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TW 3000

🇩🇪 Germany ·built by Kiepe Electric· from 2015· rolling stock class of light rail vehicles for Hannover, Germany

TW 3000, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Christian A. Schröder ( ChristianSchd )· CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The TW 3000 is a type of articulated light rail vehicle used on the Hanover Stadtbahn system since 2015. The trains are built by a consortium of Vossloh Kiepe and Alstom, with the final assembly taking place at HeiterBlick's Leipzig factory.

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 80 km/htop speed
  • power 500 kWpower output
  • seats 54passengers
  • built 153made in total

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 11 years ago, in 2015.
  • 500 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • 25.2 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
2015
in service from
2015
status
in service
number built
153
kind
tram / light rail
traction
electric
origin
🇩🇪 Germany
builders
Kiepe Electric, Alstom
operators
üstra
top speed
80 km/h
power
500 kW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
electric system
600– overhead catenary
wheel arrangement
Bo′2′+Bo′
length
25.2 m
capacity
54 passengers

From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.

Sources: Wikidata Q1260864, Wikipedia: TW 3000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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