100th Alstom Flexity enters service in Vienna

In June 2015 Wiener Linien, the tramway operator in the Austrian capital Wien (Vienna) placed an order with Bombardier Transportation for 119 Flexity 100% low-floor air-conditioned 33.8m trams, with options that could see up to 156 delivered. The contract for 119 cars was worth EUR 431M, including a 24-year FlexdCare maintenance agreement. The first of these class D trams entered service from Favoriten depot on line 67 in December 2018. In January 2021 Alstom completed the purchase of Bombardier Transportation and assumed responsibility for the contract. 

 

1 March 2025 sees the entry into service of the 100th Alstom Flexity in Wien; trams 301-400 can now be seen on seven of the city’s tram lines and have already covered over 12M km in service. The trams are delivered from the former Bombardier factory in Wien-Donaustad dating from 1991. 30 will arrive in 2025, bringing them to lines D, 43 and 1, and the options exercised so far will take the total in the fleet to 146, replacing high-floor E2 trams. Peter Hanks, City Councillor for Public Transport and Finance, said ‘ the Flexity is a genuine Viennese product that has shaped the cityscape since 2018 and is now an integral part of our city. The new vehicles not only modernise the tram fleet, but also strengthen Vienna as a production location’. 

 

Wirner Linien operates 28 tram lines covering 171.1km with about 500 trams, including 332 ULF (ultra low floor) cars built by Siemens in 1996-2017 as well as the 100 Flexity. The Flexity design has also been ordered by Austria’s second city, Graz.