Cochabamba light rail

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The light rail system Cochabamba , in Spanish Tren Ligero de Cochabamba, is a light rail system under construction in the Bolivian city ​​of Cochabamba . The construction work for the network with three lines with 43 stops over a total length of around 42 kilometers began in 2017 and should be completed in 2020. The light rail network will be marketed under the “ Mi Tren ” (Mein Zug) brand and will be the first rail-bound local transport system in Bolivia.

Network and operation

The light rail network should consist of three lines with a total length of 42 kilometers with 43 stops:

Line 1 : Estación Central San Antonio - Suticollo (via Colcapirhua, Quillacollo and Vinto) with a length of 27.37 kilometers and 23 stops
Line 2 : Estación Central San Antonio - El Castillo with a length of 7.74 kilometers and 8 stops
Line 3 : Estación Central San Antonio - Faculad De Agronomia UMSS with a length of 5.26 kilometers and 5 stops

The central hub of the network and the starting point for all three lines will be the former central station of Cochabamba, Estación Central San Antonio . The three lines link the city of Cochabamba with the surrounding communities of Colcapirhua , Quillacollo , Vinto , Sipe Sipe and Sacaba .

No longer used to be part of setting up the lines of railway lines used all routes are mostly single track will be equipped.

history

In September 2015, the Bolivian government put out a tender for the construction of a light rail system for the greater Cochabamba area. In October 2016, the government announced that the Spanish company JOCA had won the tenders submitted to Molinari (Switzerland) and Hyundai Rotem (South Korea). In October 2016, the companies JOCA and Molinari announced that they would form a consortium called Asociación Accidental Tunari and jointly build the light rail network. The consortium has been commissioned to build the complete "turnkey" network. The consortium has commissioned the companies Bär Bahnsicherung and ErvoCom with the delivery of the signaling and communication system. Following a tender, the consortium selected the Swiss Stadler Rail AG for vehicle production .

Construction work on the Cochabamba light rail network began in 2017 and is expected to be completed in 2020. The total cost of the construction will amount to 537 million US dollars, which will be borne entirely by the Bolivian state after foreign funding became unnecessary.

vehicles

The consortium tendered the delivery of 12 light rail vehicles for the network, and the companies Siemens , Bombardier , Alstom , Stadler and CAF are said to have expressed their interest. The final decision was made between Alstom and Stadler, with the latter winning the contract.

The twelve two - way trains, each with three car bodies of the Stadler “ Metelitsa ” model, are produced in the Stadler plant in Minsk ( Belarus ). The trains run on standard gauge tracks and are 34 meters long, 2.5 meters wide and 3.6 meters high. They have a capacity of up to 376 passengers (with 8 passengers per square meter). The Bolivian authorities had specified in the tender that the trains should have air conditioning, WiFi and USB sockets.

The first train was shipped to Arica (Chile) via Klaipėda (Lithuania) in July 2019 , from where it was transported overland to Cochabamba, and reached its destination in mid-September. Another vehicle is undergoing tests in the Olsztyn tram network . Stadler will take over maintenance of the trains for the first three years.

The first test drives began at the end of September.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  6. ↑ Violeta Soria: JOCA y Molinari pactan la construcción del tren. In: Los Tiempos. November 18, 2016, Retrieved July 28, 2019 (Spanish).
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