/tram/ - Tram General

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>>1053489
The TECO Line Streetcar System in Tampa, Florida is the proud owner of the only operational historic streetcar in Florida (the rest of the cars are replicas and the line was built in 2002). Pic related. The line is basically the best heritage line in the state outside the theme parks.

>>1053515
Even though chinese moot deleted the images, here's a link to the old thread (and also to an archive)

>>1053577
since this ricenigger hiroshima nagasaki took over the page, everything became worse

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Commencing dump of 29 historic pics of trams in and around Barcelona taken in 1962-63. Pics are from http://www.vintag.es/2017/03/29-fantastic-color-photos-captured.html

I'll comment on them as far as my knowledge goes.

First one is ex-DC Transit PCC at Plaza Catalunya. Here's more or less the same view in Streetview: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3864316,2.1695374,3a,75y,306.29h,82.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swzxgiUaS6Kq-mSE0gH1WCw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
In the Streetview pic you can see the building with the white fences for construction work is the same building as behind the tram.

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>>1053725
Posted lq thumbnail, here's the good pic. These photos are of amazing quality.

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This is also Pl. Catalunya, right after the tram took the turn in the previous pic. Since it's the same tram, and the point from where the photo is taken is also close by, my guess is that this pic was taken right after the other. Here's the approximate spot in SV: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3862677,2.1706244,3a,75y,53.61h,76.64t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sclYqOvSAR1rUxyWnJd0nmg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

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This one was a bit tough to figure out where it was taken. It did look like Plaza Espanya (Spain square) but the building in the back does no longer exist. But the statue on the left still does (it's part of a bigger monument), and with that I could figure out the angle from where it was taken. Here's the SV: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3751324,2.1496968,3a,33.6y,295.14h,89.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDLDcV2HXG1Mr1AQfItYaIg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The large, fugly building with the clock stands where the building in the pic was.

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I think this is the depot at Diputación street, it occupied I believe the whole block bordered by Diputación, Vilamarí, Consell de Cent (back then called Consejo de Ciento) and Entença (back then Entenza).
https://www.google.es/maps/@41.379489,2.1508587,17z

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Same depot, access was from Diputación street.

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This pic is awesome: The tram line and the tram both still exist!!! It's the Tramvia Blau or Blue Tram which I've posted before. This line was not truly part of the city tram network because it was a private line, owned by the amusement park at the top of the hill (reached by the tram and a funicular). This, and also being outside the city center, is the reason the line was never closed, and it was eventually given to the city and it continues to operate as a tourist attraction.
Cars 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 are still in working condition, of these cars 5-7 have been modernized and offer regular service. Also in working condition but not running are car 2 which was from the first series of 4 trams, and car 129 which is an open car that eventually transferred to this line, and got the bogies and motors of car 9. AFAIK car 8 is to be modernized as well so as to operate regularily, and car 129 which will be the last because it needs a different project bc of different specs. Sadly, the line only runs on weekends, holidays and during the summer.

Pic seems to be taken at the lower end of the avenue which the tram runs along, if I'm not mistaken this is the SV: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.4107851,2.136559,3a,75y,316.52h,80.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1siY6Hu1_8PRE1wvRxN8Za-Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The building to the left (or at least the fence) in pic doesn't exist, but the one next to it I think is still there.

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Same car at the upper end of the line. The whole line is very short, just 1,3 km.

The small building to the right is a bar that's still there, so are the buildings behind the tram. The funicular up the mountain is just to the left out of shot.

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Again, same car, same line. This has to be right below the upper terminus, about here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.4159636,2.129811,3a,75y,341.41h,79.63t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9PsjMeIWvyqKY5kRVIf27w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Same line again, tram 9. May she rest in peace. Pic is clearly taken here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.4146992,2.1298323,3a,36.2y,37.74h,83.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sikPKPANGqgk0ipUstAKacA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Note the tram driver wearing a suit and tie. Those were the days...

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I didn't have a fucking clue where this was taken. The sign says: "End Cerdanyola", Cerdanyola is a small town about 20-30 minutes from Barcelona, but no trams ever ran there. Also the tram carries no number which wouldn't happen in Barcelona.

Asking around on shitter someone told me it's the Mataró-Argentona interurban tram (Mataró is a coastal town half an hour north of Barcelona), and Cerdanyola refers to a borough of Mataró. This tram was closed in 1964 or 65 iirc. No idea where the pic was taken, other than somewhere between Mataró and Argentona.

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A personal favourite of mine, the Barcelona-Badalona interurban tram, the last metre gauge tram to run in Barcelona. In the 1950's-60's the line was gradually shortened, mostly on the Badalona end, but eventually its Barcelona terminus at Urquinaona square was cut back to Estación del Norte (North Station, doesn't refer to geographical north but to the private railway company that built it, Caminos de Hierro del Norte).
This pic shows its penultimate form, running from Estación del Norte (E. Norte) to Casa Cros (Cros House), which refers to a factory which was in Sant Adrià, the town between Barcelona and Badalona, somewhere across the Besòs River, no idea exactly where. It eventually was cut back once more to Barrio Besòs, within Barcelona, which is where I live btw. By then it ended in the immediate vicinity of my house :^)

I believe that the pic shows the terminus at Estación del Norte, and it would be taken more or less from this angle: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.393669,2.1815578,3a,75y,9.95h,82.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sm5iMAJrsVIbnjfQwg1AWxw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The tram in the pic would turn left, passing in front of the station, and then left again in direction of Badalona. That makes it tricky to find the precise angle of the photo.

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From the 1940's on metre gauge was phased out except on this interurban line, which by then only ran these types of cars from the 1920's called "tanks". They were the first bogie units, the first full metal units, and some of the largest trams ever to run in Barcelona. There were also standard-gauge units of the same type, and eventually the metre gauge units were converted to standard gauge as the metre gauge line shrank.
From the 40's on, services where something like: 70 was the full line to Badalona, 71 partial interurban service to Sant Adrià, (these two lines used two trams coupled back so as to be bi-directional, and at their Barcelona terminus they ended on a stub track), then line 41 ran on a branch line to Pueblo Nuevo, a borough of Barcelona (now called Poblenou), and line 42 was another partial service on the same line as lines 70 and 71 which ran to the San Martín (now Sant Martí) borough. The difference in numbers were because urban and interurban services. For some time 70 and 71 used this green livery, while 41 and 42 used a red livery like the urban trams (which were eventually also painted in a turquise green like in the initial photographs).

