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Bombardier Incentro
🇨🇦 Canada ·built by ALSTOM Transportation Germany· tram manufactured by Adtranz and then by Bombardier
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tram-de-Nantes: Pline· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Bombardier Incentro (sold as the ADtranz Incentro until 2001) is a model of tram manufactured initially by Adtranz and later by Bombardier Transportation. It is a five-section, low-floor articulated tram, built for bi-directional operation and capable of speeds up to 80 km/h. Incentro trams are used on the Nantes tramway and fifteen of the AT6/5 variants are used on the Nottingham Express Transit.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- 360 kW is about 4 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 36.4 m long: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- —
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- builders
- ALSTOM Transportation Germany
- designer
- Adtranz
- operators
- municipality of Nantes
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- 360 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′+2′+Bo′
- length
- 36.4 m
- weight
- 38.9 t
- capacity
- 5 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q378740, Wikipedia: Bombardier Incentro (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.