Docklands Light Railway B90, B92, and B2K Stock

what is it?

The Docklands Light Railway B90, B92, and B2K stock are the second generation of trains used on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), a light metro system which serves the London Docklands area in the east of London. Owing to various issues with the P86 and P89 trains originally used on the DLR (including non-compliance with fire safety standards required for underground operation, low capacity, inability to be coupled in pairs and issues with the signalling system), London Transport ordered a replacement fleet from La Brugeoise et Nivelles (later Bombardier Transportation) and a new signalling system from Alcatel SelTrac as part of the Beckton extension of the DLR in the early 1990s. A total of 94 trains were built in three batches between 1991 and 2002 at Bombardier's factory in Bruges, Belgium.

who runs it

Docklands Light Railway

base stats

• speed 80 km/htop speed
• weight 36 tin working order
• seats 284passengers
• built 94made in total

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

• 🎂First built 35 years ago, in 1991.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏28 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 284: 6 full city buses (~50 seats each).
• 🧓Still in service after 35 years.

tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.

spec sheet

built

1991

in service from

1991

status

in service

number built

94

kind

tram / light rail

traction

electric

origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

builders

ALSTOM Transportation Germany

operators

Docklands Light Railway

top speed

80 km/h

power

—

formation

2/3 vehicles per train

length

28 m

weight

36 t

capacity

284 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.