The great YouTube time-travel videos frequently involve trams: You can watch trams in Astrakhan 1997.
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Mini TramsSome casinos offer free trams between themselves and sister casinos.
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People spilled out of trams, filling the square and its promenade.
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The majority of buses, trains and, in theory, many trams have air-conditioning, but don't expect the latter to provide much respite: With doors opening constantly, even those trams with air-conditioning don't feel all that cool.
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The majority of buses, trains and, in theory, many trams have air-conditioning, but don't expect the latter to provide much respite: With doors opening constantly, even those trams with air-conditioning don't feel all that cool.
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When trams pass, the walls vibrate, as do remembered scraps of stories.
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The usually buzzing streets, trams, restaurants and shops are all eerily empty.
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Trams in Milan continue to function, despite the precautions people are taking.
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According to Newman, the only places where you can currently see the trackless trams in use are Zhuzhou and Yibin in China, along with Qatar, where Newman says the trackless trams are being tested on a trial basis.
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Bombardier has so far sold about 1,600 Flexity trams worldwide, the company said.
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Today, Bernauer Strasse is a bustling street with trams running down its length.
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LISBON — With its cobbled lanes, vintage trams and ancient castle, Lisbon oozes history.
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Vienna is served by an efficient network of trams, underground trains, and buses.
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Trams, which usually depart every eight minutes during rush hour, now leave every 15.
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One card allows you to ride the commuter trains, metro, trams, ferries and buses.
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The current plan does not include dedicated lanes, which are needed to keep trams going.
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In North America, New York City and Portland, Oregon both have gondola-like aerial trams.
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Alexander told VICE News as he was hopping one of the trams underneath the Capitol.
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The museum houses some of the world's best cars, bicycles, ship models, trams, and locomotives.
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"Woman pulls two trams full of passengers weighing 36 tons - in minus 20 cold" 3.
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One of the famous trams in Lisbon, Portugal, displays a Coca-Cola ad in 2006.
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Milan's vibrant aperitivo scene has slowed to a halt, and empty trams smell of disinfectant.
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At intersections, stoplights should automatically turn green (or be prevented from turning red) when trams approach.
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JCDecaux announced on Wednesday a 7-year exclusive Yarra Trams landmark outdoor advertising contract in Melbourne.
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Public transport in big cities such as trams and subway in Prague, will be not affected.
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As of March 1, buses, trams, and trains in the country became completely free of charge.
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On trams without air-conditioning, women fanned themselves and children, slicked with sweat, across the aisle.
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THE BUSES are on time, the trams are shiny and new, and passengers usually get a seat.
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Trams hum along boulevards lined with elegant cafes and clogged with the cars German companies manufacture here.
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"I'm thinking it's lucky my tram was on time because these trams are always late," he said.
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But what if in the future, mass transit such as buses and trams could bypass traffic altogether?
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It reduced the numbers permitted to ride buses and trams so that half the seats are unoccupied.
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In 2016-17 every kind of mass public transport became less busy: buses, subways, commuter trains and trams.
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They seem to take care of infrastructure better here compared with the UK, things like airports, trams, trains.
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Passenger journeys across most modes of transport increased in FY16 with the exception of the buses and trams.
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Public trams have been chugging through the steep, winding streets of Hong Kong for more than 110 years.
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Spoken extracts from his popular stream-of-consciousness novella "Tête-Bêche" provide a soundtrack for the moving trams.
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Most trams and many bus lines have their own lane, so travel time is more or less predictable.
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The contract includes an option for Zurich to buy 70 more of Bombardier's Flexity-branded trams, the company said.
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We also stop to get another day pass so that we can use the trams and busses today ($15.00).
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But it has brought its elegant touch to other vehicles, including buses, trams, private jets, and the occasional bicycle.
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The clanging, smoke-spewing diesel trams which previously took visitors on a tour of the grove have been removed.
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Trackless Trams are generally larger than a bus and are meant to provide a higher capacity role than one.
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Chess podcasts hover atop the download charts in Norway, and trams are full of people playing on their phones.
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"We didn't have to carry the bags on trams and walk them through the airport to check," he said.
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Stagecoach also sold its North American business this year, leaving it currently focused solely on UK buses and trams.
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Stagecoach also sold its North American business this year, leaving it currently focused solely on UK buses and trams.
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These streetcars superficially resemble European tram technology, but unlike European trams, they mostly lack dedicated lanes to run in.
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Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told VICE News while walking next to the trams that run under the Capitol complex.
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Transport for London runs the city's roads, trams, cycling facilities, buses, taxis, river services, and most of its rail network.
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When you add other transportation modes like buses and trams, the decision quickly becomes very complex for the human mind.
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He cut red tape for investors, paved dilapidated roads and imported dozens of used trams from Zurich to improve transport.
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It appealed mainly to young children due to the mildly entertaining rides such as trams and fire engines on circuits.
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The Octopus card, designed for journeys on Hong Kong's trains, buses, trams and ferries, soon stretched its tentacles into shops.
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In between taking photos of street art, yellow trams, and beautiful tile, I pop into a clothing shop called Bershka.
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The "trams" leave every 15 minutes and make stops at Thrill Waterpark, Oasis Lagoon, South Beach, and Coco Beach Club.
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Newman says he sometimes receives questions citing concerns about whether the trackless trams can cause road pavement to break down.
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The majority packed into older trams and buses aboveground—dreaming, perhaps, of the day they could finally buy a car.
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From taxis to buses, trams and trains, there are a range of options for getting around our towns and cities.
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Keep an eye out for BOTR books with #mwf16 bookmarks in them floating around trams and trains in the coming weeks!
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In trams, people whispered about drinking iodine to block radiation, though they said it was poisonous if you took too much.
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A red area, on the other hand, will likely have the noise of buses and trams drowning out all other sounds.
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Trams and busses had come to a standstill—as if someone had shut them down with one push of the button.
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They want a grid of autonomous cars, golf carts, buses, trams, whatever, and it's just a service, all electric, all autonomous.
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The Waverley train station is a short walk away, as is the Edinburgh Trams line, which runs to the international airport.
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This time, two trams will offer free rides daily between Causeway Bay and Western Market in Sheung Wan through March 28.
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It's $27 for monthly access to the Paris metro, trams, buses, and suburban trains across a 245-mile radius of the city.
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During "You're the One that I Want," the Grease: Live cast members drove trams to make their way to the Warner Bros.
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Trams to and from the square in front of the station were stopped as police and emergency services converged on the area.
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The buses, with few exceptions, and many trams have low floors, allowing a stroller, wheelchair or suitcase to be moved easily onboard.
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There are no barriers in the stations and no steps up onto the trams, to make them easy for frailer passengers to use.
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TfL's advertising estate comprises space on the London Underground, Overground, DLR, Victoria Coach Station, trams, bus shelters, buses and also on-street advertising.
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And Honigmann certainly shows them patiently guiding people to doctor visits and through crowds at a heavy metal festival, guiding them onto trams.
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Story at a glance "We must find new, smart and sustainable solutions," says Peter Newman, who is leading worldwide interest in trackless trams.
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They must be transformed to include those gated electronic walls we are familiar with for the trams at major airports throughout the country.
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The SL95 trams, along with older SL79 trams will be replaced by new SL18 trams between 2020 and 2024.
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On 4 July, the SUNIJ-lijn was fully shut down to renovate the line, and lower and lengthen its platforms to accommodate low-floor trams. The SIG- trams will be replaced by CAF low-floor trams. Vienna trams purchased second- hand In 2008, Utrecht purchased trams built in the 1980s from Vienna at a cost of 837,000 euros. The Vienna trams (de Weense trams) were delivered to Utrecht in 2009.
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Older SL79 trams will also be replaced by these new trams.
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Route 86 is operated from Preston depot by B class trams and E class trams, although it is not uncommon for A class trams to be rostered.
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The legendary endurance and reliability of MTV-82 trams makes them ideal for use in non-revenue service. After being retired or removed from passenger service, many MTV-82 trams were converted into service trams. They could be used for towing other trams, as hoppers, freight trams, etc. In the cities of Odessa, and Zaparozh'je a couple of MTV-82 trams were rebuilt into unique double ended (2 cab) version.
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In February 2018, both B1-Class trams are now withdrawn from Yarra Trams services.
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As of October 2018, Yarra Trams has declared the restaurant trams to be too unsafe for use on the network, and so services are done on stationary trams.
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The SL79 mainly serves on lines 11, 12 and 19. Except those with an advertising livery, the trams are painted a light blue. The SL79 trams, along with the flawed SL95 trams will be replaced by new SL18 trams between 2020 and 2024.
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The O-class trams were a class of trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
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The P-class trams were a class of trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
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On a normal Saturday, the trams run every 10 minutes. On a normal Sunday, the trams run every fifteen minutes. On a holiday on any day the trams run every fifteen minutes. During a school break, the trams run every seven and a half minutes.
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The South Korean capital Seoul had trams up until the 1960s. Some of their cars were acquired second-hand from the Los Angeles system. The trams were very useful in the Korean War where half of the trams broke down. Trams were also formerly used in Busan.
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KKS pained its trams red and they prominently featured the seal of Oslo. To distinguish KKS's trams from the other operators, a journalist started calling KKS the "Red Trams", to distinguish it from the green and blue trams of KSS and KES, respectively, and the name stuck.
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Tram tracks in Brussels once combined lines for inter-urban trams and lines for urban trams. When the inter-urban trams went out of service, the network used only standard gauge track.
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The F-class trams were a class of two-bogie California combination car trams operated on the Sydney tram network with longitudinal seating in the open part of the car. They were later rebuilt as the L-class trams and some again as the L/P-class trams.
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In June 2018 Škoda won a tender for Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH and will deliver 80 bi-directional Artic trams for use in the large metre-gauge network covering Mannheim/Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg. The contract includes an option for 34 additional vehicles. The contract consists of 31 trams (three modules), thirty-seven trams (four modules) and twelve trams (six modules), the longest trams in the world .
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In 1903 the company ordered six new trams from Herbrand. The new trams received numbers 10 to 16.
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D-class trams comes in two variants: the 38 strong D1-class, which have three-sections; D-Class Yarra Trams and 21 strong D2-class, which have five-sections.D2-Class Yarra Trams The D1-class entered service in late 2002, being operated from Malvern depot, with the last entering service in 2004, while the D2-class entered service in 2004. From 26 July 2004 D2-class trams were progressively moved to operation on route 96, displacing B-class trams that were in service at the time. In September 2013, following the introduction of the E-class trams, Yarra Trams started to move D2 class trams to Brunswick depot to operate on route 19.
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To meet a franchise commitment to introduce new trams to replace Z-class trams, 36 three-section Alstom Citadis 202 low-floor trams were purchased by Yarra Trams.Alstom to supply new trams and maintenance for Melbourne Alstom 6 October 2000"Yarra Trams Orders Alstom's Citadis Cars" Railway Digest December 2000 page 15 They were the first low-floor trams in Melbourne, and the first tram imported for the Melbourne tram system since the 1920s. C-Class Yarra Trams The design was adapted by Alstom for local conditions, with the first four trams arriving at Webb Dock on 10 August 2001. Following fit-out and testing at Preston Workshops, they entered service on 12 October 2001.
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They have been granted some extended powers since 2009. On PCC trams, the front door works only for entry; on newer HermeLijn trams passengers can enter or exit trams using any of the doors.
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Interior of the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant. The company uses three converted trams as restaurant trams. A number of systems have introduced restaurant trams, particularly as a tourist attraction. This is specifically a modern trend.
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All services are operated by M5000 trams. Between 1992 and 2009, the line was operated by the original fleet of 26 T-68 trams. From 2009 the new fleet of M5000 trams was introduced, and these replaced the original T-68 trams. which were withdrawn from service during 2012–14.
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The trams are numbered from 2001 to 2030. In early 2007, three Citadis 302 trams, as used on Line 2, were delivered, and became operational for service on 2 May 2007. The three trams are numbered from 2031 to 2033. All trams on Line 1 have a width of 2.65 m.
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All services are operated by M5000 trams. Between 1992 and 2009, the line was operated by the original fleet of 26 T-68 trams. From 2009 the new fleet of M5000 trams was introduced, and these replaced the original T-68 trams. which were withdrawn from service during 2012–14.
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In the following year, MPK Kraków bought 36 trams, and in 2015 MPK Wrocław also bought Pesa Twist trams.
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"Melboune" Trolley Wire issue 288 February 2002 pages 29-31 In 2003 Yarra Trams refitted ten B2-class trams with the "Apollo" seating layout, in which some seats were replaced with "bum racks" (similar to those seen in the C-class trams), in an effort to increase passenger capacity. All B2-class trams remain in service and are painted in either the Yarra Trams livery, or have all-over advertising applied.
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The rest of these trams belonged to Magnitogorsk. However, at the time it was a practice to keep a few trams secretly, off the books. This was done to conceal the loss of trams by fire, accidents, and other damage. This practice has obscured the exact number of LM/LP-49 trams.
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In 2015/16, 203.8 million journeys were taken on Melbourne's trams, with trams traveling more than 24.8 million kilometres annually. Each week Yarra Trams operates 31,400 scheduled tram services, which results in trams operating for approximately 20 hours per day and a team of 24-hour operations staff completing network maintenance and cleaning.
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Heritage trams returned to Istiklal Caddesi in 1990 and in Moda in 2003. Modern trams began service on the European side in 1992 and have since been expanded. Istanbul is the only city in European Turkey with operating trams. In Anatolia, there are operating trams in Adana, Antalya, Bursa, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, and Kayseri.
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C-class Melbourne tram in TransdevTSL livery W6 983 on Victoria Parade As of January 2019, the fleet consists of over 450 W, Z3, A1, B2, C1, C2, D and E class trams, operated from eight depots. In October 2001, Yarra Trams took delivery of the first of 36 C class Alstom Citadis trams which have primarily operated on route 109 to complement the extension to Box Hill.Alstom to supply new trams and maintenance for Melbourne Alstom 6 October 2000"Yarra Trams Orders Alstom's Citadis Cars" Railway Digest December 2000 page 15Low floor trams have arrived Yarra Trams 17 August 2001 As part of the acquisition of M>Tram in 2004, Yarra Trams acquired 39 D class Siemens Combino trams and oversaw the delivery of another 20 still on order. They are leased from the Commonwealth Bank, rather than VicTrack.
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Cable trams were replaced by electric trams in 1902 and the new electric depot served the isolated North Shore Lines.
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The R-class trams were a class of drop-centre saloon car type trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
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The C-class trams were a class of single bogie end-loading electric trams operated on the Sydney tram network.
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In the early 1990s, Oslo Sporveier was in need of new trams to operate on their network. Except for 40 articulated SL79-trams that had been delivered between 1982 and 1990, the company had several series of non-articulated trams with trailers that were built before 1960. The largest series were 13 SM53s, 11 rebuilt SM83s and 28 trailers, in addition to 34 SM91s that had been bought used from the Gothenburg Tramway in 1991. Oslo Sporveier considered several possibilities for new trams, including ordering additional SL79s, purchasing motorized trailers for SL79, purchasing new low-floor trams, purchasing trams from ČKD Tatra, purchasing the 11 used TT Class 8 trams from Trondheim, rebuild the SL79s with an additional section or purchasing used articulated trams from abroad.
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SM53 tram of the Oslo Tramway The SM53 were a tram model which operated for more than 40 years on the Oslo Tramway. A number of these trams were later rebuilt and became known as SM83 trams. The trams were based on the Swedish Mustang trams, and were delivered with Swedish electronics. Høka gained a reputation and legacy as very reliable and successful. Between 1982 and 1983, the trams were converted to one man operation. The SM53 trams were retired between 1990 and 1997. The first batch of 30 Høka trams were built between 1952 and 1953, numbered 204-233. These were originally designated MBO 50. The second batch of 12 trams was built in 1957, designated MBO 55, and numbered 234-245.
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Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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Trams in India were established in the late-19th century. Horse-drawn trams were introduced in Kolkata in 1873; electric trams began in Chennai in 1895, and trams were also introduced in Mumbai, Baroda, Nashik, Kanpur, Kerala, Patna and Bhavnagar. They were discontinued in all Indian cities between 1930 and 1970, except for Kolkata.
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Starting in 1999, HKL received deliveries a fleet of low-floor Variotram trams from Adtranz (Bombardier Transportation since 2001). The new generation trams suffered from persistent technical difficulties and frequent break-downs, the entire batch needing to be refitted by the manufacturer in Germany.Helsingin Sanomat To cover for the missing trams, the city bought ten second-hand trams from Mannheim, Germany. To help pay for the second-hand trams, HKL was allowed to cover six of the extra trams completely in advertising, a sight rarely seen before on the streets of Helsinki.
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In 1898, a rival transport operator, the Ipswich Omnibus Society, appeared operating 18 buses in a red livery operated a Bramford Road - Wherstead service, to compete with the trams. Like the trams, the buses were horse drawn, however they operated a '1d all the way' fare in order to take business away from the trams. This forced the Ipswich Tramway Company to lower their fares, however the buses still had an advantage over the trams: they operated on Sundays. The bus network expanded, doubling the trams' routes and serving areas not served by trams.
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Trams with historical significance were to be kept and made available to museums, augmenting the 34 W-class trams already on display throughout Victoria. Five trams were kept for potential gifting and nine for other potential future uses. Former art trams were to be kept in storage for future public display. The balance of trams, 134, had a condition or significance that did not lend itself to being preserved for operations in any way.
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The maximum speed for trams in Bratislava is restricted to 50 km/h, although this speed is lower in some parts of the network. 60 new fully air-conditioned and low floor trams were ordered in 2013 and were delivered from 2014 to 2016 for new lines to Petržalka and as a replacement for old vehicles. 30 of these trams are bidirectional trams Škoda 30T and another 30 are standard one-way trams Škoda 29T.
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Innsbruck's Alpine Tramways Questions about the future for trams in Innsbruck returned at the end of the 1990s. Using three different types of vehicle for inner city mass transportation – trams, trolleybuses and motor buses – was seen as unnecessarily costly, and there was talk of abandonment; either the trolleybuses or the trams. The discussions led to a new regional rail (1999) and trams (2001) strategy (Straßenbahnkonzept und Regionalbahnkonzept) which broadly favoured of the trams, however.
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The first day of public service for electric trams was 25 April 1905. The first electric trams were four single-deck cars purchased from the John Stephenson Car Company, of New York. More trams were purchased later from the J. G. Brill Company and the United Electric Car Company. Lines were gradually electrified, but not until 1914 were the last mule trams taken out of use, upon conversion of the Kennilworth route to electric trams.
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43 type GT10NC-DU trams are operated in Duisburg, which were built by Duewag from 1986 until 1993. The first of 47 new Bombardier Flexity trams was delivered in 2020, which are scheduled to replace the old trams.
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Hong Kong Tramways fleet is entirely made up of double-decker trams. A double- decker tram is a tram that has two levels. Some double-decker trams have open tops. The earliest double-deck trams were horse drawn.
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Two trams were then driven back-to-back, and the direction of the trams could simply be reversed on Dagen H.
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From 2009 the new fleet of M5000 trams were introduced, and these replaced the T-68/A trams during 2012–14.
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The first horse-drawn trams were introduced in 1882, followed by steam trams in 1883 and electric trams in 1898. Trolleybuses ran in Bradford from 1911 to 1972. There are various models of trams, including no. 237, built in Shipley in 1904, but shown as it was in 1912 with top deck extended and covered to accommodate 38 passengers.
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These three trams were built in 1904 from three single deck horse trams, similar to the new-built California Combination trams but with 6 saloon windows as opposed to 4 on the new trams, and a single fixed cross-bench seat on each end platform instead of 2 tip-over seats each end. Withdrawn from service 1925 to 1930s.
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In addition, since the timetable change, the trams have been used on the newly opened line 22. Owing to the problems with the trams, MVG announced on 28 September 2012 that they had chosen not to exercise their option of a further eight trams, instead ordering eight new Siemens Avenio trams, designated as the T series.
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Blackpool Transport also operates the Blackpool Tramway, which currently has a varied fleet of eighteen modern Bombardier Flexity 2 articulated low floor trams, nine modernised 1930s double-deck English Electric Balloon cars and an assortment of various heritage trams.Unofficial Blackpool Transport Tramcar Fleet List British Trams Online Advertising has always been popular on trams, especially on the traditional trams.
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Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. These services combine to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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Later on, people refused to use two-axle trams; and tram production changed so all new trams were equipped with bogies. And the articulated trams, as well as Multiple Unit Systems came into use, on segments with huge ridership.
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Trams in Valladolid was the basis of the transit system in the Spanish city of Valladolid. Trams operated in Valladolid from 1881 until 1933. Trams were not only used for passengers in Valladolid, but also for urban freight transport.
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Two second-hand trams and two tram bodies were purchased from Birmingham Corporation at a cost of £310. The bodies were mounted on the trucks of two scrapped trams, and the four new trams took numbers 19 – 22 in the fleet.
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In Miskolc there are also a few vintage trams and buses. They are operated less regularly, mostly on certain occasions. In Szeged there are also a few vintage trams, buses and trolleybuses. Trams are in service on certain summer weekends.
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A fire at the Elwood tram depot on 7 March 1907 destroyed the depot and all the trams. Services resumed on 17 March 1907 using four C-class trams and three D-class trams from Sydney, which were altered to run on VR trucks salvaged from the fire. These trams sufficed until Newport Workshops built 14 new trams. The St Kilda to Brighton Beach Electric Street Railway closed on 28 February 1959 and was replaced by buses.
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Routes 3 and 3a are operated out of Glenhuntly depot predominantly by Z class trams with A1 and B2 class trams also used.
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The trams built as the works for Dublin were noted for being among the finest running trams anywhere with designs distinctive to Dublin.
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In the early 1990s, the Ring 3 bypass highway was being upgraded, and this caused a disruption to the Grünerløkka–Torshov Line at Storo where it crosses this highway. To continue operations on the line, trams had to turn without a turning loop, but the company did not have enough trams which could run this way. However, Gothenburg had a number of surplus M25 trams capable of running back to back trams. The trams were therefore purchased by Oslo at the token price of NOK 1 each, although upgrading the trams for Oslo use cost NOK 200,000.
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Tatra KT4 tram in Tallinn. In Estonia, trams are used only in the capital, Tallinn. There has been a growing tram network in Tallinn since 1888, when traffic was started by horse- powered trams. The first line was electrified on 28 October 1925. Estonian- built electric trams were also used, with some gas-powered trams having been used in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Inekon Trams, a.s. is a manufacturer of trams, or streetcars, located in the Czech Republic, and has supplied new trams to several cities in the Czech Republic and the United States.Webb, Mary (ed.) (2009). Jane's Urban Transport Systems 2009–2010, p. 526.
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In June 1907, trams were introduced in Kanpur (then Cawnpore). There were of track and 20 single-deck open trams. The single-track line connected the railway station with Sirsaya Ghat on the banks of the Ganges. Photographs of Cawnpore trams are rare.
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The Grenoble tramway is served by a total of 103 trams. The older 53 are Alsthom TFS trams, whilst the newer 50, which began entering service with the opening of the B line extension and the C line, are Alstom Citadis trams.
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The R1-class trams were a class of trams operated on the Sydney tram network. Their design was a development of the R class.
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All had wooden seats in the centre saloon until the 1970s when the entire class was refurbished with upholstered seats throughout. W6-class trams initially begun as a sub group of the SW6-class trams, but later became their own class. The W6 differed from the SW6 in having quieter wheels and gears plus additional soundproofing. As of June 2020, no trams are operational in original condition with Yarra Trams, with all of them being converted into W8 trams or stored.
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In 1983, the cars bought from Hagen in 1976 were lengthened and adapted for use on the Stubai Valley Railway. The original ac powered trams were replaced by the Hagen trams on 2 July 1983. The Transport concept (Verkehrskonzept) was revised in 1986 following a decision by the city authorities to use trolleybuses rather than trams in the eastern part of the city. Several of the former Bielefeld trams were used to replace the short-bodied Lohner trams in 1989.
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From 1908 to 1909, 100 electric trams were manufactured by Duncan & Fraser of Adelaide at a cost of approximately £100 each. Up to its last tram purchase in 1953, the MTT commissioned over 300 electric trams, some of which remained in service for over 75 years. The first of 11 Bombardier Flexity Classic trams were introduced in January 2006, followed by the first of six Alstom Citadis trams in December 2009. A further three Citadis trams entered service in 2018.
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This decision required the acquisition of new trams to replace the last two-axle trams, the oldest of which dated from the 1920s. Originally the plan was to acquire fairly new second-hand articulated Düwag GT6 trams from Copenhagen, but the deal fell through and in the end new articulated trams were acquired from Valmet (type Nr I) in 1973–1975. These trams were planned to be the last trams to be acquired for traffic in Helsinki. In a break from tradition the Nr I trams were originally painted in an orange/grey colours scheme instead of the traditional green/yellow, integrating their visual appearance with the Dm 8 and Dm 9 express DMUs of the Finnish State Railways,Markku Nummelin, pp.
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All rolling stock on line 1 is stored at the Les Hirondelles depot in the western district of La Paillade, which is located between the Saint-Paul station and the Hauts de Massane station. The rolling stock comprises 30 Alstom Citadis 401 trams and 3 Citadis 402 trams. Originally, Line 1 was operated with 28 3-section Citadis 301 trams with a length of 29.8 m. As ridership became successful on the line and trams had been filling up, between July 2002 and May 2003, the trams were extended from a length of 29.8 m and 3 sections to 40.9 m and 5 sections, and two additional Citadis 401 trams were delivered in January 2002, bringing the number of trams on Line 1 up to 30.
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The Dalsenget Depot was used for the operative stock, while the Voldsminde Depot was used for reserve stock. Of the 46 trams, 26 were located at Dalsenget. This included all the sixteen brand-new Class 6 trams. Nineteen trams not located at Dalsenget were saved.
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In cities, steam tram engines faded out around 1900, being replaced by electric trams or buses. Rural steam trams held longer until replaced by electric, diesel trams units or buses. In France and Belgium, the last steam-powered tram lines closed in the 1960s.
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The final trams ran on 31 December 1936, nine months later than was originally planned. The open-top trams were scrapped at River by burning them. The covered trams were disposed of by contract. It is believed that they too were scrapped in this way.
