Docklands Light Railway P86 and P89 stock

what is it?

The Docklands Light Railway P86 and P89 stock were the first generation of trains used on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), a light metro system which serves the London Docklands area in the east of London. In the mid 1980s, 11 trains were ordered from West German company Linke-Hofmann-Busch by the GEC and Mowlem consortium building the system. These P86 trains entered service with the opening of the DLR in 1987.

who runs it

Docklands Light Railway

base stats

• speed 80 km/htop speed
• weight 39 tin working order
• seats 130passengers
• built 21made 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 39 years ago, in 1987.
• 🐘Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
• 📏28 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🧍Seats 130: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
• 🧓Still in service after 39 years.

tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.

spec sheet

built

1987

in service from

1987

status

in service

number built

21

kind

tram / light rail

traction

electric

origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

builders

Linke-Hofmann, British Rail Engineering Limited

operators

Docklands Light Railway

top speed

80 km/h

power

—

length

28 m

weight

39 t

capacity

130 passengers

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