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Škoda Artic
Artic, styled as ARTIC or ForCity Smart, is an articulated low-floor tram model designed and manufactured by Škoda Transtech Oy in Finland. Trams of the design are in operation in Finland, Germany and Czechia, with further large orders in these countries. The design was subsequently rebranded under the Škoda ForCity brand. Models Artic MLNRV-3 (Helsinki) In December 2010 the design was included in the winning tender to deliver 40 new trams to the Helsinki City Transport (HKL), the municipal tram operator of Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (HSL), with an option for 90 units more. The winning bid was worth €113 million, which makes the unit cost of the initial agreement €2.8 million per tram. The first unit was rolled out in the summer of 2013 and taken to line operation for testing purposes in the autumn of 2013. The second unit was delivered in November 2013, and these two units will be thoroughly tested before the manufacturing of the remaining 38 units will ...
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Škoda Transtech
Škoda Transtech Oy is Finland's major domestic manufacturer of low-floor tram and railway rolling stock. It specializes in building tram and railway vehicles for extreme climatic conditions, such as those encountered in Finland. History The company was established in 1985 when the Finnish engineering firm Rautaruukki started manufacturing freight wagons in Otanmäki and Taivalkoski. In 1991 the railway rolling stock works of Valmet (in Tampere), which specialized in the manufacture of carriages and locomotives, was merged with Transtech. In 1998 Rautaruukki sold the Taivalkoski factory to Telatek Oy, retaining the Otanmäki plant. In June 1999 Rautaruukki sold Transtech to Patentes Talgo SA of Spain, but was subsequently sold to the Finnish group Pritech Oy in March 2007. During the period of Spanish ownership, the company was known as ''Talgo Oy'', but has reverted to its previous name. In August 2015 Škoda Transportation bought a 75% stake in the company, purchasing the r ...
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Rüdersdorf
Rüdersdorf is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the district Märkisch-Oderland, in Brandenburg, Germany, near Berlin. It is served by the Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway which runs from Rüdersdorf through Schöneiche to Berlin-Friedrichshagen station on the Berlin S-Bahn network. Bundesautobahn 10 passes through the town. Overview The municipality is situated east of Berlin centre and includes the three districts Hennickendorf, Herzfelde and Lichtenow. Rüdersdorf is noted for its open-cast limestone mine. Today, some parts of the mine are used as a museum . Notable buildings in Berlin such as the Brandenburg Gate and the Olympiastadium were built with limestone from Rüdersdorf. Demography File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Rüdersdorf.pdf, Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi rule; Red Background: Time of Commu ...
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Škoda Transportation
Škoda Transportation Akciová společnost, a.s. is a Czech Republic, Czech manufacturer of vehicles for public transport, including Tram, trams, Electric multiple unit, electric multiple units, and Bus, buses. The company was formerly a division of Czech industrial conglomerate Škoda Works, and shares the Škoda name with Škoda Works' other former divisions, such as Škoda Auto and Doosan Škoda Power. The company is headquartered in Plzeň and markets its products worldwide, with an emphasis on the European market. Škoda Works was founded in 1859 by Emil von Škoda, Emil Škoda, and began manufacturing Locomotive, locomotives in Plzeň in 1920. Škoda Works was privatized and split up after the Velvet Revolution in the late 20th century, and Škoda Transportation was organized in 1995. The company has been owned by investment firm PPF (company), PPF Group since 2017. Škoda Transportation fully or partially owns a number of other companies active in the rolling stock and bu ...
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Trams In Heidelberg
The Heidelberg tramway network () is a network of tramways forming an important element of the public transport system in Heidelberg, a city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Opened in 1885, the network has been operated since 2009 by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (RNV) within the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN). The network includes line 5 of the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen tram system, which is connected with Heidelberg’s tram system via the Upper Rhine Railway Company (''Oberrheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', OEG). Lines , the Heidelberg tramway network had the following lines: See also *List of town tramway systems in Germany *Trams in Germany Germany has an extensive number of tramway networks (Straßenbahn in German ()). Some of these networks have been upgraded to light rail standards, called Stadtbahn in German language, German. Straßenbahn and Stadtbahn schemes are usually operate ... References * Basten, Robert; Jeanmaire, Claude (1986). ''Heidel ...
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Trams In Mannheim/Ludwigshafen
The Mannheim/Ludwigshafen tramway network () is a metre-gauge transport network of tramways focused on the cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, and connected to Heidelberg tram network and to Weinheim via the Upper Rhine Railway Company (OEG), in the Rhine Neckar Area of Germany. The network has been operated since 2005 by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV), and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN). History Opened in 1878 with horse cars, the first line used normal gauge. In 1883 a line to Feudenheim started operating, using steam powered tram engines. The first electric trams started service in 1900. Fleet Besides older tram cars and a large fleet of Rhein-Neckar- Variobahn trams, the delivery of the Rhein-Neckar-Tram 2020 (RNT 2020) started late 2022. The RNT 2020 comes in three lengths, with the twelve 38T version being the longest trams in the world at the time of delivery in 2025. See also *List of town tramway systems in Germany *Trams in ...
