Düwag or Duewag (stylised in

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), formerly Waggonfabrik Uerdingen, was a German manufacturer of

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vehicles. It was sold in 1999 to

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with the brand later retired.

History

Duewag was founded in March 1898 as Waggonfabrik Uerdingen in

Uerdingen Uerdingen () is a district of the city of Krefeld, Germany, with a population of 17,888 (2019). Originally a separate city in its own right, Uerdingen merged with the city of Krefeld in 1929. Today, Uerdingen is best known for a local distillery ...

and produced rail vehicles under the Düwag brand. After merging with Düsseldorfer Waggonfabrik in 1935,

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

vehicles were built in Uerdingen, while the

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plant produced mainly local traffic vehicles, namely

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 ...

way and

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vehicles. In 1981, the company changed its name from Waggonfabrik Uerdingen to Duewag.

acquired a 60% shareholding in 1989 before taking full ownership in April 1999. In 2001, the Düsseldorf plant was closed with production transferred to Uerdingen. Duewag vehicles were close to a

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market in

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, as nearly every tram and light rail vehicle purchased from the 1960s onward was built by Duewag.

Products

Train

Uerdingen railbus The Uerdingen railbus (German: ''Uerdinger Schienenbus'') is the common term for the multiple units which were developed by the German firm of Waggonfabrik Uerdingen for the Deutsche Bundesbahn and private railways after the Second World War. Th ...

Düwag Wadloper Düwag Wadloper is a family of diesel railcars (type ''DH1'', Polish ''SN82'' series) and diesel multiple units (type ''DH2'', Polish ''SN83'' series) produced by the West Germany, German Duewag, ''Düwag'' plant in Düsseldorf. Between 1981 and ...

* Buffel (DM'90) *

Y-train The Duewag Y is a series of Diesel multiple unit, diesel multiple units (DMUs) manufactured between 1965 and 1988 for Danish rail operators by the West Germany, West German company Düwag, Waggonfabrik Uerdingen. A total of 160 cars were built: 76 ...

s – Delivered about 100 trains, to local railways in Denmark, between 1965 and 1983 *

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DMUs *

RegioSprinter The RegioSprinter is a German diesel railcar built by Siemens-Duewag for rapid regional railway services. Originally the RegioSprinter was designated as a Regional Combustion-engined Railbus (''Regional-Verbrennungstriebwagen'' or ''RVT'') by Duew ...

Toll Royal Railways Cambodia has of metre gauge rail network, consisting of two lines: one from the capital, Phnom Penh, to Sihanoukville, and another from Phnom Penh to Poipet, on the Thai border. The lines were originally constructed during the time when the c ...

ZZ800 DMU

Tram/light rail

*T4 tramcar *GB6 tramcar *GT6 tramcar in various versions *GT8 tramcar in various versions *GT12 tramcar *

SL79 SL79 is a class of 40 articulated tram, articulated trams operated by the Oslo Tramway of Norway. The trams were a variation of the Duewag trams that had been developed by the German manufacturer since the 1950s. The six-axle vehicles are unidir ...

TW 400 The TW 400 is a type of tram vehicle formerly used on the tramways of Hanover, Germany, built from 1956 to 1958 by Duewag. Some units underwent remodeling to prepare them for being used on the Hanover Stadtbahn network but they were never used f ...

TW 6000 The TW 6000 is a type of articulated light rail vehicle used on the Hanover Stadtbahn system, manufactured by Duewag, Linke-Hofmann-Busch, AEG, Kiepe and Siemens. The vehicle can serve both high platforms and street-level stops; it has cabs a ...

Stadtbahnwagen M/N The Stadtbahnwagen Typ M/N (translation ''Type "M/N" Light Rail Vehicle'') is a light rail vehicle used by several Stadtbahn and tram networks in Germany and Austria plus second hand in Poland, Romania and Turkey. It was mainly developed by Düsse ...

* Stadtbahnwagen Typ B * SSB DT8 *

Hong Kong Light Rail The Light Rail, also known as the Light Rail Transit (LRT), officially the North-West Railway, is a light rail system in Hong Kong, serving the northwestern New Territories, within Tuen Mun District and Yuen Long District. The system oper ...

Phase 1 (

Comeng Commonwealth Engineering, often shortened to Com-Eng, later known as Comeng was an Australian engineering company that designed and built railway locomotives, rolling stock and trams. History Smith and Waddington, the predecessor to Common ...

), Phase 2 ( Kawasaki) and Phase 3 ( A Goninan) bogies * Siemens-Duewag U2 * Siemens SD-400 *

Siemens-Duewag Supertram The Siemens-Duewag Supertram is a fleet of 25 trams built by Siemens Mobility, Siemens-Duewag of Düsseldorf, Germany in 1992 for use on the South Yorkshire Supertram light rail network in England. They were the only trams in use on the network ...

Duewag to assemble Sheffield trams ''Railway Gazette International'' March 1991 page 131

References

External links

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Company websiteCollection of photos of Duewag manufactured Trams
* {{Coord, 51, 22, 05, N, 6, 38, 45, E, region:DE-NW_type:landmark, display=title Siemens Tram manufacturers Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1898 Vehicle manufacturers of Germany German companies established in 1898 Krefeld