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B2007 Stock
Bombardier cars bought for the three-car upgrade and the 2012 Games. They stay in service alongside the new B23s.
Scale
about 283 ft (86 m) over couplers (added up as drawn)
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Liveries
Special liveries 1
- TfL 25th anniversary half wrap, one side only, on car 125 2025 (TfL's 25th anniversary wraps); fleet livery on the other side and the ends; milestones design.
- Type
- Light rail vehicle, two-section articulated
- Builder
- Bombardier, Bautzen (Germany)
- Built
- 2007–2009
- In service
- since 2008
- Lines
- DLR
- Formation
- Articulated cars, coupled in twos or threes
- Trains in fleet
- 55 cars, numbered 101–155
- Power
- 750 V DC third rail · how it works
- Bogies
- Motor bogies under the cab ends, 6 ft 9 in (2,050 mm) wheelbase; a trailer bogie under the articulation
- Train length
- about 283 ft (86 m) (added up as drawn)
- Car height
- 11 ft 3 in (3.436 m)
- Car width
- 8 ft 8 in (2.65 m)
- Train weight (tare)
- 114.6 t a three-car train (162.8 t loaded)
- Profile
- light rail
- Walk-through
- No
- Air-conditioned
- No
- Seats per train
- 168
- Total capacity
- 688 in a three-car train (Rail Engineer); 56 seats a car: 32 facing forward, 20 sideways and 4 tip-up (Bombardier); standing 144 a car at 4 per m² and 216 at 6 per m², on 36.06 m² (Bombardier)
- Status
- In service.
Car types
| Code | Car | Length | Doors per side |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Section B, with a cab, over a motor bogie | 45 ft 11 in14.00 m | 2 double |
| A | Section A, with a cab, over a motor bogie | 45 ft 11 in14.00 m | 2 double |
Sources
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Show the 31 sources from Wikimedia Commons, Transport for London, Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen; Transport for London and 6 more
- Environmental Product Declaration S-P-11359: Inneo B23 for DLR CAF, 14 December 2023, p. 4the DLR's power supply, 750 V DC, as CAF's data sheet for the B23 (designed for the whole network) gives it
- 'Coupled DLR Units at Stratford International.jpg' (photograph: two B2007 cars coupled cab to cab; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (TheJRB), 31 August 2011the black panel down to the curved teal stripe; the teal's width (2011)
- 'Bombardier B07 Stock EMU.jpg' (photograph: B07 sections side three-quarter; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Samson Ng), 26 April 2025the black window band and the teal-edged wave along a section (2025)
- 'B07148 at Pudding Mill Lane 2024-08-31.jpg' (photograph: B07 148's cab end; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Tom Page), 31 August 2024the cab end: black under the end window, the teal, red under the blue (2024)
- 'Docklands Light Railway 140 (5564658773).jpg' (photograph: B07 140's cab end, near side-on; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Tom Page), 26 March 2011the cab end near side-on: the red rim, the black panel and the teal; the teal's width (2011)
- DLR B2007 vehicle layout (Projektbild), drawing 1.728:01.00.00.0:00/0, released by TfL under FOI-0016-1617 Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen; Transport for London, 2005, revised 2007; released 27 April 2017the cab front profile, the rim and lower-rim seams, the access hatch, the skirt line and the livery lines (side view; the B2007 rework)
- DLR B2007 vehicle layout (Projektbild), drawing 1.728:01.00.00.0:00/0, released by TfL under FOI-0016-1617 Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen; Transport for London, 2005, revised 2007; released 27 April 2017dimensions, bogies, doors, seats; side elevation and plan
- DLR looks to the future with Olympic train order Transport for London (press release), 13 June 2006order of 24 and then 31 cars
- Docklands Light Railway car unveiled Railway Gazette, 13 March 2008assembled at Bautzen
- Games transport legacy put in place as Mayor unveils new Docklands Light Railway carriages Transport for London (press release), 13 March 2008unveiled March 2008; in service to the end of 2009
- New trains on the Docklands Light Railway Rail Engineer, 19 December 2023capacity of a three-car train
- Improving the DLR Transport for Londonto remain in service
- 'DLR Shuttle at Blackwall, D07 Car no 103, 27 Dec 2009.jpg' (photograph: car 103's cab front; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (sludgegulper), 27 December 2009the cab-end coupler's parts and tones (layout only)
- 'Coupled DLR Units at Stratford International.jpg' (photograph: two B2007 cars coupled cab to cab; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (TheJRB), 31 August 2011the cab-end coupler's parts and tones, and the ribbed fairing above it (layout only)
