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Pesa Swing

🇵🇱 Poland ·built by Pesa· from 2009· family of low-floor trams manufactured by PESA

Pesa Swing, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Guillaume.G· CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

PESA Swing is a tram manufactured by Polish company PESA in Bydgoszcz. It is a 100% low-floor, five-section vehicle based on the 120N model. The Swing is a tram of the multi-articulated type with sections connected by accordion-type pivot joints.

base stats

  • speed 70 km/htop speed
  • power 480 kWpower output
  • weight 41.6 tin working order
  • seats 161passengers
  • built 364made 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 17 years ago, in 2009.
  • 480 kW is about 6 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
  • Weighs about as much as 7 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 30.1 m long: about 7 cars parked nose to tail.
  • Seats 161: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).

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

spec sheet

built
2009
number built
364
kind
tram / light rail
origin
🇵🇱 Poland
builders
Pesa
top speed
70 km/h
power
480 kW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
length
30.1 m
weight
41.6 t
capacity
161 passengers

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

Sources: Wikidata Q132310, Wikipedia: Pesa Swing (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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