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SL18
🇪🇸 Spain ·built by Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles· from 2020· low-floor articulated tramcar class in Oslo, Norway
7 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. SL18 tram performing test run at Bjørvika: Stylez995· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. SL18 v Tullinløkka-1: Tarjei S. Arntsen· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. 20220203 Bjoervika SL18: Kolbkorr· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Grefsen SL18: Espen Franck-Nielsen· CC BY 4.0
- 5. Ruter SL18 420 - 55142445560: MissCatTrap· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. SL18 at an intersection in Oslo at night: Nakonana· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. SL18 in Oslo at night: Nakonana· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The SL18 (short for Sporvogn Ledd, commissioned in 2018) is a series of 87 low-floor, articulated trams currently being phased-in on the Oslo Tramway network. They will continue to be phased-in until 2025, when the last SL79s and SL95s are replaced. They were purchased from the Spanish tram manufacturer, CAF. The first one was shipped and unveiled at Grefsen depot in 2020, and regular operation begun in 2022.
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 6 years ago, in 2020.
- 560 kW is about 7 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 34.2 m long: about 8 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 220: 4 full city buses (~50 seats each).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 2020
- in service from
- 2022
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇪🇸 Spain
- builders
- Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles
- operators
- Sporveien Trikken
- top speed
- 70 km/h
- power
- 560 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- wheel arrangement
- Bo′+0′+2′+0′+Bo′
- length
- 34.2 m
- weight
- 42.7 t
- capacity
- 220 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
family
Sources: Wikidata Q54913426, Wikipedia: SL18 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.