All of this just to explain that this tram, running on line 42, was a partial service of line 70 (by this time the 41's branch was gone, and line 71 didn't exist).

It's hard to tell where the pic was taken but I'm quite sure it's here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3908626,2.1837945,3a,75y,246.03h,84.13t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqviGd2Sf2J-VGrcw0DnYnA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The building behind the tram is barely visible, but from the structure right below the roof I'm quite sure it's that old building that's still there.

Note the mixed gauge on the other track, but not where the tram is running. Std gauge tram ran on this street but only in one direction, in the other on a different street.

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Again, the metre gauge interurban. Surely it's a line 42 tram because it's just one car. The tram is running along the same street as the previous pic, crossing Meridiana avenue. It's hard to tell but there's tram tracks in both directions, it's clear from the overhead wire. Remember the standard gauge on just one track in the previous pic? The track at the bottom is the other direction of that same line, which ran on the parallel street, than turned onto Meridiana (which is a diagonal), and then joined the other track. The pic was taken here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3928508,2.1868055,3a,75y,355.66h,86.45t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svLbeuVMHsdBiFV5y1YEO6g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


As you can see, a lot has changed in this area. But there's trams running again! Albeit on a different line which, at that point, runs for a stretch along Av. Meridiana. Btw Meridiana avenue is called like that because it runs exactly on the meridian next to the greenwich meridian, and it was once considered as a candidate to be the "0" meridian, but greenwich was chosen. If you look at it on google maps you'll se the street runs perfectly vertical north-south.

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Same place as previous pic, looking a bit more to the left. This is a line 70 tram, as it runs a coupled pair.

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This pic was taken right close to pic 12, just a bit further. The building on the left is the one behind the tram in pic 12, and the one you can see in the streetview for that one.

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This tram is running on standard gauge. Line 53 substituted narrow gauge line 41 to Pueblo Nuevo.

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This pic was taken close to the harbour, right next to the columbus statue at the end of the Ramblas, more or less here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3760979,2.1778598,3a,75y,336.28h,84.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1suQaBOmMNgJYM7je-gv6hfg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The building on the right in the pic is the building on the right in streetview, notice the arch at the entrance. (Photo is taken closer to the buildings, but if you go closer in streetview there's some buses blocking the way).

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Same place as previous pic, but a bit to the left. Note the building on the right is also visible in the previous pic.

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Same place as previous two pics, but this time to the right, looking down Paseo Colón (now Passeig Colom). Here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3760833,2.1779344,3a,75y,31.95h,86.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smTwxxoGUKzcO4Rooxut5RA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This is one of the few streets where buses have their own right-of-way (instead of just a bus lane). It was inherited from the trams.

Also notice the different liveries. The red one was on its way out, and the turquoise one was now becoming standard.

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Again same place as previous pics.

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And again, but a bit further to the left. https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3759586,2.1775243,3a,34.6y,324.46h,91.17t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sC7Hnw6ZzbRxcr4cfCCXKzg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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And Paseo Colón once more.

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Hard to tell where this pic is taken. From the line numbers visible (62 and 46 I think), the single track line, the scenery and the angle of the sun I'd say it's Valencia street,running northeast-bound (other direction ran on parallel Mallorca street, but it couldn't be that because the sun always shines from ocean side toward the mountain. so it could never shine onto the left side of a southwest-bound tram). Check it on the map to understand what I mean, Valencia and Mallorca streets still run in the same direction now as back then. Around here https://www.google.es/maps/@41.4068401,2.1807865,16.67z

Trams only ran on these two streets around the are you see in the map, and eventually turned downward toward the city center.

>>1053774
>so it could never shine onto the left side of a southwest-bound tram
fuck me, meant to say
>it could never shine onto the RIGHT side (like in pic) of a southwest-bound tram

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We're back once more at the harbour next to Ramblas.

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And this is once more Plaza Cataluña. Line 28 existed until just a few years ago (as a bus line since 1965 iirc). This is more or less the angle where the photo was taken, the building with the beautiful arched entrance still exists, but the building to the right of the tram doesn't, instead there's now a fugly department store there.

https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3872162,2.171104,3a,68.1y,110.25h,88.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syxlIA4YXLDDfQGcTTDRvQQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Something seems to have happened to this tram. The rear pole is dewired, one employee is looking at it, another is raising the front pole. Maybe they couldn't get the pole back down because of some wire hanging in the way so they were going to use the front pole to move the tram first? Who knows...

Pic is taken at Plaza Espanya, easy to tell from the bull ring in the back on the right. Also in the back on the right you can see a bit of a PCC, one of the very old ones from the 1930's without standee windows (ex-DC Transit like all Barcelona PCCs). All PCCs got twin headlights before entering service.

Bull fights have been prohibited in Catalonia, and the bullring was turned into a shopping mall. Eh, at least they didn't tear it down, would have been a shame.
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Work car. Not a clue where this pic might have been taken.

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Plaza España once again, looking more or less the other way from pic 27. Here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3746748,2.1491681,3a,36.9y,217.06h,85.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sywLTsBwNICrMOKWsoXklqg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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Last one. Line 64 existed until just a couple of years ago, with a very similar route.

This pic was tough to figure out where it was taken. Line 64 was very long, running from close to the harbour all the way up to Bonanova street on the foot of the hills. From the scenery it can't be too far up, because the buildings look different and sheit, and also note trolleybus wires, but for a large part of its route line 64 ran on two different streets in each direction. So it must be the lower part of the route where both directions ran on the same street. And indeed, I found the very buildings visible in the pic. You can see them here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3825246,2.1636386,3a,75y,206.15h,86.46t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYX5DThPJnQuh3-iMfDL_fQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Well that is all. Cheerio lads.

>>1053785
Well this thread started pretty awesome. Intredasting posts.

>>1053785
Someone archive this thread for the pictures.

>>1053787
>>1053801
Thanks guise. Pics can all be found here: http://www.vintag.es/2017/03/29-fantastic-color-photos-captured.html

Since this got a good reception I'll overstay my welcome a bit and post Dewi Williams' legendary Barcelona tram photos. These photos were all taken in 1956, and they're the earliest color photos of Barcelona's trams that I've ever seen or am aware of. These pics can be found here: http://dewi.ca/trains/barcelon/btrams.html

Dewi Williams, may he rest in peace, took the time to add a description, so I'll greentext that and add whatever else I may know. I'll start with single-deck standard gauge, then double deckers, then metre gauge.