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The fleet in use on the network are Tatra K2 articulated trams from the Czech Republic, delivered in the 1970s and early 1980s. Later these trams have been joined by more modern vehicles in recent times. In 2008, Amsterdam donated 16 old trams to Sarajevo.
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The first set was delivered on March 28, 2009. The design of the trams was carried out by the agency RCP Design Global which covered the general concept, indoor environment and the outer casing of the trams. The livery of trams is blue and white.
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The Strausberg Railway joined the delivery framework of the BVG Berlin Transport Company ordering 2 Flexity Berlin trams on 5. September 2011. The two short double-sided two-cab trams were delivered in February and March 2013 replacing its older trams in daily service.
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Chamberlain was succeeded by Robert McCreary in 1931, who introduced a further fleet of 50 streamlined trams in 1935 – the last trams to be built for Belfast. These trams gained also the nickname "McCreary". Colonel McCreary retired in 1951 and was succeeded by Joseph Mackle.
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As of January 2020, none remained in service with Yarra Trams. Six W7 class trams are preserved by heritage groups in Australia and New Zealand.
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Improvements in other vehicles such as buses led to decline of trams in the mid 20th century. However, trams have seen resurgence in recent years.
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While these three trams were restored, numbers 3, 8 and 10 were withdrawn from service in 2006-07, leaving six HM V trams in existence.
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In addition to the four possible widths and choice of gauge, the trams can be custom-built for the necessary length. Trams are built modally, so that they can later be rebuilt or extended. All trams built so far have five modules and twelve wheels. The trams are available with four motor settings: four or six wheels powered with motors, or eight or twelve wheels with motors.
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In 1925, the Corporation looked at replacing the trams with trolleybuses. Two vehicles were hired for evaluation, and were used to supplement the trams on the route to Prittlewell. The trial proved to be successful, and trolleybuses replaced the trams on that route on 28 December 1928. More trolleybuses were purchased, and trams were withdrawn and scrapped to reduce the size of the fleet.
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SL79 is a class of 40 articulated trams operated by the Oslo Tramway of Norway. The trams were a variation of the Duewag trams that had been developed by the German manufacturer since the 1950s. The six-axle vehicles are unidirectional with four doors on the right side. The trams can seat 77 passengers three and four abreast, with an additional 91 people able to stand.
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Bookings often close months in advance. As from mid-October 2018, Melbourne's restaurant trams were temporarily taken off the road after failing a Yarra Trams' safety assessment due to badly weathered underlying structures. Until the trams again meet safety standards, the trams are offering stationary dining.Colonial Tramcar Restaurant services halted Railway Digest December 2018 page 54 As at October 2019, they were still not running.
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Special sign boards indicated to passengers where the Vienna trams stopped. When received, the trams had no noteworthy defects, and they had run well in Vienna. However, in Utrecht the Vienna trams had technical problems costing the operator 3.2 million euros in maintenance; they also caused extra wear to the rails. The rise in ridership expected in 2008 when the trams were purchased did not materialize.
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Rubber tires on the trams reduce vibration, and as a result noise, substantially. Additionally, the Zhangjiang Town roads are very hilly, and rubber tired trams can more easily climb steeper grades than traditional trams. Another advantage is that rubber-tired trams don't require tracks, as steel wheeled cars do, so there is less disturbance of underground networks like power cables, phone lines, and sewer and water mains.
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In 1935 the first of 120 W5-class trams entered service, with the same body as a CW5-class tram, but were equipped with equal-wheel, 4-motor bogies based on those used on the W3 and W4-class trams. Production continued until 1939 and included five CW5-class trams under construction being converted before release to traffic. Many of these W5-class trams were allocated to Essendon and (the new) Brunswick Depots for the mid-1930s conversion of the Elizabeth Street cable trams to electric traction.
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Trams have been used since the 19th century, and since then, there have been various uses and designs for trams around the world. This article covers the many design types, most notably the articulated, double-decker, drop-centre, low-floor, single ended, double-ended, rubber -tired, and tram-train; and the various uses of trams, both historical and current, most notably cargo trams, a dog car, hearse tram, maintenance trams, a mobile library service, a nursery tram, a restaurant tram, a tourist tram, and as mobile offices.
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The various systems were operated by different private and municipal entities over the years; the Edinburgh and Leith systems had been merged under Edinburgh Corporation by 1920, but it wasn't until 1928, after the partial closure of Musselburgh line, that all trams operating in Edinburgh were in the sole control of the corporation. The last electric trams ran in 1956, but electric trams returned in 2014 with the opening of Edinburgh Trams. Many of the trams from the horse/cable/first electric era were built in Shrubhill Works. Two trams have been preserved, a horse tram and an electric tram, built by Shrubhill in 1885 and 1948 respectively.
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One of the justifications subsequently raised by the Brisbane City Council when it decided in 1967 to abandon the tram system completely was the greater operational flexibility of buses. The phoenix emblem attached to the eight trams built from material salvaged from trams destroyed in the fire After the fire a number of components, particularly trucks and wheels, were salvaged from destroyed trams and incorporated in eight new trams. These trams had a distinctive pale blue colour scheme and featured a small picture of a phoenix under the driver's windows, signifying that the trams had "risen from the ashes", and were popularly referred to as "phoenix cars".
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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Four trams are needed to serve the Gråkallen Line on a 15-minute headway. With two in reserve, six trams are in regular service. On 8 April 1997, trams no. 91 and 98 collided front-to-front. Both were put aside, and were scrapped in 2000.
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The station consists of two staggered platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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The station consists of two split-platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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The station consists of two split-platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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The station consists of two split-platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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The tram museum at the Ferrymead Heritage Park overhauls and restores the trams used on the Christchurch Tramway, and itself also runs operating trams on its site.
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London Trams also operate services at Elmers End. Trams run every 10 minutes Monday-Saturday and every 15 minutes on Sundays to Wimbledon via Croydon Town Centre.
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As all Munich trams are single ended, facilities for turning trams, such as turning loops or wye tracks, are provided at all termini and strategic intermediate points.
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E 6007 The E-class are three-section, four- bogie articulated trams, based on the Bombardier Flexity Swift design and built at Bombardier Transportation's Dandenong factory. The propulsion systems and bogies were imported from Bombardier's Mannheim and Siegen factories in Germany. Bombardier was selected on 27 September 2010 following a tendering process for 50 new low-floor trams, which was opened in 2009. The $303 million contract was for supply of 50 trams with maintenance to 2017, and included an option for a further 100 trams. The E-class trams are the first locally built Melbourne trams since the B-class in 1994. E-class trams are 33 metres long and 2.65 metres wide, have anti-slip flooring, are air-conditioned, have automatic audio-visual announcements and a passenger capacity of 210.
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After the merger of the M>Tram network with Yarra Trams in 2004, most D2 class trams were transferred from Malvern depot to Southbank depot to help alleviate the congestion on the route.New low floor trams boost capacity on Route 96 Yarra Trams 26 July 2004 Since the introduction of these low floor Combino trams on the route, accessible stops have been built on Bourke Street, Fitzroy Street and St Kilda Esplanade, increasing customer safety and comfort. In response to frequent overcrowding on the tram system in 2008, the state government leased new C2 class trams from Mulhouse, France specifically to run the route."Melbourne welcomes Mulhouse tram" Railway Gazette International March 2008 page 127 The first of these new trams began operation on 11 June 2008 with the nickname Bumble Bee 1.
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See also: Trams in Adelaide Most types of Adelaide trams were introduced and operated by the Municipal Tramways Trust on a network that eventually became almost 100 kilometres (60 miles) long. All the street tram lines were disbanded in 1958, leaving only the 11 km Glenelg tram line, which mostly runs on its own reservation. The Trust and its successor entities continued to operate Type H trams on that line. From 2006, when new trams were purchased, the Type H trams were gradually phased out, except for two kept for special occasions.
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The City Circle route is operated by heritage W class trams liveried in burgundy with gold trim, however rolling stock shortages often see Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board liveried traditional green liveried W Class trams on the service. Trams display the route number 35."Melbourne - Trams" Trolley Wire issue 257 May 1994 page 8 The City Circle operates at a headway of 12 minutes in both directions, with the service taking approximately 60 minutes to complete a loop. Ten trams are allocated to the service at any one time (five in each direction).
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Rattlers one day, combino the next The Age 24 November 2002 Heritage W-class trams run solely on the City Circle tourist service. Due to these trams being limited to as a result of a series of modifications due to braking problems, their use is restricted to ensure limited interference with modern trams. In 2003, Yarra Trams trialled a seating layout which became known as "Apollo". The trial involved removing 30 seats from a B-class tram and replacing the removed seats with "bum racks" which are found in Citadis trams.
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Trams have been decommissioned. As of 2008 the new mayor announced his intention to decommission all trams and replace them with modern buses complying with EU standards. The 2 Tram Lines were Renk- Muncitoresc line (0), and Renk-Stavila line (DP) which was basically an expansion of the Renk-Muncitoresc line, but there were only 3 trams on this line. The full tram fleet was consisting of about 28 trams.
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However, the line received a major upgrade and trams were refurbished in the early 1970s. Throughout the period, the trams provided a reliable service and enjoyed widespread affection in the community. After 49 years of uncertainty, the future of the line was secured in 2005, when a major engineering upgrade commenced. In 2006 new trams were delivered to replace the Type H trams that had served the route for 77 years.
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M32 tram out for a test run in August 2006. The City of Gothenburg in Sweden has ordered 40 one-directional Sirio trams which were to be put into service on the Gothenburg tram network during 2005 and onwards. The trams were delivered late and functioned poorly when put into traffic. Among reported problems were excessive track damage caused by the trams, malfunctioning airconditioners inside the trams and poor ride quality.
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The first trial runs of trams along High Street were on 30 September 1905, with the system officially opening on 30 October of that year. Trams operated along High Street until 1952, when the trams in Fremantle were replaced by buses. The trams were taken out of service due to their economic costs and to relieve traffic congestion on roads. The last tram service operated was on 8 November 1952.
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SIG high-floor tram From 1983 to 2020, the SUNIJ-lijn used 27 single-articulated, high-floor trams built by Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG). These trams weighed 37.5 ton, were 30 meter long and are capable of a maximum speed of 80 km/h. In 2012, the SIG-trams were renovated including bogies, air- conditioning, seats and repainting. The last run of the SIG trams was on 3 July 2020.
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Melbourne tram route 112 was operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operated from West Preston to St Kilda. The 18 kilometre route was operated by A, B and D2 class trams from East Preston depot.Facts & figures Yarra Trams The route number was introduced in 2002, and was discontinued on 27 July 2014 as part of a wider timetable change to the Yarra Trams network.
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Until 1958, trams formed a network spanning most of Adelaide, with a history dating back to 1878. Adelaide ran horse trams from 1878 to 1914 and electric trams from 1909, but has primarily relied on buses for public transport since 1958. Electric trams and trolleybuses were Adelaide's main public transport throughout the life of the electric tram network. All tram services except the Glenelg tram line were closed in 1958.
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Melbourne tram route 11 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from West Preston (Regent Street) to Victoria Harbour Docklands (Bourke Street).Facts & figures Yarra TramsRoute 11 Yarra Trams The 14.9 kilometre route is operated by B2, E class trams from Preston Depot.
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Melbourne tram route 59 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from Airport West to Flinders Street station. The 14.7 kilometre route is operated by B2 class trams from Essendon depot. There are also Z3 class trams running Route 59, although only when required.
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The production of experimental KTM/KTP1 trams began in December 1947 in a Tram Manufacturing Plant in Ust' Katavsk City. In the next year, the plant started serial production of the trams. Production lasted until 1961, when the plant switched to the production more modern KTM/KTP-2 trams.
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In 1920, the rolling stock was expanded with seven trams. These trams were of the same type as the original bogie trams, but they had more powerful engines. Four years later, six bogie trailers were delivered from Hannoversche Waggonfabrik, which were somewhat smaller and had seats for 36 passengers.
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In 1957, most of the passengers were transported in the history of trams in Simferopol - 40 million. January 1, 1961 the city had 101 trams in the 57 railcars. The last tram line closed December 1, 1970. The reason for the liquidation of trams was no spare parts.
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A seven-month delay in delivery was announced in August 2012, with Bombardier stating that design complexity had slowed down construction, and the E-class would be operating from July 2013, and the last delivered in 2018. The first E-class tram arrived at Yarra Trams' Preston Workshops on 28 June 2013 to begin final testing, and was publicly unveiled on 1 July 2013. Testing started in mid-July 2013, and by September 2013 there were two E-class trams at Preston Workshops undergoing non-passenger testing in preparation for introduction to service in late 2013. Two E-class trams entered service on route 96 on 4 November 2013 after an unveiling at Southbank Depot, with a further three in service by January 2014. In July 2014, it was revealed that Yarra Trams would have to build more substations to cope with the large amount of power that the trams require. In May 2015, the State Government announced it had ordered a further 20.New E-class trams Public Transport VictoriaVictoria budget to include $2 billion for new trams & trains for Melbourne ABC News 4 May 2015 In November 2016, E-class trams were introduced on route 86.Past meets future at new home of E-class trams Yarra Trams 17 April 2016E-Class trams boosting capacity on Route 86 Yarra Trams 28 November 2016 In May 2017 a further 10 were ordered.
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In 1943 the trams carried 6,500,000 people. Because of the shortage of men to work on the trams, the SEC decided to employ women to work as conductors.
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Since introduction they have had a variety of liveries, and modifications. The Z1 and Z2-class trams have been retired, with 111 Z3-class trams remaining in service.
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Sometimes called "small centre-aisle" or "single truck saloon" cars, the 6 trams in this class were built primarily for the hilly Spring Hill route. They were built in two batches: the first four in 1936 were converted from 10 bench trams, the last two were built in 1943 using truck from 10 bench trams, making the last two trams in this class the last single truck cars built in Australia. These trams were fitted with special sanders allowing sand to be dropped not only in front, but also behind, their wheels, in case the trams slipped backwards on the steep section of the Spring Hill line. They were withdrawn from service in 1958–1959, one car was preserved.
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During the war, all trams and trailers which had been put aside were taken back into service. Five trailers were delivered in 1942, but the following year the German occupation forces confiscated three trams with trailers, and transferred them to the Mannheim Tramway in Germany.Aspenberg, 1995: 10 After the war ended, the trams were bought back from Mannheim. Ten Class 6 trams were delivered in 1948–49, while an additional, slightly different vehicles were delivered in 1955. Between 1949 and 1955, all the Class 2 and 3 trams were retired — Trondheim became one of the first cities in Europe to completely abandon two-axle trams, though the older trailers remained in service.
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The first steam tramway commenced operations in the 1880s, making George Town the first city in Malaya to be equipped with trams. Electrical trams were also introduced in 1905. Meanwhile, Penang's first trolleybus was launched in 1925. Trolleybuses soon supplanted the trams and remained popular until the post-war years.
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Until December 2019, it was a request stop in both directions. It is now a compulsory stop for trams towards Croydon, but a request stop for trams towards Wimbledon.
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Some cities experimenting with guided bus technologies, such as Nancy, have chosen to refer to them as 'trams on tyres' (rubber tyred trams) and given them tram-like appearances.
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Additionally the chassis of the trams will be sand- blasted and given a new surface finish. For some trams the life extension programme will be carried out in Germany.
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Trams operated in Edinburgh from 1871 to 1956, and resumed in 2014. The first systems were horse-drawn, while cable-haulage appeared in the city in 1888. Electric trams first ran on systems in neighbouring Musselburgh (1904) and Leith (1905), meeting the Edinburgh cable-trams at Joppa and Pilrig respectively. Electrification meant cable trams last ran in 1923, with through running now possible to Leith and as far east as Port Seton.
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In the autumn of 1924 the Manager asked for more new trams. Most of the trams in service were in good condition, except for a few of the earliest trams which he considered were not worth spending money repairing. There were concerns that the top decks of some of the oldest trams may collapse. Discussions were held about the future of the system and it was again suggested that the Kearsney loop should be built.
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The first tram line extension in over twenty years took place in 1978, along Burwood Highway. The W-class trams were gradually replaced by the new Z-class trams in the 1970s, and by the A-class trams and the larger, articulated B-class trams in the 1980s. In 1980, the controversial Lonie Report recommended the closure of seven tram lines. Public protests and union action resulted in the closures not being carried out.
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Plaxton President bodied Dennis Trident 2 traversing a former Fastlink guided busway. The route is now a tram line for Edinburgh Trams Lothian Buses' services have been integrated with Edinburgh Trams, since the trams commenced operation in 2014 – both are managed by Transport for Edinburgh, with Lothian Buses serving interchange with the trams at various locations. The now closed guided busway element of Fastlink formed part of phase 1a of the tram permanent way.
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KTM/KTP1 developments began right after the end of World War II. These trams were intended to replace obsolete pre-war trams. KTM/KTP1 was a kind of transitional stage between pre-war and post-war tram developments. Unlike the majority of pre-war trams, the КТМ/КТП-1 featured a solid metal body. But, like pre-war trams, they were two-axle and intended to be used as motor- trailer pairs.
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The 32 two-directional trams delivered for Oslo from 1999, called SL95, have met several difficulties with rust during snowy weather and the heavy weight requires a lot of maintenance to streets and tracks, which make the trams expensive to operate. They are also considered to create more noise than necessary. The replacement of the trams will start in 2020 and the last trams will be taken out of service in 2024.
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Andersen & Kjenstad: 22 A major issue with the trailers were doors which would not shut properly, often resulting with the trams running with open doors.Andersen & Kjenstad: 24 Oslo Sporveier was considering the need for new trams, but were concerned because of the new trams having costs about twice the price of a Gullfisk. This led them into the idea of converting older trams by keeping the most costly parts, such as motors and wheelsets.
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For a comprehensive list of Sheffield trams of the tramway see Tramcars of the Sheffield Tramway. Unlike other tram companies, whose trams were often rebuilt and made to last 30 to 40 years, Sheffield Corporation adopted a policy of replacement by new vehicles after a 25-year life. By 1940, only 11 of its 444 trams were older than 26 years, more than half of them were less than ten. Sheffield Corporation operated 884 trams.
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1950s saw the boom of the informal becak. Jakarta's tram system, which began in 1869 as horse-drawn trams, and would be developed up until the electric trams from 1899, would face competition with buses and faces financial issues. President Sukarno didn't believe trams was an effective system for Jakarta, and so gradually he began to stop the operation of the trams. By April 1960, tramlines only operated from Senen and Kramat to Jatinegara.
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A few vintage trams in Budapest In Hungary all of the four tram systems (Budapest, Debrecen, Miskolc, Szeged) have operating heritage trams. In Budapest heritage trams first operated in 1987. Its fleet contains quite a few vehicles (trams, buses, trolleybuses, even metrocars) from the late 19th century until recent years and there are many more waiting to be repaired. Heritage services are mainly operated from April/May to September/October on weekends.
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At the beginning of the 20th century, trams began connecting Mt. Eden, Balmoral, Kingsland, and Mt Albert with the city. The trams ran for the last time in the 1950s.
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Whilst the expansion of the Metro initially threatened the trams, they were kept in service. The system was renovated between 1991 and 1994, and new low-floor trams were provided.
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It is the first implementation of CRSC's new low floor trams. The trams are nicknamed "Boyue", named after a man from the Three Kingdoms period, Jiang Wei's courtesy name Boyue.
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Trolleybus services started on April 29, 1979. Trams became less popular and most of the vehicles were becoming too for old continued use; in 1996 the city bought thirteen Tatra trams. SzKT also bought new trolley buses, in 2000 and 2001. In 2005 new Tatra trams were bought to replace the old FVVs.
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They are orange with a white line on the bottom. The power of their two motors is 200 kW. They move on gauge track (narrow gauge) and can accelerate extremely fast for trams, faster than the newest, modern trams. One very good thing for these trams is that they are very light.
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After its opening, tram route 6 was almost exclusively served by the more recent HermeLijn trams. After 1 May 2010, a lot of the Hermelijn trams were transferred to the busier routes 2, 8 and 11. At present, the line is serviced by both HermeLijn trams and PCC cars (single and coupled).
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The government took over the running of trams in 1914. The last tram was built in 1934; No 130. The trams ceased running on 19 July 1958. Since the start of 2007, there have been four proposals for the reintroduction of trams to the Perth metropolitan area, in the form of light rail.
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The Dubai Tram use 11 Alstom Citadis 402 trams for Phase 1. The trams are long with a capacity of 408 passengers. Maximum speed is , giving an average operational speed of . The trams use the "Alimentation par le Sol II" (APS II) ground-level power supply, and so do not need overhead cables.
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Overhead lines are used to provide power for most electric trams. Overhead wires are used for both trams and light rail systems. Electric trams use various devices to collect power from overhead lines. The most common device found today is the pantograph, while some older systems use trolley poles or bow collectors.
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Munkvoll Depot: The new depot on the left, heritage trams stored to the right After new trams, track and depot were in place, the tramway debate started again. In 1985, the city council voted for a full economic analysis of the costs of trams versus diesel buses. The question was if it would be possible to sell the trams to other cities. Trondheim had chosen an unusual combination of meter gauge and wide wagons. Oslo Sporveier was considered as a possible purchaser, but then the trams would have to be rebuilt, costing NOK 1.9 million per unit.
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After new trams, track and depot were in place, the tramway debate started again. In 1985, the city council voted for a full economic analysis of the costs of trams versus diesel buses. The question was if it would be possible to sell the trams to other cities. Trondheim had chosen an unusual combination of meter gauge and wide wagons. Oslo Sporveier was considered as a possible purchaser, but then the trams would have to be rebuilt, costing NOK 1.9 million per unit. Also, Oslo Sporveier had slightly larger trams, and felt the Class 8 was too small for their needs.
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By April 1898, trams had ceased to run past Strond Street into Clarence Place as the operation of the railway between Dover Harbour station and Dover Marine station caused much delay to trams trying to use that section of track, although the service was later restored. Two more trams were ordered that month. The first of the new cars was delivered in June 1898, when it was announced that a total of five more trams was on order. The new trams would allow a five-minute service on the Buckland route and a ten-minute service on the Maxton route.
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Melbourne tram route 24 was operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operated from Balwyn North to La Trobe Street West End in the Melbourne CBD. The 12.6 kilometre route was operated by A and C class trams from Kew depot.Facts & figures Yarra Trams Route 24 began operating on 25 September 1972 as a peak hour derivative of route 48.History of Melbourne Trams Routes from 1950 to 2009 Yarra Trams Between 23 May and 18 November 2005 it was extended via Docklands to Flinders Street West while the King Street Overpass was demolished.
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In 2012, RET ordered 53 additional trams of the same model (the 2100-series). These trams are shorter than the previous generation by half a meter, reducing overhang when travelling around curves on routes not upgraded to TramPlus standards. There are also some technical improvements and other changes from the previous series, including padded seating and a modified interior layout. This series of trams replaced all of the high-floor ZGT trams by 2014 and as a result, Rotterdam has the first tram network in the Benelux to be completely wheelchair-accessible with only low-floor trams.
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On the same day, the engines were tested on the flat Sahaydachny Street, and once more, on May 8, on the track from Podil Street to Khreshchatyk Street. In 1893, the money earned by these electric trams exceeded the cost to maintain the trams. Furthermore, the electric trams were used whenever the horse-drawn or steam- powered trams had difficulty. Nevertheless, the system's horse-drawn trams were in use until 1895, and the last steam-powered cars ran until 1904, when a diesel electric station, on the so-called Dachnaya (Dachna) to Puschya- Vodytsia line was built.
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level services by a single track. Platform 1 services trams to , connecting with the Randen Arashiyama Line. Platform 2 services trams bound for .
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While the majority of W2 class trams were sold to private owners or overseas, 26 W2 and 5 SW2 class trams are preserved by heritage tramways in Australia and New Zealand.
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The Tower and waves logo does not feature on the Bombardier Flexity 2 trams but is featured at the top of the central doors on the modernised English Electric Balloon trams.
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Trams operate mostly in the inner suburbs and generally provide for short to medium-length trips. Heritage trams operate on the free City Circle route and privately run Colonial Tramcar Restaurant.
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Before 2009 often less than half of the trams have been in working condition. HKL considered returning the trams to Bombardier as unsatisfactory, but after a long series of negotiations a compromise was reached in May 2007, when the responsibility for maintaining the trams was transferred to Bombardier. The contract agreed in May 2007 states that, from May 2008 onwards, if more than four Variotrams in Helsinki are not in operational condition, Bombardier must pay a daily fine to the HKL for every non-operational tram. If more than eight trams are in non-operational condition, HKL has the right to cancel the contract and return the trams to Bombardier, who are obliged to return the €76 million that HKL paid for the trams.
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Agreements were made to take over seven of the trams from Trondheim Trafikkselskap. The trams would remain owned by the municipality, but rented free of charge to the new company.Kjenstad, 2005: 321–329 After all the agreements were in place, TT announced on 30 December 1989 that it had found a new buyer for the trams. An agreement had been made with the Copenhagen-based Unimex Engineering, who would sell the eleven trams to the Cairo Tramway.
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They had a single compartment, with outdoor platforms at each end. They made up part of the old wide trams, with benches along the length of the cars. They remained in service until 1951, but after the Dalsenget fire the following year, ten of the trams were taken back into use until the Class 7 trams were delivered in 1958. Most of the trams were scrapped in 1961 and 1962, though two were rebuilt to working vehicles.
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The Melbourne tram fleet currently comprises 501 trams as of November 2014. Classification is based on the original system begun by the MMTB in 1921. The rolling stock is part of leases to Yarra Trams, with the W-, Z-, A- and B-class trams owned by the Victorian Government, and the C1-class and D-classes are subject to lease purchase agreements, while the C2-class trams were leased from Mulhouse, France but are now state assets.
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The reason for this was because of the conversion to the Stadtbahn in Stuttgart replacing trams. They were, therefore, the first and only used trams in the history of VAG to be purchased. A novel feature of Freiburg was the use of multiple units and the division of leading and guided units. The trams, referred colloquially as "Spätzlehobel" which were always used in Freiburg in their yellow and white Stuttgart livery, were only replaced by new trams in 1990.
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A £40 million contract to build 27 Urbos 3 trams, sufficient for phase 1a and (unbuilt) 1b lines, was awarded to CAF. When the line was cut back to York Place, only 17 trams would be needed. An unsuccessful attempt was made in 2011 to lease ten trams to Transport for London for use on Tramlink. The trams are bi-directional, long and with low- floor access to meet UK Rail Vehicle Access Regulations for disabled people.
