Sale To Other Cities
As Stuttgart put the Stuttgart Stadtbahn standard gauge light rail system in operation from 1985 onwards, some surplus GT4 cars were sold to other cities:
- Iaşi (Romania) - 56 cars
- Augsburg - 40 cars (23 cars later resold to Iaşi)
- Halle - 38 cars (27 cars later resold to Iaşi)
- Nordhausen - 12 cars (3 cars later resold to Iaşi)
- Ulm, Halberstadt, Brandenburg an der Havel, Arad (Romania) and Kōchi (Japan) - unspecified numbers
Some vehicles were destroyed or damaged beyond repair during a great fire in the Feuerbach depot in Stuttgart in 1986.
The bi-directional cars originally delivered to Reutlingen (59,60 and 61) were later sold to Ulm. The Ulm workshop rebuilt them to unidirectional cars (11,12 and 13).
In 1989, a longer car set was rebuilt: Two unidirectional vehicles (SSB 714 and 735) were joined together as one bi-directional vehicle. The vehicle had no additional doors, so only the two doors in the direction of travel were usable.
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