC TRAMS: CHEMNITZ
Mike Russell visits a museum full of relics from a bygone industrial age in this German city.

HEADLINES

China’s growth continues apace;
Helsinki tramway extension contract awarded;
Odesa gets new trams;
Los Angeles completes Gold Line extension.