B2007 Stock
Bombardier cars bought for the three-car upgrade and the 2012 Games. They stay in service alongside the new B23s.
- Type
- Light rail vehicle, two-section articulated
- Builder
- Bombardier, Bautzen (Germany)
- In service
- since 2008
- Lines
- DLR
- Formation
- Articulated cars, run in threes
- Trains in fleet
- 55 cars
- Power
- 750 V DC third rail
- Car height
- 3.436 m
- Car width
- 2.65 m
- Profile
- light rail
- Seats per train
- 168
- Total capacity
- 688 in a three-car train (Rail Engineer); 56 seats a car: 32 facing forward, 20 sideways and 4 tip-up (Bombardier)
- Status
- In service.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Section B, with a cab, over a motor bogie (its end of the car's articulation joint) | 14.00 m | 2 double |
| A | Section A, with a cab, over a motor bogie | 14.00 m | 2 double |
Sources
- DLR B2007 vehicle layout (Projektbild), drawing 1.728:01.00.00.0:00/0, released by TfL under FOI-0016-1617, Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen; Transport for London, 2005, revised 2007; released 27 April 2017 (dimensions, bogies, doors, seats; side elevation and plan)
- DLR looks to the future with Olympic train order, Transport for London (press release), 13 June 2006 (order of 24 and then 31 cars)
- Docklands Light Railway car unveiled, Railway Gazette, 13 March 2008 (assembled at Bautzen)
- Games transport legacy put in place as Mayor unveils new Docklands Light Railway carriages, Transport for London (press release), 13 March 2008 (unveiled March 2008; in service to the end of 2009)
- New trains on the Docklands Light Railway, Rail Engineer, 19 December 2023 (capacity of a three-car train)
- Improving the DLR, Transport for London (to remain in service)