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Bombardier Flexity 2 (Blackpool)
Blackpool's modern trams: 16 five-section Flexity 2s, the first of Bombardier's design anywhere, built for the rebuilt tramway that reopened in April 2012, and two more delivered in 2017. Each is 106 ft (32.2 m) long with a 100% low floor, and they run the whole line from Starr Gate to Fleetwood and North Station.
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Liveries 1
Blackpool TramwayBlackpool Transport (purple and white)White with a dark window band, purple cabs, purple and white patterns behind the cab doors; from photographs of 010 (2022), 017 (2021) and 018 (2024)Shown aboveSpecial liveries 1
- Green and cream (tram 012) One tram. Dates not found; 012 was out of service in October 2026.
- Type
- Tram, five sections, 100% low floor
- Builder
- Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen (Germany)
- Built
- 2010–2012 (001–016); 2017 (017, 018)
- In service
- since 2012
- Lines
- Blackpool Tramway
- Formation
- Five sections, 106 ft (32.2 m) long, double-ended: a cab section at each end and a short centre section, each on one bogie, with a suspended section between them on each side; a single door on each cab section and a double door on each suspended section
- Trains in fleet
- 18
- Top speed
- 43 mph (70 km/h)
- Power
- 600 V DC overhead, single-arm pantograph (Stemmann-Technik); four 120 kW three-phase motors · how it works
- Bogies
- Bombardier FLEXX Urban 3000 bogies, two motor and a trailer, behind the bodyside's fairings but for the bottoms of the wheels (Blackpool's Flexity 2)
- Train length
- 106 ft (32.23 m)
- Car height
- 11 ft 3 in (3.42 m)
- Car width
- 8 ft 8 in (2.65 m)
- Profile
- tram
- Seats per train
- 74
- Total capacity
- 74 seats including tip-ups and 148 standing at 4 a square metre, with two multi-purpose areas (Bombardier)
- Status
- In service: 18 trams, 001-018, from Starr Gate depot. 005 (since July 2022), 010 (since August 2025) and 012 (since December 2025) were out of service in October 2026 (British Trams Online, 3 October 2026).
Before this train
The traditional trams' last day of regular service was 6 November 2011: Centenary and Brush cars by day and Balloons by night. The tramway reopened with the Flexity 2s on 4 April 2012; the older cars survive in heritage use.
The traditional trams' last day of regular service was 6 November 2011: Centenary and Brush cars by day and Balloons by night. The tramway reopened with the Flexity 2s on 4 April 2012; the older cars survive in heritage use.
The traditional trams' last day of regular service was 6 November 2011: Centenary and Brush cars by day and Balloons by night. The tramway reopened with the Flexity 2s on 4 April 2012; the older cars survive in heritage use.
Now Bombardier Flexity 2 (Blackpool) since 2012 · 106 ft (32.2 m) · 5 sections · 74 seats
Before Balloon double-deck cars (English Electric) 1934–2011
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Before Centenary cars (East Lancashire Coachbuilders) 1985–2011
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Before Brush railcoaches 1937–2011
No drawing yet: no dimensioned source found
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | Cab sections: a cab and a single door, over a motor bogie | 23 ft 7 in7.19 m | |
| S | Suspended sections: a double door, no bogie | 21 ft 9 in6.62 m | |
| R | Centre section: no doors, over the trailer bogie, with the pantograph | 15 ft 1 in4.61 m |
Sources
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Show the 12 sources from Wikimedia Commons, Bombardier Transportation, British Trams Online and 2 more
- FLEXITY 2 tram: Blackpool, United Kingdom (data sheet) Bombardier Transportation (Vienna), printed 11-2009 (10645/LRV/11-2009/en, (c) 2012); archived 24 January 2013contract July 2009; 16 trams of five modules on three bogies (two powered); 106 ft (32.2 m), 8 ft 8 in (2.65 m) wide, 11 ft 3 in (3.42 m) high; 100% low floor, entrance 1 ft 1 in (320 mm); doors and their widths; 2 ft 0 in (600 mm) wheels; weights; 600 V DC; four 120 kW motors; 70 km/h (43 mph); 74 seats and 148 standing
- Blackpool Tramway fleet list British Trams Online, updated 3 October 2026numbers 001-018; built 2010-12 and 2017 by Bombardier, Bautzen; delivery and first-service dates; single-arm pantograph; liveries and status in October 2026
