The next generation of light-rail vehicles will start autumn be running on Bielefeld’s rail network

The Bielefeld transport company moBiel will today unveil the first vehicle of the new Vamos city trains, a total of 16 of which have been ordered and an option agreed on a further 25, in a festive ceremony. The spacious three-part high-floor LRVs are 34 metres long, making them about seven metres longer than the present LRVs. The challenge consisted in constructing a vehicle that will continue to serve platforms designed up to now for 2.30-metre-wide trains and at the same time convey more passengers. As a solution, HeiterBlick developed a vehicle with a bulbous form that only becomes 2.65 metres wide above platform level and can carry about 230 people.