- 'Docklands Light Railway car 142 at South Quay 2024-07-17.jpg' (photograph: car 142's cab front; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Tom Page), 17 July 2024the cab-end coupler's parts and tones (layout only)
- DLR Rolling Stock Replacement Programme (Programmes and Investment Committee paper, 8 March 2017: para 4.9, the existing arrangement where individual LRVs are coupled in two-car and three-car trains) Transport for London, 8 March 2017the existing trains: individual LRVs coupled in two-car (184 ft (56 m)) and three-car (276 ft (84 m)) configurations, not walk-through (para 4.9)
- Major order for HÜBNER Mobility Rail: 172 gangway systems for new generation of CAF trains in London (the present DLR trains: three separate coupled groups of cars, only individually accessible) HÜBNER Group, 4 May 2023the present trains: separate coupled groups of cars, only individually accessible
- Contract awarded to replace oldest DLR trains Transport for London (press release), 12 June 2019air conditioning named as a feature of the new trains
- New trains on the Docklands Light Railway Rail Engineer, 19 December 2023air conditioning 'a big improvement for DLR passengers'
- DLR Rolling Stock Replacement Programme (Programmes and Investment Committee paper, 8 March 2017: para 4.9, the existing arrangement where individual LRVs are coupled in two-car and three-car trains) Transport for London, 8 March 2017, p. para 4.12no air conditioning: the new trains to bring climate control, among the improvements on the present fleet
- DLR looks to the future with Olympic train order Transport for London (press release), 13 June 2006built: the 31 further cars to be delivered between autumn 2008 and winter 2009
- Trains thetrams.co.uk, read 13 October 2026built from 2007 (cars 101-124 delivered from 2007, 125-155 from 2009); the fleet numbers 101-155 (an enthusiast site)
- New trains on the Docklands Light Railway Rail Engineer, 19 December 2023, p. Table 3a three-car train's weight: 114.6 t empty, 162.8 t loaded
- DLR B2007 vehicle layout (Projektbild), drawing 1.728:01.00.00.0:00/0, released by TfL under FOI-0016-1617 Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen; Transport for London, 2005, revised 2007; released 27 April 2017, p. 1standing: 36.06 m² a car, 144 people at 4 per m² (load case M3) and 216 at 6 per m² (M4); door leaves 5 ft 9 in (1,740 mm) from 11 ft 1 in (3,370 mm; plan); the window transoms at 8 ft 6 in (2,581 mm) and the side destination display (side view)
- 'DLR B07 stock Marsh Wall - 2025-04-27.jpg' (photograph: a B07 section's cab end and both doors, near side-on; CC BY-SA 2.0) Wikimedia Commons (Tom Page), 27 April 2025the door leaves' width and their square-cornered glass, the window transoms, the side destination display, the white door leaves and the window corners (rectified on the door centres; layout and measurement)
- '144 at Beckton DLR depot 2026-02-09.jpg' (photograph: car 144's cab end in the depot, skirts off; CC BY-SA 4.0) Wikimedia Commons (Tom Page), 9 February 2026car 144 with its skirts off: the skirt brackets and the motor bogie (three-quarter view; layout only, not used for any outline)
- In Pictures: DLR fleet changes - more B23s into service as further old units go for scrap British Trams Online, 1 November 2025the B2007 and B2009 cars to be retained as the B23s replace the older fleet (November 2025)
- DLR B2007 vehicle layout (Projektbild), drawing 1.728:01.00.00.0:00/0, released by TfL under FOI-0016-1617 Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen; Transport for London, 2005, revised 2007; released 27 April 2017the underframe box under each section: extents and height (side view)
- DLR B2007 vehicle layout (Projektbild), drawing 1.728:01.00.00.0:00/0, released by TfL under FOI-0016-1617 Bombardier Transportation, Bautzen; Transport for London, 2005, revised 2007; released 27 April 2017, p. 1the roof gear over the articulation: the eye brackets, the rods and the coupling block (side view, read at 0.5316 px per mm from the cab fronts 91 ft 10 in (28,000 mm) apart; set TFF, 26 October 2026)
- New trains on the Docklands Light Railway Rail Engineer, 19 December 2023the conductor rail: collector shoes of the Brecknell Willis design used since the DLR started, and shrouded at platforms since it opened (the voltage is CAF's)
- In Pictures: TfL celebrate 25 years on the DLR British Trams Online, 7 October 2025the wrap on one half of car 125 ('B2009'), October 2025: the livery, its car and its date
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unverified the bogies: drawn as Bombardier's sheet outlines them below the skirt (motor and trailer bogies alike, as it draws them); no photograph found shows them side on
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