Washington Metro rolling stock

The rolling stock of the Washington Metro system consists of 1,318 75-foot (22.86 m) cars that were acquired across seven orders. All cars operate as married pairs (consecutively numbered even-odd), with systems shared across the pair. The 7000-series cars, the system's newest, have an operator's cab in only one of each married pair's cars and operate in groups of four.

The system's track gauge is 4 ft 8+14 in (1,429 mm)  0.25 inches (6 mm) narrower than 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge. Also, at 40 inches (1,016 mm) above top of rail, the floor height of the cars is lower than that of most other East Coast mass transit systems, including New York City, Boston and Philadelphia.

As of February 2020, Metro owned a fleet of 1,318 cars, 1,286 of which were in active revenue service.

In the "Active railcars" table, font in bold represents the railcars that are currently in service while the regular font in the other tables represent cars that are retired or on order.

Active railcars
SeriesManufacturerNumber purchasedEntered serviceRetired (estimated) Currently ownedCurrently activePlanned replacement
2000Breda7619822024–2025 7674
(additional 2 for "money train")
8000-series
300029019872025–2029 284276
6000Alstom1842006 184182
(additional 2 for "money train")
8000-series
(if option order is exercised)
7000Kawasaki7482015 748 748
Retired railcars
SeriesManufacturerNumber purchasedEntered serviceRetiredCurrently ownedReplacement
1000Rohr30019762016–2017 2 preserved7000-series
4000Breda10019912017 2 preserved
5000CAF / AAI19220012018–20192 preserved
Future railcars
SeriesManufacturerNumber purchasedEntered service (estimated)
8000Hitachi256
(with options for up to 800) (proposed)
2025
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