#6499· Stadtbahnwagen type B
Stadtbahnwagen B
🇩🇪 Germany ·built by DÜWAG· articulated light rail car developed in Germany
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what is it?
The Stadtbahnwagen Typ B (translation Type "B" Light Rail Vehicle, short form B-Wagen) is a light rail vehicle used by several Stadtbahn networks in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia as well as by the Bursaray network in Bursa, Turkey. It was mainly developed by Düsseldorf-based Duewag, who also built the majority of vehicles in a consortium with Siemens and Kiepe. A small series of ten units was built by Waggon Union in Berlin.
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
- 780 kW is about 9 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 28 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- —
- number built
- 470
- kind
- Light Rail Vehicle/Tramcar
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- builders
- DÜWAG, Siemens Mobility, Kiepe Electric, Waggon Union, Brown, Boveri & Cie, ABB Group, Adtranz, Vossloh
- top speed
- 100 km/h
- power
- 780 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 750 Volt, V Direct current, DC (Germany), 1,500 V DC (Bursa)
- wheel arrangement
- B′2′B′ (monomotor versions)
- length
- 28 m
- weight
- 39 t
- Dutch name
- Stadtbahnwagen type B
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q315137, Wikipedia: Stadtbahnwagen B (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.