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Rubber tyres used for the Translohr rubber-tyred trams. Rubber-tyred trams are trams that are guided by fixed rail, but also make use of rubber tyres. A rubber-tyred tram is a guided bus which is guided by a fixed rail on the ground and uses overhead cables like a conventional tram. This can allow the vehicles to match the capacity of conventional trams and cope with gradients up to 13% due to the rubber tyres.
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The borough council took over the privately operated horse tram networks in the town in 1901 and replaced them with electric trams. At its peak the tramways department had 85 trams and had joint running agreements with the neighbouring municipalities of Manchester and Hyde, and the network extended outside the borough boundaries to Hazel Grove and Gatley. The trams were replaced with motorbuses in 1949–1951. Trams and buses operated in a red and ivory livery.
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Trams built from 1920 could be run in pairs with multiple-unit train control, via a cable with the control current. From 1943, plugs to connect the cables were not installed when trams were renovated. The maximum speed of the trams were when running at 600 V and when running at 1,200 V. The trams had dynamic braking, where the motors were connected so they acted as a generator. However, the energy was simply used up in the resistance.
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Otherwise, they are operated less regularly, mostly on certain occasions. For about a one-month period near Christmas, each city operates light trams (trams that are decorated with LED strips and/or Christmas decoration). These trams operate on various lines around the cities in the late afternoons, evenings, and can be used by normal (seasonal) tickets usually. At the same time each of these cities, except Miskolc, light trolleybuses are operated in the same way as trams.
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The tram museum is owned by VicTrack, but the museum is staffed and run by the Friends of Hawthorn Tram Depot. This group is a volunteer, non-profit group set up to preserve the history of Melbourne's trams. The museum has 17 fully restored trams. The collection also includes one of Melbourne's original cable trams.
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The terminus has two platforms; the southern platform serves westbound trams towards Kennedy Town or Shek Tong Tsui and the northern platform serves eastbound trams towards Shau Kei Wan. Eastbound trams originating from Kennedy Town Terminus or Shek Tong Tsui Terminus do not stop at this terminus; they use a separate track that bypasses it.
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The operating contract with Transdev was cancelled in December 2009 to reduce costs and it was announced that the trams would be operated by Edinburgh Trams Limited, a subsidiary of Transport for Edinburgh.Company no SC451434 Edinburgh Trams Limited Companies House In March 2010, Bilfinger Berger announced that the estimated completion date would be in 2014.
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Services are mostly every 12 minutes on all routes. Additional trams and double trams run at events such as football matches and concerts at the nearby Etihad Stadium. A stabling siding to accommodate waiting trams prior to the event finishing has been constructed to allow quicker transportation of people following the conclusion of such events.
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D1 3536 in the original Yarra Trams livery in November 2007 Interior of a D2-class, 2013 A Melbourne D2-class tram on demonstration in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in January 2004 To meet a franchise commitment to introduce new trams to replace Z-class trams, 59 German built Siemens, Combino low-floor trams were introduced by M>Tram."Victorian rolling stock contracts announced" Railway Digest May 2000 page 20"Market" Railway Gazette International May 2000 page 277"Melbourne - Swanston Trams" Trolley Wire issue 281 May 2000 page 30 The first tram arrived for testing in August 2002, and the first four entered service in November 2002."Metros" Railway Gazette International January 2003 page 14 M>Tram operations were transferred to Yarra Trams in April 2004 following negotiations with the State Government after National Express handed the M>Tram franchise back to the government in December 2002. To aid disabled access to trams from platform stops 'gap eliminators' were fitted to all 59 D1 and D2-class trams in 2013.
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After problems with worn drive gear were rectified, the trams became popular on the service to Maxton. In January 1927, the surviving original cars were condemned and it was decided to purchase five trams from the recently defunct West Hartlepool system at a cost of £850 including spares. These trams took numbers 1 – 5 in the Dover Fleet. Tram No.15 re-entered traffic and No.16 was under overhaul at this time. The scrapping of original trams 3 – 7, 10 – 12 and 14 was authorised, the bodies of some being used as shelters at various municipal sports grounds. In July 1928, an evening postal collection was instituted on the 8.30pm tram from River. In December 1928, two secondhand trams were purchased from the Birmingham and Midland Joint Committee, with three top covers at a total cost of £450. The new trams took numbers 11 and 12 and the top covers were fitted to trams 25 – 27. Trams 22 – 24 were withdrawn from traffic so that their bodies could be rebuilt.
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In 1984, the Elgeseter Line was closed, but a new depot was built and eleven new trams delivered. In 1988, the last tram line, from Lian to Lade, was terminated. The tracks in the city center and to Lade were removed, but the Gråkallen Line was kept to run heritage trams. By 1990, the trams were still not sold.
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Odensha On the Azumada Main Line, several special trams are operated every year. Mo3100 car 3102 (retired March 2018) had been used for these trams, but since 2010, Mo3200 car 3203 is used. Below is a list of major special trams. ; Beer Tram : Two return trips between Ekimae and Undokoen-mae are operated from June to August.
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Tatra KT4 in Liepāja in July 2013 The current fleet consists of 16 Tatra KT4 trams, including type KT4SU trams delivered new to Liepāja, type KT4D trams formerly in service in Cottbus, Gera and Erfurt, Germany and a German tram track cleaner which was built in 1954 and is the only working model left in the world.
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Reeves Corner tram stop is a stop on the Tramlink service in central Croydon. It is normally only served by trams travelling from Wimbledon to Croydon; trams going in the opposite direction pass the station on the other side of the road without stopping. The complementary stop for westbound trams is Church Street tram stop. , redevelopment was taking place.
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All services were initially provided by AnsaldoBreda Sirio trams. The fleet of 22 trams was later expanded to a total of 38. An order for 30 additional trams from Turkish supplier Bozankaya was placed in August 2014 to augment the existing fleet. The first tram was delivered in March 2016, and all were in service by April 2017.
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However, Trondheim Sporvei had problems delivering the trams. With this deal in place, the oldest trams could be retired. However, from 30 June to 19 August 1968, Trondheim Sporvei needed the trams again, and the old Class 1 was back in service. The final run of the Class 1 in regular service was on 29 November 1968.
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When the route to Rieselfeld and Haslach had been opened, the need for trams continued to rise. For this reason, a series of nine trams was ordered from Duewag's successor company Siemens. The first seven-part bi- directional trams were delivered in 1999. Because of serious design deficiencies, all Combinos had to be withdrawn from circulation in 2004.
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As well as Flinders Street station at the southern end, the western exit of Melbourne Central railway station is located at the intersection of Latrobe and Elizabeth Streets. A number of tram services run along the street, including route 19 trams to Coburg North, route 59 trams to Airport West and route 57 trams to West Maribyrnong.
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Trams were planned since the Qing dynasty when Hankou served as one of the major economic centers of China. New plans to bring the never built trams back to the streets of Hankou downtown emerged around 2014. No actual construction has taken place as of 2017 in spite of the plans of the trams were made.
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In 2014, CTS signed a framework agreement with Alstom for the supply of a further 50 Citadis trams. An initial 12 trams, worth €41 000 000, entered service by the end of 2016. The trams met BOStrab standards for operation into Germany, and are used on the cross-border line D extension to Kehl, as well as line A.
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During many decades of Kaliningrad's history as a German and then a Russian city, the trams have been an important element in the city's overall public transport provision, although in recent years the trams have lost out to the powerfully promoted share taxi businesses in the city: on some routes trams have been replaced by trolley buses.
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Prior to the electrification of the Gothenburg tram network, Göteborgs Spårvägar AB ordered 46 electric trams from ASEA. These were all delivered in 1902. Between 1912 and 1916 all M1 trams were rebuilt to M4 trams with built-in platforms. The M1 15 was rebuilt in 1914 and was used as an M4 tram for seven years.
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6224 — 6254. A decision was taken not to modernize those trams. Decommissioning began in 2006; as of late 2007 seventeen of the trams were decommissioned. Up to 2010 the usage of non- modernized PCCs is supposed to finish but, as of 31/12/2008, a total of 43 PCC trams remain in service across the whole of East Flanders.
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At the resort end of the line, there is a terminal loop and a depot for the trams, with a battery station. There are two trams in use, along with a goods trailer. Both trams are powered by a battery (80 V, 400 Ah) and two d.c. motors each delivering 10 kW, and a maximum speed of .
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Another is located at Mariaplan in the inner suburb of Majorna. The trams makes a right turn, giving the roundabout an odd design. In Warsaw, trams typically cross straight through roundabouts, and have junctions in the center of them. In Wrocław, Poland, trams pass through the Powstańców Śląskich Roundabout, stopping in the roundabout (north-headed track).
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The Lisbon tramway network () is a system of trams that serve Lisbon, capital city of Portugal. In operation since 1873, it presently comprises six lines. The system has a length of 31km, and 63 trams in operation (45 historic "Remodelados", 8 historic "Ligeiros" and 10 modern articulated trams). The depot is located in Santo Amaro, in Alcântara.
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In 1956 the traffic director of the municipality Niš said that the trams will be gotten rid of. In 1958, fifteen trams were removed out of service and sold. Buses replaced trams in a ceremony on August 10. Today, two bus lines (Ledena Stena - Ćele kula and Železnička stanica - Niška Banja) go where the tram used to go.
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In 1890 trams started to operate in Helsinki. In 1912 trams started to operate in Turku (see Turku tram) (a horse tramway had operated between 1890 and 1892), and in Vyborg in 1912.
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As of winter 2006, 17 trams were ordered and delivered to Wrocław. There were plans of buying additional 7 trams with the Škoda 19 T shipment, but all the plans have been canceled.
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The D-class trams were a class of single bogie Californian Combination type trams operated on the Sydney tram network with open cross benches at the ends and a saloon in the centre.
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This family of trams debuted on the Blackpool Tramway, England.
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Railways and trams are respectively regulated by the and the .
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From there, trams continue to Southport, Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach.
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Edinburgh Trams serves Carrick Knowe at the Saughton tram stop.
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Workers bound cityward fought for places inside trams and buses.
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Electric trams began to run in Stockport in 1902, with the service to Gatley (terminating at the Horse and Farrier) opening in March 1904. In Gatley, trams were replaced by buses in 1931. The trams were not wholly reliable: broken rear axles were common and the trams often disengaged from the electric cable. The LWNR railway station at Cheadle allowed travel via Edgeley to Manchester, but closed as early as 1917 due to competition with the electric tram between Gatley and Stockport.
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The B type Adelaide tram was a class of 30 straight sill, open cross-bench trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide in 1909 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT). Although popular in summer, they were less so in winter when exposed to inclement weather. Thus in 1917 with the MTT requiring more trams, 41-60 were converted to Californian combination trams, closely resembling the A type trams. When the MTT introduced an alpha classification system in 1923, they were designated the B type.
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As well as Melbourne, W-class trams operate on tourist and heritage systems across the world. A number of older variants have been withdrawn from service and later sent to cities such as Copenhagen, San Francisco, Savannah and Seattle, and by private enthusiasts. In 2018, 134 W-class trams were offered to the Australian public for new uses. As of September 2020 - 8 W class trams remain in service in Melbourne, all of which being W8 trams operating on the City Circle tram.
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It also provides Helsinki's new articulated trams of the type For City Smart Artic for the Helsinki City Transport (HKL). In October 2016 Transtech was selected to provide 19 trams for the new Tampere light rail system. Škoda Transtech will also participate in supplying modern trams for German transport company Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (rnv) together with Škoda Transportation. In October 2018 Škoda Transtech sold two pre-series Artic trams to German operator Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Strassenbahn GmbH (SRS) in Schöneiche bei Berlin.
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In November 1904 the purchase of four additional trams was authorised, along with the provision of slipper brakes on the eighteen existing trams and new trolley standards for eight trams. On 20 December a special meeting of the council approved the extension to River. The tender of the British Electrical Equipment Company for construction of the double track line at a cost of £10,353 was accepted. Dick, Kerr & Co's tender for four new trams at a cost of £575 each was also accepted.
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The Manchester Carriage Company's tramway from Manchester to Stretford was built in 1879, terminating at the Old Cock Hotel on the A56 road, next to which a small depot was built to house the cars and horses. A 1900 timetable shows that trams left for Manchester every 10 minutes between 8:00 am and 10:15 pm. The horse-drawn trams were replaced with electric trams in 1902, and after the Second World War the trams were replaced by buses.
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Yarra Trams is the trading name of the tram network in Melbourne, which is owned by VicTrack and leased to Yarra Trams by Public Transport Victoria on behalf of the Government of Victoria. The current franchise is operated by Keolis Downer. As at May 2014, Yarra Trams operate 487 trams, across 26 tram routes and a free City Circle tourist tram, over 1,763 tram stops. With 250 km (155.3 mi) of double track, Melbourne's tram network is the largest in the world.
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The Prague public transport company has currently available for standard operations a sizable fleet of 968 trams of varying types, ranging from the classic Tatra T3 cars to the modern Škoda 15 T low-floor trams. These trams are distributed across seven depots across the city. Besides these, the company owns also a fleet of heritage streetcars kept within the transport museum and several trams especially equipped for use for driver training or snowplowing, bringing the total number of vehicles to over 1,000.
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Two steam trams in front of the Burgerspital. In light of the problems the BTG was experiencing with operating the pneumatic trams, and also Bern's challenging topography, the residents of the city voted in favour of using steam trams to operate line II. This line, opened in 1894, ran from Länggasse to Wabern, via the railway station, the Mattenhofquartier (Eigerplatz) and Weissenbühl. The depot for the steam trams was in the Mattenhofquartier. Bern's main tram depot is still located there.
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Flinders & Market Streets in 2007 Five CW5-class trams, numbered 681 to 685, were built at the Preston Workshops in 1934/35. They had new wide bodies based on the previous W4-class, but utilised electrical equipment recovered from scrapped Maximum Traction C class trams (hence the "C" prefix). Fleet numbers 686 to 719 were reserved for 34 more of this type using equipment from the remaining C-class trams. These were the only W-class trams with only 2 motors (instead of 4). However, they were not considered successful and no more were converted; subsequently, all CW5s were converted to standard W5-class trams in 1956.
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He was farewelled from the MMTB with gifts from the Employee's Sporting Association, and a £2,500 gratuity payment from the State Government. Throughout Bell's tenure as chairman he was a defender of trams against buses. Bell declared that trams were superior to buses in 1936, dismissing claims that the install cost of trolley buses was one sixth that of trams, stating that Melbourne would not follow London's lead in introducing trolley buses. Bell saw buses as useful for operating feeder services, but believed only electric trams could provide the capacity required of a large cities public transport system, also touting electric trams quick ability at moving large football crowds.
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Horse trams, a legacy of the old private tramway companies, were phased out as soon as they could be replaced by steam or electric traction. The steam trams continued in service for many decades, initially to continue services while installation of electrical infrastructure was still underway, but eventually relegated to non-revenue operations and providing additional capacity at times of heavy loadings. The trams supplied by John Stephenson and Company were the first and last trams to be imported by the Board. Thereafter all trams and trailers were manufactured in Christchurch, two of which were made by the Board itself and the remainder supplied by Boon and Company.
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Services on the Inner West Light Rail are provided by a fleet of twelve Urbos 3 trams. The trams were ordered to service the Dulwich Hill extension, increase service frequencies and replace the Variotrams that had been providing services on the Inner West Light Rail since the first section of the line opened in 1997. The trams entered service between July 2014 and June 2015.First new light rail vehicle on the tracks as customer trips pass 1.5 million, Transport for NSW, Retrieved 23 July 2014 As a stopgap measure until the new trams arrived, four leased Urbos 2 trams ran on the Inner West Light Rail in 2014.
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Trams heading towards the city centre next call at Radford Road stop, whilst trams coming from the city centre do so via Shipstone Street stop. Viewed for appropriate area with unitary authority ward boundaries and names selected. With the opening of NET's phase two, Wilkinson Street is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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A Yarra Trams spokesman said that the fleet met maintenance standards, but required more cosmetic work than other trams due to their wooden structure and age. In January 2010, it was announced by transport minister Martin Pakula that the 26 W-class trams operating the inner city revenue services would be phased out by 2012, claiming that they were no longer suitable for revenue service and would be replaced by more modern trams. This prompted a new campaign from the National Trust of Australia to retain the W-class trams in service. It was also proposed that unused W-class trams could be better utilised by refurbishing and leasing them as "roving ambassadors" to other cities, with the claim that this could generate revenue for investment into the public transport system.
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The trams were, like the older Karia HM IV and Valmet RM 1 types trams built for the Helsinki tram network, based on Swiss Standard Trams of the time but with numerous changes. The RM 2 was shorter and narrower than the Helsinki trams and had no middle doors. They were constructed in collaboration with Tampella and Strömberg, who provided the bogies and electronics respectively. As a result, the RM 2 class, along with the similar RM 1 and RM 3 classes, were also referred to as VTS trams. Due to the Tampella-built bogies and rubber dampened wheels the RM 2 trams ran extremely silently and smoothly, earning them the nickname "ghost cars" (). The RM 2 class had 1+1 seating arrangement (instead of Helsinki's 2+1) to maximise capacity.
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Looped operation with single-ended trams is still the predominant method of tramway operation in the world, in spite of the recent construction of some new, typically smaller, stubbed systems with double-ended trams.
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The VAG is currently preparing a new supply of trams to be commissioned during 2020 and 2024, which are intended to replace 16 trams (GT8N and GT8K).Blickpunkt Straßenbahn Ausgabe 4/2017, S. 106.
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Ekebergbanen has operated a series of similar trams for use on the Ekeberg Line, the Simensbråten Line and the line in towards the city center. The trams were in use between 1917 and 1974.
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Then they produced 75 modified trams based on T6B5 model, which was designated as K-1. Besides the countries of the former USSR, Tatra T6B5 trams were also supplied to Bulgaria and North Korea.
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259x259px The Pesa Jazz is a family of low floor, articulated and multiple carriage trams by Pesa SA which have been manufactured since 2013. The trams are currently serving the cities of Gdańsk and Warsaw.
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Later in the same year, on 25 September, an agreement was signed that lead to 5 128NG trams being supplied to Gdańsk. Warsaw later signed another agreement, which lead to 30 more trams being supplied.
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The two depots for the trams are located by ulica Stwosza in Strzyży and by the street ulica Władysława IV in Nowy Port. The depots have a capacity of approximately 40% of all the trams.
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On 1 October 1925, the electric tramways was taken over by the Singapore Traction Company (STC), which was tasked to convert from trams to trolley buses. The last trams ran on the streets in 1927.
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Transport for Edinburgh took over the Edinburgh Trams functions from Tie.
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These trams were last used in regular service in December 1968.
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The trams also received air-conditioning and a passenger information system.
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After closure, all of the trams were scrapped, and none survived.
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In local Poznań dialect trams are called bimby (pl.), bimba (sing).
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The trams serve stops at Zurich Airport, and at Balsberg station.
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Izmir formerly had trams and new lines are currently being planned.
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The bodies of both D1 and D2-class vehicles were found to be developing microscopic cracks in November 2006, which could lead to structural collapse in the event of an accident. This resulted in all 59 Combino trams undergoing structural work to strengthen their frames. The repairs necessitated the removal of between four and eight seats per tram, leaving D1-class trams with 32 seats and D2-class trams with 56. D class trams are either in the PTV livery or all over advertising livery.
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These were supplemented in 2002 by eight trams for the Heidelberg Tramway, and in 2001–07 by 16 trams for the Mannheim Tramway. In 1996 the Sydney light rail system, in Australia, took delivery of seven trams, which were built in Dandenong. All were withdrawn by mid 2015 and the remaining 6 put up for sale. The Sydney trams did not sell, five were scrapped in early 2018, and the last built no 2107 was transferred to the Sydney Tramway Museum in October 2018 for preservation.
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These trams were offered to the public by the State Government under an expression of interest process, with trams offered for free to schools, community groups and non-profit organisations. Private buyers and business could purchase a tram for $1,000 plus the cost of transport, with owners having to explain how they would restore, repurpose and maintain the trams for use. A panel was established to assess applications, with priority given to maintaining public access. Trams were expected to be used for purposes like cafes or classrooms.
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The expansion of the tram network resulted in higher passenger numbers, which necessitated the acquisition of new rolling stock. Prior to acquisition of the new trams a poll was held amongst tram passengers to decide the colour of the new trams. The traditional yellow colour won the vote, scoring 724 votes against the second favourite, dark blue with 208 votes. To cover for a temporary shortage of rolling stock before new trams were delivered, five trams were rented from Helsinki during the years 1931-1938.
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Five additional trams were rebuilt from 1955 to 1960, by which time all the narrow trams had been rebuilt or retired. The use of a unique voltage gave operational difficulties, as fuses could regularly blow at Oslo Hospital if errors were made while switching from the one supply to the other. In addition, all the trams were custom-built with extra equipment with limited spare parts. All the trams delivered during the 1950s were built so they could later be converted to only use 600 volt supply.
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The SL95 need a vertical curve radius of , requiring upgrades at Wessels plass and Gamlebyen. The curves would also need to be fixed at Geita Bridge, but this was not done since the trams exceed the bridge's permitted load. The minimum permitted horizontal curve radius is , making it impossible for the trams to operate through the intersection between Riddervolds gate and Inkognitogata, where the radius is . This means the trams cannot operate on the Briskeby Line, and all trams to Majorstuen are therefore operated with SL79.
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By 1997 a further set of trams were scrapped, with nine SM53 and ten ST55 units remaining. The 1995 ordering of new SL95 trams was planned as the coup de grâce for SM53.Andersen & Kjenstad: 77 In 1997 the high-voltage cable issue was regarded as so severe that the company decided that they either would have to be replaced for the trams scrapped. On 12 September a tram lost its brakes and the following day all SM53 trams were taken out of service.
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Tram 42 ready for boarding The Tramway Museum, St Kilda is built on the site of the 1902 school and showcases trams and trolleybuses that were either used or built in Adelaide. The museum is dedicated to preserving and restoring Adelaide’s former transport vehicles. It houses over 30 electric trams, horse trams and electric trolley buses, many of which are restored and operational. Visitors can ride the electric trams along 2 km of purpose-built track that runs between the museum and the adventure playground.
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Thos W Ward received most of the trams for scrapping via a track connection into their scrap-yard on Attercliffe Common, almost opposite the end of Weedon Street. The last route, Beauchief to Vulcan Road, closed on the afternoon of Saturday 8 October 1960. An illuminated car, followed by a procession of fourteen trams, carried passengers and Council dignitaries from Beauchief to the Tinsley depot. Trams then went on to Tinsley or Queens Road, trams led to the Queens Road were destined for preservation.
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All trams had a low inside center, allowing access to the tram at platform height, but with inside stairs. Trams 1001–1016 and 1031–1040 were delivered with doors on both sides, which were originally hand-operated. Trams 1013–1016 also had a small door on the driver's right side, but these not much used. When the trams were rebuilt, they were gradually only given a door on one side, and in the end only 1001, 1003 and 1004 (new) had doors on both sides.
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Also, Oslo Sporveier had slightly larger trams, and felt the Class 8 was too small for their needs. Conservative chair of Oslo Sporveier, Haakon Magnus Preus said live at a public meeting for the labor union in January that they did not want the trams. TT still felt that it would be possible to sell the trams for NOK 45 million.
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All the trams were then parked in Voldsminde Depot, while the heritage trams were moved to Munkvoll. The Gråkallen Line, including the Ila Line and the St. Olavs gate loop, would be spared, and would become a heritage railway, with a railway museum at Munkvoll. The Class 8 trams would be stored at Voldsminde until a suitable purchaser could be found.
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As part of the winning consortium to build and operate the CBD and South East Light Rail, Alstom supplied sixty Citadis X05 trams. Each vehicle will consist of five-sections. The trams are coupled together to operate in pairs of two. Original plans for the line intended for the trams to be approximately 45 metres long and operate as single units.
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For this reason these trams had a distinctive colour scheme which included red and white diamonds on their front aprons. In May 1934 one man operation was abandoned and these trams were repainted in normal colours. Two combination trams were also converted to one man operation for use on the Gardens route. The first tram was converted in 1925, the second in 1930.
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Trams in Happy Valley Hong Kong Tramways extended their network into Happy Valley in 1922,hktramways and the community has been served by the trams ever since. The extension has one terminus. Residents can access the Causeway Bay MTR station via minibusses or trams. Aberdeen Tunnel, Wong Nai Chung Road and Canal Road Flyover also serve as the major thoroughfares in Happy Valley.
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The C2-class trams are five-section Alstom Citadis 302 trams built in La Rochelle, France that operate on the Melbourne tram network. They were built for the tram network in Mulhouse, France, but being surplus to Mulhouse demands, were leased to use in Melbourne in 2008, later being purchased by the Government of Victoria. The trams operate solely on route 96.
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CAF built 14 Urbos 3 trams to operate the system. It will also provide twenty years of maintenance for the fleet."CAF to deliver Capital Metro Trams" Railway Digest September 2016 page 4 The trams are long and consist of five modules. There are four doors on each side of the vehicle, two single leaf and two double leaf doors.
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The Stuttgart Straßenbahn Museum operates gauge trams on weekends and special occasions. In Krefeld on Ostwall, Germany, tram lines are dual gauge so standard Rheinbahn U76 Stadtbahn cars and gauge trams may share the lines. At the north end of the route, at the junction with Rheinstraße, the trams reverse. There, the standard gauge line ends, while the metre gauge lines continue.
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The shuttle loops at Siloso Beach and Tanjong Beach respectively. These trams also lay over at the Beach Station Transfer Hub for a short while for drivers to take a break before continuing their trip. The current fleet of these trams are Electric Trams that come in both Articulated and Non- Articulated. The fleet also includes 2 Volvo B12BLEA which are diesel.
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Istanbul's local public transportation system is a network of commuter trains, trams, funiculars, metro lines, buses, bus rapid transit, and ferries. Fares across modes are integrated, using the contactless Istanbulkart, introduced in 2009, or the older Akbil electronic ticket device. Trams in Istanbul date back to 1872, when they were horse-drawn, but even the first electrified trams were decommissioned in the 1960s.
