The Tatra KTNF6 is a modernized tram, type
KT4, rebuilt with a central low-floor segment. These types of tram cars are used in
Cottbus
Cottbus (; Lower Sorbian: ''Chóśebuz'' ; Polish: Chociebuż) is a university city and the second-largest city in Brandenburg, Germany. Situated around southeast of Berlin, on the River Spree, Cottbus is also a major railway junction with exten ...
, in Brandenburg City and
Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, and in
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...
,
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
(as ''KT6T''). Another similar variant of KT4 is KTNF8 (also called KT4NF), which is used in
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cit ...
(Germany).
These
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 ...
s have new interiors, chairs, doors and middle sections with low floors.
The breakdown of the type designation is as follows:
*K implies articulated
*T indicates a powered vehicle
*NF for Low Floor
*6/8 is the number of axles.
See also
*
Tatra KT4
Tatra KT4 is the name of a four-axle type articulated tramcar developed by the Czech firm ČKD Tatra. The first pre-production vehicles entered service in Potsdam in 1975, with the first production vehicles in 1977. A total of 1,747 units were bui ...
References
External links
Tatra KTNF6 Technical dataat trampicturebook.de
Tatra KTNF8 Technical dataat trampicturebook.de
Tatra trams
Tram vehicles of Estonia
Tram vehicles of Germany
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