Flexity Swift

The Flexity Swift is a series of urban and inter-urban tram, light rail and light metro vehicles built by Bombardier Transportation as part of its Flexity family, customisable to each buyer and including legacy designs from its acquisition of Adtranz. More than 1,000 had been ordered by 2015. The vehicles are articulated, usually in three sections with a short centre section that can be replaced by a longer one, and are bi-directional with cabs at both ends and doors on both sides. They can safely reach 80 km/h on dedicated lines and mostly weigh 35 to 40 tonnes. The family comes in a 70 percent low-floor version and a high-floor version for level boarding at raised platforms, both first developed for the Cologne Stadtbahn in Germany. They typically draw DC power from overhead lines, though the Rotterdam cars also have third rail capability and the Karlsruhe tram-trains work under mainline AC. Users include London Tramlink, Manchester Metrolink, Istanbul, Melbourne, the Rotterdam Metro and Minneapolis-Saint Paul.