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The line opened in 1927 to Ankers gate and was the first of the network not to feature conductors. It was extended to Asbjørnsens gate in 1933. Until 1955 it used the old Class 2 trams, but after 1958 it received wide, more comfortable Class 4 trams. The Rosenborg Loop opened in 1958 along with the introduction of Class 7 trams.
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Nine ex-Bochum trams arrived in Gent. There numbers were 6260 — 6265 and 6267 — 6269 (Bochum numbers 29, 20, 19, 22, 23, 27, 11, 14, 16). Yet their usage in Gent was only four years, the Bochum trams left service by April 25, 1998, and by October 21, 1998 De Lijn decided to scrap the trams and sell them for scrap metal.
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Trams on Line 2 are stored at the La Jeune Parque depot, located near the Sabines station. The rolling stock on Line 2 comprises 24 Citadis 302 trams manufactured by Alstom, with a length of 32.5 m, a width of 2.65 m, and five sections. The trams were delivered between March 2006 and February 2007 and are numbered from 2041 to 2064.
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The trams were unidirectional and had a single door at the front and a double door in the middle, both on the right side. Class E also had a single door at the rear. The trams were originally delivered with two compartments, with a wall and inside door in front of the centre door. This was removed after the trams became smoke-free.
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Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section. High School tram stop is near the top of a steep gradient, which climbs up from Nottingham Trent University tram stop to the south.
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Thirty H type trams were built for the line, with a design influenced by North American interurban streetcars of that era. There were one or two quirks in the earlier years, the most famous being the horse trams operated in the 1930s. These were trams specially constructed to carry race horses from stables located along the line to Morphettville Racecourse.
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These poles and cables were removed in 1956 following the demise of the trams. More conscious of the issue of "street clutter" the planners removed all lamp-posts from the street in the 1970s. The street is lit by high level floodlights mounted at eaves level on the buildings. The clutter of the trams reappeared in 2017 with the Edinburgh Trams project.
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New pink painted trams began service and between 1927 and 1939, İzmir trams were at their peak. With the rise of the automobile, busses were becoming more popular and the inevitable decline of İzmir's trams began. The first lines to be discontinued were the 3 lines in Karşıyaka. On October 1, 1939, the Karşıyaka Municipality took up all tramlines in Karşıyaka.
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The Bern tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. In operation since 1890, it presently has five lines, one of which incorporates the . The trams on the network run on track. Initially, they were powered by compressed air, but from 1894, the air trams were supplemented by steam trams.
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An additional nine new trams were delivered between 1952 and 1955. Five additional trams were rebuilt from 1955 to 1960, by which time all the narrow trams had been rebuilt or retired. The use of a unique voltage gave operational difficulties, as fuses could regularly blow at Oslo Hospital if errors where done while switching from the one current to the other.
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Both KSS and KES were taken over by the municipality in 1924, when their concessions expired. Oslo Municipality thereby established a new municipally-owned company, Oslo Sporveier, to operate all street trams in Oslo.Aspenberg: 19 KSS continued to use the Class S trams until 1918. However, many of the trams were rebuilt to other models and these remained in service until 1966.
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Trams in Kolkata during the British colonial period. In addition to trains, trams were introduced in many cities in late 19th century, though almost all of these were phased out. The trams in Kolkata is currently the only tram system in the country. The Calcutta Tramways Company is in the process of upgrading the existing tramway network at a cost of .
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Zagreb is one of the few tram networks in the world where most of the operations run at the kerb. The only other Croatian city with trams still in operation is Osijek. The first tram route commenced in 1884 (connecting the railway station and city square) and trams have been running since. Between 2006 and 2007, the trams were refurbished and modernised.
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Two W6 and twelve SW6 trams are in the hands of preservation groups, one of which is used as a café tram in Bendigo. Three SW6-class trams also operate on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant service.
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Unlike many other systems, Brisbane never adopted an alphabetical or numerical system for classifying its trams (cf Melbourne trams), preferring instead to use official descriptions, such as "standard centre aisle car", or "drop-centre saloon car".
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KSS also took delivery of the Class SS trams and from 1921 the Class H trams. The company build part of the Sinsen Line in 1923. Both companies were municipalized in 1924 to become Oslo Sporveier.
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Košice started operating trams in 1914, after wagons pulled by horses and a steam tramway. Trams currently run over 34 km of tracks and run on 7 lines within the city and 8 fast tram lines.
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A package of works, the Tram Procurement Program was delivered by Public Transport Victoria to increase the capacity and reliability of Melbourne's tram network. This includes: the order of 50 trams; upgrades to route 96; upgrading the power system; improving accessibility on other low-floor routes; and the redevelopment of Preston Workshops and upgrades to Southbank depot to store and maintain E-class trams. In anticipation of the E-class trams, a $24 million upgrade at Southbank depot was completed and included upgraded the maintenance and office facilities. Route 96 is being upgraded for the E-class trams, accessible stops will be constructed, along with further segregation of trams from cars, and increased priority at intersections.
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The rubber parts were finally replaced in summer 2012, with the provisional approval extended by nine months, to approve the new parts. Following further software changes to the doors and air-conditioning systems, the final approval of the trams was postponed again from 31 May to 30 September 2013, when the trams received their final approval. On 10 May 2016 the trams received approval to operate lines 17, 27 and 28. Due to the deficiencies with the trains, a transitional timetable was put in place for 2013, which added extra peak time journeys using the trams if they were available, and the replacement of the trams with buses if they were not.
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In an Act of Parliament in 1881 the business was named the Ipswich Tramway Company. By 1884, the fleet had expanded up to 6 single-deck and 2 double-deck trams, pulled by a total of 18 horses. Trams were stored at Quadling Street since the beginning of the tramway and the Ipswich Transport Company continued to keep them there throughout the tramway's lifetime. The network did not expand further in any way, except for the conversion of 3 single-deck trams to double deck, and in 1901 the company was sold to the Ipswich Corporation, who continued to run the horse trams until 6 June 1903, when the network was closed for conversion to electric trams.
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Melbourne tram route 109 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from Box Hill to Port Melbourne. The www.google.com/maps route is operated by A and C class trams from Kew depot.
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The trams have a steel frame and are long and wide. Without payload the trams weigh . Interior view of a SL79/II. Each tram has a total capacity of 162 riders, of which 71 can be seated.
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The 30 low-floor trams are manufactured by Voith, together with CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles. All trams are low floor, fully air conditioned, can run high speed. Each tram has three cars. It takes electricity via pantograph.
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Postcard, dated 22 March 1915, showing a tram on the Bonn Rheinbrücke (Rhine bridge). In parallel to the horse trams of the Havestadt, Contag. & Cie. company, the city of Bonn continued its own plans to build trams.
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From undelivered shipment of twenty trams K2YU for Sarajevo in 1983, 15 trams ended up in Brno (numbers 1118–1132), 3 were shipped to Bratislava (numbers 7085–7087) and the last 2 to Ostrava (numbers 810–811).
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Edinburgh Corporation Tramways formerly served the City of Edinburgh, Scotland. The city used four-wheeled double-decked trams painted dark red (madder) and white – a livery still used by Lothian Buses and the post-2014 Edinburgh Trams.
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Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. Holy Trinity stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
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Several trams were badly damaged during the Bosnian war. Several European countries donated out of use trams to Sarajevo in the years after the war. Recently, more modern vehicles have arrived to upgrade and expand the fleet.
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The plan included a proposed budget $55 million for 910 new trams.
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Zhuhai Tram Line 1, opening November 2014, trams built by CRRC Dalian.
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There were delivered 22 bi-directional (driver seats in both ends) trams.
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Trams run between the Scandinavian and German, African-American, and Crossroads villages.
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It operated 2,000 ton ore trams which were heavier than most railways.
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The last day of service for SIG trams was on 3 July.
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Trams are a major form of public transport in Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia. As of May 2017, the Melbourne tramway network consists of of double track, 493 trams, 24 routes, and 1,763 tram stops. The operator Yarra Trams claims the system is the largest operational urban tram network in the world. Trams are the second most used form of public transport in overall boardings in Melbourne after the commuter railway network, with a total of 206 million passenger trips in 2017-18.
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A competition launched in May 2013 to select eight designs, with one art tram to operate out of each Melbourne tram depot. The first of the new Melbourne Art Trams, W-class 925, was launched on 30 September 2013 by then Premier Denis Napthine and Yarra Trams CEO Clément Michel, with the remaining seven trams to be introduced in the following two weeks. The last was introduced into service on 11 October 2013. Melbourne Art Trams have continued to be refreshed and introduced annually since 2013, with over 48 artists featured.
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This article – one of several about Adelaide’s trams – describes the development of new tram lines and operation of new trams since 2005. To see where this subject fits within the wider context of trams in Adelaide, and a link to a less detailed overview article, click `[]` in the following panel. Adelaide's tram services started with horse trams that from 1878 ran on a network of lines extending eventually to about 100 km (62 mi) in length. Thirty-one years later, starting in 1909, the lines were upgraded and electrified.
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The trams were taken out of service, and gradually put back as they were upgraded. In February 2002, tram 155 was equipped with new motors, and a new agreement was made where all motors would be replaced by December 2003, if Oslo Sporveier was satisfied with six months of trials with 155. SL79 and SL95 trams in Storgata The last day with SM91 in service was on 1 November 2002. By then, 27 of the SL95-trams had been delivered, and Oslo Sporveier was able to operate its entire network with only articulated trams.
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M32 tram out for a test run in August 2006 The city of Gothenburg, Sweden, ordered 40 one-directional Sirio trams which were to be put into service on the Gothenburg tram network during 2005 and onwards. The trams were delivered late and functioned poorly when put into traffic. Among reported problems were excessive track damage caused by the trams, malfunctioning air conditioners inside the trams, and poor ride quality. The City of Gothenburg therefore withheld a large part of the payment for a delivered tram until fully operational.
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Helsingin Sanomat The purchase of the Bombardier trams was never completed due to the reliability problems. Instead, a deal was reached that required Bombardier to keep a certain minimum number of trams in operation. Bombardier opened its own depot in Helsinki for this purpose in mid-2008.Finnish Tramway Society A Crotram TMK 2200 tram in test use on line 6. The purchase of a new series of 40 low-floor trams was initiated in 2007, and the trams were eventually ordered from the Finnish manufacturer Transtech in December 2010.
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The Bombardier Flexity 2 trams now operate main services, with modified English Electric Balloon double-deck trams available if necessary. A 'heritage service' provided by unmodified, traditional trams operates on select weekdays, weekends, bank holidays and summer months, as well as on tours during the illuminations. They stop only at special 'heritage stops' next to normal tram stops at Pleasure Beach, North Pier, Cabin, Bispham, Cleveleys and Fleetwood Ferry. Temporary 'heritage stops' are also used for the traditional trams during select special events, such as at Starr Gate.
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The pilot involved two cargo trams, operating from a distribution centre and delivering to a "hub" where special electric trucks delivered the trams' small containers to their final destination. The trial was successful, releasing an intended investment of €100 million in a fleet of fifty-two cargo trams distributing from four peripheral "cross docks" to fifteen inner-city hubs by 2012. These specially built vehicles would be long with twelve axles and a payload of . On weekdays, trams are planned to make 4 deliveries per hour between 7 a.m.
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The area was also a working site of convicts (lime kilns dating back to 1870 are still evident on the river banks). Politician and judge Samuel Griffith built his house 'Merthyr' in the suburb in 1870. From 1885 to 1897 New Farm's transport needs were met by horse-drawn trams, which operated along Brunswick Street, as far as Barker Street. In 1897, the horse trams were replaced with electric trams and the line was extended, with trams ultimately running as far as Macquarie Street and down to the river at New Farm Park.
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The increased popularity of the motor car in post-war Britain created an environment in which trams were seen generally as archaic and as an obstruction to other traffic. When buses replaced trams they followed the same routes previously taken by the trams and used the same route numbers. This led to some anomalies which still , such as the absence of buses on the Pleasance—a major city artery—which was too steep at its northern end for trams. Lothian Buses only started to serve the Pleasance in 2014 (route 60).
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Crotram low-floor trams in Zagreb, Croatia. Zagreb has had a tram service since 5 September 1891; it is now an extensive tram network with 15 day lines and 4 night lines covering over 116 km (72 mi) of tracks through 255 stations. ZET, the major transit authority in Zagreb, ordered 210 new, 100% low-floor trams from Croatian consortium Crotram. As of 2010, all of these locally produced, low-floor Crotram trams have been delivered, with a mixture of vehicle types in operation, including Czech Tatra Cars and various locally produced trams.
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The station is served by lines 17 and 18, using SL95 low-floor trams. This allow step-free access from and to all stations until the city center. Trams operate each five minutes. The next station is Gaustadalléen.
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Ulseth's proposal would require five trams in route, demanding ten in total. This would also require NOK 6.5 million upgrade to the Elgeseter Line, plus new trams for line 2 around 1990. The new trams would increase the annual capital costs with 1.6 million, but reduce operating costs with NOK 1.2 million. One line would cost NOK 2.9 million per year, with investments of NOK 19.3 million.
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They made up part of the old wide trams, with benches along the length of the cars. They remained in service until 1955, but after the Dalsenget fire the following year, ten of the trams were taken back into use until the Class 7 trams were delivered. Scrapping started in 1956, and lasted until 1975. Two unit are still preserved at Trondheim Tramway Museum.
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It is served by Yarra Trams routes 59 and 82.Route 59 Yarra TramsRoute 82 Yarra Trams Previously route 82 trams terminated at a separate platform south of the existing pair in the middle of the Ascot Vale Road. As part of the January 2016 rebuild, a headshunt was built to the north of the main platforms with route 82 now terminating at the main platform.
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In the autumn of 1926, it was announced by the General Manager that although six new motors had been bought, new trams were still needed. Tram No.20 was in a dangerous condition bodywise. The Council authorised the purchase of two secondhand trams from Darlington at a cost of £500, including some spares. These trams took numbers 8 and 9 in the Dover fleet.
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Queen Street in 1947 Officially referred to as standard centre-aisle trams, 65 trams in this class built between 1908 and 1925. These trams could carry 90 passengers. The last 21, which were built for the Brisbane Tramways Trust between 1924 and 1925, had 12 windows, remainder built with 6 windows. Originally they were built with open end platforms, but these were enclosed in the 1930s.
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"Swanston Trams" Trolley Wire issue 279 November 1999 page 25 It passed to Yarra Trams when it took control of the entire tram network in April 2004.Some facts about the new Melbourne tram network Yarra Trams 19 February 2004 In January 2005 Coldblo Road that ran between the two sheds with one track was closed to vehicle traffic and two additional tracks laid.
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Exhibieron la dupla histórica Preston para festejar el Bicentenario - EnElSubte, 26 May 2010.Capital Federal: críticas al abandono de los históricos subtes de la línea A - Diario 24, 25 January 2013. UEC sent 4 of these trams to Buenos Aires for the AATC's consideration. Though their exterior design was very similar to the La Brugeoise trams, the Preston trams were noted for their extravagant interiors.
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The Z-class are single-unit bogie trams that operate on the Melbourne tram network. Between 1975 and 1983, 230 trams spanning three sub-classes were built by Comeng, Dandenong. The design was based on two similar Gothenburg tram models, and a prototype built by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board. While the Z1 and Z2-class trams were very similar, the Z3-class had significant design changes.
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After the nationalization, the company started a renovation process of the infrastructure and rolling stock. Combined with a municipal policy of low fares, the company started going with a loss. Five new trams were delivered from 1948 to 1952, and built at the depot at Holtet, with used equipment from some of the older trams. An additional nine new trams were delivered between 1952 and 1955.
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The CAF Urbos is a family of trams, streetcars, and light rail vehicles built by CAF. The Basque manufacturer CAF previously manufactured locomotives, passenger cars, regional, and underground trains. In 1993, CAF started building trams for Metrovalencia, with the delivery of 16 trams through 1999. This was a variant of a Siemens design and some components were delivered by Siemens, including bogies and traction motors.
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The trams operate all services on lines 13, 17 and 18. Due to their heavy weight and large turning radius they are unsuitable for the other lines. However, they are the only bi-directional trams in the fleet, and are needed on lines 17 and 18 along the Ullevål Hageby Line. The trams cost about each, but discounts were awarded after the delays and technical faults.
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SM91 is the Norwegian designation for a tram type which operated on the Oslo Tramway until 2002. The trams were imported from Sweden, where they had originally run on the Gothenburg Tramway under the designation M25. The trams were originally delivered to the Gothenburg Tramway between 1958 and 1961. A total of 36 trams were eventually exported to Oslo, Norway, numbered 264 to 299.
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Solaris type low-floor trolley. Between 1970 and 1984 21 FVV trams entered service. The same tram type was used in Budapest, Miskolc and Szeged, trams for the latter two cities were built by DKV. The company still owns eight of them, but they can rarely be seen on the streets. The typical blue trams (KCSV-6) of Debrecen were built between 1993-1997.
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A major interchange, East Croydon has three tram platforms, two on an island, the other backing on to the station entrance. Following problems with the points in this area, in August 2006 they were fixed to route all eastbound trams into Platform 1, the concourse-side platform. The island platform can be used only by westbound trams and by trams terminating from the east.
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The CTS placed a second order, this time for twenty-seven units, which were delivered between 1998 and 2000. The order included ten 8-axle trams and seventeen 10-axle trams. These ten- axle trams, nicknamed ‘jumbos’, are 43.05 m long, weigh 51 t and can carry up to 270 passengers in their 4-passenger cars. Total power is 424 kW, produced by sixteen motors.
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A tram passing Manchester Town Hall (c.1901) Trams had previously operated on Manchester streets from 1877 to 1949. The original trams of the Manchester Suburban Tramways Company were horse-drawn tram, but from 1901 these were supplanted by electrically powered trams. A network of neighbouring municipal tramway systems such as Bury Corporation Tramways, Rochdale Corporation Tramways and Manchester Corporation Tramways expanded and overlapped across the city.
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Two types of trams were in operations—the bigger type measuring about 50 ft in length and the smaller type measuring about 35 ft. A total of 200 commuters could conveniently travel in trams, which had wooden seats to seat 60 passengers. The trams ran on electricity. The original conduit system was replaced by an conventional overhead wire system after a series of destructive monsoons.
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Trams serve the outer faces of the platforms, using their off-side doors, whilst the inner faces are served by local bus services. An elongated facing crossover allows outbound trams to terminate in the inbound platform. Vehicular access to the interchange is restricted to buses and trams. The interchange opened to buses 12 July 2015 and has replaced the previous Beeston bus station, which was situated nearby.
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Hearse trams in Paris. Trams were used as hearses in the late 19th and early 20th century. Specially appointed hearse trams, or funeral trolley cars, were used for funeral processions in many cities in the late 19th and early 20th century, particularly cities with large tram systems. The earliest known example in North America was Mexico City, which was already operating twenty-six funeral cars in 1886.
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Entering as well as leaving trams give way to vehicles. In the years 1932–42 trams circulated much like vehicles.Vítězné náměstí, Prague trams fun web In Kiev, Ukraine an interchange of two "fast tram" lines is below a roundabout. Oslo, Norway also has many roundabouts with tram tracks passing through; for example at Bislett, Frogner plass, Sinsen, Solli plass, Carl Berners plass and Storo.
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This was only used as an emergency brake, in part because the equipment was not suitable, in part to not wear the motors more than necessary. Trams 1001–1016 had track brakes which were 8 electromagnets aimed at the tracks. All the trams had air brakes, manufactured by Knorr and Westinghouse. Trams 1013–1016 had electro-pneumatic air brakes, which had electrically controlled vents.
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Also, tram tracks should be demarcated with a small but sturdy demarcation, which will enable bikes to traverse when there are no trams. Now, several initiatives have started to improve the tram's popularity as well as increasing revenues. The results are positive. The Tram Museum is the latest addition to such schemes, which also include heritage trams' small models and meals on wheels trams i.e.
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Heritage Class SS tram in KSS's green livery The first electric trams were forty-seven Class U trams delivered in 1899. The electrical components were built by Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft and the bodies by Falkenried and Skabo. The trams had two GE52 motors with a combined power output of and had a total weight of . They were long and were built with open platform bays.
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The three Metro Ligero lines are operated by a fleet of 70 low-floor Alstom Citadis model 302 trams. Unlike the Madrid Metro, trams operate on the right. The trams have a maximum speed of and are capable of carrying 200 passengers, 54 seated. They are currently assembled into train-sets, but are designed so that they can be expanded to in the future.
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Many of the trams were of the same class as those delivered to KSS.Aspenberg: 45 KES's trams were painted blue, hence giving rise to their nickname, the "Blue Tramway".Fasting: 50 Class SS (193, left) and Class U (164) at Athenæum in Akersgata in 1912 The first class of trams, Class A, were manufactured by Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (AEG) and P. Herbrand & Cie., both of Germany.
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Trams began serving Luxembourg City in 1875, and in Esch- sur-Alzette in 1927. First generation trams in the country ended with the closure of the Esch-sur-Alzette network in 1956, and the Luxembourg City network in 1964. A second generation of trams began service in December 2017, along a new route that will, by 2021, run from Luxembourg Airport to the Cloche d'Or business district.
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Rolling stock consists of 4 section trams constructed by CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive, using technology from Siemens. The system does not use overhead wires, with trams recharging an onboard capacitor from fixed power bars above the tracks at each stop.
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The Konstal 105Na are a class of Polish trams manufactured from 1979 to 1992 in workshops Konstal Chorzow, Poland. The narrow-gauge version is designed as 805Na. As of 2016 they are still the most common trams in Poland.
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It was built in 1893, ahead of the construction of the main buildings. Dick, Kerr & Co. were responsible for some of the work. Horse- drawn trams were used. Initially, second-hand trams were used, converted to 4 ft gauge.
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Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. High Road – Central College stop opened on 25 August 2015, along with the rest of NET's phase two.
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When there are no passengers getting on or off, trams can pass stops.
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The company operated a fleet of single car trams as well as trailers.
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There are 14 bi-directional trams used on the Bergamo–Albino light rail.
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Dalian historical tramway Heritage trams also operate in Changchun, Jilin, and Dalian, Liaoning.
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A painting of Auckland in 1889 with horse-drawn trams on the roadway.
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The area became served by trams in 1924 when Line 5 was extended.
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Open top double deck trams ran on the Middleton to Sudden section only.
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In Brno, Liberec and Ostrava four other T2Rs are used as service trams.
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They were built in England. By 1914, there were 37 petrol-powered tramcars running. 1945 saw the introduction of the first diesel-powered trams. Until 1955 there were still 64 petrol- powered trams in Karachi numbered from 94 to 157.
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In 2017, a proposed plan for the renovation of the Saddar area in Karachi, has included the reintroduction of trams to ease the city's transport problems.Geo TV October 29, 2017 Elsewhere in the world too trams are seeing a comeback.
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Brunnsparken is one of the most frequently trafficked hub in all of Sweden, with about 120 trams and 130 buses leaving per hour in rush hour traffic, which comes to about 4 trams or buses leaving per minute, from 10 stops.
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The trams run the complete stage 1 extension route up to the High and Lichfield Street intersection, where the trams will then continue using the northbound track via a new set of points. Total route length has been increased to .
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Some streetcars use double-arm pantographs, among them the Russian KTM-5, KTM-8, LVS-86 and many other Russian-made trams, as well as some Euro-PCC trams in Belgium. American streetcars use either trolley poles or single-arm pantographs.
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A small trolleybus system operated in Lima from 1928 to 1931, using just six vehicles on a single 3.3-km route. The six trolleybuses were rebuilt as trams in 1931, the only known instance of trolleybuses' being converted into trams.
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Auckland was served by a network of traditional tramcar routes with horse-drawn trams (1884–1902) and electric trams (1902–1956). The original tram network was in length at its fullest extent from the mid 1930s until closures began in 1949.
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The first tram to cross Kingston Bridge - 1 March 1906. (Public domain.) These trams with roofs were not typical of the trams used on routes through Kingston. Most pictures show open-topped vehicles. LCC open-topped tramcar by David Ingham.
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KTM/KTP-1 trams started to be removed from passenger service by the middle of the 1970s. In Ukrainian cities of Zaparozh'e and Odessa, Ukraine, KTM/KTP1 were in service till 1986. Some of them were rebuilt into service trams.
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The C-class Melbourne tram is a fleet of three-section Alstom Citadis 202 trams built in La Rochelle, France that operate on the Melbourne tram network. They were the first low-floor trams in Melbourne, being delivered in 2001-2002.
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In addition, the infrastructure at Bekkestua does not allow for trams with the international standard of loading gauge. A 2013 report by Ruter therefore recommended that the tram services from Jar to Bekkestua only run until the SL95 trams are retired.
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Trams had always attracted criticism over their limited capacity, slowness and discomfort, and their encumbrance to motor cars in the city centre. Another accident on the Monumental line on 5 October 1925 hastened the inevitable: the trams lost their first route.
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The rest were bought from Hannoversche Waggonfabrik with electrical equipment from Siemens-Schukertwerke. The trams were long and weight between . They sat twenty-four passengers. Four horsecars, ten motorized trams and four trailers have been preserved by Oslo Tramway Museum.
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Work trams were introduced in the morning before 07 hours, whereby anyone could travel for 5 øre. At first the trams would stop at any location that passengers signaled. From 1901 the company introduced regular stations for boarding and disembarkment.
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Due to their unpopularity in Melbourne, and having built sufficient standard W-class trams to render smaller groups of older non-standard cars surplus, the O-class were amongst the first electric trams to be disposed of by the MMTB. All four were sold to the MTT and returned to Adelaide in January 1927 entering service as D type trams 191 to 194 (renumbered from 128, 130, 127, and 129 respectively).Kings, Keith S. "Transcriptions of Preston Workshops Tramcar Record Cards", various pp. During the 1920s all the Metropolitan cars had their track brakes removed when pneumatic brake equipment was fitted, although unlike the Adelaide trams, the former O-class trams had their brake notches disabled when air brakes were fitted in Melbourne.
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A heritage W-class Melbourne tram Melbourne, the most populous city in and capital of Victoria, is home to the largest tram network in the world, and its trams have become part of the city's culture and identity due to their long history. Currently around 500 trams are in service in the city. The system uses a combination of newer low-floor trams (the E-class, C-class (Citadis) and D-class (Combino)), middle-aged, high-floor trams (the A-class, B-class and Z-class) and the older W-class trams. The latter remain in service as a popular tourist attraction, used on the free City Circle Tram route in the city centre, along with operating the world's first restaurant tram.
