🚋 tram / light rail ✓ in service
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tram in Sofia near Russian monument 020: Bin im Garten· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. An Inekon Т8М-700IT tram entering Tram depot "Banishora": DemieK07· CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Inekon T8M-700IT is a tram produced by Inekon based on the T6M-700 model of Tramkar. A total number of 18 trams were produced. They entered service in Sofia in 2009.
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 17 years ago, in 2009.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 26.6 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
- 2009
- in service from
- 2009
- status
- in service
- number built
- 18
- kind
- tram / light rail
- origin
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria
- builders
- Inekon Group, Tramkar
- operators
- Sofia Tramway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,009 mm narrow gauge
- length
- 26.6 m
- weight
- 30 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4402314, Wikipedia: Inekon T8M-700IT (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.