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LM-33
🇷🇺 Russia ·built by Petersburg Tram Mechanical Factory· from 1933· soviet tram produced in the 1930s
🚋 tram / light rail retired
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. LM-33-02: Mikhail Chernysh· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. LM-33-01: Mikhail Chernysh· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The LM-33 is a four-axle Soviet tram, produced by the Petersburg Tram Mechanical Factory (PTMF) from 1933 to 1939.
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 93 years ago, in 1933.
- Weighs about as much as 4 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15 m long: about 3 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 129: 3 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 46 years (1933–1979).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1933
- in service from
- 1933
- retired
- 1979
- status
- retired
- number built
- 232
- kind
- tram / light rail
- origin
- 🇷🇺 Russia
- builders
- Petersburg Tram Mechanical Factory
- designer
- D.I. Kondratiev
- operators
- Gorelectrotrans
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 55 kW
- gauge
- 1,524 mm Russian broad gauge
- length
- 15 m
- weight
- 22.2 t
- capacity
- 129 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q917911, Wikipedia: LM-33 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.