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TuKL negotiated with several existing tram operators about the sale of the RM 2 trams, only 16 years old when withdrawn, including Helsinki City Transport (HKL), the sole tram operator in Finland after the closure of the Turku network. Although the RM 2 trams were similar to the HM IV, RM 1, HM V and RM 3 trams used in Helsinki, they were narrower, which would have necessitated modifications to utilize them in Helsinki. Additionally HKL was about to take delivery of 40 state-of-the-art articulated trams during 1973–75, which meant they had little use for trams based on older technology. After not finding a purchaser, the city sold the RM 2's for scrap at a loss.
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Melbourne tram route 3 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from Melbourne University on Swanston Street to the corner of Waverley Road and Darling Road at Malvern East. The 14.9 kilometre route is operated by Z, A and B2 class trams from Glenhuntly depot.Facts & figures Yarra TramsRoutes 3/3a Yarra Trams On weekends route 3 operates as route 3a and diverts via St Kilda.
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Melbourne tram route 96 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from Brunswick East to St Kilda Beach. The 13.9 kilometre route is operated by C2 and E class trams from Southbank depot.Facts & figures Yarra TramsRoute 96 Yarra Trams It is one of Melbourne's busiest tram routes, carrying 53,000 passengers every week day with a frequency of up to every 4-6 minutes during peak times.
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No. 103 upon delivery in 1982 In 1960, the Oslo City Council decided to gradually close the tramway. New trams had been delivered in 1958, and it was decided that lines would only be closed as trams were naturally retired. At the time Oslo Sporveier had 421 vehicles. By 1974, the company had 163 vehicles, of which 100 were powered trams, 43 were trailers and 20 were working trailers.
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At the end of 2012, along with its 51 Tatra trams and its one very old Duewag "party tram", Kaliningrad had one Pesa low-floor "Swing" tram in service. In 2013 a decision was announced to purchase three of the Polish Pesa trams. Other sources refer to plans to purchase ten of these tramcars. The city authorities also signaled an interest in purchasing Ukrainian Electron T5L64 low-floor multi-hinged trams.
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In 1981 another group of articulated trams, based on the Nr I type, were ordered from Valmet. Classified as Nr II, these trams were delivered between 1983 and 1987, allowing the withdrawal of the majority of the 1950s-built trams (types HM IV and RM 1 in their entirety), as well as withdrawal of all trailers. In 1985 the tram network was extended to West Pasila (line 7).
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The Plymoth, Stonehouse and Devonport trams were painted light green and white. The Plymouth, Devonport and District steam trams had brown ends and underframes with white sides. The Devonport and District company painted their trams in chocolate and cream, but by 1914 were changing this to dark green and cream. Plymouth Corporation used a vermillion scheme from 1892 until 1922, when a new primrose yellow and white livery was introduced.
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Since then the factory has been used to repair and renovate old trams. In 2017 the network was complemented with 28 second-hand Be 4/6 S "gherkin" trams partly donated from the BVB section of the tram network of Basel. The trams were constructed in 1990-91 and had low-floor sections inserted in their centre in 1997-99. They replaced older vehicles on lines 6, 8 and 12.
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Gisborne had Edison- Beach battery-electric trams from 13 April 1913 to 8 July 1929. There were two trams from the Federal Storage Battery Car Co, New Jersey and two from Boon & Co, Christchurch. AR Harris of Christchurch was the New Zealand agent for Edison Batteries. The trams were slow; their maximum speed was 32 km/hour, and initially they were restricted by the Public Works Department to 16 km/hour.
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Whanganui, then known as Wanganui had electric trams from 11 December 1908 to 24 September 1950. The service went two ways from the city centre, inland to Aramoho and out to Castlecliff and the Port. The Castlecliff route competed with the Castlecliff railway and the success of the trams at winning patronage led to the cancellation of passenger trains in April 1932. The trams were replaced by buses.
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HM V is a class of two-bogie four-axle (Bo′Bo′ wheel arrangement) tram operated by Helsinki City Transport (, abbreviated HKL; , abbreviated HST) on the Helsinki tram network. All trams of this type were built by the Finnish tram manufacturer Karia in 1959. The first trams of this type were withdrawn from service in 1993. As of 2008 six trams (numbers 9, 11-14 and 175) remain in operational condition.
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The government took over the running of trams in 1914, with the aim of better co- ordinating the network. Trams were an integral part of the public transport system in the early 20th century until the advent of the private automobile. However, long term lack of government investment led to the network being phased out by July 1958. A number of Perth's historical trams are maintained at Whiteman Park.
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In 1957 Liepājas tramvajs has received 8 Gotha T57 trams with numbers 125-132.
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Trams operated singly, and were mostly single-deck with some (open-top) double-deck.
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Service is provided by a fleet of 30 Alstom Citadis trams, each in length.
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A small car shed at Arncliffe maintained the trams. The line closed in 1926.
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The city operates buses, trams, and taxis, and is served by the Achinsk Airport.
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Lothian Buses and Edinburgh Trams are both owned and operated by Transport for Edinburgh.
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While the ground floor allows level access, the mezzanine and trams currently do not.
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The trams are painted in grey and green stripes, the colours of Euskotren Tranbia.
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The tram service is provided by 15 modern 5-section Alstom Cityway articulated trams.
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These restrictions were lifted and trams would serve Deurne again from August 1, 1915.
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The number of horse trams is unknown, but there were probably over a hundred.
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By the 1950s the decision had been taken to replace the trams with trolleybuses.
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Type H trams at the Moseley Square terminus, Glenelg in May 2005 before the square and tram fleet were upgraded TransAdelaide inherited some Redhen railcars from the State Transport Authority. The final units were retired in October 1996. Type H trams were the mainstay of the Glenelg tram line for the 77 years between the line being converted from a steam railway to electrified tramway operation in 1929 and the trams' retirement in 2006. They were replaced by Bombardier Flexity Classic and Alstom Citadis low-floor trams, which now also run on an extension of the line through Adelaide city centre.
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In 1928, reversible cars were put into service, consisting of a power train and a trailer or two power cars framing a trailer. These “Pullman” trams were replaced in 1937 by bogie trams, which were modernized beginning in 1944. From 9 November 1950, the service began to be split between trams and buses, which connected the Noailles station to Saint-Pierre along the Cours Lieutaud, Baille boulevard and St. Pierre street, continuing parallel to the tram track, with trams only running during peak hours. On 23 June 1958, service between Saint-Pierre and Aubagne wound up, having lasted for 53 years.
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The W-class tramcars are highly popular trams in preservation both throughout Australia and around the world. W-class trams were used in the filming of the HBO mini-series The Pacific, including W3-class tram number 667. A number of W-class trams have been sent overseas, including five that were sold to Seattle between 1978 and 1993, where they operated as Seattle's own heritage streetcar line, George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line, between 1982 and 2005. Since 1990, public outrage has forced an embargo to be placed on the sale of these trams to any overseas interest.
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In January 2011, Tramtrack Croydon invited tenders for the supply of ten new or second-hand trams, and on 18 August 2011, TfL announced that Stadler Rail had won a $19.75 million contract to supply six Variobahn trams similar to those used by Bybanen in Bergen, Norway. They entered service in 2012. In August 2013, TfL ordered an additional four Variobahn trams for delivery in 2015, an order which was later increased to six. This brought the total Variobahn fleet up to ten in 2015, and twelve in 2016 when the final two trams were delivered.
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At the opening in 1987 the fleet consisted of Timiș 2 (made by Electrometal Timișoara) and V3A (made by ITB București Main Workshops) trams, but most were retired by the late 1990s and early 2000s. Also starting with the 1990s the tram network received a few Tatra KT4D trams from the town of Potsdam, Germany. These still run today, and trams numbered from 070-099 are unmodernised KT4D whilst trams from 100-106 are KT4DM modernised. Most of them retained their original Potsdam livery up to 2014, but as of today, they have their own livery after a refurbishment done in 2016.
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The new units were expected to be produced at a rate of 15-20 per year and would have resulted in a gradual phasing out of the Tatra tramcars. These plans were not fully exercised; instead, in 2008, Škoda built 20 three-section 15 T trams for Riga, the first of which entered service in spring 2010. An option for 4 four- section trams of the same model was taken and these entered service in 2012. A further 15 three-section trams and 5 four-section trams were ordered in 2016, the first of which was delivered in April 2018.
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Additional trams of these models were built in 2010 for Moscow, Perm, Nizhnekamsk and Krasnodar. The plant also produces spare parts for trams and manufacturing service maintenance of trams. In addition to trams, the plant produces gas pressure regulating equipment, pipe fittings, pumps, consumer goods. In accordance with the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated 11 June 2011 number 772 and the Federal Government on July 7, 2011 № 1159-r of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Ust-Katavsky Car Building Plant Kirov was converted into a branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
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Oslo Vognselskap announced in September 2012 that they were preparing a tender to receive bids for new trams, which would replace all SL79 and SL95 units. In addition to procuring about seventy new units, Ruter initiated plans to upgrade the tramways for a combined NOK 4 billion. Oslo Vognselskap stated that the replacement trams would be about the same size as SL95, but weigh only , giving less wear on the tracks, and have a floor height of . Replacements will start in 2020 when the new SL18 trams are first delivered and will be completed by 2024 when all 87 new trams are delivered.
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Pesa Bydgoszcz started production of trams in 2006. The first model produced was the Tramicus (2006-2008), and since 2010, the Swing.. Their structures, however, were close to each other (30-meter trams have about 5 sections moving on six wheels). At that time, MPK Częstochowa issued a tender for the purchase of brand-new low- floor trams because of the planned opening of a new tram line have increased need for rolling stock. In 2012 Silesian Interurbans bought 30 Pesa twist-step trams, and a year later Moscow bought 120 Pesa Fokstrot units (based on Twist- Step).
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A typical red tram in Bratislava Bratislava tram network Today, trams cover heavily used commuter routes. Trams in Bratislava use a metre gauge with one-way current of 600 V (originally 550 V). Trams in the city have been electrically powered since the system was opened in 1895; there were never any horse-driven or steam-powered trams in Bratislava. The city's tram network is amongst the oldest continually operated tram systems to the present day. The length of tram tracks in the city is . There are 152 tram stops served by 8 lines, numbered 1 to 9.
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While many networks closed down during the postwar decades, the rolling stock on remaining systems kept developing, with multi-car trains (or articulated trams) with double-end designs and automatic control systems, allowing a single driver to serve more passengers, and decreasing turnaround time. Passenger and driver comfort have improved with stuffed seats and cabin heating. Advertising on trams, including all-over striping, became common. The resurgence in the late 20th and 21st century has seen development of new technologies such as driverless automatic train operation in trams in Potsdam, low-floor trams and regenerative braking.
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1937 southern portal under Waterloo Bridge The London Passenger Transport Board was formed in 1933, taking over the London County Council trams. It was decided soon after to replace all trams in London by "more modern vehicles". The abandonment programme began in 1935 with trams in South-West, West, North-West, North and East London mostly being replaced by trolleybuses. The replacement programme proceeded swiftly until 1940, when the last of the pre-war series of conversions occurred, leaving only the South London trams and the subway routes 31, 33 and 35, the only North London tram routes to survive the war.
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Day to day services are run by the 16 Flexity 2 trams. Several double deck English Electric Balloon trams from the older fleet have been widened to work alongside the new trams to provide additional capacity in the summer months. Several non-modified older trams also operate a heritage service from Pleasure Beach to Little Bispham on weekends and holidays. An extension of the new service to Blackpool North railway station was planned to open by April 2019 between the existing North Pier stop of the Blackpool Tramway, along Talbot Road, and terminating at Blackpool North railway station, but has been delayed.
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The loss of so many trams put considerable strain on the Brisbane City Council Transport Department. Trams allocated to the depot that were in service at the time of the fire were temporarily stored at the Tramways workshops in Milton. The City Council admitted that neither the trams nor the depot had been insured. Initially, older-style trams were brought out of storage from other depots to assist with peak-hour demand, but in December 1962 tram services to Kalinga, Toowong, Rainworth and Bulimba Ferry (in the suburb of Newstead) were converted to diesel bus operation.
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Additionally, many of them were abandoned as a result of Dagen H; only the trams in Norrköping and Gothenburg and three suburban lines in the Stockholm area (Nockebybanan and Lidingöbanan) survived. Gothenburg had high cost for rebuilding trams, while Stockholm had cost only for bus purchasing, since the remaining lines had bidirectional trams with doors on both sides. In any event, most trams in Stockholm were replaced by the metro, a decision made long before the Dagen H decision. Fellow Nordic country Iceland changed to driving on the right in May 1968, on a day known as H-dagurinn.
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The process of upgrading the lines to allow electric trams to run began soon after the takeover, and on 12 July 1900, the horse trams stopped working the Perth Road route, and electric trams began public service. The Lochee route followed suit on 22 October 1900. Work then began on converting the rest of the system, and the steam trams running on the Fairmuir route were the last to be replaced, when they were replaced on 14 May 1902. Services on the Baxter Park line were suspended, and that route did not reopen until 20 August 1906.
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However, it proved to be difficult for the siding to handle peak hour congestion along with route 75, so route 48 was amended to terminate at Flinders Street West from 17 February 2002.History of Melbourne Trams Routes from 1950 to 2009 Yarra Trams The line was extended to Harbour Esplanade Docklands on 4 April 2003. On 4 January 2005, route 48 was extended to Waterfront City along Harbour Esplanade and Docklands Drive, with the opening of the Docklands Drive tram extension.Docklands Drive Tram Extension Now In Service Yarra Trams 4 January 2005 On 20 September 2009, route 48 was altered to run via Collins Street in lieu of Flinders Street, terminating at Victoria Harbour Docklands.Spring into Collins on Route 48 Yarra Trams 21 September 2009Changes to Routes 48 & 70 from Sunday 20 September 2009 Yarra Trams"Melbourne – Collins Street trams reach Victoria Harbour" Trolley Wire issue 319 November 2009 page 13 The origins of route 48 lie in separate lines.
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The last tram ran on 12 June,Modern Tramway, September 1988, p. 328. Ian Allan Publishing/Light Rail Transit Association (UK). carrying about 20,000 passengers. All the trams were then parked in Voldsminde Depot, while the heritage trams were moved to Munkvoll.
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A footpath also comes from the nearby nature preserve at Nursery Road playing fields and another level crossing from a footpath from Dorset Road (B285). Trams call at the stop every 5 minutes with trams scheduled to arrive at both platforms simultaneously.
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Trams used to run from Saint Sampson to Saint Peter Port from 1879, taking over from a horse-drawn bus that had started operation in 1837. Originally the trams were steam powered, changing to electric in 1891 and continuing in service until 1934.
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Then the electric tram tests started. The normal operation of an electric tram started on September 2, 1902. First there was a mix of electric trams and horse cars on the line. Later the horse-drawn trams left the boulevards of Antwerp - forever.
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Route 30 is operated by Southbank depot with A class trams. It was operated by W class trams until 23 December 2014. Until January 2019, Route 30 was the only tram route on the network that neither operated at night nor on weekends.
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There is a permanent monorail system at the fairgrounds. The storage facility for the monorail trams are located in the northwest corner of the grounds. There are four different trams (Blue, Green, Orange, Red). They are only used during the state fair.
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Corporation Street in 1931. The last tram to run in 1953. The first trams operated in Birmingham from 1872, and the network expanded throughout the late 19th century. Initially these were horse and steam operated, the first electric trams operated from 1901.
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Sporveien announced that they will begin to replace the entire SL79 units in 2020, along with flawed SL95 trams when the new SL18 trams will be first delivered in 2020. Replacement would be completed by 2024 when all 87 units has been delivered.
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These could be connected and run as bidirectional trams, avoiding temporary balloon loops. They proved to be in better condition than the SM53 units. The twenty original trams delivered from October 1991 to 1992 were supplemented a year later with fourteen additional units.
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The power of battery operated trams was . Each tram carried 45 passengers. The maximum speed of each was ; by law, the operator was not allowed to travel any faster. A special generating station was built to charge the batteries of these trams.
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Route 5 is operated out of Malvern depot by Z and D1 class trams. It is occasionally operated by D2 class trams. From 19:00 the service only operates between Orrong Road and Malvern, with services timetabled to connect with route 64 services.
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In June 2020, Semitan ordered 61 Alstom Citadis trams for delivery from 2022 in order to enter service in 2023. The seven section articulated vehicles will be in length and will be 100% low-floor. They will replace the TFS-1 trams.
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Trams in Nizhyn (, translit.: Nizhynskyi Tramvai) were the part of the public transportation system that served Nizhyn, a town of the Chernihiv Oblast, starting in 1915. The tram system had a track gauge of . Horse trams in Nizhyn first opened in 1915.
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Double track to Bryn was completed in 1925.Haldsrud: 113 Services were carried out with Class H trams. The ride cost 15 øre from Vålerenga to Bryn, and 30 øre onwards to the city center.Haldsrud: 115 Trams ran every 24 minutes to Bryn.
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It has been in service since 2005. The LVB first ordered 12 trams of this type, then exercised an option for another 12 trams in September 2005 and a third (slightly changed) batch of 9 was delivered in late 2011/early 2012.
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Glasgow trams in 1962, shortly before final withdrawal of services (Cunarder on the left, Coronation in middle row) The tram system was gradually phased out between 1949 and 1962 (in favour of trolley and diesel-powered buses), with the final trams operating on 4 September 1962. By that time only one route remained in operation, the number 9 which ran from Auchenshuggle to Dalmuir.Trams at Auchenshuggle (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, 1962), The Glasgow Story On the final day of service there was a procession of 20 trams through the city between the depots at Dalmarnock and Coplawhill, an event attended by 250,000 people.Riverside and Summerlee museums mark Glasgow last tram anniversary, BBC News, 4 September 2012Fifty years since the Glasgow trams hit the buffers, The Herald, 27 August 2012The heartfelt farewell to Glasgow's last tram 55 years ago, The Scotsman, 31 August 2017Last Trams Parade (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, 1962), The Glasgow StoryLast Day of the Trams, Glasgow, (28-minute silent colour video, 1962), National Library of Scotland Apart from the Blackpool tramway, Glasgow became the last city or town in the UK to operate trams until the opening of the Manchester Metrolink in 1992.
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Four W4 trams (670, 671, 673 and 674) are preserved by heritage tramways in Australia.
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Route 64 is mainly run with Z, A, and B class trams from Glenhuntly depot.
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However due to lack of dedicated low-height platforms, trams doesn't stop at this station.
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The faster, heavier electrical trams had damaged the tracks forcing a rebuild of the line.
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The station is served by lines 18 and 19, using both SL79 and SL95 trams.
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Eight depots were built throughout the city to service a fleet of about 400 trams.
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Platforms between St Stephen's Green and Sandyford have been lengthened to accommodate the new trams.
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The line is fully served by the Brussels low-floor trams (the T3000 and T4000).
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When trams were replaced between the 1930s–1960s, their replacement would be double-decker buses.
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Since 2008, the motor car of one of the trams in Gera bears his name.
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Since Trondheim used a different gauge than Oslo and Bergen, it was not possible to borrow any trams. The company did not ask to borrow buses from the other bus companies in town, nor trams from the other tram company, Graakalbanen, who operated trams that ran on part of the track of the city tramway. Eight buses were sent from Oslo, and arrived on 14 October by train. The buses would run in between the remaining trams to create a five-minute headway on all three routes. The buses were introduced on 16 October. Only long and a lot smaller than the trams, the Høka/Leyland buses had seating for 22 or 34Kjenstad, 2005: 178–80 It was not until 14 November that the company was ready to get the two Belgian trailers into service.
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The Oslo Metro was being built and trams were seen as unmodern compared to diesel buses.Fristad: 117 The tramway had the nearly new SM53 trams in operation and therefore it was found economical to keep many of the lines running until the rolling stock was obsolete. However, all the old twin-axled trams were to be retired. The Sagene Line was one of several that was closed as part of this process.
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Parts from the cancelled order for more W7-class trams were used in the repairs, and these two cars featured half-drop saloon windows (with quarter lights). An additional 83 W5-class trams converted to SW5-class (type 3) trams between 1983 and 1986, with alumimium sliding doors, but retaining their original wooden-framed, full-drop windows. Apart from severe accident damage, the first W5 was withdrawn in 1987, and the last in 1994.
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Melbourne tram route 64 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from Melbourne University to Brighton East via Windsor and Caulfield. The 18.1 kilometre route is operated by Z, A and B class trams from Glenhuntly depot.Facts & figures Yarra TramsRoute 64 Yarra Trams After 19:00, passengers for route 5 to Malvern are required to board route 64 (marked 64/5) and transfer to route 5 shuttles on Dandenong Road.
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Tram 201 being delivered at Kronstad on 8 December 2009, the morning after it arrived in Bergen In 2007, the Planning Office ordered 12 Variobahn trams from Stadler Rail, with an additional four on option. The first tram arrived on 7 December 2009, and was used for testing in the months leading up to the opening. Before the opening, three more trams were in place. The trams are long and wide, weighing .
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From 10 December 1939 Gullfisk trams were introduced on some of the services on the route. There were several places the tracks were too close and many sites where trams could not meet until new track was laid. The east-bound track in the city center was moved from Prinsens gate to Tollbugata on 15 December 1940.Fristad (1990): 140 SM53 trams were introduced on some services on the line from 7 April 1953.
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The former capital of the Ottoman Empire was once served, on both its Asian and European sides, by a large network of trams in Istanbul. Its first- generation tram network first operated as a horse tram system, and was eventually converted to electric trams in the early twentieth century. The original tram network finally closed in 1966. Trams returned in 1990, and a second generation of modern tram service began service in 1992.
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Trams on the new Galata Bridge (c.1912). Istanbul inaugurated horse trams in 1872 and these served the people of Istanbul until 1912. Following this date, electric trams were put in place and they were the main means for urban public transport until 1966. Many additional tramlines were added over time, and the system reached its greatest extent in 1956 with 108 million passengers carried by 270 tram-cars on 56 tram lines.
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Plans have been proposed to refurbish stock and wires, extend the system to Salt Lake, New Town, Bantala and the Hooghly riverfront. There have also been proposals to replace the current double-coach SLC trams with new single-coach trams. Although there has been occasional talk about gradually phasing out the tram system due to criticism that the trams occupy too much road space, slow down other road vehicles and carry too few passengers.
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The final trams were delivered in 2004, and no. 142 was put into service in January 2005. At the same time, corrosion was discovered inside the articulation of tram 141. In 2006, Oslo Sporveier introduced a program to upgrade all the SL95-trams, including removing corrosion from the bodywork and the inside, as well as simplifying the lubrication of the joints, which prior to the upgrades required the entire trams to be de-hooked.
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SM53, originally designed MBO and colloquially known as Høka, were a class of 58 trams and 50 trailers built by Høka and Hägglund for Oslo Sporveier. The units were used on the Norway's Oslo Tramway from 1952 until 2000. The long and wide trams weighed . They had four motors providing a combined power output of , allowing for a top speed of . The first series of thirty trams in 1950, with delivery in 1952 and 1953.
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For the Innsbruck trams, the immediate impact of the outbreak of war in July 1914 was economic. It became hard to obtain replacement parts. There was a shortage of working-age people to operate the trams, and there were difficulties with regard to funding. In 1914, many workers were taken off the trams to work on railways of greater strategic importance, and for two months Lines 2 and 3 had to stop running.
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With the opening of NET's phase two, Lace Market is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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The Ghent tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Ghent, a city in the Flemish Region of Belgium, with a total of three lines (1, 2 and 4). Since 1991, the network has been operated by De Lijn, the public transport entity responsible for buses and trams in Flanders. As of the end of 2008, the network had 40 HermeLijn trams and 43 PCC trams.
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By 1927 there was not enough funding for the refurbishment and replacement of trams. The Colchester Corporation Act of 1927 allowed for the replacement of trams with motorbuses. The first motorbus commenced operation on 21 May 1928, to replace the trams between North Station and East Street. On 9 December 1929, the final tram service between North Station and Recreational Ground closed, and was replaced the next day by a bus service.
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The tramway reopened on 4 April 2012 with Flexity 2 cars providing day to day services. Some of the traditional fleet has been retained and some of them have been restored, with unmodified trams being part of the 'Heritage Fleet' and modified, widened Balloon trams as part of the main fleet. The depot at Starr Gate houses the Flexity 2 fleet. Rigby Road Depot, near Manchester Square, is where the traditional trams are kept.
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Tram in Kolkata Trams in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal are operated by the Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC). It is the only operating tram network in India and the oldest operating electric tram in Asia, running since 1902. There are 257 trams in total, of which 125 used to run daily on the Kolkata streets, but now only 35 trams run daily. The single-deck articulated cars can carry 200 passengers (60 seated).
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With the opening of NET's phase two, Radford Road is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Toton Lane, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton South, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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With the opening of NET's phase two, Noel Street is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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The Citadis trams have been criticised by the Australian Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union (RTBU), who claim they have operational problems, including injuries to the drivers relating to design. There were concerns raised in 2011 regarding the rear-vision cameras fitted to the trams. Despite Yarra Trams replacing the cameras a number of times, there were visibility problems at night and in high glare situations. These had been solved by July 2012.
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The Lilleaker–Østensjø Line was then given the service number 9. The municipalities of Oslo and Aker merged in 1948, and the ownership of the Østensjø Line was transferred to Bærumsbanen. The remaining Class A trams were retired between 1946 and 1958 and replaced with Class E, very similar to Class B, but had been built as street trams in 1939. Class B trams were rebuilt from 1955 so they could operate in trains.
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Rome had horse buses after 1845, when pope Gregory XVI authorized a line from Piazza Venezia to the Basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura to transport pilgrims. This first line did not run according to a timetable; trams left when they were full. Horse trams arrived in 1877, connecting Piazzale Flaminio with the Ponte Milvio, the current line 2. In 1895, electric trams arrived, connecting Termini station to Piazza San Silvestro.
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Tatra T6B5 is a Czechoslovak-built high floor four axle tram with an impulsive speed control. This model of tram was produced by CKD Praha in Smíchov, Prague in the period of 1983-1995, following one year in Zličín until 1996. After ČKD Praha went bankrupt, the final assembly and sale of incomplete trams was managed by Inekon Trams until 2007. The last four trams were supplied to the city of Ufa by late 2007.
