CAF Urbos (Edinburgh Trams)

• Built at CAF's Beasain works (Wikipedia; CAF names no works; British Trams Online says only "CAF, Spain"); the first tram, 252, arrived in Edinburgh on 27 April 2010 (British Trams Online; CAF says April 2010, Wikipedia 26 April)
• Built 2009–2011 (the council) or 2009–2012 (British Trams Online); deliveries to Edinburgh ran from April 2010 to December 2012
• Motors: CAF gives 12 x 80 kW; Wikipedia gives 12 ABB 60 kW motors with Kiepe traction equipment, citing makers' reference lists
• Capacity: the council's 78 seats, 170 standing and 2 wheelchair spaces (2025) are shown; CAF gave 80 seats and 252 standing (332 places) in 2012, at a fuller standing allowance
• Which intermediate bogie is the trailer: CAF says one is, not which; Wikipedia's axle arrangement (Bo'+0'+2'+0'+Bo'+0'+Bo') puts it under section 3. Not known either: whether the pantograph's section is the trailer's
• Height: CAF's 11 ft 2 in (3,400 mm) vehicle height is taken to be over the roof equipment and the folded pantograph; the body's roof measures about 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) on the side-on photograph
• The drawing: section lengths, door, window and panel positions and every height are read off one side-on photograph scaled by CAF's length (about 50 mm along, 25 mm up); the bogies' places are the skirt panels' centres; the pantograph's folded length (7 ft 3 in (2.2 m)) and its exact place on its section are estimates
• The wheels: their bottoms show under the cab bogie's skirt on Princes Street (2015), and are drawn alike under all four bogies; the wheelbase (6 ft 1 in (1,850 mm)) is measured there to about 100 mm; the diameter (2 ft 0 in (600 mm)) isn't published for Edinburgh and the photographs show too little to measure it (West Midlands' Urbos 3: 1 ft 11 in (590 mm) new, Wikipedia)
• The pantograph's place: photographs of it raised (2015, 2018) put its hinge about 3 ft 3 in to 4 ft 7 in (1.0-1.4 m) from its section's outer end, the knee reaching out over the bellows; folded, the drawing keeps it on its own section (the roof check stops a pantograph that reaches past its car), so its hinge is drawn about 3 ft 11 in (1.2 m) nearer the middle than the photographs show
• Drawing (WMF25): the madder sweep's descent between the cab side window's pillar and the nose isn't seen side on in any photograph (the Ingliston side-on is too coarse at 22 mm a pixel to show a 35 mm line; 257 on Princes Street is close and ahead of the nose there, lesson 20; 269 and 253 are three-quarter): it is the earlier reading smoothed (within 10 mm of it), level at the pillar (257 reads it level to about 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) from the nose, within 25 mm of the curve) and at 2 ft 4 in to 2 ft 5 in (709-745 mm) at the nose (269, 253)
• Drawing (WMF25): the camera housing and its slot are read off 257 (2015) along the cab side, rectified on the cab side window's pillar, the door's window and the next window to about 30 mm; the amber side lamp's place is read off 269's three-quarter view (about 150 mm); the hatch's off 257, its heights about 50 mm (the lower body curves in)
• Drawing (WMF25B, WMF25D): the silver band's swoop over the cab side window and the madder band's front end under it are traced off 257 on Princes Street (2015), the nearest to side on that shows them: heights on the madder band's own scale (3.43 mm a pixel, about 25 mm), lengths by a 1-D perspective fitted on the madder band reaching the window (3 ft 7 in (1.09 m), the Ingliston side-on) and the camera housing's two ends (about 50 mm behind 4 ft 7 in (1.4 m), 100 mm nearer the front, where the side turns away); the band ends at the cab's panel joint (6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)), behind which 269 (2016) and the Ingliston side-on show the bodyside white; the windscreen's edge along the outline above the band (257's dark rim, the Ingliston blue-grey strip) about 80 mm wide
• Drawing (WMF25): the head and tail lamps sit on the black panel across the front, facing forward; neither the Ingliston side-on nor 257 shows them side on, so they are not drawn (only the amber corner lens, as before)
• Harlequin mock-up (Lothian Buses red/gold harlequin): the mock-up's red and gold, and its years (2009-2010): British Trams Online's 2013 article gives neither (set TFF, 26 October 2026)
• Original livery: white with a madder stripe above the windows (with the Edinburgh Trams logos, later without): from 2010: the first tram, 252, carried it on show in Princes Street from April 2010 (British Trams Online, fleet list and the 2013 article); when the other trams were painted, and when it ended, are not published: the Transport for Edinburgh livery was revealed in December 2013
• The years of the former liveries come from Wikipedia's class article and the other sources listed, and haven't been checked against a second source.

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