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>Tram of the 1200 series on route 23, Barcelona: Balmes/Avenida del Tibidabo [2] known as Aveniguda Tibidabo in Catalan
The 1200 series was built in the mid-1940's, afaik they're 100% locally designed and built, since it was during or right after the war and spain had a hard time with foreign trade. They were the first new trams since the 1920's, and quite an improvement over most of the existing rolling stock. It's quite obvious that the design was inspired by the PCC.
The stop in the photo at Avenida Tibidabo is right next to the starting point of the blue tram. There was a physical connection but it was used rarely, if ever, since the blue tram was owned by a private company.

Approximate angle: https://www.google.es/maps/place/Barcelona/@41.4101278,2.1367698,3a,75y,41.04h,80.3t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s_6R_4XUxBIJNqAhX6xvJSw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3D_6R_4XUxBIJNqAhX6xvJSw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D1.2000473%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x12a49816718e30e5:0x44b0fb3d4f47660a!8m2!3d41.3850639!4d2.1734035!6m1!1e1

The building being restored is the one you can see in the photo, the yellow one.

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>Tram no. 529 at Sarrià tram depot, Barcelona
Sarria tram depot was located at this block: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3929218,2.1280446,18.47z

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>Tram no. 58 at upper terminus of route 12. [2] photo in Plaça. Borràs. The last remaining car of 1-124 batch from 1898-99.
This tram survived on the short line 12 which used to be the upper portion of a longer line. It was the only car used on that line by this time, because it didn't need turning loops which were becoming standard since the late 40's.
Thanks to this, this tram survived and was eventually preserved and restored, though not to working condition. It is kept at a bus depot of TMB, the municipal bus and subway operator and successor to the tram operator TB or Tranvías de Barcelona

>>1053828
Oh, I forgot, I have no clue where exactly the pic was taken. Plaça Borràs was destroyed by the building of the ring freeway in the 1980s, so this is what it looks like today: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.4042278,2.1171054,3a,75y,91.68h,84.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s16mK5aPqm4eAI9yBPs3qMQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Tram line 12 ran along Major de Sarrià street, but where exactly its terminus was around Plaça Borràs I have no idea.

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>Tram of the 701-712 batch on route 63, in the Gran Via, Barcelona

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>Tram 710 on route 63, Pça Tetuan, Barcelona
Hang on, I was wrong before. The 700 series, 701 to 712 were actually the first new trams since the 1920's, built in 1943. They were trying to imitate the PCCs but with two axles. The results were quite bad so they only built 12 of them, and they eventually perfected this scheme a year later with the 1200 series.

This photo is easy to identify, you can see the approximate same angle here:https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3942844,2.1750142,3a,41.6y,355.41h,86.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szjPXwyzK8g_VJXpwTpRiDw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Also fun fact, around here is where famous architect Gaudí was hit by a tram in 1926, dying of his injuries a few days later.

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>Tram no. 237 on route 66 near Pça Tetuan, Baracelona. [2] This tram is of the 211-285 batch but modernized by Maquitrans and known as 200MT class.
Same place as previous pic just looking a bit more to the left. The building with the large door is still there. This tram is a rebuild from a 1923 model, standee windows are likely PCC inspired.

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>Tram 231 in the Gran Via. [2] This tram is of the 211-285 batch but modernized by Maquitrans and known as 200MT class.
desu can't be arsed to find the exact spot where this was taken, too few references.

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>Tram and trailer [2] from the 951-999 batch, loading at Colon, Barcelona
This is one of the "tanks", in this case the standard gauge version. The building in the back are the old shipyards, now the maritime museum, right next to the columbus statue, here: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3753284,2.1774575,3a,38.3y,252.39h,90.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIjjlyUbpOIbG-6bY-HFneg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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>Tram 525 and trailer, [7] Rambla de las Flores/Rambla de les Flors, Barcelona. [2] The area is now know just as "Rambla". The motor car dates from 1926. [31] The tram is on route 59, former Atarazanas - Las Corts, today Drassanes - Les Corts. The present bus route 59 is similar.

This pic is awesome because it shows tram 525, the only tram car of that series that is preserved, though in need of a thorough restoration. Another car of this series was preserved in the 1980's with the idea of putting it to use on the Blue Tram line, but it was vandalized while awaiting restoration in the depot and so they just disposed of it.

Also bus route 59 still exists, and still has the same similar route to tram line 59.

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>Barcelona: Interior of PCC-type 1200 class car in [2] Gran Via, between Pg. de Gràcia and Rambla de Catalunya. [31] This type of car was the only one with the conductor's seat beside the front door.
I won't bother with most of the b&w pics, you can see them for yourselves if you want, they're not that interesting. I'll post just the most interesting ones, like this tram interior with conductor.

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>Barcelona: entrance doors to PCC_type tram.
Man the driver looks really focused.

One of the 1200 series trams was restored in the 1980's for an exposition on trains, and yet it was again left to rot only to have to be rescued again. It's now at the bus depot awaiting another restoration. Sad!

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>Barcelona: interior of older tram no. 211 (this type has a roving conductor).
Wooden interior is a cute, A CUTE.

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>Double-deck 4-wheel tram no. 205 on route 60, Barcelona. [2] Photographed in Pg. de St. Joan entering at Pça de Tetuan. [2] Car is from the second batch of d/d 194-208
FUCK YEAH DOUBLE-DECK TRAMS

Here's the same angle in SV: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3956819,2.1766144,3a,61.7y,352.33h,88.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sO5ThZ5SgG_evgtWleQ5b9A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

That building in the photo is now an old-folks home.

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>Double-deck 4-wheel tram on route 62, P. Tetuan, Barcelona
The double-deckers were phased out soon after, I think they were gone by the end of the 1950's.
>tfw no nice things

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Now come the metre gauge trams, running on the interurban line to Badalona.

>Metre-gauge tram M7 and trailer on route 71, Trafalgar Street, Barcelona, at the inner terminus of the metre-gauge system.

I earlier explained that on this line the urban services 41 and 42 (I think 41 was already kill in 1956) used the red livery, and the interurbans 70 and 71 the green one. But here you can see a red unit running on line 71, and later you'll see a green one running line 42. Why? Because fuck you that's why.