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The inaugural trip operated by these trams was on Line 71. A total of 16 type D trams were built. They were used until 1976 on Lines 9, 41, 42 and E2. They were cumbersome, due to their high weight (), and were also otherwise unconvincing.
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Nuestra compañía - Metrovias It uses Argentine-built Materfer trams, though for a brief period it used re-bodied La Brugeoise cars from the Underground while the Materfer trams were being constructed.Van Hattum, C. (August 1989). "Developments in Buenos Aires". Modern Tramway, pp. 271–273.
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The rear travelling car in a back-to-back set had to be closed during a trip as its doors were facing the wrong side of the road. The trams were phased out as they were replaced with the new Italian articulated trams (SL95).
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The first line was from piazza del Popolo to Milvian Bridge. In the next few years, many other streetcars began to develop, and by 1895, there were five lines. In 1900, the SRTO opened 10 Omnibus lines, four animal- drawn trams and 11 electric trams.
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The new Avenio family of tram models features a double articulation join similar to the second generation of ADtranz low floor trams. These have already been sold to Budapest and Almada (Portugal). Similar trams are the Alstom Citadis, AnsaldoBreda Sirio and CAF Urbos, among others.
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Trams run every 12 minutes north to Victoria and south to Manchester Airport. Between 03:00 and 06:00, a service operates Deansgate-Castlefield and Manchester Airport every 20 minutes. Services on the Airport line are operated by single two car M5000 LRV trams.
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The electric trams travelled all the way up Hardgrave Road and down to the Hill End ferry. There was also a tram service that travelled up Boundary Street, this however, ceased well below the summit of Dornoch Terrace. The bridge was never used for trams.
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It is usually grade-separated and commonly built underground or elevated. At street level, smaller trams can be used. Light rails are upgraded trams that have step-free access, their own right-of-way and sometimes sections underground. Monorail systems are elevated, medium-capacity systems.
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These double-articulated trams were ordered from Cityway Fiat Railway in 1998 to mark the opening of line 8. 28 trams were ordered. 70% of its length is low-floor; raised floor sections are located at the ends. The entire train measures 31 meters.
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The stadium is located next to a hippodrome. ;Airport The easiest access to the Lviv International Airport is by the beltway and the route M11. The airport lies northwest from the stadium. ;Metro/trams The city of Lviv is famous for its trams network.
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18 100% low-floor bidirectional trams manufactured by CRRC Nanjing Puzhen, based on Bombardier's Flexity 2; 32.2 m long and 2.65 m wide. All trams are low floor, fully air conditioned, can run high speed. Each tram has five cars. It takes electricity via pantograph.
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On 1 October 1997 in preparation for privatisation, the Public Transport Corporation's tram operations were split into two business units, Swanston Trams and Yarra Trams."City in Brief" Railway Gazette International December 1997 page 835"Melbourne on the brink of change" Trolley Wire issue 273 May 1998 page 3 National Express successfully bid to take over the Swanston Trams services from 29 August 1999."All change for private trains and trams" Railway Digest August 1999 page 23"NEG conquers Oz" Rail Magazine issue 363 11 August 1999 page 11"Swanston Trams Franchise" Trolley Wire issue 278 August 1999 page 22 National Express were also awarded the Bayside Trains franchise and V/Line concession.National Express Group Awarded Three Franchises National Express June 1999National Express takes root in Melbourne Railway Gazette International 1 October 2000 In October 2000 Swanston Trams was rebranded as M-Tram."Moving Melbourne - A New Brand Coming for Melbourne's Tramsport" Transit Australia January 2001 page 18"Metros" Railway Gazette International July 2001 page 441 After an attempted sale of the franchise to Yarra Trams failed,Talks between Melbourne tram operators Yarra Trams 18 October 2002"Tram networks to reintegrate" Railway Gazette International November 2002 page 667 National Express handed back the franchise in December 2002, having been unable to renegotiate financial terms with the State Government.
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Several of the proposed routes would require trams as opposed to the current light rail trains.
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Route 109 is operates from Kew depot and is run by A and C class trams.
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Between 2015 and 2017, Gaziantep lent eight Alstom TFS trams (originally used in Rouen) to Kayseray.
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The Haizhu Tram is the first of seven planned lines operated by Guangzhou Trams to open.
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It later emerged that the incident was due to a young boy playing on the trams.
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Public transportation consists of two street car trams, articulated modern buses, pedestrian areas and parking lots.
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Its last livery was blue and cream, worn on the preserved trams at Crich and Beamish.
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Aberdare was the only place in the United Kingdom where trolleybus routes were replaced by trams.
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Trams generally operate at the same side as other road traffic because they frequently share roads.
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London: Ian Allan Publishing. . or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd. (UK).
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The trams were sold to Krakow, Poland and were disposed of by the summer of 2014.
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The C type Adelaide tram was a class of 20 drop end, California combination trams built by Duncan & Fraser, Adelaide in 1918 for the Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT). All were delivered in 1918, but as they were receiving second- hand motors from the E type trams, the last did not enter service until September 1919. When the MTT introduced an alpha classification system in 1923, they were designated the C type."Adelaide's Desert Gold Trams" Trolley Wire issue 237 May 1989 pages 3-10C type tram 186 (1918) Tramway Museum, St Kilda Because they were much faster than existing trams, they were nicknamed Desert Golds after a contemporary racehorse.
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As a part of the privatisation process, franchise contracts between the state government and both private operators included obligations to extend and modernise the Melbourne tram network. This included acquiring new tram rolling stock, in addition the existing tram fleet was refurbished. Swanston Trams (M>Tram) introduced 59 new Siemens Combino (D-class) low-floor built trams by Siemens, at a cost of A$175 million, and invested approximately A$8 million in refurbishing their fleet, while Yarra Trams introduced 36 Alstom Citadis (C-class) low-floor trams, at a cost of A$100 million, and invested A$5.3 million refurbishing their fleet. Flinders Street station.
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South Melbourne tram depot was a depot on the Melbourne tram network. Located on the corner of Kings Way and Dorcas Street, South Melbourne, it was opened in 1925 by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board as Hanna Street."Melbourne's Electric Trams" Trolley Wire issue 307 November 2006 page 11 In September 1960 it was renamed South Melbourne."Ninety-four years of service in Sydney and Melbourne comes to an end" Trolley Wire issue 292 February 2003 page 10History of Melbourne Trams Routes from 1950 t0 2009 Yarra Trams On 25 June 1967, W class trams leaving the depot in the early morning featured on the live international Our World TV Special.
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Restrictions on two trams passing was issued on several shorter sections, including the S-curve from Kirkeristen to Stortorvet, but these sections were quickly rebuilt. By 2000, deliveries were delayed, and in June all trams were taken out of service for three weeks to modify the gearboxes. In October, ten of thirteen trams were taken out of service due to radial run- out. The problem was large enough that some trams got a new radial run-out the day after they were fixed. From 6 January 2001, SL95 could be used on the Grünerløkka–Torshov Line, and from 6 February, on the Ekeberg Line.
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The investigation launched into the matter found, that the trams were jerry- built, . It was also discovered, that the badly built trams have resulted in extensive track damage that will be very costly to repair, adding to the "fiasco" of the Gothenburg Ansaldobreda tram affair. In August 2017, an arbitration outside the courts awarded Gothenburg municipality 12 million euro in damages. The municipality was to compensate Ansaldobreda for a breach of contract as the municipality had annulled the contract on the grounds of late delivery of often faulty trams, while Ansaldobreda was to compensate the municipality for their extra expenses and the inability of the trams deliver the promised logistic capacity.
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A tram line was laid on Papanui Road in 1880 terminating at the Papanui Railway Station. The first Trams were steam and horse drawn until the introduction of electric trams on the Papanui line in 1905. The Northcote extension to St Bede's College was opened on 28 February 1913 and closed on 30 September 1930. With the exception of the first few tram-cars, which were brought from the United States, the trams were made by a local firm, Boon & Co. The last tram to Papanui ran in 1954 with the trams being replaced by bright red buses run by the Christchurch Transport Board (later Red Bus Ltd.).
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When approaching the Center station, one tram veers off from the main guideway into the bypass, allowing the two trams to pass each other. The bypass reconnects to the main portion of the guideway beyond the center station. Operating software attempts to keep the trams synchronized, so that the trams arrive at the Center Station simultaneously, but this is not essential. In the event that trams lose synchronization, as is frequently the case with passenger induced delays, the first tram to arrive at the Center station will be held until the opposite tram enters the bypass area, providing a clear path for the waiting tram.
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In order to obtain permission to switch to electricity the provider of the existing horse tram service was required to switch to the meter gauge used by the new electric trams. They resisted the requirement and so horse trams continued to operate in parallel with the new electric service till 1900 when the "Königsberg Horse-tram Company" gave way, and on 11 May 1900 the first stretch of the horse tram service re-opened using a meter gauge and operating with electric trams. In less than a year the gauge on most of the older tram lines had been reduced, and the horse trams were replaced.
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The new bridge soon became a major transport artery and today carries the A202 and Cycle Superhighway 5 across the Thames. Originally built with tram tracks, New Vauxhall Bridge was the first in central London to carry trams. Initially it carried horse-drawn trams, but shortly after the bridge's opening it was converted to carry the electric trams of London County Council Tramways; it continued to carry trams until the ending of tram services in 1951. In 1968 Vauxhall Bridge and Park Lane became the first roads in London to have bus lanes; during weekday evening rush hours, the central lane of the bridge was reserved for southbound buses only.
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In 1909, Leith Corporation ran trams from Leith to Granton. They were joined in 1923 by trams from the Edinburgh Corporation, resulting at one point, having seven tram routes to the area: four from Leith via Lower Granton Road (services 2, 14, 16 and 17); three via Granton Road (services 8, 9 and 13). Trams to Granton were withdrawn in stages, from 1952 to 1956, and replaced by buses. Proposed to be part of the new Edinburgh Trams systems on Line 1b, in April 2009, the City of Edinburgh Council announced the cancellation of Phase 1b of the project citing problems caused by the global recession, saving an estimated £75,000,000.
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The Lancaster Palace cars were four trams built by Lancaster between 1894–1896. They were numbered 11–14. They first appeared in a green livery. They were the first trams in Blackpool to have two bogies each rather than four wheels fixed in place under the bodies.
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Routes 8 was operated out of Brunswick and Malvern depots by Z, B and D1 class trams.Route 8 Yarra Trams From 2016, D2 trams from Brunswick depot operated on route 8, due to the transfer from Southbank to Brunswick of this class to operate route 19.
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Later, interurban street cars served as funeral cars. In 1871, the first tram service from Denver was by horse-drawn trams. In 1886, they were replaced by electric trams. The route from Denver to Golden was known as the “Wishbone” Route and was luxury, comfort, and speed.
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Official passengers on the trams included the Mayor of Geelong, the Mayor of Newtown and Chilwell, the Mayor of Geelong West, other councillors, directors of the company, and state politicians. At each municipal boundary permission was asked for the trams to enter, and a ribbon was cut.
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Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. In the original plans for NET phase two, the stop was known as Meadows North but was renamed before opening to better reflect its location.
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A number of historic trams can be seen at Luxembourg City's tram and bus museum located on Rue de Bouillon in Hollerich. In particular, the museum exhibits two electric trams, two tram coaches, and a replica of a horse tram. There are also numerous models and photographs.
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In 2011, all trams had a matrix display installed. The trams were modernised by the Czech company Cegelec, who replaced the obsolete thyristor technology with relatively new insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBT) technology, which was a further development to the thyristor.Nahverkehr Breisgau: , abgerufen am 22. Juni 2014.
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The trams built in Germany were transported to Oslo by railway. The first vehicle was delivered on 13 April 1982 and put into service on 2 July. The last German-built tram was put into service on 13 September. The German trams were numbered 101 through 110.
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Euro PCC 6202 From 1971–1974, 54 PCC trams were delivered to Gent, built at La Brugeoise et Nivelles (BN) in Bruges. Their numbers are 6201 — 6254, but non-modernized PCC trams wear just the last two digits, e.g. 01 rather than 6201. Tram no. 6201.
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In addition, they were all equipped with LED indicators. They are the only trams, alongside the Combinos, to have fitted LED indicators. The remaining trams were still being used until the completion of the GT8Z refurbishment and the delivery of the new CAF Urbos in 2017.
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Route 55 was a tram route on the Melbourne tram network. The route operated between Pascoe Vale South (signed West Coburg) and Domain Interchange, using Z and B-class trams from Essendon depot.Facts & figures Yarra TramsRoute 55 Yarra Trams The service ceased on 30 April 2017.
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Melbourne's famous tram restaurant sues Yarra Trams The Age 15 October 2019 Bistro trams with buffets operated on ordinary services between 1924 and 2014 on the U76 Rheinbahn route between Krefeld and Düsseldorf in Germany, and for a brief period in 1911 on the Amsterdam-Zandvoort line.
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Poznań announced in 2002 a tender for low-floor trams. Siemens won the contract with Combino. Poznań ordered 14 trams, each consisting of five modules, three double doors and three bogies, identical to the Amsterdam version. The first Combino entered service at the end of 2003.
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To keep pace with the extensions more trams were purchased. A further batch of 20 trams were supplied by Dick, Kerr in 1902-03. In 1906 five top covered double deck vehicles were bought from United Electric Car Company of Preston, with another five bought in 1907.
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Elements of the system went out of service from the mid-1920s, in part overtaken by the bus. The decline of the trams accelerated in the 1940s and the last trams ran on 9 July 1949 in Dublin city and in 1959 on Howth Head, near Dublin.
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Melbourne tram route 58 is operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operates from West Coburg to Toorak. The 18.0 kilometre route is operated by Z3, B2 and D1 class trams from Essendon and Malvern depots. The route began operating on 1 May 2017.
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The E-class trams were a class of single bogie (four-wheel) single-ended cross-bench design trams operated on the Sydney tram network. They always operated in permanently-coupled pairs because they were fitted-out electrically as if the pair was a single bogie car.
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Passengers had to change to the cable- hauled Edinburgh trams at Joppa until 1923. The Musselburgh system was subsequently incorporated into the Edinburgh system, with the tramway to Port Seton closing east of Levenhall in 1928. Musselburgh continued to be served by Edinburgh trams until 1954.
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Metrolink does not allow full-sized bicycles on to trams but does permit the carriage of "fully covered" folding bicycles. The ban on non-folding bicycles was upheld in 2010, despite a campaign by cycling and green groups for the trams to be adapted to allow them. Campaigners against the policy had argued that the ban on bicycles was anomalous, as other large objects such as ironing boards and deckchairs were allowed on the trams under current rules.
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The company for a long time considered purchasing trams along with Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, who were needing new rolling stock for two light rail systems in Stockholm, Sweden. Three existing trams were tested in Oslo during 1995, and several trams were also tested in Stockholm. The first was a six-axle articulated tram from Kassel, Germany, with 80% low floor. The company disliked the lack of air suspension and a door construction where the doors went outwards.
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The initial service was provided by a fleet of twelve open-topped double deck trams, built by Brush Electrical Engineering Company. Chesterfield Corporation Tramways network plan In order to house the trams, a new depot was built, again on the south side of Chatsworth Road, but a little further to the west, opposite School Board Lane. There was a passing loop at this location, and a 'Y' junction allowed trams to enter the system in either direction.
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In the mid-1920s, the Corporation decided to replace the trams with trolleybuses. Conversion work to the overhead wires was necessary, and to enable this to happen, the tram service to Brampton was suspended on 28 February 1927. The trams were replaced by petrol buses until the new wiring was in place. Trams on the section to Whittington Moor were withdrawn from 23 May 1927, and were again replaced by petrol buses until the conversion work was completed.
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The Copenhagen tram system was a tramway network in service from 22 October 1863 - 22 April 1972 in and around Copenhagen, Denmark. The first lines were horse-drawn trams which were replaced in the 1880s by steam-powered tramways. In the 1890s electrical trams were introduced. The trams were operated by a number of private companies until 1911 when the city took over the operation of most of the system, followed by a full take-over some years later.
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The first trolleybus service in Ipswich was a trial service taking over the Cornhill - Rail Station route from the trams. The trolleybuses were operated by the Ipswich Corporation, initially with 3 hired single-deck vehicles. They used the existing overhead lines and were initially dubbed for marketing purposes 'Trackless Trams'. 1924 saw the delivery of another 2 trolleybuses and in 1926 the 5 vehicles were bought and another 30 delivered, in replacement of the electric trams.
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The first bell for Big Ben was cast by John Warner and Sons in Norton on 6 August 1856, but became damaged beyond repair while being tested on site and had to be replaced by a foundry more local to Westminster. A hospital opened in Stockton in 1862 and a public library opened in 1877. Steam trams began running in the streets in 1881 and were replaced by electric trams in 1897. Buses replaced the trams in 1931.
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In 1901, Colchester Corporation authorised the construction of of track, but the actual building of the gauge track did not begin until 1904. A special depot was built at Magdalen Street, just south of the Town Centre, for the 16 brand-new, open-top, double-decker trams, numbered 1 to 16. The trams were manufactured by the Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works of Preston on Brill 21E trucks. On 28 July 1904, the trams commenced operation.
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The museum is founded on some of the remains of Sjællandske Midtbane, a railway that was closed in 1936 and went from Næstved to Frederikssund over Ringsted and Hvalsø. The museum's goal is to preserve and restore trams (and now also buses and trolleybuses) in running condition: Right from the inaugural meeting, the idea of preserving and restoring the fast-disappearing trams was conceived, so that future generations might be able to see and experience the old trams.
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No. 176 was converted as a trial, and after 1971, all the remaining Gullfisks were converted. Because the trams had been delivered with a single front door, the cost of converting the trams was very small, and the single-manning highly profitable. In 1976, a class B tram was retired after it had lost braking power and crashed near Sjømannsskolen on the Ekeberg Line. After this, only selected trams were given overhauls, the last being no.
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The tramway network in Melbourne have some low level platforms and low floor vehicles, but most trams have steps and are boarded from the road. The Adelaide Tram line has low platforms at almost all stops and operates almost entirely with low-floor trams which also have retractable ramps for street boarding where required by persons unable to step up. The Gold Coast and Sydney light rail networks have low floor trams and platforms at all stops.
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This requires traffic lights or special signalling granting the trams priority. However, there are also roundabouts where trams and vehicles use the same lane. Some roundabouts have a tram stop on the island. In inner Melbourne, particularly in the inner suburban area of South Melbourne, where the tram network is extensive, tram tracks always pass through the central island, with drivers required to give way to vehicles approaching from their right and to trams approaching from right angles.
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The T5 is operated by a fleet of Translohr STE3 rubber-wheeled trams. During 2007, a contract for the delivery of 15 trams was awarded to Lohr Industries. The STE3 is a three- carriage tram vehicle; with a length of 25 metres, it provides sufficient capacity for the boarding of up to 127 passengers at a time. The trams are fitted with a relatively low floor, easing the boarding process for passengers, particularly those who have reduced mobility.
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Tram of type A in front of the Depot, c. 1900 Before 1900, a wooden hall existed here for the cars of the horse-drawn trams. Since it was not suitable for the new electric trams, it was demolished in 1900 and replaced by the current building, with an added wooden structure to house the main workshop for the trams (Hauptwerkstatt). While Frankfurt was badly damaged by bombing in 1944, the main hall suffered only minor damage.
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Light-rail train using the balloon loop at Lechmere station in Cambridge, Massachusetts USA in 2020 Balloon loops enable higher line capacity (faster turnaround of a larger number of trams) and allow the use of single-ended trams which have several advantages, including lower cost and more seating when doors are on one side only. However, double-ended trams also benefit from the capacity advantage of balloon loops, for example on the former Sydney tram system where loops were used from 1881 until the second-generation system's closure in 1961. Initially the Sydney system was operated by single-ended steam trams and then, from the 1890s, by double-ended electric trams. Lines were looped in the Sydney CBD and the other busiest areas of operation, such as the eastern suburbs lines, as they provided greater turn-around capacity on this very busy system.
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In the 1950s, four wheel trams of Type L were still being built for Vienna. (1976) Four tram generations in the Breitensee tram depot (closed in 2006) on Line 49. Work tram with snowplow on the Wiener Ringstraße. Following the Battle of Vienna in early April 1945, the first five lines were able to be returned to service on 28 April. Most of the city's fleet of 4000 trams were badly damaged, 400 of them beyond repair. The task of restoring the network would not be completed until 1950; some short sections of track were never put back into operation. In 1948, Vienna acquired second hand trams of Type Z (road numbers 4201-4242) under the Marshall Plan from New York. These trams, which became known as Amerikaner (Americans), were a little wider than other trams used in Vienna.
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Interior of a B2-class before modification in November 2013 In preparation of the conversion of the St Kilda and Port Melbourne railway lines to light rail, two prototype B1-class trams were built in 1984 and 1985 at the end of an order for A1-class trams.B1 Class B1 Class Vicsig"Metros" Railway Gazette International March 1983 page 157 They were followed by 130 B2-class trams built between 1987 and 1994. All were built by Comeng and later ABB in Dandenong.B2 Class Vicsig They were the first articulated trams on the Melbourne tram network, and the B2-class were the first air-conditioned trams.B-Class Yarra Trams On the request of the Victorian transport minister, who wished the last of the B2-class order to be low-floor trams, an articulated low-floor design was developed by Comeng from 1989.
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Electric trams started running in 1900, and the changeover was completed in 1902. There was gradual expansion over the next twenty-five years, both by the opening of additional routes, and the acquisition of new tramcars, with the final batch of trams being purchased in 1930 for use on the Lochee route. The Corporation started to run motor buses in 1922, and some of the tram routes were replaced by buses from 1928, but the official policy was that the trams would be retained, and a programme of rebuilding them was carried out. By the end of the Second World War, there were 56 trams in service, somewhat lower than the peak of over 100 trams, but heavy repairs to the infrastructure and new vehicles were then required, and the decision was taken to shut the system down.
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It is the only class of trams that has not been preserved by the Trondheim Tramway Museum.
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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Unloaded, it weighs 29.5 tonnes. Multiple trams can be linked together and controlled from a single cab.
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Commonwealth Engineering was an Australian engineering company that designed and built railway locomotives, rolling stock and trams.
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The Brisbane tramway fire in 1962, by comparison, led to the trams in that city being abandoned.
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When the system closed in 1956, it was running about 30 trams, numbered from 1 to 40.
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The AEC Routemaster bus was introduced in 1956. Trams were withdrawn in 1952 and trolleybuses in 1962.
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In the period leading up to its closure, the tramway was operated by KTM-5 type trams.
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Despite the introduction of modern tram units, 4 trams still have a Bistrowagen and operate every weekday.
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Passengers caught travelling on the Edinburgh Trams without a valid ticket are issued a £10 standard fare.
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Maximum speed is electronically limited to , and the trams are equipped with air-conditioning and CCTV cameras.
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Some other Škoda trams, such as the 05 T and 10 T, are based on the Astra.
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The station also features one of the double track stretches on the line, where trams can pass.
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Trams were first introduced to Grenoble in 1894, and this first generation tram system survived until 1952.
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Kim Jong-tae Locomotive Works in Pyongyang has produced modified Czech Tatra KT4 trams since the 1990s.
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Urban transports of Seville Municipal Corporation (TUSSAM) manages the bus service and urban trams in Seville, Spain.
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Dnipro tram is the system of electric trams including 13 tram routes within the city of Dnipro.
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Refurbished H type Adelaide trams 370 and 380 at the former City West terminus in January 2009 Until January 2006, 1929-vintage H type trams provided all services on the Glenelg line. These trams were built for the electrification of the line and have many of the characteristics of North American interurban cars of the same period. Thirty H type trams were built by a local manufacturer A Pengelly & Co, with road numbers 351 to 380. Twenty-one remained in service in 2005.Trams TransAdelaide After the arrival of the Flexity Classics, five H-class trams were refurbished in 2000 with the remainder disposed of.Glenelg Tram Refurbishment Project Trolley Wire issue 285 May 2001 pages 16-19 By 2012, three were in store at Mitsubishi Motors Australia's Clovelly Park plant.Adelaide tram news Trolley Wire issue 328 February 2012 page 16 The remaining two were refurbished by Bluebird Rail Operations, one briefly operating weekend services in August 2013.H-Class tram to return to the Glenelg to Adelaide tramline Adelaide Advertiser 27 July 2013H type trams won’t be brought back into service despite successful trial The Australian 15 February 2014 The only other recorded use of the pair was in February 2015 when they operated a charter.
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In early 2013 all 59 D1 and D2-class trams had their passenger information systems upgraded to announce upcoming stops. The upgrade, which cost $343,000, allows announcements on all routes on which D-class trams regularly travel and their alternative deviations, informing passengers of upcoming stops and connections.
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The horse trams ran until 1 December 1902 when the first electric trams came into operation. The railway station closed to passengers in 1961. Withington's Parish Church of St Paul was built in 1841; the architects of St Paul's Church were Hayley & Brown and it was extended in 1864.
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Melbourne tram route 8 was operated by Yarra Trams on the Melbourne tram network. It operated from Moreland to Toorak. The route was operated by Z, B and D class trams from Brunswick and Malvern depots. The service ceased on 30 April 2017 to accommodate Metro Tunnel works.
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Ticketing requirements for trams in Melbourne are mainly contained in the Transport (Ticketing) Regulations 2006 and the Victorian Fares and Ticketing Manual. Rules about safe and fair conduct on trams in Melbourne are generally contained in the Transport (Compliance and Miscellaneous) Act 1983, and the Transport (Conduct) Regulations 2005.
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From 19 January 1937, the Sinsen service was also operated by Line 3. From 10 December 1939, Gullfisk trams were put into service on the Sinsen services. With the reopening of the Rodeløkka Line in 1955, the service was taken over by Line 13, which used SM53 trams.
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CAF tram in December 2016 In order to replace and expand the fleet, in 2014 a €42m contract was signed with CAF for delivery of 16 Urbos trams, scheduled for delivery in the spring of 2016. These 16 100% low-floor trams were delivered between 2017 and 2018.
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The collection of preserved trams has grown to include the last known examples of some classes and even enabled the recreation of multiple set operations of a coupled set of O class cars, however there are no known examples of the G,H or M classes of trams.
