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Docklands Light Railway B23 Stock
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2025· passenger train class used on the Docklands Light Railway
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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. DLR B23 at Pontoon Dock: Tyxcho· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Docklands Light Railway B23 Stock 04: Tom Page· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. B23 at south quay: Tom Page· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. CAF B23 Stock EMU (set 203): Samson Ng . D201@EAL· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Dlr b23 eve-1: Tyxcho· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. DLR B23 Unit 209 at King George V in October 2025 01: Sunil060902· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. DLR B23 Unit 209 at King George V in October 2025 03: Sunil060902· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. DLR B23 Unit 209 at King George V in October 2025 06: Sunil060902· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. DLR B23 Unit 209 at Stratford in October 2025 01: Sunil060902· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. DLR B23 Unit 209 at Stratford in October 2025 04: Sunil060902· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Docklands Light Railway B23 Stock is the fourth generation of train used on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), a light metro system that serves the London Docklands area in the east of London. In 2019, Transport for London (TfL) announced that they had ordered 43 trains from Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) to replace the existing B90/B92/B2K stock and provide additional capacity on the network. An additional 11 trains were ordered in 2023.
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
- First built 1 years ago, in 2025.
- Weighs about as much as 20 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 86.7 m long: about 19 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 156: 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
- 2025
- in service from
- 2025
- status
- in service
- number built
- 54
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Docklands Light Railway
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- formation
- 5 cars per unit
- length
- 86.7 m
- weight
- 117 t
- capacity
- 156 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q138763939, Wikipedia: Docklands Light Railway B23 Stock (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.