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T-69 (Ansaldo)
The trams Midland Metro opened with in 1999: 16 two-section cars built by Ansaldo in Italy, about 79 ft (24 m) long. They ran between Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton until CAF's Urbos 3s replaced them in 2014-15.
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- Type
- Light rail vehicle, two sections, part low floor, double-ended
- Builder
- Ansaldo Trasporti (later AnsaldoBreda), Italy
- Built
- 1998–1999
- In service
- 1999–2015
- Lines
- West Midlands Metro
- Formation
- One articulated tram of two sections with a short articulated section between them, about 79 ft (24 m) long
- Trains in fleet
- 16
- Power
- 750 V DC overhead, single-arm pantograph · how it works
- Train length
- 79 ft (24.00 m)
- Profile
- tram
- Seats per train
- 52
- Total capacity
- 156 passengers (Rail Engineer, 2013); 52 seats (British Trams Online)
- Status
- Withdrawn: 01 in 2006 and 02 in 2009, used for spares; the rest from 2013 to 2015, the last (16) on 14 August 2015. All went to Long Marston; most were sold at auction in 2018 and scrapped. 07 and 10 were still stored there in 2024, 11 was scrapped in 2022 although it had been meant for Birmingham Museums, and 16 went to the Very Light Rail Innovation Centre at Dudley in November 2023 to be a test tram (British Trams Online, 3 March 2024).
- Replaced by
- CAF Urbos (West Midlands Metro)
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Sources
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- The Rail Vehicle Accessibility (Midland Metro T69 Vehicles) Exemption Order 2001 (SI 2001/785) legislation.gov.uk (The National Archives), made 7 March 2001the class's name, its makers (Ansaldo Trasporti S.p.A.) and its numbers, 1 to 16, for Line 1
- Midland Metro T69 fleet list British Trams Online, updated 3 March 2024built 1998-99; every tram's delivery, withdrawal and departure dates and its fate; 52 seats; 4 x 105 kW
- Midland Metro: Trams TheTrams.co.uk (Peter Courtenay), fleet list updated 28 August 2007two carriages with a short articulated centre; 79 ft (24 m); single-arm pantograph; the liveries to 2007
- CAF trams for Midland Metro Expansion Project Rail Engineer, 3 May 201316 Ansaldo trams in service since 1999; 156 passengers; the Urbos 3 29 ft 6 in (9 m) longer
- Midland Metro 'T69' trams up for sale The Railway Magazine (Sam Hewitt), 17 January 2018the 2018 auction; withdrawn 2014-15; 01-15 stored at Long Marston, 16 kept for engineering use
- West Midlands Metro rolling stock Wikipediadimensions, seats, motors, dates (cross-check only)
unverified
- Length: about 79 ft (24 m; TheTrams.co.uk; Rail Engineer's '9 metres longer' for the 108 ft (33 m) Urbos 3); 79 ft 11 in (24.36 m; Wikipedia, citing Boynton, 2001). Width (8 ft 2 in (2.48 m)) and height (12 ft 2 in (3.7 m)) only on Wikipedia, so not given
- Seats: 52 (British Trams Online) or 56 (Wikipedia)
- Motors: 4 x 105 kW (British Trams Online) or 2 x 210 kW (Wikipedia, citing an ORR survey)
- Top speed: 50 mph (80 km/h; TheTrams.co.uk) or 70 km/h (43 mph; Wikipedia); not given
- The opening: 30 May 1999 to the public (Wikipedia); 'May 1999' (The Railway Magazine)
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