Select Committee on Transport Written Evidence


APPENDIX 2

THE COSTS OF TRAMWAYS AND LIGHT RAILWAYS IN NORTH WESTERN EUROPE


Existing systems
Phase/extension
Completion
date
Route
length
km
Total
capital
cost,
£m
Capital
cost
per km,
£m
Total
capital
cost, £m
(2003
prices)
Capital
costs per
km, £m
(2003
prices)

Tyne and Wear Metro
Initial
1980
55.0
284
5.2
820
14.90
Airport extension
1991
3.5
12
3.4
18
5.10
Sunderland extension
2002
19.2
98
2.9
103
5.40
Total Metro
All
77.7
352
4.5
941
12.10
Docklands Light Railway
Initial
1987
12.0
77
6.4
140
11.70
Bank extension
1991
1.5
276
184.0
373
248.70
System upgrade
1991
56
78
Beckton extension
1994
8.0
280
35.0
360
45.00
Lewisham extension
1999
4.5
200
31.1
218
48.40
Total DLR
27.0
829
29.7
1,169
41.50
Greater Manchester Metrolink
1
1992
30.9
145
4.7
195
6.30
2
2000
7.5
160
21.3
174
23.20
Total Metrolink
1+2
38.4
305
7.9
369
9.60
Sheffield-South Yorkshire Supertram
Initial
1992
29.0
260
9.0
349
12.00
Midland Metro
Initial
1999
20.4
145
7.1
162
7.90
Croydon Tramlink
Initial
2000
28.0
200
7.1
218
7.80
Nottingham Express Transit
Initial
2004
14.0
220
15.7
220
15.70
Pending UK tram schemes
Suspended Schemes
Estimate
£
Tender
£
Manchester Metrolink Phase 3
Phase 3
TBA
55.0
520
9.4
900
16.40
Leeds
Lines 1, 2 and 3
TBA
28.0
355
12.6
600
21.40
South Hampshire
Phase 1
TBA
14.5
170
11.7
270
18.60
Other UK schemes
Midland Metro-Wednesbury/Brierley Hill
Line 2
TBA
11.7
139
11.9
Being
re-priced
Liverpool
Line 1
2007
19.0
250
2003
prices
Ireland


Dublin Luas
Lines 1 and 2
2004
24.0
775
32.9
22.7
(at £0.69
to
l)
Existing French Systems
Generally we think not including all utilities diversions (paid for from utility companies accounts), but including a large amount of urban design and architecture
All prices as at 2003
£
£
Grenoble
1
1987
12.9
262
20.3
180.8
14.00
2
1990
7.9
153
19.4
105.6
13.4
Paris
1
1992
9.0
141
15.7
97.3
10.80
2
1997
11.4
105
9.2
72.5
6.30
Lyon
1
2001
9.5
178
18.7
122.8
12.90
2
2001
10.0
202
20.2
139.4
13.90
Montpellier
1
2000
15.2
375
24.6
258.8
17.00
Nantes
1
1985
18.0
162
9.0
111.8
6.20
2
1992
14.0
276
19.7
190.4
13.60
3
2000
5.0
87
17.4
60.0
12.00
Orleans
1
2000
18.0
317
17.6
218.7
12.10
Rouen (includes a 4 km tunnel and 3 underground stations)
1 (2 lines)
1994
16.0
503
31.4
347.0
21.60
Strasbourg
1
1994
12.5
367
29.36
253.2
20.26
(line 1 includes a 1.5 km tunnel and underground station at StrasbourgGare)
2
2000
12.6
285
22.6
196.7
15.60
Bordeaux
1
2004
24.5
629.7
25.7
434.5
17.70
2
2007
20.0
508.0
25.4
350.5
17.50





 
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