- Blackpool Tram Rail Engineer, 11 October 2011the first order anywhere for the Flexity 2; 106 ft (32.2 m), 11 ft 3 in (3.42 m), 8 ft 8 in (2.65 m); 40.9 t empty; FLEXX Urban 3000 bogies, inside-framed, 6 ft 1 in (1,850 mm) wheelbase, 2 ft 0 in (600 mm) wheels in Blackpool, hidden behind side fairings; 125 kW motors outside the frames (cross-check: Bombardier gives 120 kW); 600 V DC; a Stemmann-Technik pantograph; 74 seats and 148 standing
- FLEXITY 2 tram: Blackpool, United Kingdom (data sheet) Bombardier Transportation (Vienna), printed 11-2009 (10645/LRV/11-2009/en, (c) 2012); archived 24 January 2013, p. 2side elevation (measured): modules, bellows, doors, windows, cab front, bogies, wheels, fairings, pantograph
- 'Blackpool 010 Platinum Jubilee tram (52064262633).jpg' (photograph: Flexity 2 010 near side-on, its cab section whole; CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Steven's Transport Photos), 10 May 2022the livery's layout: the window band's foot, the pattern behind the cab door, the lines on the cab side (rectified); colours in sun
- 'Vehicles in the United Kingdom 323.jpg' (photograph: Flexity 2 017 whole, three-quarter; CC BY 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Steven's Transport Photos), 2 July 2021the whole tram in the livery; the black bellows; the door leaves; colours in overcast light
- 'Tram number 018 - geograph.org.uk - 7912446.jpg' (photograph: Flexity 2 018 at North Station, three-quarter front; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Adrian Taylor), 20 October 2024the livery in October 2024; the cab front and dome
- '11.07.24 Blackpool North Station 002 and 008 (53851222067).jpg' (photograph: Flexity 2s 002 and 008 head-on at North Station; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Phil Richards), 11 July 2024closed fronts with no coupler; dark bellows (2024)
- 'Flexx Urban 3000 bogie.jpg' (photograph: a Blackpool FLEXX Urban 3000 motor bogie out of the tram; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Isambardo), 21 April 2012the bogie's black wheel guards (what shows below the fairings)
- The Highway Code: road works, level crossings and tramways (rules 288 to 307), rule 307 Department for Transport (GOV.UK), accessed 10 October 2026, p. rule 307the "In operation" drawing's contact wire: 19 ft 0 in (5.8 m), the normal height of tramway wires over a carriageway
- In Pictures: The first rescues the last in Blackpool (news item with photographs) British Trams Online, 4 November 2024a failed Flexity 2 coupled to another and towed: 018 by 001 (set BC11, 20 October 2026; layout only)
- The Highway Code: road works, level crossings and tramways (rules 288 to 307), rule 307 Department for Transport (GOV.UK), accessed 10 October 2026, p. rule 307the contact wire in the In operation drawing: 19 ft 0 in (5.8 m) above rail, the normal height of tramway wires over a carriageway
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- Maximum speed: 70 km/h (43 mph) is Bombardier's design figure; Wikipedia says Blackpool's are limited to 50 km/h (31 mph; without a source)
- Where they were built: Bautzen (British Trams Online); Wikipedia says Bautzen and Vienna
- The pantograph's maker (Stemmann-Technik): Rail Engineer, 2011, only
- The pantograph folded: the sheet draws it raised; folded with its arms the knee would stand about 1 ft 1 in (330 mm) past the centre section's body, over the bellows, which the drawing can't show, so it is drawn shortened (6 ft 3 in to 11 ft 11 in (1,900-3,620 mm) along the section, top 11 ft 11 in (3,640 mm) estimated); no photograph with it down was found
- The livery's lines on the cab side forward of about 3 ft 3 in (1 m) from the nose: the cab curves out of the rectified photograph's plane there
- The right-hand cab's pattern: drawn as the left-hand one's mirror image; 017 (2021) shows the far cab's pattern on the same side, alike as far as the photograph shows it
- Bellows: black on 017 (2021), 002 and 008 (2024), pale grey on 010 and 012 (2022); drawn black
- Colours: sampled from 010 in sun (2022), 017 in overcast light (2021) and 018 in sun (2024), and set between them
- Green and cream (tram 012): when 012 carried it, and whether it still does
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