>>1053850
Oh, btw this one's easy, here's the current view of that same spot: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.388897,2.1758125,3a,75y,30.29h,85.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGE5DsGyi4oh4y9JbR8-5gg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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>Metre-gauge tram and driving trailer R12 at Arc de Triomf (Trionfo), Barcelona
Oh, right, the coupled pairs of this model consisted always of a motor car, and a driving trailer, so they worked as bi-directional units. The others had a turning loop at the same terminal as the previous pic.
The eponymous triumphal arch is to the right of Dewi Williams taking the pic.
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>Metre-gauge tram no. 943 and trailer on route 42 near [7] Triunfo/Trionf, Barcelona
Looking to the other side from the previous pic. Here https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3913303,2.1801919,3a,43.1y,232.87h,89.18t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3H6B0u5eGPYEaah8eGUylg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

>>1053857
Notice it has a green livery despite running on line 42, which was not an interurban service. However, unlike the interurban, mostly green trams, it's actually a motor car and a regular trailer: The trailer has no trolley poles like the driving trailers do.

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>Metre-gauge tram and driving trailer R6 on mixed-gauge track, same location as photo c0833, on bridge over the RENFE line, Barcelona
As I said, notice one pole on each car. Also, barely intelligible, the tram has a sign in the front that says "completo" = complete, as in full. Hard times.

This bridge was pretty new at this time, before that the trams crossed a level crossing. Since the bridge was built around the same time this rail line was electrified (to be precise this is the branch to acces Estación de Francia, the big terminus station that's still in service), my guess is that it was done because the level crossing did not allow wires to cross. At other places there remained tram and train level crossings, and the trams had to speed through without overhead wire. At least on one occasion a train crashed into a tram that didn't make it across.
The area has changed a lot, but this place is easily found because of the bridge: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3951301,2.1896147,3a,75y,29.28h,88.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxPvcUMcQC3AHdtMiQioy8g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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>Standard-gauge car no. 139 and metre-gauge car M6 and trailer, interworking on mixed-gauge track, same location as photo c0833, parallel to C. Almogàvers, Barcelona
This photo is 100% pure distilled WIN. It shows metre gauge and standard gauge trams at the same time.
The car in the back is moving away from the photographer, this is the line that substituted line 41 (so yeah, 41 was already gone).
What's also awesome is that the building on the right is still there, unlike most buildings in the area: https://www.google.es/maps/@41.3957763,2.1905058,3a,75y,71.87h,74.24t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1smGtVTP1sNTKWz63dSAShow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

In about a month I'm going to Trondheim, Norway. I hear there's a tram system there? "The most northern tram line in the world" they say. Anyone have any info on it?

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Finally, three photos from the Blue Tram which is still running to this day.

>Car no. 6: the Blue Tram (tramvia blau) on Tibidabo route, Barcelona. Fifty years later, the street is no longer Avenida del Tibidabo, but Aveniguda Tibidabo, however this tram route still runs, at one time the only one in Spain. [31] There are now modern tramways in Valencia and Bilbao, a tourist line in La Coruña, and a new one is being built in Barcelona.

Tram car 6 is still running at over 110 years of age. Many elements have been changed or restored, but the motors and the undercarriage are still original.

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>Tram no. 7 at lower terminus on Tibidabo route (tramvia blau), Barcelona
It's actually quite a bit further up from the terminus. I think he was referring to the previous pic which indeed is at the lower terminus.

Car 7 was out of order for the longest time. When they started modernizing these cars a few years ago they finally got car 7 back in service. It was missing it's controller, but these trams were rebuilt without controller, they keep their original control handle, but it works through an automatic system which controls the 110 year old motors.

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>Blue Tram (tramvia blau) no. 9 near upper terminus of Tibidabo route, near Tibidabo funicular, Barcelona
Tram 9 is kill. But it was reincarnated into open tram 129. The story is this:
Tram 129 and trailer were bought by an english or german company (reports differ) for tourist tours. As the tram system was closed it eventually ended up at a depot in the early 70's. By some coincidences someone thought of putting it to use on the Blue Tram (tram 129 may have been preserved because it was still in private ownership, and eventually given or sold to the Blue Tram line), but since the Blue Tram runs up a hill with around 8% grade, it was decided to gut car 9 which had its woodwork in bad shape and rebuild car 129 with the motors and undercarriage of car 9 (both of these cars were from very similar series, so it all fit together quite well). Some people say this was a cheap way out, and that tram 9 could have been restored and that car 129 actually could run up the hill in its original state. What's the truth? Who knows. But the important thing is that tram 129 was preserved and is still in operating condition, awaiting modernization before it's allowed to do regular service again ("safety reasons" and all that bullshit). Tram 129 is the only car from the municipal tram system that's somehow in operating condition, even though mechanically it's actually Blue Tram car 9.

That's all Folks!

>>1053489
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>you will never experience the era in which a town of 35k people would have its own streetcar network

Kill me, Pete.

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>>1053869
Thanks for the dump Barcabro
>>1054627
Allow me to prove you wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmunden_Tramway
>13 000 inhabitants
>pic related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Naumburg_(Saale)
>33 000 inhabitants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Halberstadt
>44 000 inhabitants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirnitzschtal_tramway
>interurban tram in rural area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B6beln_Tramway
>heritage tramway in town of 24 000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Plauen
>65 000 inhabitants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Nordhausen
>42 000 inhabitants. Includes and interurban line connecting to the Harz Narrow-Gauge Railways
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_G%C3%B6rlitz
>55 000 inhabitants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B6%C3%9Fnitz_tramway
>interurban connecting Dresden (above 500 000 inhabitants) to Radebeul (35 000 inhabitants)

You're welcome

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It's time to speak about Budapest, which had a large tramway network with lots of really old trams until the 80s.

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>>1054886
Budapest has a lot of tram-exclusive lanes. The city network looks excellent.

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>>1055005
But the old network was more badass.

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Two really old tramcars running in Máriássy utca.
This is also one of those disappeared parts (so as line 31), but in the nearby streets there are some other lines (line 1, 51, 51A), even a depot (Ferencváros).

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One of my favorite forms was this unified look made by one of the workshops of BKV. Many different, originally wooden-framed types got this look with a new steel framework after a complete refurbish in the 50s/60s.

