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Bucharest Articulated Tramcar
🇷🇴 Romania ·built by Societatea de Transport București· from 1971· series of tram vehicles
4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Tramway 32 Buc: photo by Orioane· CC BY-SA 3.0
- 2. V3A 175 on Timisoara Boulevard: TrainSimFan· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Bucharest V3A tram 4: Stefan Puscasu· Public domain
- 4. V3A 220 on line 11 in Giulesti-Constructorilor, Bucharest: TrainSimFan· CC BY-SA 4.0
what is it?
The Bucharest Articulated Tramcar series is a series of tram vehicles produced between 1971 and 1992 by URAC, the main workshops of the Bucharest Transit Company (Întreprinderea de Transport București (ITB)). Various modernized variants have also been delivered since 1993. For the last 50 years they have been the backbone of the tram network in Bucharest, replacing motor-trailer formations that had run in the city since the introduction of electric trams.
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 55 years ago, in 1971.
- Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 26 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 249: 5 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Still in service after 55 years.
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1971
- in service from
- 1971
- status
- in service
- number built
- —
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇷🇴 Romania
- builders
- Societatea de Transport București
- designer
- Linke-Hoffman-Busch, West Germany
- operators
- ITB/RATB/STB București, IJTL Constanța, Prahova, Brașov, Cluj, Bihor
- top speed
- 55 km/h
- power
- 240 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- B′(2)′(2)′B′ (V3A)
- formation
- 3 (V3A/V3B) or 2 (V2A/V2B) carriages
- length
- 26 m
- weight
- 35 t
- capacity
- 249 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q17747619, Wikipedia: Bucharest Articulated Tramcar (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.