Düwag or Duewag, 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,

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vehicles were built in Uerdingen, while the

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plant produced mainly local traffic vehicles, namely

tram A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...

way and light rail 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

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 ...

* Buffel (DM'90) *GT8 tramcar in various versions *GT6 tramcar in various versions *GB6 tramcar *GT12 tramcar *

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 at ...

Stadtbahnwagen B The Stadtbahnwagen Typ B (translation ''Type "B" Light Rail Vehicle'', short form B-Wagen) is a light rail vehicle used by several Stadtbahn networks in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was mainly developed by Düsseldorf-based Duew ...

SL79 SL79 is a class of 40 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 unidirectional with four ...

* Y-trains Delivered about 100 trains, to local railways in Denmark, between years : 1965-1983 *

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DMUs *

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 opera ...

Phase 1 ( Comeng), Phase 2 ( Kawasaki) and Phase 3 ( A Goninan) bogies *

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 Duewa ...

* Siemens-Duewag U2 * Siemens-Duewag SupertramDuewag to assemble Sheffield trams ''Railway Gazette International'' March 1991 page 131 *

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 co ...

ZZ800 DMU

References

External links

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Company websiteCollection of photos of Duewag manufactured Trams
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