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>>1055522
As you can see, there were some different versions (undepended on the type), and to make things a bit more difficult, their original look also changed a bit in the following regular repairs in the next decades.

>>1055515
Is this Budapest? Did they ever run unidirectional trams?

>>1055574
yes, but they have never run unidirectional trams

>>1055660
No, that isn't true at all. As you see in this pic, there were regular unidirectional trams running in normal lines, but after a few years those trams were sold to other cities.
But why? Lots of lines were operated by normal tramcars with one or two trailers attached, so it seemed to be natural to replace them later with these ones. But some of those "trains" also used platforms on the left side, which couldn't be used by the new articulated ones. Plus, their length and capacity also could have been modified. And last but not least, those times BKV wanted to operate only bidirectional trams, because they wanted to take the old round terminuses out of use in many places.

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Help me out guys:
Local radio station has an online poll about wether connecting our two tram systems should be a priority or not. Nowhere does it say you have to live here to vote. So if you want to help out just go here and vote Si (yes) at the poll on the right. (Or be an asshole and vote No, your choice)

http://www.ondacero.es/emisoras/catalunya/noticies/creus-que-prioritaria-connexio-tramvia-per-diagonal-barcelona_2017031458c7eb8e0cf264516cb271d8.html

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>>1055989
Voted Sí :3

>>1056009
thanks familia

Lots of UV and V type trams in Moszkva tér.

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>>1056155
Oops, forgot pic.

>>1055989
Fuck, when I voted it was 70% yes, 30% no. Now it is 42% yes, 58% no ;_;

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>>1056202
I-it's just an internet p-poll anon, it d-doesn't m-mean shit.

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Újpest depot.
The old network had roughly 20 different depots all around Budapest. Now half of them are closed, or even completely disappeared, and only 10 remained.
This is one of the formerly closed depots.

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Bringing it back from the dead.

>>1057765
Yehe, let's just ride this tram with the door open. I'm sure it's safe

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The tram operator of Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen recently called for offers for 126 new lowfloor trams.

30, 40 and 60 m length
able to run in consists
bidirectional
80 km/h operating speed
2.4 m width
meter gauge
15 m minimal curve radius
delivered in options from 2020 to 2027.
They also explicitly request vehicles with non-fixed bogies.

Aside from expanding the total fleet size, this will replace the few remaining highfloor vehicles from the 70s/80s, but also the first generations of lowfloor trams from 1993 (pictured).

Some employees' forum posts rumored that is was also considered to buy the used Variotrams from Helsinki as a stopgap.

>>1057795
It doesn't look like it would be very fast tbqh

>>1057795
Come on, it's a Kriegstrassenbahnwagen, not some high-speed train...

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>>1057870
Good luck with the Varios.

t. Helsinki

They require constant body maintenance to combat the stress fractures they get from our network, so hopefully you have enough routes with balloon loops and without any curves below about 20 m and with minimal vertical curvature.

>>1053489
bump for real thread

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>>1053489
Belgian coastal tram from national public transport company de lijn going to de panne from knokke ,loading of passengers in raversijde

>>1055989
Sí!

>>1057765
Wtf is this, the name 'slaskie' tells me it must be somewhere in poland. The only region that made me doubt in public transport. Went by a train called Dolny Slask. It was cold and snowy inside the train. It was as though it was pulled by donkeys. Surely the most terrible train I ever rode.

>>1059234
>It was cold and snowy inside the train.
kek
Looks like it's in Silesia. The tram is going to Bytom.
I rode a PKP train from Berlin to Kraków twice. 2 hour delay every time.

>>1057870
Hey, I hear your town is planning an eastwards extension into the Altstadt, how's that coming along?

Also cute reading about the utopias of extending all the legs of the system into pre-70s cuts state.

Ludwigshafen seems to be considering the same on the old interurban routes that got the axe at the steam era.

>>1058502
De Lijn only covers Flanders. TEC covers French turf. They used to be one company called the Vicunal.

>>1059234
Public transport in Poland is still fappable.

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steam tram

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>>1057870
If you have no steep hills, frozen winters and sharp curves our Varios will be a no problem.
Here they are the shittiest rolling stock ever.

>>1059581
Yeah but most trams in belgium are in flanders and walonie is kind of a shithole

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>>1053489
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>>1057980
>>1059900
There are already plenty of Varios running in the Rhine-Neckar-Network, both the early versions by Adtranz and later versions by Bombardier and they work well here.
But aside from the mentioned forum posts, no official press released have been made about this, so it's probably not happening.

In other news about reselling lowfloor trams, Lodz has expressed interest in buying used 1993-built MGT6D trams from Bochum, which is retiring them after cracks appeared in the axles of the single-wheelsets and the repaired wheelsets limit the trams' speed too much.

Source: http://www.transport-publiczny.pl/wiadomosci/lodz-mpk-przetestuje-uzywany-tramwaj-z-bochum-czy-beda-kolejne-54835.html

>>1061014
plz moar pics of german trams

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>>1061014
Bochum deserves a much larger network. Visited a friend there once. It was a two minute tram ride and a fifteen minute walk to his house from the central station. The bus from right before his house took a weird indirect route before going to the city center.
I feel all of the Ruhrpott should have the best public transit imagineable.
>>1061114
As you wish

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>>1061137

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>>1061139

>>1061139
>>1061140
>>1061137


mmm yes keep going until I cum...

>>1061140
>"""""""Metro"""""""tram
We big city nao.

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>>1061114
tram advertising social media accounts of rheinbahn, public transport provider in düsseldorf

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>>1061421
ok...

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>>1061480
I like Brunswiek, even though everyone from my area has to hate them by default.
>>1061761

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>>1061762

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>>1061765

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My city used to have a tramway
first operated by horses ,and then fireless steam
,and finally electric before the inevitable closure in the 60's
pic shown is the steam tram
the trams run on an abnormal gauge of 1188mm

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and this is the electric tram which are converted from the steam hauled coaches

>>1062181
>>1062182
Where?

>>1053489
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>>1058502
Here is some more : hermelijn tram from de lijn on kustram route in raversijde ,only in the summer these trams are placed over from gent

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How is such a conservative state like Utah so good at transit?

>>1063617
Religiously motivated frugality, work ethic and modesty.

>>1054886
Nice looking network, excluding the policy of no tram lines parallel with metro.

