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Glasgow Subway Stadler trains
Stadler's four-car trains for the Glasgow Subway, built to the same length and size as the three-car trains they replaced, to fit its 11 ft tunnels and 4 ft gauge. They are open from end to end, with six doorways a side, and are equipped to run without a driver once the new signalling and platform screen doors are complete.
Scale
130 ft (39.51 m) over couplers
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- Type
- Electric multiple unit (automatic metro, driven for now)
- Builder
- Stadler (Stadler Bussnang AG), in a consortium with Ansaldo STS for the signalling
- In service
- since 2023
- Lines
- Glasgow Subway
- Formation
- 4 cars, walk-through, 130 ft (39.51 m): two half-trains, each a motor car on two bogies and a shorter trailer car carried at its outer end by the motor car (Bo'Bo'+2'+2'+Bo'Bo')
- Trains in fleet
- 17
- Top speed
- 36 mph (58 km/h)
- Power
- 600 V DC third rail; 520 kW continuous and 820 kW maximum at the wheel (Stadler) · how it works
- Bogies
- Stadler's motor bogies for the Glasgow Subway; Stadler's trailer bogies for the Glasgow Subway
- Train length
- 130 ft (39.51 m)
- Car height
- 8 ft 8 in (2.642 m)
- Car width
- 7 ft 7 in (2.309 m)
- Profile
- tube
- Walk-through
- Yes
- Seats per train
- 104
- Total capacity
- 104 seats and 6 tip-up seats, with 200 standing at 6 people per m² (Stadler); two wheelchair spaces a train (SPT)
- Status
- In service: 17 trains. The first carried passengers in December 2023, and since the end of June 2024 they have run the whole service (SPT). Each still has a driver, in a temporary cab at the front; unattended running is to follow.
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Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| M | Driving motor car | 39 ft 9 in12.126 m | 2 double |
| T | Trailer car | 25 ft 0 in7.629 m | 1 double |
| M2 | Driving motor car (other end) | 39 ft 9 in12.126 m | 2 double |
Sources
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Show the 10 sources from Wikimedia Commons, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, Stadler
- METRO Glasgow EMU, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), UK (data sheet MSPT0522e) Stadler, 202217 trains; formation and axle arrangement; 130 ft × 7 ft 7 in × 8 ft 8 in (39,510 x 2,309 x 2,642 mm); floor 2 ft 3 in (695 mm); six 3 ft 11 in (1,200 mm) doorways a side; 104 + 6 seats, 200 standing; 600 V DC; 58 km/h (36 mph); output
- Subway Modernisation Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, accessed 10 October 2026four cars; first in service December 2023; all service from the end of June 2024; two wheelchair spaces; platform screen doors; unattended operation to follow
- New Subway trains unveiled Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, 4 March 2016 (the page's byline says 9 March 2016)contract to Stadler and Ansaldo STS, March 2016; same size as the old trains; open gangways
- 125 years of the Subway (timeline) Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, 2021; accessed 10 October 202617 trains; tested in 2022
- 'J33 708 Triebdrehgestell auf Transportrollbock.jpg' (photograph: a Glasgow Subway motor bogie side-on, InnoTrans 2018; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Falk2), 18 September 2018the motor bogie, side-on: layout and colours
- 'J33 707 U-Bahn-Triebzug fuer Glasgow, Schalenmuffenkupplung.jpg' (photograph: the joint between two cars from below, InnoTrans 2018; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Falk2), 18 September 2018the coupling between cars, from below
- 'J33 701 U-Bahn-Triebzug fuer Glasgow, Wagenuebergang.jpg' (photograph: the open gangway between cars, InnoTrans 2018; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Falk2), 18 September 2018the gangway bellows
- '2024 Glasgow Subway 921.jpg' (photograph: a Stadler train at a platform, side view along the train; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Gillfoto), 17 May 2024service livery: body, doors, surrounds, boxes
- '2024 Glasgow Subway 919.jpg' (photograph: the cab end of unit 307 at a platform, door open; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Gillfoto), 17 May 2024the cab end and cab side window in service
- '2024 Glasgow Subway 801.jpg' (photograph: unit 310 at St Enoch from across the tracks; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Gillfoto), 17 May 2024the lower bodyside in service
unverified
- First passenger day 11 December 2023 and the old trains' last day 28 June 2024: Wikipedia, citing BBC News and Glasgow Live; SPT gives only December 2023 and the end of June 2024
- Unit numbers 301-317: Wikipedia; the photographs show 307 and 310 on the cab sides
- Built at Stadler's Altenrhein works: Wikipedia, citing Global Rail News (2018); Stadler's sheet names Stadler Bussnang AG
- When unattended operation starts: SPT gives no date; press reports in 2025-26 say late 2026 or 2027
- Train length: Stadler's 130 ft (39,510 mm) is over the coupler faces (the sheet's rail line runs between them), 126 ft (38.54 m) over the noses as measured off the sheet; Railway Gazette's InnoTrans report (2018) gives 129 ft (39.2 m; with 7 ft 8 in × 8 ft 8 in (2,340 x 2,650 mm)) and railway-technology 129 ft (39.25 m), neither matching either measure, so the drawing follows Stadler's 2022 sheet
- Car lengths: measured off Stadler's vector side view (true to its printed length, height and wheelbase within 0.3%); Stadler prints no car lengths
- Car names: neither Stadler nor SPT names the cars; motor and trailer follow Stadler's axle arrangement (Bo'Bo'+2'+2'+Bo'Bo': each end car on two motor bogies, each middle car on one trailer bogie), and that each trailer's bogie is at its inner end, its outer end resting on the motor car, is read off the sheet's side view, not stated in words
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