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Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr
Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV, ''Rhine-Neckar Transport Ltd'') is a company operating public transport (specifically bus and tram services) in the Rhine-Neckar region of Germany, including the cities of Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein. History RNV was established on 1 October 2004 as a joint subsidiary of the five principal public transport operators that had previously operated in the region: * the Heidelberg Tramway (''Heidelberger Straßen- und Bergbahn'', HSB), * MVV Transport (''MVV Verkehr'', the operator of trams and buses in Mannheim), * the Upper Rhine Railway Company (''Oberrheinische Eisenbahn'', which became part of the MVV Group in the early 2000s and was then known as ''MVV OEG''), * the operator of the Rhine-Haardt Railway (''Rhein-Haardt Bahn'', RHB) and * ''Verkehrsbetriebe Ludwigshafen'' (the operator of buses and trams in Ludwigshafen, VBL). RNV is a public sector operation, as its ultimate beneficial owners are local authorities in the regi ...
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Crown Bridges
The Crown Bridges (, ) is the name given to three bridges under construction in the Finnish city of Helsinki, creating a new tram link and cycle path to the island of Laajasalo. Background The city council of Helsinki decided on 31 August 2016 to build a tramway to the island of Laajasalo, located to the east of Helsinki city centre. The route will include three new bridges, the longest of which will be the longest in Finland at , and its pylons one of the tallest structures in Helsinki. The bridges will have bicycle and pedestrian lanes in addition to the tramway, but no lanes for private cars. The total length of new double track, including tramways on Laajasalo itself, is about . There are several new areas of housing under construction on the island as of 2016. The site of a former oil shipping terminal at Kruunuvuorenranta is expected to house 12,500 new residents when construction is completed by 2025, and densification of other areas on Laajasalo is expected to add ano ...
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Helsinki Light Rail Line 15
Helsinki light rail line 15 (, ) is a light rail line connecting Keilaniemi in Espoo and Itäkeskus in Helsinki, Finland. Known during construction as Jokeri light rail (, ), construction was started in June 2019 and the line began operating in October 2023, about 10 months ahead of the original schedule. The line replaced the trunk bus line 550, the busiest Buses in Helsinki, bus service on the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority public transport network, at the end of 2023. History Background The "trunk bus line" 550, formerly branded ''Jokeri'' ("The Joker", after Joukkoliikenteen kehämäinen raideinvestointi – "A circular rail investment for public transportation"), has been converted to light rail. The city councils of Helsinki city council, Helsinki and Espoo approved the construction project in June 2016, after the Finnish government decided to participate in funding the construction. The rail line was preliminarily projected to open in 2021. The construction of t ...
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Two Light Rail Trams On Line 15 In Keilaniemi
2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and the only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures. Mathematics The number 2 is the second natural number after 1. Each natural number, including 2, is constructed by succession, that is, by adding 1 to the previous natural number. 2 is the smallest and the only even prime number, and the first Ramanujan prime. It is also the first superior highly composite number, and the first colossally abundant number. An integer is determined to be even if it is divisible by two. When written in base 10, all multiples of 2 will end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8; more generally, in any even base, even numbers will end with an even digit. A digon is a polygon with two sides (or edges) and two vertices. Two distinct points in a plane are always sufficient to define a unique line in a nontrivial ...
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Tampere Light Rail
The Tampere light rail (), branded as Tampere Tram (), is a public transport system in Tampere, Finland. In November 2016, the Tampere city council approved plans to construct a 330-million-euro light rail system on the route from the Keskusta, Tampere, city centre to Hervanta and to the Tampere University Hospital. Traffic on the first two lines of the route (lines 1 and 3) began on 9 August 2021. An extension from the city centre to Lentävänniemi, passing through an artificial island called ''Näsisaari'' ("Näsi Island") that serves the structure of light rail, opened in two parts in 2023 and 2025. Unlike Turku, another Finnish city that is planning a new light rail system (see Turku light rail), Tampere had not had a previously existing tram or light rail system. The construction of a tram system in Tampere was seriously studied between the years 1907 and 1929, but left unrealised due to the high price of constructing such a system. Tampere is the fourth city in Finland ...
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Tampere
Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland, and the second most populous urban area in the country after the Helsinki metropolitan area. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. The urban area has a population of approximately 340,000. Tampere is considered to be the most important urban, economic and cultural centre in the whole of inland Finland. Tampere and its surroundings are part of the historic province of Satakunta. The area belonged to the province of Häme from 1831 to 1997; over time, it has often been considered a province of Tavastia. For example, in '' Uusi tietosanakirja'', published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as part of the then province of Tavastia. However between 1775 and 1870 Tammerkoski rap ...
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