Last year, a total of 55 trams were delivered to the cities of Ukraine, which is 41% more than in 2020, when Dnipro, Zaporizhya, Odessa, Kyiv and Kamenske received 39 trams.

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This information was provided by the resource AllTransUA, reports Railway Supply. magazine.

The leader in purchases was Dnipro, which leased 20 used Tatra T4D-M trams from German Leipzig, manufactured by the Czech ČKD in the 1980s and modernized in the mid-1990s. Now the city operates about 50 trams of this series, the deliveries of which began in 2011.

Also, the supported rolling stock was purchased by Zaporizhya: last year, as part of the Zaporizhya Tram program to upgrade the tram fleet, the city bought 12 Tatra KT4 4D articulated tram cars (manufactured by the Czech ČKD not earlier than 1980) from German Berlin for UAH 39.6 million (about 1.4 million).

Also, one partially low-floor single-section tram T3-KVP was assembled in the depot of the city carrier Zaporozhelektrotrans. Bodies of Czech Tatra T3 trams and bodies produced by the Ukrainian Polytechnoservice serve as the basis for the vehicles.

In addition, the rolling stock is equipped with new or overhauled Tatra T3 bogies and a control system developed by the Czech Cegelec TV-Progress.

Another 3 used Tatra T6A5 cars arrived at Kamenske from the Czech capital of Prague.

In turn, in Odessa, the assembly of tram cars continued at the production facilities of the city carrier Odesgorelectrotrans.

In 2021, 5 partially low-floor single-section and 1 three-section T3-KVP Odyssey trams were put into operation.

This modification was developed specifically for Odessa and differs from the T3-KVP in a body extended by one window section, a new interior and exterior design.

The capital of the country, Kyiv, received a total of 10 trams in 2021.

As part of the implementation of contracts concluded in 2019-2020, 6 low-floor three-section trams 71-414K-2 (Fokstrot) of the Polish Pesa and 1 five-section tram T5B64 of the Ukrainian Electron, also with a completely low floor, were delivered to the city.

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In addition to this, Kyiv received 3 low-floor three-section trams K1T306 of the Ukrainian Tatra-Yug.

Lviv also received 3 five-section trams Electron T5L64. Both contracts are funded by the European Investment Bank (EIB).

A number of delivered trams were not mass-produced previously. Thus, the three-section low-floor tram K1T306 was developed by the Ukrainian Tatra-Yug specifically for participation in the Kyiv tender.

It is 26 meters long, has 57 seats and can accommodate up to 300 passengers

In turn, the narrow-gauge tram “Electron” T5L64 is the first completely low-floor tram produced in the country. It was originally developed in 2012 for Evpatoria, but the city administration refused to purchase it.

At the same time, in 2013, Electron released a prototype, but it took several years for serial production. In September 2020 the city carrier Lvivelectrotrans ordered 10 trams of this series.

The maximum passenger capacity of the tram is 250 people, the number of seats is 58. The car has a reduced level of vibration and noise, automatic lubrication systems for wheel flanges on curved sections to increase the service life of the track.

In the braking mode, it is possible to regenerate electricity into the contact network (electricity savings, according to the manufacturer, is up to 40%).

It is worth noting that in the fall of 2021, a low-floor three-section tram B85300M Metelitsa, which is mass-produced by the Swiss Stadler Rail in Belarus, also arrived in Kharkiv for testing.

In recent months, the issues of their purchase with the localization of production in Ukraine have been discussed, but no specific steps have been taken so far.

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