71-911 "City Star" is a Russian four-axle four-door single-sided
tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...
with a completely low level floor, created by
LLC "PC Transport Systems" at the facilities of
Tver Carriage Works
Tver Carriage Works () is a rolling stock manufacturer located in Tver, Russia. The company is part of Transmashholding.
History of the factory
Tver Carriage Works was founded on 25 August 1898 with the name Upper Volga Railway Materials P ...
.
The first 100%
low-floor tram
A low-floor tram is a tram that has no steps between one or more entrances and part or all of the passenger cabin. The low-floor design improves the accessibility of the tram for the public, and also may provide larger windows and more airspace.
...
car in the
CIS. It is an analogue of planned
71-625 tram of
Ust-Katav Wagon-Building Plant
The Ust-Katav Wagon-Building Plant, officially the Ust-Katavskiy Carriage Works named after S. M. Kirov () is a railroad carriage works in Ust-Katav, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia.
From 1947 to the end of the 20th century (before the series KTM-8) ...
.
Operation by cities
As of 2020, the City Star trams are operated in the following cities:
[ (in Russian)]
Modifications
* 71-911 — track gauge 1524 mm
* 71-911E — Track gauge 1435 mm
*71-911ЕМ «Lionet» — track gauge 1524 mm, updated
Participation in exhibitions
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Innoprom
Innoprom is a large-scale international industrial exhibition annually held in Ekaterinburg, Russia. As declared, "the purpose of the Exhibition is to present advanced technologies developed in Russia which are ready to be used in industry, to faci ...
. July 9–12, 2014. (
Ekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...
).
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ExpoCityTrans. October 29 – November 1, 2014. (
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...
)
References
External links
71-911 tram description on official producer site.
Tram vehicles of Russia
Tver Carriage Works
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