Bay Area Rapid Transit rolling stock

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The rolling stock of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system consists of 782 self-propelled electric multiple units serving the main BART system, built in four separate orders, four permanent three-unit cable-car trainsets in a Cable Liner system connecting Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, and eight Stadler GTW diesel multiple units on the eBART branch line. Pre-pandemic, to run a typical peak morning commute, BART required 579 cars. Of those, 535 are scheduled to be in active service; most of the others are used to build up four spare trains (used to maintain on-time service). The remaining 90 cars are in for repair, maintenance, or some type of planned modification work. All trains on the separate automated guideway transit line are in regular use without spares. Alstom (originally Bombardier) is manufacturing a complete replacement of the mainline fleet. With the withdrawal and retirement of the older fleet, there will be 775 vehicles in total, with long-term goals of eventually increasing...

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