Alstom and NTL successfully tested the first tram on the tracks of the Ayacucho tramway line in Medellin, Colombia. The trams will be operated by Metro de Medellin on the 4.3 km-long line which connects the city’s metro lines A and B and two new metrocable lines. The line, which comprises nine stations, is scheduled to be partially open by October and is expected to reach 85,000 passengers per day.
In April 2012, the city of Medellin ordered 12 Translohr STE5 trams (each 39 metres long)2 from NTL.
Alstom, as leader of the consortium UT Alstom-Sytecsa, provides the power supply for the entire project. Alstom’s scope included the project management, engineering, procurement, testing and commissioning of the medium voltage network and its intake substation, and the traction substations.
