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Poznan acquires the Bonn low-floor trams

Bonn tram no. 9463 in 2007 | © Dirk Budach

It’s now official: MPK Poznań is buying the approximately 30-year-old Duewag/Siemens NGT6D trams (also known as type R1.1) from Stadtwerke Bonn (SWB). The purchase agreement worth approximately EUR 2.2 million was signed on 13 December 2024, as announced by MPK.

The transfer of the total of 24 vehicles will take place in the course of 2025. The vehicles will gradually be replaced by new Skoda vehicles, the first of which entered service in December (see LINK).

Bonn Wilhelmsplatz | © Dirk Budach
On the bridge over the Rhine – tram no. 9459 | © Dirk Budach

Poznań is interested in the vehicles in order to increase the share of vehicles with barrier-free access within its fleet at a favourable market price. In addition, MPK wants to have greater flexibility in operations and in the event of diversions thanks to the bi-directional design. Currently, 78% of the MPK fleet is low-floor.

The conversion of the Bonn trams and the adaptation to Polish requirements will take several months. For Poznań, these are by no means the first foreign used trams; in the past, trams from Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main, Prague and Amsterdam have been sent to Poznań for further use. Individual Düwag bi-directional trams ex Frankfurt are still in service today.

Queue of low-floor trams in Bonn’s Southern city district in 2007 | © Dirk Budach
04.01.2025