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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tatra T5C5 tram under 4000 number in Budapest: The original uploader was Kozeg at Hungarian Wikipedia .· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. 47-es villamos (4281) 2: Kemenymate· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Tatra T5C5K: Kozeg at English Wikipedia· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4. Tatra T5C5 - původní interiér: Josef Svejk· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The Tatra T5C5 is a single-car tram built by ČKD Tatra in Prague in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1978, two prototypes were tested in Prague and Budapest. As they are no longer based on the PCC streetcar, they differed in many ways to earlier Tatra products, most notably that the vehicle was controlled by a hand lever rather than a foot pedal.
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
- Weighs about as much as 3 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 14.7 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 100: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 322
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇭🇺 Hungary
- builders
- ČKD
- operators
- BKV
- top speed
- 65 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 600 V DC
- length
- 14.7 m
- weight
- 18.3 t
- capacity
- 100 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q1078118, Wikipedia: Tatra T5C5 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.