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Firema T-68
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Titagarh Rail Systems· from 1992· light rail passenger vehicle
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9 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. 1011turns off Mosley Street: David Ingham· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. Driving position, Firema T-68 tram, Metrolink Eccles service, Manchester 26.4.2006 Manchester P4260023 (10430388323): Gillett's Crossing from Bristol, United Kingdom· CC BY 2.0
- 3. T68 in yellow livery, February 2012: Mikey from Wythenshawe, Manchester, UK· CC BY 2.0
- 4. Manchester Metrolink 1000 @ MoTGM Twilight Buses & Trams Event (2): Steven's Transport Photos· CC BY 2.0
- 5. Manchester Metrolink 1000 @ MoTGM Twilight Buses & Trams Event: Steven's Transport Photos· CC BY 2.0
- 6. Manchester Metrolink T68 1000 Prototype (13013586734): Neil Turner from Sowerby Bridge, United Kingdom· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 7. Metrolink prototype: Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net ).· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. Prototype Metrolink tram at Manchester Museum of Transport: Ed Webster· CC BY 2.0
- 9. Manchester tram '2006 G-Mex 0303: Industrial Wales· CC BY-SA 2.0
what is it?
The Firema T-68 is a retired model of light rail passenger vehicle that first operated on the Manchester Metrolink network in Greater Manchester, England in 1992. The vehicles were constructed by Firema specifically as a high-floor, articulated bi-directional tram to operate solely on the Manchester Metrolink system. Twenty-six T-68s were manufactured by Firema at their factories in Italy.
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 34 years ago, in 1992.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 29 m long: about 6 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 122: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 22 years (1992–2014).
tram / light rail: Street-running or light-rail vehicles that share or skirt the road.
spec sheet
- built
- 1992
- in service from
- 1992
- retired
- 2014
- status
- retired
- number built
- 32
- kind
- tram / light rail
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Titagarh Rail Systems, Ansaldo, Hitachi Rail Italy
- top speed
- 80 km/h
- power
- —
- electric system
- OHLE
- formation
- 2 carriages
- length
- 29 m
- weight
- 49 t
- capacity
- 122 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7667767, Wikipedia: Firema T-68 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.