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In 2007 the first route extension, along the main artery of Adelaide's city centre, was undertaken. In readiness for a rise in patronage, more trams were delivered. As of 2019 the number of new trams was 24, further route extensions had been built, and two more were being investigated.
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However, for the next eight years horse trams provided interim services, under MTT ownership, while electric transmission infrastructure and new tracks were progressively completed. Horse trams ceased running on Adelaide-centric routes in 1914 and on the isolated Port Adelaide lines in 1917, after 39 years of operation.
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A horse tramway opened from Lady's Bridge to Attercliffe in 1873, this was later extended to Brightside and Tinsley. Further horse tramway routes were constructed to Hillsborough, Heeley, and Nether Edge.Twidale, A Nostalgic Look At Sheffield Trams Since 1950, p. 11Wiseman, Sheffield Trams in Colour Since 1950, p.
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Ticket vending machine on Brugsepoort stop (Route 4). This machine sells only single tickets. Trams on all of the routes run from approximately 5:30 until 23:30, both on weekdays and on weekends. The interval between trams is between 5 minutes (peak hours) and 20 minutes (off-peak).
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A former Wellington tram at the Wellington Tramway Museum. Wellington had steam then horse trams from 1878, then electric trams from 30 June 1904 to 2 May 1964. They were replaced by trolleybuses and buses. Wellington now has the only funicular cable car line operating in New Zealand.
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Gråkallbanen also operates 15 trams on the Tram line 9 which is the only surviving line in Trondheim after the rest got removed. Line 9 uses 14 Trams in day to day service from Siemens and partly Duwag. The Remaining 15th is a sightseeing tram used for tourist operations.
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The M-class trams were built by the Randwick Tramway Workshops for use on tourist services on the Sydney tram network to replace two modified G class trams. Originally allocated to Fort Macquarie Tram Depot, they later moved to Newtown and again to Ultimo before being scrapped in 1941.
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During the daytime, trams operate every 7 minutes between Ekimae and Ihara, with the origin/destination alternating between Akaiwaguchi and Undoukoen-mae. During rush hour, additional trams are operated between Ekimae and Keirinjo-mae, shortening the minimum interval to five minutes. As the tram depot is situated in Akaiwaguchi, most late night services head to Akaiwaguchi. Additional trams are also operated during occasions such as festivals in the town and professional baseball matches at the stadium located close to Undokoen-mae stop.
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This was the second tram to be produced in communist-era Romania, and at the time was widely regarded as one of the most modern trams out there, compared to the V09 trams that had been introduced in around 1927. The trams had axle-mounted motors that were operated in DC current, but couldn't operate in multiple traction. So in 1954 the tram number 3037 was sent to Electroputere in Craiova to be modified, the modifications leading to the prototype of the V54.
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She collected money for the Soviet sponsored "Red Aid" communist welfare organisation. She also joined her brothers on leafleting tours round the district, in a campaign reminiscent of the White Rose movement in Munich. They would make their way to the square where trams parked up overnight and, early in the morning, climb up and place piles of political leaflets on the roofs of the trams. The leaflets would then be slowly distributed by the wind as the trams moved off.
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"City Circle cars" Trolley Wire issue 348 February 2017 page 28 As at March 2017, 12 W-class trams are in service on the Melbourne tram network,W-Class Yarra Trams All run on the zero- fare City Circle tourist route at any time during operating hours. The last examples on routes 30, 78 and 79 were withdrawn in late 2013. Three W6 class trams have been converted for use on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant service which operate three meal services daily.
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Nr II is a class of articulated six-axle (B′2′B′ wheel arrangement), chopper- driven tram operated by Helsinki City Transport (HKL) on the Helsinki tram network. All trams of this type were built by the Finnish metal industry corporation Valmet between the years 1983 and 1987. Between 1996 and 2005 all trams in the class were modernised by HKL and redesignated as Nr II+ class. From 2006 onwards all trams of this class will be rebuilt with a low-floor midsection.
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London: Ian Allan Publishing. . In 1933, LUT was absorbed into the London Passenger Transport Board (LPTB) along with other tram operators. The LPTB decided to replace all trams with trolleybuses. This started in October 1935 with two more former LUT routes, and continued in stages until June 1940, when World War II caused the suspension of the program. By then, nearly all the trams North of the River Thames had been replaced, however there were still some 1,100 trams servicing South London.
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The Australian Road Safety Council had identified trams as being "Australia's number one road menace", alleging that they were 16 times more likely to be involved in accidents than motor vehicles. In 1953 a government report recommended replacing the trams with buses. The Liberal state government of Henry Bolte, elected in June 1955, decided in July that the trams should be replaced by privately-owned buses as soon as possible. Bolte described the Geelong tramway as being outdated and hopelessly inadequate.
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New Farm Ferry terminus; c. 1925 The most numerous of Brisbane's trams, there were 191 trams of this class built between 1925 and 1938. Officially called "bogie drop centre combination cars", (usually shortened to "dropcentre" or "droppie") these trams' distinctive drop centre compartment was open to the elements, with only canvas blinds to provide protection for passengers in cold or wet weather. Although designed to be operated using airbrakes, most cars in this class were instead built with rheostatic brakes and hand brakes.
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In 1910 the Košice–Bohumín Railway was built and town's administration decided to build a tramway from railway station to the town square. First tram started work on 12 February 1911 on the 1793-metres long way. There were four trams in Cieszyn built by Ringhoffer company from Prague. In 1920, the town was divided into two parts between the newly created states of Czechoslovakia and Poland, and on 2 April 1921 trams were defunct and trams were sold to Łódź.
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Most trams wear the distinctive bright yellow, red and grey livery of TEC Charleroi and are identified by a 4 digit number starting with 74. Six trams (7404, 7426, 7428, 7448, 7453 and 7454) wear a temporary special livery to celebrate the new lines created on 27 February 2012. Prior to that date, several trams were still wearing the old SNCV livery with an orange bottom and beige top separated by a blue line (wearing a 4 digit number starting with 61).
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CAF tram 10 in service in June 2018 The initial fleet consisted of six Škoda 06 T trams, delivered in 2007. A contract for the purchase of three additional trams was awarded in 2013 to Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF), for a five-section, 32.9-metre-long Urbos 2 model. The CAF cars were delivered in November 2016, but delays were encountered in obtaining authorisation to place them in service. The three CAF Urbos trams finally entered service on 21 April 2018.
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Ostrava trams in their traditional blue and white livery at the "Nová Ves vodárna" stop The city has a dense public transport network consisting of trams, buses and trolleybuses. The first trams, introduced in 1894, were powered by steam engines. The network was rapidly expanded, and in 1901 it was electrified. New tram lines were built mainly to the south and east of the city centre, where they would not have to cross the narrow-gauge railways linking Ostrava with Karviná and Bohumín.
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Tracks were constructed by contractors and leased to the Sheffield Tramways Company, which operated the services. Prior to the inauguration of the horse trams, horse buses had provided a limited public service, but road surfaces were poor and their carrying capacity was low. The new horse trams gave a smoother ride. The fares were too high for the average worker so the horse trams saw little patronage; services began later than when workers began their day so were of little use to most.
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118 The depot also maintained the growing fleet of motor buses. This work has continued since the withdrawal of the last trams, and the offices are still the home for Plymouth Citybus The two depots for the original Plymouth electric trams were at Lower Compton Road in Compton (opened in 1893) and in Elliott Road, Prince Rock (1899). They closed in 1934 and 1936 respectively. Horse trams had been kept in depots at Belgrave Mews (Mutley) and West Hoe Road.
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In contrast to conventional articulated trams, however, the centre of gravity of Freiburg's trams were not the Jacobs bogies, but underneath the middle section, into which two tram end parts were attached. In addition to the all-axle drive, which was easier to implement, a better structure gauge was also used, totalling 34 metres of length. After the twelve-axle tram were manufactured by the Rhein-Haardtbahn company, Freiburg's trams were regarded as the second longest tram car in the world.
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GT8K 210 at Hornusstraße, 2013 After good experiences with the first four trams and the decision to expand the network, ten more trams were ordered towards the end of 1970s. These were commissioned in 1981 and 1982 and were given the numbers 205-214, also referred to as GT8K. They were lacquered in red and white and had two central front head lights. On journeys, there was no need for a conductor and the last type of trams with sidecars were discarded.
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The stop has a single side platform flanking the single track. With the opening of NET's phase two, Shipstone Street is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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Although the trams of this type are numbered 31 to 70, the first unit was not the 31st tram to be used by the HKL. The HKL tram numbering system had been reset in 1959, with the numbering of new trams delivered that year beginning from 1. In the early 80s the city of Gothenburg, the forerunner in creation of modern light rail systems in Europe, wished to purchase Nr I -based trams from Valmet for its own tram network.
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Trams in Athens have existed in two separate generations, the first from 1882 to 1960, and the second since 2004. There were no trams at all in Athens between 1960 and 2004, though the separate Piraeus-Perama light railway remained in operation between nearby Perama and Piraeus until 1977. Athens' first-generation metre gauge tram network began operation as a horse tram system, before being converted to electric trams in the early twentieth century. The original Athens tram network completely closed by 1960.
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Since the Ekeberg Line was built as a light rail with its own right-of-way, rather than a street tram, it was desired to design trams that were fast and had more sophisticated breaking and motor systems than normal street trams. Ekebergbanen therefore decided to buy five bogie trams, which were delivered in 1917. The body and mechanical equipment was built by Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk, while the electrical components were built by Siemens-Schuckertwerke. Capacity was for 40 or 38 seated passengers.
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East Lancs bodied Volvo B6R (2008) East Lancs bodied Leyland Atlantean in September 2012 Blackburn Transport's history can be traced back to 1881, when the Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramways Company commenced operating steam trams. From 1898, the routes were operated by Blackburn and Darwen councils. From 1899, work began on converting the network to electric trams. The last route to be electrified was completed on 4 December 1903. Blackburn's fleet consisted of 48 double deck and 13 single deck trams.
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If necessary, they may have dual power systems—electricity in city streets and diesel in more rural environments. Occasionally, trams also carry freight. Trams are now commonly included in the wider term "light rail",Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 which also includes grade-separated systems. Some trams, known as tram-trains, may have segments that run on mainline railway tracks, similar to interurban systems.
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In 1989-1991, to replace the oldest articulated trams, and to operate new lines, 45 articulated vehicles (numbers 817-841 and 901-920) were built by BN in Bruges, Belgium. They were Amsterdam's first (partly) low-floor trams. During the same period came the first withdrawals of the first articulated trams from 1957, apart from a few vehicles that had previously had been damaged by fire or a collision. Additionally, a number of the 1974-1975 LHB vehicles were removed from service.
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Lian Station is the terminus of Gråkallbanen, the remaining part of the Trondheim Tramway in Trondheim, Norway.Trondheim Trams Gråkallbanen The Lian terminus serves as the main access point to the city's largest recreational area, Bymarka, which is west of Byåsen. The station was built for the third expansion of line and opened in 1933. Until 1947, the trams had to change direction at the station, but in that year a loop was built allowing the trams to continue back along the loop.
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At night on 10 October 1956, the Dalsenget Depot caught fire, destroying almost all of the modern tram fleet. 26 trams, 16 trailers and one working tram were destroyed, and three cleaners lost their lives. It was the then-largest fire in Trondheim after World War II. One tram and trailer survived from within the fire-proof paint shop. Trondheim Sporvei had never discarded its old trams - they were stored at Voldsminde Depot - and eleven old trams were in service within the day.
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Shortly after these deliveries ended, the traditional producer of trams for Prague, ČKD Tatra, went bankrupt, stopping new tram deliveries for several years. After strong demands both from the handicapped community and from the general public, the Prague transport company decided to order new low-floor trams from Škoda Transportation. 60 Škoda 14 T trams, designed by Porsche, were delivered between 2005 and 2009. They were followed by 250 of a more modern 100% low-floor Škoda 15 T since 2010.
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Trams in the museum The Flemish Tram and Bus Museum (Dutch: Vlaams Tram- en Autobusmuseum, abbreviated as VlaTAM) is a museum of public transport that exhibits historical trams and buses. The museum is situated in the Berchem district of Antwerp, in the former tram shed of Groenenhoek. The museum is supported by transport company De Lijn. It mainly exhibits trams and buses of the Vicinal company, the city tram companies of Antwerp and Ghent, and the various subcontractors of Vicinal and De Lijn.
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It is situated opposite St. Paul's Church. With the opening of NET's phase two, Hyson Green Market is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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The station consists of two split platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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There have been many different types of trams that have served on the Blackpool Tramway over the years.
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It can be set in trench grooves cut into an existing asphalt road bed for Light Rail (trams).
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This line operated continuously until it was closed in 1969. Examples of 1920s and later trams are shown.
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Trams run to and from the embankment. In 1951, the north of road was reclaimed for Victoria Park.
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Each end of the structure has underground streetcar stations for the trams that operated on the lower deck.
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By 1907 the company owned 90 trams and 650 horses, and had its own tram factory at Kensington.
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De Lijn runs trams in Ghent, Antwerp with the Antwerp Pre-metro and also the coastal tram Kusttram.
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In February 1889 the horse tram service began along Sydney Road. Electric trams started in service in 1916.
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Trams did not return to the city until the modern light-rail system Manchester Metrolink opened in 1992.
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Trams in Bielsko-Biała was a public transit system that operated in Bielsko- Biała, Poland from 1895-1971.
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Tram in Mykolaiv. The main forms of city transport are fixed-route marshrutkas, buses, trolley buses, and trams.
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Angers Loire Métropole awarded Alstom a €47m contract to supply 17 Citadis 302 trams on 15 November 2006.
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A similar system is in use in Brazilian and some Chilean city buses, and in Hong Kong trams.
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Trams to Tramways. One Hundred Years of The Luton Tram Depot (Luton Local History Leaflet) by Jim Logan.
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Trams in Opatija ran from 1908 to 1933, connecting the railway station in Matulji with Opatija and Lovran.
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Paris and Berne (Switzerland):de:Druckluftstrassenbahn Bern operated trams that were powered by compressed air using the Mekarski system.
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Route 112 was operated by A1, B1 class, B2 class and D2 class trams from East Preston depot.
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Most cars numbered above 800 had "swept corner" windscreens. From the early 1970s many cars had their little-used, narrow centre doorways panelled-over, and most had their original windshields replaced with SW6-class types, which had "swept corners" with half-drop side windows; not all of these received the deeper fascia. During construction in 1939, the last ten W5-class trams were modified with sliding doors the same as the first of the SW6-class trams, which was being built at the same time. These trams also had metal-framed, full-drop saloon windows with quarter lights. In 1956 W5-class trams 785 and 787 were converted to SW5-class (type 2), following accident damage.
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As chairman of the MMTB Bell recommenced the conversion of cable trams, introduced all-night and Sunday morning trams (to the ire of the religious community), and returned successive surpluses. The MMTB recorded year-on-year increases in surplus from 1936 to 1942 (buoyed by the war-time economy), although said surpluses were redistributed to councils, pursuant to the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Act. Bell's era introduced modernised luxury SW6-class trams, which increased passenger comfort and, following a fact-finding mission to the USA in 1938, a prototype PCC tram. Under Bell, the MMTB investigated the possibility of introducing of PCC trams to Melbourne, although only one, prototype tram 980, was ever built.
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New E-Class trams rollout in Melbourne Rail Express 16 June 2017 These were built to an updated design with a focus on improved safety. The E2-class Tram was designed in response to a fivefold increase in injuries relating to passengers mounting and alighting trams, a 50 per cent rise in falls onboard and an eight-year-high for serious injuries. The redesign implemented measures such as glare reduction to allow improved road visibility for drivers and extra handholds and grab rails for passengers. A total of 30 E2 class trams were ordered at a cost of $274 million, with late model E-class trams also being retrofitted with the new safety features.
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Working hours were reduced from 70 to 54 per week, and increasing pay and a week's paid holiday made work on the trams a sought after employment. The trams contributed a large sum in relief of rates, and while Boyle made sure that there were always funds to re-invest in the system, other Councillors tended to just see the trams as a milch cow to help keep the rates down. There were some accusations by political opponents that you had to be Irish to get a job on the trams, accusations angrily rejected at a public election meeting in November 1906. That same year he was the only municipal candidate endorsed by the local Trades Council.
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In January 2011, Tramtrack Croydon opened a tender for the supply of ten new or second-hand trams from the end of summer 2011, for use between Therapia Lane and Elmers End.New Trams for Croydon Rail issue 663 9 February 2011 page 16 On 18 August 2011, TfL announced that Stadler Rail had won a $19.75 million contract to supply six Variobahn trams similar to those used by Bybanen in Bergen, Norway. They entered service in 2012.London Tramlink orders more Stadlet trams Railway Gazette International 21 August 2013 In August 2013, TfL ordered an additional four Variobahns for delivery in 2015, for use on the Wimbledon to Croydon link, an order which was later increased to six.
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However in Leningrad, Minsk and Gorky one LM/LP-49 train was left in each city for museum purposes. (Refer to the Survivors section) The trams which were neither rebuilt into service trams nor transferred to the museum service were simply cut into metal scrap. In Leningrad a fraction of the trams were moved into a "tram cemetery", and in Magnitogorsk the bodies of two LM49 trams with all the equipment removed and welded windows were rebuilt into a barn. In all of Leningrad 287 motor cars and 268 trailers cars of this make were listed, in Gorsky City — 67 motors and 46 trailers (after the transfer to Novokuznetsk), and in Minsk 1 motor car.
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In 2010, Commissioner for Environmental Affairs and Transport Jøran Kallmyr (Progress Party) stated that the SL95 trams were being considered for replacement, at the same time as the much older SL79. Problems with the units included excessive noise, excessive amount of time out of order, rust, cracks in the axles, and increased wear to the infrastructure because they weighed too much. All except two of the SL95 trams were temporarily grounded on 29 April 2013 when it was discovered that rust had damaged the joints between the articulated sections on several trams. From 2012, the trams were equipped with an automatic train protection system, which will allow them to run concurrently with the metro trains on the Kolsås Line.
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From September 2005, the trams' manual destination boards were changed to multicolour LED signs conforming with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), whilst pre-recorded next stop announcements were introduced to replace announcements made by drivers. Three voices with local accents were chosen to record the destination messages on the three different tram lines. All trams were refurbished between January 2006 and February 2009, with the first refurbished tram being launched at Supertram's Nunnery depot on 27 January 2006. The refurbishment bought the trams to conform to the Disability Discrimination Act inside, whilst also repainting the trams into new Stagecoach corporate colours, finished in a blue livery similar to that of South West Trains.
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Until 1994, the Warsaw Communication Company (Miejskie Zakłady Komunikacyjne, MZK) was responsible both for the technical service of vehicles (trams and buses) and for the organization of transport (tickets, timetables, routes). In 1992, the Warsaw Transport Authority (Zarząd Transportu Miejskiego, ZTM) was established and became responsible for the organization of transport, while in 1994 the MZK was divided into Warsaw Trams (Tramwaje Warszawskie, TW) and Warsaw Bus Company (Miejskie Zakłady Autobusowe, MZA), responsible for technical maintenance of trams and buses, respectively. ZTM tickets are valid on city and suburban bus lines, as well as trams, Metro, and SKM. Some ZTM tickets are also valid on the WKD and Mazovian Railroads, but only within the city or suburban zone.
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The Skabo series had electrical equipment from AEG and was optimized for street-tram operation, while the Strømmen trams were optimized for the suburban tramways and equipped with electrical equipment from Vickers. The Strømmen series was delivered from February to June 1939 and leased to Oslo Sporveier's subsidiary Bærumsbanen, which gave them the designation Class B. They were put into service on the Østensjø–Kolsås Line, with both end stations far outside Oslo's city limits that time. The trams partially ran through a relatively rural landscape, and more than any other Norwegian tramway this line may be called an interurban. The Oslo Sporveier trams were numbered 164–183, while the Bærumsbanen trams were numbered 184–203.
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A tram operated by Sporveien Trikken, a subsidiary of Sporveien The first tramways in Oslo were created by Kristiania Sporveisselskab (the Green trams) in 1875 when it opened a horsecar line between Stortorvet and Homansbyen. In 1894 the company Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei (the Blue trams) opened a line between Jernbanetorget via Briskeby to Majorstuen with a branch line to Skarpsno. This was Scandinavias first electric tram company. A/S Holmenkollbanen was created in 1898 and operated the first suburban line between Majorstuen and Holmenkollen. In 1899 the city established its own tram company that expanded the routes of the Green trams after they transferred to electrical propulsion. This company was taken over by the Green trams in 1905.
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GB Class 3 was a single tram and trailer built by Hønefoss Karosserifabrikk for Graakalbanen of Trondheim, Norway. Each of the four Siemens motors had an effect of . The trams were criticized for not having sufficient space for baby buggies. Despite running in part in city streets, the trams were wide.
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TT Class 8 are the only remaining trams used on the Trondheim Tramway. Built by Linke-Hofmann-Busch (LHB) in 1984–85, they replaced the aging Class 7 trams used by Trondheim Trafikkselskap (TT). Of the eleven built, nine remain in service on the Gråkallen Line operated by Boreal Bane.
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TS Class 7 was a series of 28 trams and 15 trailers built by Strømmens Værksted for Trondheim Sporvei. They were delivered in 1956–57. On 10 October 1956, almost all operative trams used by the company were lost to the flames. Subsequently, Trondheim Sporvei ordered the Class 6 from Strømmen.
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Five engines were salvaged from the fire, and were reused in trams 1 through 5. The remaining deliveries were numbered 10–32. The trams delivered with new motors, had four NEBB motors with a power output of . The Class 6 remained in service until 1984, when the Class 8 was delivered.
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TS Class 4 was a series of five trams built by Strømmens Værksted for Trondheim Sporvei. They were delivered in 1930, and numbered 35–39. Each of the two Siemens motors had a power of . They were the first trams to have the wider bodies, that allowed four-abreast seating.
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The trams were taken out of service in 1968 and 1969. Two of the trams and both the trailers were scrapped the same year. No. 4 was kept as a working car until it was scrapped in 1985. No. 3 is preserved as a heritage tram at Trondheim Tramway Museum.
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Frankfurt has ten tram lines (11, 12, 14 to 21), with trams arriving usually every 10 minutes. Many sections are served by two lines, combining to run at 5-minute intervals during rush-hour. Trams only run above ground and serve more stops than the U-Bahn or the S-Bahn.
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New tracks had to be re-laid for the petrol driven trams. The trams now ran on inverted U-shaped grooved-bridge rail with a four-foot gauge. The first two petrol-engined tramcars were designed by John Abbott and his son John Dixon Abbott, incorporating the Dixon-Abbott patent gearbox.
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During the 1920s, Banja started to develop intensively and methodically. Lights appeared in 1925, many famous people built their villas, promenades and parks were arranged, comfortable hotels were built and trams came from Niš all the way there in 1929. Today the spa is served by frequent buses instead of trams.
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Both had compressor issues in the early to mid 2000s, but were later rectified, both being based at East Preston depot by this stage. In 2016, both B1-Class trams were meant to have been withdrawn after an organised farewell tour was hosted by Yarra Trams on 2 February 2016.
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A proposal to replace the tramway with trolleybus was discarded by the city council. The depot was rebuilt, and 28 new Class 7 trams were ordered, in addition to 15 trailers from Strømmens Værksted and Hønefoss Karosserifabrikk, respectively. The bogies and motors were salvaged, and reused on the new trams.
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Following a Board of Trade inspection on 10 December, the line was opened through to Maxton by the end of the month. Depots were provided at Buckland and Maxton. Initially, ten trams were provided, of which two were trailers. Both of these had been converted to powered trams by June 1898.
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All stations are announced with a short distinctive melody and the station's name. The melodies were composed by Snorre Valen, while the voice was recorded by Heidi Lambach. Currently there are 28 Variobahn trams in operation, with six additional trams on order, scheduled to be delivered by the end of 2021.
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The line first opened in early May of 1881, with horse-drawn trams. In 1881, there was an average of 61 million yearly passengers. In 1972, the trams were electric with overhead powerlines. The system is operated by Stadtwerke Augsburg (SWA), and integrated into the Augsburger Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (AVV).
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Lisbon tram by Lisbon Cathedral and Santo António Church. A traditional form of public transport in Lisbon is the tram. Introduced in 1901, electric trams were originally imported from the US, and called the americanos. The earliest trams can still be seen in the Museu da Carris (the Public Transport Museum).
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A few trams were sold to other operators: the last of these in public service were in Aberdeen, in 1956. The trams continued in Bury for a further month and the last tram ran in Stockport during 1951. The trolley bus routes remained until they were also abandoned by December 1966.
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These upgrades are planned to be completed by 2009. The trams have also had problems with the air supply freezing during cold spells, making it impossible to retract the side mirrors when changing direction, and terminating the secondary suspension. This requires the trams to be operated at walking speed without passengers.
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Subsequently, another system operated by these trams has been opened in Fushan. In May 2019 the first tram of Delingha Tram was unveiled. The trams are two sections long and use supercapacitor and lithium-titanate battery energy storage to allow service at the parts of the route without overhead electrification.
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Other rolling stock was also used, including ballast trailers, water trailers, breakdown trailers, coal/coke trailers, a water sprinkler car, hearse cars and ash disposal trucks. Newcastle used L/P-Class Trams throughout the period of electric service. Some C-Class Trams and other cars were retained for electric operations.
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An ambitious program, which entailed replacing old trams with the new and modern ones built mostly in Zagreb by companies Končar elektroindustrija and, to a lesser extent, by TŽV Gredelj, has recently been finished. The new "TMK 2200", trams by the end of 2012 made around 95% of the fleet.
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The Southampton Tramways Company, which was later subsumed into the Southampton Corporation transport department, purchased Highfield Stables in 1888. The company had been stabling their horses (for horse-drawn trams) there for some time previously. The stables could house 31 horses. Several additional buildings were erected to accommodate omnibuses and trams.
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Trams in Hausdorffstrasse in Dottendorf, Bonn (Aug 1991). On 19 August 1994, a new tramline from Graurheindorf to Auerberg entered into operation. Because this new terminus had no turning loop, all the previously operating tramcars were taken out of service at this time, and replaced with bi- directional low-floor trams.
