Flexity Classic

The Flexity Classic is a bi-directional articulated tram with suspended body segments, introduced in 2006 and marketed as the most traditionally designed member of the Bombardier Flexity family. Its low-floor sections give good access for wheelchair users. Design and early production were carried out by Deutsche Waggonbau, which used the LF2000 name, and the trams were later built by Bombardier Transportation at Bautzen in Germany; production passed to Alstom after it acquired Bombardier Transportation in 2021. Flexity Classic trams run in many German cities and also in Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden, in Poland and in Adelaide, where 11 cars entered service on the Glenelg line in January 2006 and the fleet grew to 15. Most use standard gauge, while Essen, Dresden and Leipzig use other gauges. After the Combino metal fatigue crisis of 2004 it became the most popular tram model in Germany for almost a decade, and its Flexity Classic XXL version, 45 metres long with a capacity of 260, serves Dresden and Leipzig.