The Flexity Swift is a series of urban and inter-urban tram, light rail, and light metro vehicles manufactured by Bombardier Transportation. It is part of the Flexity family of rail vehicles, and like the others, Flexity Swift vehicles can be customized to suit the needs and requirements of customers, including legacy designs from its acquisition of Adtranz. As of 2015, over 1,000 Flexity Swift light rail vehicles have been ordered. the tram networks in Istanbul and Melbourne, the Rotterdam Metro, the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn, the Bonn Stadtbahn, the Stockholm light rail lines 12 and 22, and the Metro Light Rail in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota. The scrapped Merseytram plan for Liverpool in Merseyside planned to use the same model as London.

The Flexity Swift's closest competitors are the Alstom Citadis family (particularly the RegioCitadis, Citadis Dualis, and Citadis Spirit variants), Siemens' S70/Avanto, SD100/SD160, SD400/SD460 and S200, and the Sirio from Hitachi Rail Italy (formerly AnsaldoBreda). Compared to Bombardier's other Flexity vehicles, vehicles of the Flexity Swift family are not designed for streetcar operation with extensive mixed-traffic operations, although they do operate as such on a number of systems such as in London, Manchester, and Melbourne.

Technical specifications

Low-floor versions

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! City

! Operator

! Image

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! Year(s) built

! Quantity

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! Width

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! Maximum power

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|rowspan="2"| Cologne, Germany ||rowspan="2"| KVB|| 120x120px|| K4000 || 1995–1999, 2002 || 124|| || rowspan="13" | || || rowspan="4" | 4 x

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| 120px || K4500 || 2004–2007 || 69|| ||

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| London, England || TfL

(Tramlink)

| 120x120px|| CR4000 || 1998–2000 || 24|| ||

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| Istanbul, Turkey || Metro İstanbul|| 120px || A32 || 2002–2003 || 55|| ||

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| rowspan="3" | Karlsruhe, Germany || rowspan="3" | AVG and VBK || rowspan="3" | 120x120px|| rowspan="3" | ET 2010 (Tram-train) || 2011–2013 || 30|| rowspan="3" | || rowspan="3" | || rowspan="3" | 4 x

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|2017–2018

|12

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|2020–2021

|20

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|rowspan="2"|Melbourne, Australia ||rowspan="2"| Yarra Trams || 120px || E1 || 2012–2015 || 50|| rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | 62 t (61 long tons; 68 short tons)|| rowspan="2" | 6 x

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|120x120px

|| E2 || 2016–2021 || 50

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| Minneapolis, Minnesota<br>(Metro Light Rail), United States || Metro Transit || 120px || Type 1 LRV || 2003–2007 || 27 || || ||

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| Porto, Portugal || Porto Metro || 120x120px|| Traintram || 2010 || 30|| || ||

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| RijnGouweLijn, Netherlands || NS || 120x120px|| rowspan="2" | A32 || 1999–2003 || 6 (sold to Stockholm in June 2010) || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | || rowspan="2" | 4 x

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| Stockholm, Sweden || SL || 120x120px|| 1999–2008 || 31 + 6 bought from NS

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| rowspan="2" |Gothenburg, Sweden

| rowspan="2" |Göteborgs Spårvägar AB

|120x120px

|M33

|2019–2023

|40

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|120x120px

|M34

|2024–2026

|60

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High-floor versions

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! City

! Operator

! Image

! Type designation

! Year(s) built

! Quantity

! Length

! Width

! Weight (empty)

! Maximum power

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| Bonn, Germany || SWB || 120x120px|| K5000 || 2003 || 15|| ||

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| rowspan="4" | Cologne, Germany || rowspan="4" | KVB || rowspan="2" | 120px || K5000 || 2002–2003 || 59|| rowspan="4" | || rowspan="4" |

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| K5200 || 2010–2011 || 15

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| rowspan="2" |120x120px

| rowspan="2" | HF6|| rowspan="2" | 2020–2023 || 20

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|6

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| Düsseldorf, Germany || Rheinbahn|| 129x129px|| HF6 || 2019–2025 || 59|| || ||

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| rowspan="3" | Frankfurt am Main, Germany || rowspan="3" | VgF || rowspan="3" | 120x120px|| U5-ZR (Bi-directional)|| rowspan="2" | 2008–2017 || 94 || || || rowspan="3" | 4 x

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| U5-ER (Uni-directional)|| 130 || ||

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|U5-MW (non-driving)

|2021–2023

|24

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|rowspan="2"| İzmir, Turkey ||rowspan="2"| İzmir Metro || rowspan="2" | 120x120px|| MD || rowspan="2" | 2000–2001 || 30|| rowspan="2" | || || rowspan="2" | 4 x

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| M || 15|||| || 4 x

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|rowspan="2"| Rotterdam, Netherlands || rowspan="2" | RET || 120px || MG2/1, SG2/1|| 1998–2002 || 81|| || rowspan="2" | || || 6 x

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| 120px || RSG3, SG3, HSG3 || 2007–2016 || 86 || || || 8 x

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See also

  • Flexity Freedom

References

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