Tram 2000

This article is about the Swiss designed series of tram vehicles. For the unrelated design used in Brussels, see Bombardier T2000.
Tram 2000
A pair of Zürich Tram 2000 Be 4/6 vehicles in August 2005
Specifications
Current collector(s)pantograph
Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge,
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge

The Tram 2000 is a type of tram vehicle that was originally designed for the Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ), the municipal transport operator of the Swiss city of Zürich, and first introduced in 1976. Other variants of the type were subsequently built for the VBZ, for other Swiss operators, and for the Italian city of Genoa. The last vehicles to the design entered service in 1994, but the type is still in front line service with all its original users.

The Tram 2000 is a high-floor tram design, which has been built as a single section tram with two bogies, or as a two or three section articulated vehicle with three or four bogies respectively. Variants exist to both metre gauge and standard gauge, and can be either single-ended or double-ended. All vehicles share a similar angular body shape.