10 New Trams Coming to Osijek

Lauren Simmonds

10 osijek trams

January the 23rd, 2025 – 10 new trams worth a total of 25 million euros are set to hit the streets of Osijek, significantly improving that eastern city’s public transport infrastructure.

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, 10 brand new low-floor trams are set to arrive in Osijek, with the first due in March this year, with the other nine arriving throughout the year. These new trams are worth a total of 25 million euros, and were financed from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NPOO).

“These new trams are going to be safer, more comfortable, more modern, and about six metres longer than the previous ones. They’ll also be fully adapted to people with disabilities. In parallel with the purchase of the new trams, we’ also implementing a project to modernise Osijek’s whole tram infrastructure, worth 45 million euros. We’re talking about 10 kilometres of tram network and 23 stops, all of which will be covered, and we have only ten percent of the work left to carry out on this large project,” stated Osijek Mayor Ivan Radić. He issued that statement while in Zagreb visiting the very well known Croatian company Končar – Električna vozila, where the first of these new trams is currently being completed.

The plan, he added, is to acquire 10 more new low-floor trams for Osijek, which would complement and satisfy the needs of that city’s public transport. As things currently stand, the responsible ministry is waiting for a tender.

“This first of these 10 new trams for Osijek is set to arrive in March. It isn’t just another new means of transport, but a new era for Osijek’s public transport. The last new tram came to the city of Osijek way back in 1982,” Radić pointed out. Gordan Kolak, President of the Management Board of Končar, said that the contract for the 10 trams for Osijek was signed 16 months ago.

“We’re now in the final phase of assembling all of the systems on the first tram, and it will be completely finished by the end of February. It will then be delivered to the City of Osijek in early March for final testing on the new tram infrastructure. They’re slightly wider than those we’re delivering to the City of Zagreb, while they’re almost the same length, at 20.8 metres. For the first time ever, we’re also installing battery tanks that will ensure a certain autonomy level of the tram. That’s necessary for its movement in the event of any malfunctions in the tram infrastructure, itself” concluded Kolak.

 

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