Intersection of Trang Tien Street and Dinh Tien Hoang, at Hoan Kiem Lake.
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Officials said the trial run served to double-check all system operations before the project is officially launched. Trial runs will continue for the next three to six months, and the project is aiming to launch full-fledged service before the next Lunar New Year in February, they added.
Agence France-PresseMon 17 Sep 2018
The Guardian
September 20, 2018
First metro line gets on track with trial run in Hanoi
By Giang Huy, Ngoc Thanh
The Cat Linh-Ha Dong metro made its first run Thursday.
Official launch could happen in three to six months.
Official launch could happen in three to six months.
All 13 trains on the route had their trial runs Thursday, starting from the Yen Nghia Station in Ha Dong District to Cat Linh Station in Dong Da District. The route is approximately 13 kilometers long, and the trains stop for a minute at each of the 12 stations.
A metro train starts from La Khe Station in Ha Dong District.
Officials said the trial run served to double-check all system operations before the project is officially launched. Trial runs will continue for the next three to six months, and the project is aiming to launch full-fledged service before the next Lunar New Year in February, they added.
A driver in a train's cabin.
Chinese contractors are fully responsible for the operations of the trial runs initially. Afterwards, trained Vietnamese workers will also join in to operate the trial runs.
Two metro trains run above a Hanoi road.
Two trains run alongside each other at Thai Ha Station.
The trains will run continuously on both lanes, 10 minutes apart.
Passengers enjoy the first metro ride in Vietnam.
Each train has four cars, with a total capacity of 1,000 passengers. The cars, made of stainless steel, are approximately 19 meters long.
Among other facilities, the stations are equipped with roofs, walking bridges, elevators, escalators, surveillance and ventilation systems.
Work on the Cat Linh-Ha Dong elevated railway started in October 2011 and was originally scheduled for completion in 2013. But several hurdles, including loan disbursement issues with China that were only resolved last December, have been stalling the project for years.
The original cost estimate of $552.86 million has also ballooned to more than $868 million, including $670 million in loans from China.
The Guardian
Germany launches world's first
hydrogen-powered train
hydrogen-powered train
Two trains built by the French train maker Alstom are now
operating on a 62- mile stretch of line in northern Germany
Germany has rolled out the world’s first hydrogen-powered train, signalling the start of a push to challenge the might of polluting diesel trains with costlier but more eco-friendly technology.
Two bright blue Coradia iLint trains, built by French TGV-maker Alstom, on Monday began running a 62 mile (100km) route between the towns and cities of Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, Bremervoerde and Buxtehude in northern Germany – a stretch normally plied by diesel trains.
“The world’s first hydrogen train is entering into commercial service and is ready for serial production,” Alstom CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge said at an unveiling ceremony in Bremervoerde, the station where the trains will be refuelled with hydrogen.
Alstom has said it plans to deliver another 14 of the zero-emissions trains to Lower Saxony state by 2021, while other German states have also expressed an interest.
Hydrogen trains are equipped with fuel cells that produce electricity through a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, a process that leaves steam and water as the only emissions. Excess energy is stored in ion lithium batteries on board the train.
The Coradia iLint trains can run for about 600 miles (1,000km) on a single tank of hydrogen, similar to the range of diesel trains.
Alstom is betting on the technology as a greener, quieter alternative to diesel on non-electrified railway lines – an attractive prospect to many German cities scrambling to combat air pollution.
“Sure, buying a hydrogen train is somewhat more expensive than a diesel train, but it is cheaper to run,” Stefan Schrank, the project’s manager at Alstom, said.
Other countries are also looking into hydrogen trains, Alstom said, including Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Italy and Canada. In France, the government has already said it wants the first hydrogen train to be on the rails by 2022.
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