The Tango is a light rail vehicle and tram made by Stadler Rail . It can be built as either a 100% high-floor or 70% low-floor articulated unit. It is in use in Aarhus , Bochum , Berlin (BVG-Class IK), Basel , Geneva , Lyon , Ostrava (NF2) and Sarajevo (NF3).
11-493: The cities operating Tango are demanding the following characteristics for their rolling stock: speed (up to 100 km/h or 62 mph), robustness, security and compatibility with the common use of infrastructure, economic (capacity adapted to the traffic and prospects for their development) as well as comfort and aesthetics. In the case of the Appenzell Railways , the light rail needs to deal also with strong gradients in
22-675: The Rorschach–Heiden railway , Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway and Trogenerbahn . In 2021, AB acquired the Frauenfeld-Wil railway . The origins of the Appenzeller Bahnen company lies in a number of formerly independent companies and railway lines: The Appenzellerbahn and Santisbahn merged in 1947, retaining the Appenzellerbahn (AB) identity. The St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell-Bahn and Altstätten-Gais-Bahn merged in 1948, under
33-621: The foothills south of St. Gallen. In Lyon, the Tango tram is serving the express line Rhônexpress linking downtown with Saint Exupéry Airport , and its TGV train station, opened in 2010. An order of 32 vehicles has been placed by the city of Geneva in December 2009. 20 were ordered by Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen , the first one being completed in September 2012. Appenzeller Bahnen (AB) has contracted Stadler Rail to deliver seven new Tango for use on
44-743: The St. Gallen–Trogen line was also of metre gauge, but ran independently. From 2016 to 2018, the Appenzellerbahnen undertook a large construction project to connect the Appenzell-St. Gallen and St. Gallen-Trogen lines. The three points of incompatibility were electrification (the St. Gallen-Trogen line was 1000 V DC with a brief stretch at 600 V DC shared with the St. Gallen trolleybus system ), different (but physically adjacent) termini in St. Gallen, and maximal grades (the rack railway approach to St. Gallen from Appenzell
55-457: The beginning of 2024. Appenzell Railways Appenzell Railways ( German : Appenzeller Bahnen , AB) is a Swiss railway company with headquarters in Herisau . It operates a network of railways in the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden , Appenzell Ausserrhoden , St. Gallen and Thurgau . It was founded in 2006 through the merger of the former Appenzeller Bahnen (founded in 1988) with
66-633: The name St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell–Altstätten-Bahn (SGA). The Appenzeller Bahnen company was formed in 1988, with the merger of the Appenzellerbahn and the St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell–Altstätten-Bahn. In 2006, the Appenzeller Bahnen company merged with the Rorschach–Heiden-Bergbahn, the Rheineck–Walzenhausen-Bergbahn and the Trogenerbahn companies. In legal terms, this merger took the form of the Appenzeller Bahnen company acquiring
77-596: The new Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen railway starting from 2017. Previously, the western line from St. Gallen to Appenzell was operated by heavy rail with a rack section. Aarhus Letbane will receive a mix of 12 Stadler Tango (with a top speed of 100 km/h) and 14 Stadler Variobahn , with a total of 26 units. In 2016, Dopravní podnik Ostrava ordered 30 Stadler Tango NF2 (also known as nOVA) trams with an option for another 10 trams. All 40 trams were delivered between April 2018 and October 2019. Sarajevo Tramway has received 1 Stadler Tango NF3 , and will receive 14 more by
88-537: The other companies. In 2021 the company merged with Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn AG , owner of the Frauenfeld–Wil line . The two companies had shared operations for years. Today, the company operates the following railway lines: The St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell, Gossau–Appenzell–Wasserauen and Altstätten–Gais lines form a connected network of 1,000 mm or 3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in metre gauge lines, all electrified at 1500 V DC . Until 2018,
99-497: The rest of the network, and are of respectively 1,200 mm ( 3 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 4 in ) and standard ( 1,435 mm or 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) gauges. The Altstaetten–Gais, Rheineck–Walzenhausen and Rorschach–Heiden lines all have rack railway sections, whilst the Gossau–Appenzell–Wasserauen and Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen lines are adhesion only. Frauenfeld-Wil
110-752: Was cooperating closely, but legally distinct from 2003. It is not connected by tracks. 2021 they were taken over. The company also operates a bus service from Teufen , on the St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell line, to Speicher , on the St. Gallen–Trogen line. Night bus services are operated over the routes of the St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell and St. Gallen–Trogen lines. As of December 2023 , Appenzell Railways (AB) operates eight regional train services that run on its own railway network. Trains operate as S-Bahn services (numbered 15, 20‒26 with "S" prefix) for St. Gallen S-Bahn (some also for Bodensee S-Bahn ). In addition, AB also operate bus line 190. Trolleybuses in St. Gallen Too Many Requests If you report this error to
121-504: Was too steep for adhesion-based St. Gallen-Trogen rolling stock). So the new project re-electrified the St. Gallen-Trogen line at 1500 V DC and constructed a new tunnel through St. Gallen. The old alignment through St. Gallen closed in April 2018, and the system began through-running in October of the same year. The Rheineck–Walzenhausen and Rorschach–Heiden lines are geographically separate from
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