The new MPL16 trainsets (Métro Pneus Lyon 2016) put into service on line B.
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Welcome / Equipment / Lyon. Line B of the metro goes fully automatic
By: Patrick LAVAL
Almost four weeks after the first Sunday circulations of four new MPL16 trains on tires and without driver, line B of the Lyon metro switched to fully automatic mode on June 25, in the presence of Bruno Bernard, president of the Métropole de Lyon and Sytral Mobilités, and Jean-Baptiste Eyméoud, President of Alstom France. Opened 44 years ago, line B is now fully operated using new trains produced by Alstom, which will number 36 at the end of 2023, when the extension to the Lyon Sud Hospital (Saint-Genis-Laval) will be completed. in service. Line B, which currently has 10 stations over 7.7 km, will then be enriched with 2 stops, over 2.5 km, and will be operated by 30 trains during peak hours. As for the MPL75 trains hitherto in service on line B, they will reinforce the line A fleet.
On the occasion, the president of Alstom France specified that six sites in France ” used their know-how to design, manufacture and deploy the automatic control system and the new trains for line B of the Lyon metro “. In this case Valenciennes for the design, interior fittings, assembly, testing and validation of the trainsets, Ornans for the engines, Le Creusot for the bogies, Tarbes for the traction chain, Villeurbanne for the on-board electronics , passenger information, signaling equipment and maintenance of automatic systems in operational condition, as well as Saint-Ouen for coordinating the design and development of the Urbalis 400 signaling system. This pride is more than shared by the nearly 1,000 employees who work at our Villeurbanne site and who will therefore have the opportunity to use the new metro system that they have helped to develop and deploy. “, added the president of Alstom France. On line B, Alstom has adapted its Urbalis 400 solution to the specificities of the Lyon network, to reduce the interval between successive trains ” from 3 min 11 s in rush hour to 2 min 20 s ».
This article is taken from issue 3892 of La Vie du Rail.
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