History
Only 380 were produced of which 350 were delivered to the Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen, the public transport operator of Stuttgart. The remaining 30 vehicles were delivered to Freiburg (19), Neunkirchen (Saar) (8) and Reutlingen (3). The 350 Stuttgart-vehicles were uni-directional, had three double-doors, and were built to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge. The remaining cars were bi-directional and built with 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge, with the exception of the Neunkirchen cars, which were built to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. They also had four powered axles whereas two powered axles was the standard variant. Tram service in Neunkirchen was abandoned in 1978.
With 107 trams in service, as of 2012, the largest operator of GT4 is RATP, the public transport company in Iaşi, Romania.
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