World’s Longest Trams Enter Service On Tram Line 1
- 11 Apr 2016 9:00 AM
On 31 March 2016, the first long CAF tram entered service on recently refurbished and extended line 1 with 11 more vehicles to follow until the summer. A total of 12 trams of this type, which is the longest in the world, will be in operation in the Hungarian capital. The fleet will be complete in April once the 12th tram arrives from Spain. All of the open-gangway, low-floor and air-conditioned trams will be serving line 1.
The Municipality of Budapest put into service the longest tram of the world, a type CAF URBOS 3/9 to run on tram line 1. Eleven more trams of the same type will follow until the summer. CAF has already delivered 11 of the total of 12 while the last tram is to arrive to Budapest in April.
These trams are doing test runs at the moment that are required for the authorisation to enter service so that by summer, when the handover-delivery procedure is scheduled to finish, all 12 long CAF trams would be able to start passenger service on recently refurbished and extended tram line 1.
Tram manufacturer CAF received the type licenses for the long vehicles and the entry-into-service authorisation for the trams already handed over for operation within the contractual deadline. The CAF URBOS 3/9 is a world recorder with its length of 55.9 metres. The air-conditioned passenger cabin fully satisfies the modern traveller’s needs by being low-floor with fully accessible seats and open gangways between the cars.
Source: BKK Centre for Budapest Transport
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