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#6498· Tango

Stadler Tango

🇨🇭 Switzerland ·built by Stadler Rail· tram made by Stadler Rail

Stadler Tango, photo 1 of 10
1/10 Markus Eigenheer from Genève, Schweiz· CC BY-SA 2.0

what is it?

The Tango is a light rail vehicle and tram made by Stadler Rail. It can be built as either a 100% high-floor or 70% low-floor articulated unit. It is in use in Aarhus, Bochum, Berlin (BVG-Class IK), Basel, Geneva, Kraków (Kraków - Lajkonik), Lyon, Ostrava (NF2) and Sarajevo (NF3).

who runs it

base stats

  • speed 80 km/htop speed
  • power 125 kWpower output
  • weight 35.7 tin working order

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

  • Weighs about as much as 6 African elephants (~6 t each).
  • 28.2 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
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number built
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kind
tram / light rail
traction
electric
origin
🇨🇭 Switzerland
builders
Stadler Rail
operators
Baselland Transport, Appenzeller Bahnen
top speed
80 km/h
power
125 kW
gauge
1,435 mm standard gauge
electric system
750 V DC overhead wire
wheel arrangement
Bo′2′Bo′
length
28.2 m
weight
35.7 t
Dutch name
Tango

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

Sources: Wikidata Q471173, Wikipedia: Stadler Tango (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.

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