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>>1063306
Kusttram in raversijde

>>1063306

Sad that this is all that was left, especially when the metre-gauge "vicinal tramways" formed a huge continuous network, as I understand.

Were there many electrified interurban like services in the in the network or just kusttram and some small town tramways?

>>1063857
RAVERSIJDE MOTHERFUCKER

>>1060439
isnt liege building a new system

>>1063892
In flanders there are 3 Antwerp,gent,kust btw the kusttram is the longest tramline in the world

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>>1064048
This is in Nieuwpoort :D

>>1053489
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I got more good shit

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>>1065195
10/10 love the trolleybus there

it's funny around here it's the cycle lanes which have red sections, not our bus lanes.

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>>1065200
Speaking of Spain...

Is it time to talk about this again?

>>1065470
I also need a good reeeeeeeeeeeeeee image for future discussion.

>>1065470
>>1065471
Well, has there been any advancement since that online poll where us poor old foamers got REKT?

>>1065470
>>1065471
>>1065522
No big news on the REEEE tram, here's the latest rundown
>opposition party presents """""""""""independent""""""""""" study which they ordered (and paid for) from two professors of economy from the University of Barcelona
>this study is supposed to discredit the 300-something page study presented by city hall a few months ago
>this study says shit like "durr we have one of the slowest bus systems in Europe, but with very little money this bus system could be hugely improved so that the tram would be unnecessary" which makes no sense whatsoever and doesn't even take into account the suburban reach of the tram

later on
>same dumbass opposition party then asks for plenary commission to study wether this project is gud
>you can bet your ass that when this commission reaches the obvious conclusion they won't accept it just like they didn't accept the studies done by city hall
>this proposal got majority backing because everyone hates the mayoress because she isn't part of the political establishment (read: political mafia) so she had no choice but to also vote in favor to not seem like she's blocking this
>commission will have results in autumn, by that time an executive project is to be presented
it'll all come down to what city hall votes once all the cards are on the table toward october or so. Best case scenario would be the first phase getting built toward the end of this legislature (next election is '19). worst case scenario is nothing gets done and change in municipal government again buries this project for many years. Hard to know the outcome since it's all petty politics, who wants to give support to whom, etc.. What matters least to city hall is public transport itself.

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Let's get this thread going again

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Here are some old rural Hungarian tram.

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>>1066241

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>>1066245

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The city of Ostrava has soo many tram lines. There're almost every kind of socialist, post-socialist and western style trams, and of course old ones.

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>>1066248

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In Russia/Ukraine, long distance tram lines are common, literally these machines go through wastelands.

>>1066250
A comfy kind of wild east feel

>>1066270
this so much.

also extremely comfy: >>1066243

>>1066250
Post more pics of these lines.

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>>1066247
What is this, an attempt to build a bidirectional car out two halves?

pic somewhat related

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Coastal tram in oostende

Is Strasbourg-Kehl the second transnational tram after Basel-Alsace/Leymen? Or any more cross-border light rail?

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>>1069577
Basel also has a line to Weil am Rhein since 2014.

And while not a tram, you asked for cross-border light rails, the tram-train of Saarbrücken runs one station into France since 1997

>>1069578
Yeah this too.

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Anyone from Ottawa?

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On Tuesday the tram of Chemnitz opened the first 600 meters of the future line 3 to the technical university.

So far it just serves as the terminus for two tram-train lines running twice/hour. When the line is complete, the tram-trains will continue south towards Thalheim and the new tram line 3 will add to a decent frequency on the urban section.

>>1069919
On this what is the least frequent tram/streetcar/LRT (excluding tram-train) you Anons have seen? Can't imagine how such a sparse and uncompetitive service wouldn't be replaced by bus.

>>1070018
I guess SEPTA #101 and #102 count over here (every 20 minutes weekdays, every 30 minutes on weekends, except for the shared section between 69th St. and Drexel Hill).

>>1070018
Helsinki and the tram line 1 with it's 20min-ish intervals and only on weekdays and daytime.

It's a granny line though, going from quiet posh neighborhood past market halls and expensive boutiques to another quiet posh neighborhood.

Just full of old people wondering shoud they go to market hall and buy sugar and then go to the nursing home to play cards and have a cup of coffee with near-dying Mrs. Smith or something.

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>>1053489

Does this happen on trams?

>>1070084
Every day

>>1070118

Thought so. This is why I don't use public transport

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>>1070018
There are a couple east-german small towns whose tram networks only survived because communism and which's use is rather questionable today.
Some of them have pretty bad service levels, like this one in Brandenburg with an awkward 20/30 minute frequency.
Evening traffic is done by busses.
Sunday traffic is done by connecting the two weakest branches to one feeder line (12) for another tram, which then serves the actual town center. Until two years ago, this line 12 even only went every hour.

>>1070084
dafuk m8 where you getting these comic strips from

also post moar

>>1070342
The comic was called Everett True. They came out in 1910s and are hysterical. Some guy on 4chan usually puts them out.

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Previous thread >>1045187

Hit the image limit.

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>previous thread was tunnel edition
An excavator on a construction site above damaged the top of a (apparently very shallow?) tunnel in Düsseldorf yesterday.

>>1063617
giant planned out grid. walking across slc sucks. everything is so fucking spread out

>>1069832

Yes

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>>1053489

>>1073705
Most Stadtbahn tunnels are extraordinarily shallow. Unlike Soviet-built metros, which are about 150m underground

>>1053489
bump

>>1074071
Well if you have the privilege, a concrete box just below the surface is the most economical way to build an underground. Cut and cover they call it, I believe.

This means 1. The city layout is such that the tunnels can follow the main arterial roads and buildings have to be supported only occasionally. 2. It's favorable if the trench can be excavated instead of blasted through bedrock.

time to bump the thread again

>>1075319
Contribute something!

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>>1075372

Which city has the best transit priority?

>Tram lanes, signal priority, private ROW, etc.

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Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Vote for a livery for the new Stadler Tangos. The deadline is May 31st.

The Tangos will be ~25m long, with a capacity of 188 (61 seated). The first tram arriving in February 2018 with expected service beginning in August 2018.

(In Czech):
https://www.dpo.cz/aktuality/2444-anketa-nove-tram.html

Poll:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4N8aj7DLEAhyK0qvE1l_cJWNi000Bg3dUfzgRlBLOdAslzg/viewform?c=0&w=1

>Enter your email address, choose your favourite design, and suggest a name.

