Tours orders CAF trams

The French city of Tours has placed an order with CAF for 19 42m Urbos trams that will be used on the 12.5km line 2 when it opens in 2028. The 2.3m wide trams will carry up to 280 passengers (76 seated). They will be equipped with on-board energy storage for a section of 2km between gare SNCF and Place Choiseul in the historic centre that is not equipped with overhead current supply. They are intended to be interoperable with the Alstom-built trams used on line 1 since 2013 that are equipped with the proprietary APS surface current collection system. This is the tiord order that CAF has won for French tramway re-equipment, having previously signed contracts with Montpellier(77) and Marseille (15). the company has established a factory at Bagneres-de-Bigorre to assemble its French orders. 

 

Tours operated a first-generation tramway from 1877 until 1949. The 14.8km new north–south tramline opened in August 2013 crosses the Loire river on an historic bridge and carries about 55 000 passengers/day with the 21 Alstom trams providing a six-minute headway. SYSTRA has been chosen to build the second tram line.