Sydney Light Rail - Alstom Trams replacing cracked CAF Urbos 3 Fleet

In mid/late 2021 cracks were found in Sydney’s CAF Urbos 3 Tram Fleet.

The Urbos 3 trams ran the L1 Inner West Light Rail Line until these cracks were found.

All of the Urbos 3 fleet were pulled from service meaning the closure of the L1 line for approx an announced 18 months with buses replacing trams.

In late 2021 a solution was discovered.

The L2 Randwick and L3 Kingsford Light Rail Lines use Alstom Citadis X05 trams.

The solution is to use some of the Citadis X05 fleet on the L1 line.

Some alterations had to be made as the Citadis X05 fleet leave a gap between the tram and the platform at L1 stops.

The Citadis X05 fleet should start taking passengers along the L1 line in the first quarter of 2022.

These trams will run until the Urbos fleet have been repaired.

The Urbos fleet were transferred to Randwick Light Rail Depot for storage and future repair.

This video shows a couple of Citadis X05 units on the L1 Inner West Line.

Sydney Metro Stage 1 Opens 26th May 2019

Hi all.

As a lot of you may have seen in various places already, Sydney Metro Stage 1 opens on Sunday 26th May 2019.

This line includes the following stations:

Tallawong

Rouse Hill

Kellyville

Bella Vista

Norwest

Hills Showground

Castle Hill

Cherrybrook

Epping

Macquarie University

Macquarie Park

Chatswood

At Chatswood people can change for Sydney Trains T9 services to Gordon and T1 Western and North Shore trains.

This line will be operated by the new driverless Alstom Metropolis train which will for now, be 6 carriages long and will run approx every 4 minutes in peak times.

Below are a few links to videos of mine including Sydney Metro station tours and testing of the new trains:

Rouse Hill Station Tour:

https://youtu.be/CgeupYfN6r4

Hills Showground Station Tour:

https://youtu.be/jk-l2sxOqPE

Castle Hill Station Tour:

https://youtu.be/HTNybhBSuM0

Driverless train testing at Chatswood:

https://youtu.be/biRUzV1QVjY

Driverless train testing at Balmoral Rd, Kellyville:

https://youtu.be/1H-TDgcowAU

Thanks for reading,

Phil (Sydney Trains Vlogs)