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Since this thread is sleepy af lately and I'm bored, here's the latest news on the REEEE tram (Barcelona):

>city hall presents a study requested from local technical university UPC
>study analyses in detail the effect on intersections with tram in place
>under assumption of 12.000 cars less it concludes that traffic would be more fluid, peds have more time to cross, and bikes would spend less time at red lights
>NIMBYs start REEEing because "durr why would you assume that a huge improvement in public transit would mean less cars HURRRRRR"

and then
>city hall approves commission to study what is the best option to connect the two tram systems: actually connecting the trams, or having a bus line between them (retarded as fuck)
>this is done because main anti-tram party insisted on it, maybe it'll get them to STFU when it's proven that tram is obv best option
>but most likely then they'll just question the results if they don't like them because fuck logic
>however this commission does not have to delay tram construction (if it is finally approved), since executive studies are expected around october-november, and the commission ought to have concluded what to do by then
>also the commission is made up of people decided by city hall, which is clearly pro-tram
>anti-tram parties were kinda butthurt at this but did not dare to vote against the commission, instead they mostly abstained so w/e

that's pretty much it. to be continued....

Also come vote on my twitter poll: https://twitter.com/bcnmovilidad/status/868839044045733888

>>1076116
>Vote for a livery

What's the point? You'll never be able to see it with them travelling at warp speed like that.

>>1076459
fugg wrong link
here's the good one:

https://twitter.com/bcnmovilidad/status/868841026202554369

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Last week, Hannover's light rail closed the surface line from the main station to Aegidientorpl.
The reason is that the stop on the southern station square can't be made accessible with highfloor platforms, instead a new stop will be built north of the station, to open in September. This new stop will also be closer to the other light rail lines in the tunnel.

Last thursday a parade of various heritage trams was held on the old line. Among them were two-axle trams with trailers that had to be shunted at the stub terminus and unidirectional trams of the pre-light rail era, that had to roll in backwards.
The last train to run was a modern 3-car type 3000 light rail train that has never operated here in regular service, as the track distance on this line has been to narrow for the recent type 2000 and 3000 trains. Also the 3000 lacks folding stairs and can only be used on lines that are fully equipped with platforms.

Video and pic related show some of the shunting operations to get the parade in place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLmFwCYZc2w

>>1076651
>LRT
>highfloor
why don't you just bomb the city and rebuild it from the ground up? because that is how bad you've fucked up.

>>1076459
Can you at least build a tram tunnel under that street?
>>1076651
>the stop on the southern station square can't be made accessible with highfloor platforms
Now that I think about it, why not? There is more than enough room. It would be cool to roll both the stops into one though, so you don't have to travel three quarters around the square at walking speed before you can finally get off the tram and catch your train.
>>1076672
The Hannover Stadtbahn has had a rocky history, and it's pretty damn good considering all that. High-floor tram/grade-separated light rail hybdrids are very typical of German cities.

>>1076459
The fact that option B is even being considered is pathetic.

>oh no there might be traffic!

...in Barcelona. No shit.


I SHALL LET OUT A HEARTY RRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>1076747
>Can you at least build a tram tunnel under that street?
actually it would be extremely problematic. There's four subway lines crossing that street just in the 3.8 km between tram termini, and a main sewer runs along it as well. For a good stretch the tram tunnel would have to be like 20 or 30m deep, which would mean losing several minutes just to access the station. Also it would cost like five or six times more than at-grade. Also two thirds of that stretch is waiting for a very necessary urbanistic improvement anyway, which would be done at the same time as the tram line.

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>>1076747
>Now that I think about it, why not? There is more than enough room.
Tbh I don't live in Hannover and have only seen the square in person a few times while changing trains and walking outside for a few minutes. It always seemed small to me.
But measuring it now, a 50 meter platform for two 2000/3000 cars might have fit on one half of the square without blocking too much crossing foot traffic.

>It would be cool to roll both the stops into one though,
That would obviously be necessary, otherwise you would block both halves.

>>1077264
Same for me, but the square in front of the central station is fuckhueg. It's certainly bigger than the squares in Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund or even Frankfurt. Hannover is just one big railroad town.
The current solution is not bad. Not as good as the additional tunnel they originally planned, but still okay. You can access both ends of the train station plus the bus terminal from either of the stops that are currently being built. The overground tram connection to Aegi was unnecessary anyway, I'd say.

>>1076459
Who are the anti-tram parties? PP and the current version of the right-wing independist party?

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Mississauga, Ontario.

New renderings of the Hurontario LRT. From top to bottom: Britannia, Robert Speck, Cooksville GO.

Three teams have been shortlisted to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the LRT:
http://www.infrastructureontario.ca/Short-Listed-Proponents-Named-Hurontario-Light-Rail-Transit/

>>1053489
Where was that?

>>1053736
Isn't that one of the tram types that killed Gaudi?

>>1066215
>Pacific Electric

Fucking highway lobbyists.

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http://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/brannkyrkahallen/

The Brännkyrka depot, location: https://kartor.eniro.se/?c=59.305702,18.018501&z=17&l=historic Journal film from 1946, no sound, swedish captions. You can use youtube-dl on the site.

>>1079237
Ok why does every single man in the first picture wear a turban?

>>1079374
Cause Mississauga is awesome. It's

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>
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fucking Sikh

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>tfw full body advertisements
;_;

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>>1079792
Though to bh that is a pretty goodlooking example, the annoying ones are covering the windows and those don't have to be full-body either.

>>1079795

Some trains are more fun than others.

I hate it when ads cover the windows. It shows disrespect to the customer.

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my favorite things, anarchism and trains

>>1079806
I think I'm in love

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>>1079237
Some more renderings, from top to bottom: Maintenance and Storage Facility, Britannia (better quality), Duke of York.

June 2017 Display Boards:
http://www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/HuLRTDisplayBoardsJune2017Web.pdf

(a small render of Sir Lou can be found on page 6, a different angle of Cooksville GO on page 21).

>>1079374
>>1079572
In reality, there's a bunch of Indians that congregate around Britannia and Hurontario.

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Helsinki, Finland.

The design of the Transtech Artic XL trams used on the Raide-Jokeri LRT has been unveiled.

http://www.metro-report.com/news/news-by-region/europe/single-view/view/helsinki-artic-xl-tram-design-unveiled.html

(In Finnish):
https://www.hsl.fi/uutiset/2017/pikaraitiotien-vaunusta-tulee-esteeton-ja-sinivihrea-10263

>>1080226
Näyttää oikein hyvä.

