Tatra K2

what is it?

The Tatra K2 was the first production articulated tramcar built by ČKD Tatra between 1966 and 1983, following the failure of the experimental prototypes K1 which never entered production. It was noted that the main problem with the K1 was with the new electrical equipment, and therefore the electrical equipment of the T3 (TR 37) was modified and incorporated into the new K2 (UA 12). The prototype entered service in 1966 as Prague tramcar number 7001, where it spent only a short spell, then it was exhibited at MSV 1966 in Brno (International Engineering Trade Fair) with the number 7000, before being transferred to Most, and then again moved to Brno (1968), where it at first had number 607 and later in the year 1969 it was changed to 1007.

base stats

• speed 60 km/htop speed
• power 40 kWpower output
• weight 21.9 tin working order
• seats 158passengers
• built 569made 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

• 🐘Weighs about as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏20.3 m long: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 158: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).

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

spec sheet

built

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number built

569

kind

tram / light rail

traction

electric

origin

🇨🇿 Czech Republic

builders

ČKD

top speed

60 km/h

power

40 kW

gauge

1,000 mm metre gauge

electric system

600 V DC

length

20.3 m

weight

21.9 t

capacity

158 passengers

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