>>1080226
Gee Bill, two pantographs?

>>1080226
The first, preliminary concept design, that is.

Could be the system colors get all mangled up again before those things are roaming in the wild.

>>1080308
Gonna need that extra juice when you're shoulder-deep in snow 11 months per year.

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Seattle has a cool wrapped car right now.

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Flanders, Belgium.

DeLijn, the Flemish transport company has approved an order of up to 146 CAF Urbos 100s. The first tram is expected to be delivered by the summer of 2019.

66 trams are allocated for Antwerp, 18 for Ghent, and 57 for the Kusttram. The remaining 5 trams will be allocated for a proposed Kusttram extension to Veurne.

DeLijn has also contracted Bombardier to refurbish 53 HermeLijns, with an option of an additional 31 trams. These HermeLijns will be able to be linked together for larger passenger capacities.

Renders from top to bottom: Antwerp, Ghent, Kusttram.

(In Dutch):
https://delijn.prezly.com/de-lijn-herbevestigt-gunning-grootste-tramcontract-ooit

http://www.railjournal.com/index.php/light-rail/de-lijn-approves-order-for-up-to-146-lrvs.html?channel=000

>>1083244
>Renders from top to bottom: Antwerp, Ghent, Kusttram.

*Ghent, Antwerp, Kusttram.

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Dalian, China.

DL3000s on route 201; they were built by the Japanese in the 1930s.

The first tram line opened in 1909 with 11 lines at its peak; today the network contains 2 lines (201 and 202) at a network length of 23.4km.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fototak/31412169676/in/album-72157674596852351/

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>>1079237
>>1080223
Render of Sir Lou in Brampton.

>>1083891
Where are the rails?

>>1083244
>proposed Kusttram extension to Veurne.
My erection has breached containment

>>1084009
It's there, you have to look very closely.

>>1076116
Option 2 won the most votes.

https://www.dpo.cz/aktuality/2467-2017-06-06-tz-tramvaje-s-vykricniky.html

i must ride this hand assembled garbage every day to uni


and public transport is CCTV'd as fuck in this city, in every train/tram **car** you have at least 2 FHD cams recording at 60fps and some are with built in face detection (god fucking knows why, as prior to their introduction there never really were any problems)


>>1063306
>>1063857
>>1058502
looks fun as fuck especially as floor in trams is way lower than in conventional trains

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>>1084782
pardon me, i forgot photo

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Yesterday I rode one of these beasts for the first time. I don't really like the design, but they're sleek, clean, and comfortable on the inside.

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Atlanta Streetcar is still a relatively breakout juncture in local transportation. "Breakout," in this case, meaning it goes nowhere and just runs a figure-8 track through downtown- and will likely not extend past a new carousel for hobos to ride on, as public transit for much of Georgia is the greatest joke ever told.

>>1069832
I'm going to U Ottawa in September

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Bremen, Germany.

67 Siemens Avenios (with an option of an additional 17) have been ordered. They are due to arrive in spring 2019 and will replace the GT8N trams.

http://www.metro-report.com/news/news-by-region/europe/single-view/view/bremen-orders-siemens-avenio-trams.html

(In German):
http://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-stadt_artikel,-siemens-liefert-neue-strassenbahnen-_arid,1619284.html

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PCC in Mexico City, Mexico. 1966.

>>1086016
How does the tram in Bremen compare to Stadtbahn systems such as in Hannover? Is it significantly slower, less dense, or less practical or is it GOAT?

>>1086093
I lived in Bremen a few years ago. In the inner city the trams run in pedestrian zones, but they seemed to move forward fairly well there, no overcrowded junctions or stops that blocked trams.

The more critial part are the outer lines, e.g. the Sebaldsbrück branch of lines 2/10 (which was part of my daily commute) has long portions of streetrunning at maximum speeds of 30 km/h. Traffic light priorities worked well though, so they made the best of what they had.
Then there are the eastern branches of lines 1 and 4 which, despite being mostly segregated take up to 40 minutes from city to end simply because of their lenght and high stop density. They have express workings during peak hours to combat that, never took these lines myself though.
Bremen also has several high-frequented bus lines, which are pretty much entirely streetrunning. Some are also radial lines that go through the inner city, which in other cities might have been set up to feed the tram lines instead of running parallel.

A negative seems to be the weak overall ridership of only 104 million yearly trips, for a city of 550k.

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Paris, France.

The first phase of T11 Express opens today (July 1st). It consists of 7 stations running east-west through the northern suburbs of Paris. T11 Express uses Alstom Citadis Dualis vehicles.

Two extensions from both ends are currently under planning. The eastern extension from Le Bourget will consist of 3 stations terminating at Noisy-le-Sec; expected opening is in 2024. The western extension from Épinay-sur-Seine will consist of 4 stations terminating at Sartrouville; expected opening is in 2027.

http://www.metro-report.com/news/news-by-region/europe/single-view/view/t11-express-opens-in-paris.html

(In French):
http://www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/transports/epinay-le-bourget-le-t11-premier-tram-train-d-ile-de-france-entre-en-gare-30-06-2017-7101960.php

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>>1086338
Map.

>>1086193
Thanks for the info. 104 million doesn't seem to bad, comparing to Hannover again, which has a more extensive network and 125 million trips every year.

Actually should have asked here instead, what are those technology that enabled powering trams from ground level instead of.overhead while not causing electroshock?

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Damn this looks nice. Now I REALLY want this to happen.

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>>1087943
this is how it looks now

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before...

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...and after.

>>1053489
H̶i̶s̶t̶o̶r̶i̶c̶ ̶E̶d̶i̶t̶i̶o̶n̶
Barcelona Edition

why is it that when I searched for vids with my town in the early 2000's there were only vids of seemingly foreign people filming trams randomly

why would you travel 500km+ to eastern yurop in 2000 to watch old trams shakingly go around

not that there's anything wrong with that but it's a rather peculiar passion are those old tatra trams rare or something?

>>1086623
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Electric_Vehicle

>>1087950
>not symmetrical
RREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>1089413

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>>1063892

>>1089298
Thanks

Lehigh Valley Transit Company pics.

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>>1089560
Work train

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>>1089560
Freight service.

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>>1089560
Very old trolley.

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