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Belfast's first trams operated in 1872 and were horse-drawn. Initially, the system was owned and operated by the Belfast Street Tramways Company. It was purchased by the Belfast Corporation on 1 January 1905 and electrified, using overhead wires, in 1905. Belfast's electric trams were originally painted red and white.
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KKS Class S tram no. 208 in Karl Johans gate KKS employed a fleet of 20 trams and 12 trailers. These had an identical long and body with wooden exterior paneling. KKS ordered the trams from Schukert, who built the electrical and technical equipment, while the bodies were built by Busch.
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Old style Valmet trams in Helsinki In Finland, there have been three cities with trams: Helsinki, Turku and Viipuri. Only Helsinki has retained its tram network. The system has operated continuously since 1891 and it was fully electrified by 1901. Currently there are 12 tram lines on 89.5 kilometres of track.
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The station consists of two double- bay platforms at ground level, with a concourse. Both service trams heading to .
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The station consists of two ramp-accessible platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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This included a dedicated embankment for trams alongside the station, and included a new through stop serving Snow Hill.
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As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 93 trams: 38 D1 Class and 55 Z3 Class.
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In peak hours, such two-car trams can be coupled together to make a four-car long tram set.
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A total of 50 NGT6 vehicles have been delivered to Krakow. The trams have an electronic passenger information system.
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A series of KT4 trams were also produced for Pyongyang, North Korea, but have subsequently had their articulation removed.
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The closing of the line allowed the company to retire all its twin-axle stock without ordering new trams.
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Visitors get to tour via the old railroad trams used by the milling companies to hasten sugar cane transport.
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Unlike the gauge being used by the Luas tram system (opened in 2004), the DUTC trams used the gauge.
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The is a series of articulated trams built by Tokyu Car Corporation in 1999 for the Tōkyū Setagaya Line.
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A Sirio built by CRRC Dalian at Chapeng Station, Xijiao line, Beijing Xijiao line, trams built by CRRC Dalian.
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As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 48 trams: 13 A2 Class and 35 B2 Class.
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Public transportation includes the Samara Metro, trams, municipal and private bus lines, and trolleybuses. Local trains serve the suburbs.
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Much work has been put in to make sure that the traditional trams have a safe future in Blackpool.
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As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 62 trams: 26 A1 Class and 36 C Class.
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As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 73 trams: 44 B2 Class and 29 Z3 Class.
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The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company operated street trams in and around Swansea in Wales from 1878 to 1937.
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Trams run every 12 minutes north to Victoria and south to Manchester Airport (every 20 minutes before 6 am).
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Trams run every 12 minutes north to Victoria and south to Manchester Airport (every 20 minutes before 6 am).
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Trams run every 12 minutes north to Victoria and south to Manchester Airport (every 20 minutes before 6 am).
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The location allows for convenient transfers to city trams and buses serving the western part of the city center.
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The fleet consists of 200 trams, of which 24 are bidirectional for use on the loop-less line 5.
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1952 - End of electric trams. 1965 - Became part of new London Borough of Southwark. 1972 - East Dulwich Odeon closed.
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It was implemented in October 1925. As a consequence, the trams were replaced by trolleybuses on 4 September 1927.
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The B-class Melbourne tram is a class of two-section, three-bogie articulated class trams that operate on the Melbourne tram network. Following the introduction of two B1-class prototype trams in 1984 and 1985, a total of 130 B2-class trams were built by Comeng (later ABB), Dandenong. They were developed for the conversion of the St Kilda and Port Melbourne railway lines to light rail, and introduced by the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and later the Public Transport Corporation between 1984 and 1994.
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During the mass withdrawal of the W-classes in 1994–96, the majority of SW5-class trams were retired in preference to the higher numbered W-classes, ostensibly due to the discovery of asbestos in the controllers. As of January 2020, there are no SW5 or W5 trams remaining in service, with the majority stored. However, nine W5 and three SW5 trams are preserved with heritage tramways in Australia and New Zealand, including a fully restored W5 number 774 on display at Hawthorn Depot.
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The most common fleet of Vinnytsia trams are ex-Zurich Mirage trams Prior to 2007 Czech-made Tatra trams were dominating in Vinnytsia The Vinnytsia Tramway (, translit.: Vinnytskyi Tramvai) network is the part of the public transportation system that since 1913 serves Vinnytsia, the administrative center of the Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. The tram system has a narrow rail gauge of that only exists in Ukraine in the cities of Lviv, Zhytomyr and Yevpatoria, as well as Vinnytsia. The system currently consists of 21.2 km of tracks.
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A tram depot (garage) was located on Latrobe Terrace between 1915 and 1962, when it was destroyed in one of Brisbane's largest fires. The cause of the Paddington tram depot fire is not known however arson and public corruption has been rumoured for years. Sixty-five of Brisbane's trams were destroyed which was a large proportion of its fleet. After the fire Old Dreadnought trams were pressed into service, and eight replacement (Phoenix) trams were built, but Lord Mayor Clem Jones began to close lines almost immediately.
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The only petrol-driven tram of Stockholms Spårvägar, on line 19 in the 1920s In some places, other forms of power were used to power the tram. Hastings and some other tramways, for example Stockholms Spårvägar in Sweden and some lines in Karachi, used petrol trams. Paris operated trams that were powered by compressed air using the Mekarski system. Galveston Island Trolley in Texas operated diesel trams due to the city's hurricane-prone location, which would result in frequent damage to an electrical supply system.
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Three former Melbourne trams have been used. X1 class 466, (was for a time 2011-2017 renumbered ATL 257), is being leased from the Newstead Trams based at Bendigo Tramways and arrived at the Ports of Auckland by ship 8 June 2011 and was delivered to the new tram shed 15 June 2011. From 2011 until 2015, Melbourne W2 class 421, then numbered ATL 258 was leased from Bendigo. In July 2015, SW6 model trams 852 and 881 arrived from Melbourne after becoming surplus to requirements.
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Class B and Class E, normally referred to as Gullfisk (Norwegian for "goldfish"), were a class of 46 trams built by Strømmens Værksted and Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk for Oslo Sporveier and Bærumsbanen of Oslo, Norway, in 1937 and 1939. They were the first aluminium trams to operate on the Oslo Tramway and the first bogie trams to operate on street lines. They had contemporary modern electronic equipment, a streamlined shape, and comfortable accommodation. Till 1964, they were also faster than any other Norwegian tramcar or suburban railcar.
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All members of the class were designed and built by ČKD Tatra, then one of the world's leading manufacturers of trams. The prototype vehicle, assembled at ČKD Tatra's factory in Smíchov, Prague, was completed in 1965. Its design was derived largely from that of the then current Tatra T2 and T3 type standard trams, and K2 type articulated trams. Interior view, 2000. The series vehicles, 17 in number and introduced between 1968 and 1970, were virtually identical to the prototype in their external appearance.
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As these networks grew, they seemed to threaten the tram network, with extensive line closures in favour of the new modes. Such closures continued into the 1990s, but in 1991 the city council passed a plan to upgrade and modernize the tramway, as the trams were seen to be a better fit to expected passenger flows on many routes. Three years later, Class R2 low-floor trams were introduced, along with a night network. These were followed, in 1999, by the larger class R3 trams.
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In the mid-1950s, (modern) tramcars came back into the spotlight. The 25 articulated trams ordered in 1955 to serve only the Leidsestraat lines 1 and 2 were well received, and secured the future of trams in Amsterdam. Between 1957 and 1968, 160 new articulated vehicles, manufactured by Beijnes and Werkspoor in the Netherlands, were added to the fleet; they were numbered 551-587 and 602-724. The old twin axle trams from the prewar period were withdrawn from service between 1945 and 1968.
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"Little Dancer" was chosen by Alna Sharyo for two reasons, firstly to evoke an image of a lively dancer, and secondly for its similarity to the Japanese word "dansa". "Dansa" in Japanese means "step", pertaining to the step-free access that the trams provide. The result is aimed to evoke an image of a lively, cute, and small tram. Little Dancer trams feature conventional bogies so that it is easier for railway companies and their maintenance staff to adjust to the trams when they are introduced.
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The tram stop is the terminus of line 2 of the NET, to Phoenix Park via Clifton, Wilford and the centre of Nottingham. The stop comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the twin terminal tracks, with one of the platforms being long enough to accommodate, if necessary, two trams. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. A half-hourly express bus service, the Skylink Express, links the stop to East Midlands Airport.
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The tram stop is the terminus of line 1 of the NET, to Hucknall via Chilwell, Beeston and the centre of Nottingham. The stop comprises a pair of side platforms flanking the twin terminal tracks, with one of the platforms being long enough to accommodate, if necessary, two trams. Trams run at frequencies that vary between four and eight trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day. An hourly bus connects the tram stop to the centres of Toton and Stapleford.
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The old trams were put into service, and LHB sent technicians to locate the error. After this was fixed, test runs were done and the trams put back into service. This proved to not be sufficient, and further tests were performed by the Norwegian Institute of Technology. Eventually the problems were fixed.
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In Helsinki, horse trams operated between 1890 and 1900, and again between 1913 and 1917. Since 1900, electric trams have operated there. For part of its existence, the Helsinki tramway network has been supplemented by a trolleybus line: in 1949–1974, and on a trial basis in 1979–1985. Valmet RM 2 no.
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In October 2018 Škoda Transtech sold the two Artic pre-series trams to the Schöneiche bei Berlin tramway (). Further order of one brand new Škoda Artic tram had been placed in April 2019. Both the first built and last built Helsinki-style Artic trams operate in Germany on the Schöneiche/Rüdersdorf route.
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This ended the era of the tram in Nottingham. Twelve trams and one railgrinder were sold for only £17 l0s. 0d. each () as a result of the first conversion. The remaining trams were sold after September, many of the 1927 cars to Aberdeen Corporation Tramways, where they worked for a further 15 years.
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On the outside track of the curve this is an advantage. It may be necessary to compensate the inner wheel or allow for some slippage. Modern trams and trams tend to have thicker and wider tires which allow for a greater (horizontal) conical section and so greater effective diameter variation and turning ability.
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As the C1-class vehicles entered service at Kew Depot in 2001 and 2002, displaced A1 and A2 class trams were re-allocated to Camberwell, Glenhuntly, Preston and Southbank Depots. Although trolley poles on the converted A1-class proved useful when pantographs became damaged in service, they were later removed by Yarra Trams.
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Tramway de Nice began operating horse-drawn trams in 1879. Electrified in 1900, the combined length of the network reached by 1930. The replacement of trams with trolleybuses began in 1948 and was completed in 1953. In 2007, the new Tramway de Nice linked the northern and eastern suburbs via the city centre.
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The total value of the SM53 series trams was 30 million krone.Andersen & Kjenstad: 35 A single Mustang B25 trailer was bought used from Stockholm in 1957, when the trams there were closed. The trailer had left-hand drive, but by simply running it "backwards" the doors were placed on the right side.
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They were limited to routes which were part of the TramPlus upgrade, as they were too large to operate on other routes. Two of these trams were damaged in a collision on 10 March 2014 and were repaired by joining them together. All 59 trams of this series were overhauled beginning in 2015.
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The stop is on line 1 of the NET, from Hucknall via Nottingham city centre to Beeston and on to Chilwell, and is shown as Beeston Town Centre on NET publicity. Trams run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day.
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"Victorian rolling stock contracts announced" Railway Digest May 2000 page 20"Market" Railway Gazette International May 2000 page 277"Melbourne - Swanston Trams" Trolley Wire issue 281 May 2000 page 30 Z3 and B2 class trams were also internally refurbished by M>Tram, receiving green seat pads, and yellow stanchions and grab rails.
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The Hospitalløkkan Depot on the Ila Line had space for sixteen trams. Eleven Class 1 trams were delivered by Siemens, with another delivered in 1903. The line opened with a six-minute headway, but this was soon reduced to five minutes, and four minutes in 1908. Four trailers were delivered in 1904.
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The trams required some adjustments before going into service. They received a new onboard computer and a mobile telephone to communicate with central dispatchers. Adjustments were required to tram doorways and the platform height. These trams were used only during rush hours at the busiest stops between Utrecht Centraal and Nieuwegein Stadscentrum.
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This conversion was completed in 1858. In 1866, the first signal box was installed at Bamberg station. From 1897 to 1922, the station forecourt was the main hub of Bamberg trams, which was served by three of the four lines of the network. The trams were closed in 1924 and replaced by buses.
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A further boundary extension was granted in 1951 when Clifton and Wilford (south of the River Trent) were incorporated into the city. Electric trams were introduced to the city in 1901; they served the city for 35 years until 1936. Trams were reintroduced after 68 years when a new network opened in 2004.
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In the 1920s and 1930s gas-powered trams were also used. Since 1955 to 1988 German-built trams were used. In total, there were 20 LOWA T54-B54 trams (in use from February 1955 to March 1977), 11 Gotha T57-B57 (in use from January 1958 to June 1978), 5 Gotha T59E-B59E (in use from June 1960 to February 1980), 14 Gotha T2-62 and B2-62 (in use from 1962 to 1981) and 50 Gotha G4 trams (in use from January 1965 to October 1988) trams. The first Czechoslovakian-built ČKD Tatra T4SU arrived in 1973. The T4SU trams were in use from May 1973 to September 2005 and there were 60 of them. The first KT4SU arrived in Tallinn in 1981 and was first in use on March 10, 1981. In 2007, there are 56 KT4SU, 12 KTNF6 (rebuilt KT4SUs, 10 local, one from Gera and one from Erfurt) and 23 KT4D (12 from Gera, 6 from Cottbus, 1 from Frankfurt (Oder) and 5 from Erfurt) in use. As of 2018, there are four lines: 1 (Kopli-Kadriorg), 2 (Kopli-Ülemiste), 3 (Tondi-Kadriorg) and 4 (Tondi- Lennujaam (Airport)).
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Bombardier were awarded a $303 million contract for 50 Flexity Swift low-floor trams, with maintenance to 2017 in September 2010; the contract includes an option for a further 100 vehicles."Victoria picks Bombardier" Railway Gazette International November 2010 page 16 They are being built at Bombardier's Dandenong factory with local design input, including aesthetic design by Bombardiers Brisbane based Industrial Design teamMelbourne E-Class Tram Good Design Australia 2014Bombardier wins Australian Good Design Awards for Melbourne and the Gold Coast's Flexity trams Bombardier 7 August 2014 with propulsion systems and bogies coming from Bombardier’s German factories in Mannheim and Siegen respectively. They are the first trams built in Australia in 12 years, and the first locally built Melbourne trams since the last B-class was delivered in 1994.E-Class Yarra Trams A two-thirds mock up was produced for design input and unveiled on 24 August 2011; it was displayed at the 2011 Royal Melbourne Show.
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Not having the same obligations as the Board enabled the bus companies to run their services ahead of the trams at peak times to capture some of the Board's most lucrative business. Several measures were implemented by the Board to combat this menace including hiring buses to run competing services against the "pirate" operators, adding more express trams, tuning the trams and power supply to improve acceleration characteristics, purchasing additional buses, and stationing roving trams at key points to immediately commence service on the appearance of a rival company's bus. This period, known colloquially as the "bus wars", resulted in many minor traffic accidents, altercations between staff of rival companies and the Board, and buses and trams appearing to race each other on many occasions to be the first to collect passengers. For a select few it also resulted in a much-improved service both in terms of timeliness and frequency as the companies competed with the Board for their custom.
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The M-Tram network was focused on the north–south tram routes in Melbourne, running 17 routes along Swanston, Elizabeth and William Streets though the CBD and then into the suburbs as well as cross-suburban routes."Prelude to Privatisation - New Rail & Tram Capital Works for Melbourne" Railway Digest January 1999 page 13 National Express inherited 30 W, 94 Z1, 12 Z2, 84 Z3 and 55 B2 class trams and took over the operation of four depots; Brunswick, Essendon, Glenhuntly and Malvern."Swanston Trams" Trolley Wire issue 279 November 1999 page 25 Part of the franchise agreement required replacement of older rolling stock with newer models, and refurbishment of the existing rolling stock. Siemens Combino trams were purchased as the D1 and D2 class, the first of 38 D1 three-car class trams entering service on 19 December 2002 and the first of 21 five-car D2 class trams on 3 March 2004.
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Trams on route 9 use combination of white text, depicting the number 9 and the destination, and an orange background.
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The stadium is served by public transport with bus and trams. Stadium is located to the south-west of Brăila.
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An example similar to the 4 - wheel trams used is to be found in the Lucerne Transport Museum (Railway Hall).
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Photo of Lipowa street Trams in Białystok were a tramway communication system operating in Białystok in the years 1895–1918.
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The line is operated with 20 Alstom Citadis trams, which were jointly purchased with the Dijon tramway to reduce cost.
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Addis Ababa Light Rail operates currently a fleet of 41 three-section 70% low-floor trams manufactured by CNR Changchun.
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Marshalling of mixed trams was:- motor, dummy, car, dummy, trucks, van, or if only three trucks, no van was necessary.
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Glen Eira is well-served by an efficient network of public transport in a mix of trams, trains and buses.
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Trams to Paignton were replaced by buses on 14 January 1934 and the remaining services ceased on 31 January 1934.
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Kolkata trams almost always consist of single motor coach. A new twin coach tram was introduced in Kolkata in 2019.
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They entered service on 4 March 2018. The Flexity 2 trams are all accommodated at the depot at Starr Gate.
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Rolling stock was manufactured by Translohr. All trams are low-floor and fully air-conditioned. Each tramcar has five sections.
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1904 that the municipality purchased their concession and restarted it. Only in November 1910 were electric trams put into operation.
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The Queensland Railways 6D11½ class locomotive was a class of 0-6-0 steam trams operated by the Queensland Railways.
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Tram on reserved track in Schwerin, Germany Reserved track, in tram transport terminology, is track on ground exclusively for trams.
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V56 tram no. 119 at Sf. Gheorghe Square STB maintains an extensive fleet of heritage trams on its tram system.
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BUSE s. r. o. - Technology This combined technology was used for outside displays of most of new buses and trams.
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Initially these were horse-drawn, but from 22 June 1911 the electric trams of London County Council Tramways were introduced.
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Beside electric trams, a horse tramway was also constructed, which connected the city with a large arsenal to the east.
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Chigang Pagoda The station is the terminus of the Haizhu Tram line of Guangzhou Trams, which runs to Wanshengwei Station.
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Conduit car No. 4 The Blackpool Tramway officially opened on the 29 September 1885 with an initial fleet of 10 trams. The first eight were double-deck open top trams that operated on the conduit system, whilst the ninth and tenth cars were single-deck crossbench trailers which could be hauled by any of the first eight trams. The original fleet livery was a mix of sand, green and white colours. The trams were built in various conditions. Nos. 1 and 2 were built by Starbuck, with 48 seats and a garden seating arrangement on the upper decks. Nos. 3 and 4 were built by Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works, with 32 seats and a knifeboard seating arrangement on the upper decks. Nos.
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In 1992, an official mass withdrawal of the W class was announced by transport minister Alan Brown. That was generally due to the fact that over 200 W class remained in service, while the newer Z-class trams were in storage in varying locations, after being displaced by the newer A and B class vehicles. Protests over the disappearing icons brought about a reconsideration of the withdrawal policy, and it was decided 53 Ws would be retained for tourist purposes. The popular zero-fare City Circle tourist route commenced on April 1994, using 12 of the 53 trams retained.On this Day Parliament of Victoria When the network was privatised in August 1999, 30 W-class trams were allocated to M>Tram and 23 to Yarra Trams.
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There were few problems in the start, although the pantographs had technical problems and there were occasional power failures in the overhead wires due to out-of-date rectifiers not being able to handle the increase power usage. Trams no. 101 through 113 were put into service on Line 9 on the Lilleaker Line and the Ekeberg Line, replacing the Class E. The remaining trams of the first series were put into service on Line 1, on the Sinsen Line and the Briskeby Line, as well as Line 7, on the Ullevål Hageby Line and the Sinsen Line. On Line 9, that included both the tramway's light rail sections, only SL79-trams were used, while lines 1 and 7 used a mix of SL79 and SM53-trams.
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In 2012, Blackpool Council ordered 16 Bombardier Flexity 2 trams for the Blackpool Tramway, becoming the worldwide launch customer for Bombardier Transportation's new design. The modern 100% low-floor trams replaced the Blackpool Tramway's tourist-focused and high maintenance heritage fleet, some of which have been retained with modifications for use as a supplementary fleet alongside the Flexity 2 trams and some for tourist services on the promenade. Blackpool's Flexity 2 trams are intended to be suitable for daily commuters and to provide a service competitive with other modes of transport and comply with legislation on accessibility for disabled users. Two further Flexity 2 units arrived on 1 and 15 December 2017, and both entered service on 4 March 2018.
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During World War II, the rationing of petroleum fuels gave a boost to ridership on the electric tramways. To handle the massive increase in ridership, the trams were equipped with two conductors. The single-centre-door solution that worked excellently before the war became a bottle-neck as the trams became packed with riders. Lack of parts, particularly for the British Vickers motors, caused long waits for defective vehicles at the depots. From 1942, the Kolsås Line was transferred to terminate at Nationaltheatret in the city centre, and the Class B was operated along the Lilleaker Line from the west. Trams 164–166 were sent to Düsseldorf in Germany, but were never used because the city lacked balloon loops and the trams were too wide.
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Nr I were the first type of articulated tram operated by the HKL. The design of the Nr I type trams was based on the GT6 type trams built by Düwag for various cities in western Europe since 1956, but the Nr I incorporated several technological innovations that had not been available when the GT6 was designed. The Nr I trams were delivered by Valmet between 1973 and 1975, with the first seven trams delivered in 1973, further 18 delivered in 1974 and the final 15 in 1975. As the first mass-produced tram type in the world, the Nr I featured thyristor chopper control. The first tram of this class entered revenue-earning service on 16 December 1973 on line 10.
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The system exists in happy symbiosis with an active heritage operation based at Woluwe depot, and privately hired trams have free access to the tracks. Trams that still collect their current through trolley poles rather than pantographs are normally restricted to the scenic line from Cinquantenaire park via Woluwe to Tervuren, which is run with the help of volunteers from the preservation society MTUB (Museum of Brussels Urban Transport), whose board has a strong representation from STIB/MIVB. This runs at weekends from April to October; occasionally, such as on the Belgian national holiday, 21 July, these trams appear in the city centre, where the line in the Koningsstraat/Rue Royale is trolleypole-enabled. Several trams have been sent to the United States.
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Until the beginning of the 1960s, the vehicles have been colored by cream and red color scheme (buses have been colored until 1961. trolleybuses and trams are colored until 1964). From the beginning of the 1960s, the vehicles have been colored by Mussolini livery – light and dark green color scheme (for buses from 1961 to 1967, for trolleybuses and trams from 1964 to 1970). From the end of the 1960s, the vehicles have been colored by cream and green color scheme (for trams and trolleybuses from 1970 to 1979, for buses from 1967 to 1987). From the end of the 1970s, the vehicles have been colored by cream and red color scheme again (for trams and trolleybuses from 1979 to 2003, for buses from 1987 to 2004).
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All services via Homansbyen and Frogner to Majorstuen were joint services. The joint services were operated the relative number of trams in proportion of the ownership of trackage along the line and where each company simply kept the revenue it created on their services.Fristad: 54 The first women conductors were hired in 1916.Fasting: 83 Ten older Class A trams were rebuilt with larger wheelbase and bodies in 1918 and 1919, supplemented by 37 new motor trams and 56 new trailers.Fristad: 62 Staff and trams posing at Majorstuen in 1912 From the company's opening it had charged 10 øre for a ride, but this was raised to 15 øre in 1918, a price which would remain unaltered for the rest of its history.
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Map of the Hastings and District Electric Tramways Hastings had a network of trams from 1905 to 1929. The trams ran as far as Bexhill, and were worked by overhead electric wires, except for the stretch along the seafront from Bo-Peep to the Memorial, which was initially worked by the Dolter stud contact system. The Dolter system was replaced by petrol electric trams in 1914 due to safety concerns,Historical Hastings Wiki: Tram - Historical Hastings Wiki, accessdate: 14 January 2020 but overhead electrification was extended to this section in 1921. Trolleybuses rather than trams were used in the section that included the very narrow High Street, and the entire tram network was replaced by the Hastings trolleybus system in 1928–1929.
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GB Class 2 was a series of two trams and two trailers built by Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk for Graakalbanen of Trondheim, Norway. Each of the four Siemens motors had an effect of . There were two compartments, both with four- abreast seating, with reversible seats. Despite running in part in city streets, the trams were wide.
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GB Class 1 was a series of four trams and two trailers built by Hannoversche Waggonfabrik for Graakalbanen of Trondheim, Norway. Each of the four Siemens motors had an effect of . There were two compartments, both with four-abreast seating, with reversible seats. Despite running in part in city streets, the trams were wide.
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From 1959, articulated tramcars of Type E were used. However, it became difficult to operate these trams with trailer cars due to their underpowered motors, necessitating their replacements soon afterwards. The successors, the Type E1 trams, were first delivered in 1966. They were of similar appearance to their predecessors, but equipped with more powerful motors.
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However, in 1985 Nantes was the first city in France to reintroduce trams. The city has an extensive public-transport network consisting of trams, buses and river shuttles. The Nantes tramway has three lines and a total of of track. Semitan counted 132.6 million trips in 2015, of which 72.3 million were by tram.
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The latter site is also a transfer hub granting access to all lines of the Oslo Tramway. Although from 4th October, 2020; Line 13/19 don’t stop at Jernbanetorget, but Dronningens gate. Services are carried out by Sporveien Trikken, which operates SL79 trams on lines 11 and 19. These trams are owned by Oslo Vognselskap.
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The A-class Melbourne tram is a class of bogie trams that operate on the Melbourne tram network. Seventy were built by Comeng, Dandenong between 1984 and 1987 in two batches, 28 A1's and 42 A2's, with only minor differences. They are the smallest trams by capacity currently operating on the network.
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The trams in Wuppertal used gauge track on eastwest lines and gauge track on northsouth lines. Trams in Duisburg used gauge track on lines south of the Ruhr and gauge tracks on lines north of the Ruhr. The north lines closed in the 1960s and 1970s. Duisburg's three routes were converted to gauge track.
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The M25 Class was built by Hägglunds as 125 single-car trams from 1958 to 1962. The standard gauge trams are long, wide and weigh . They are equipped with two bogies, each with two axles, giving a Bo'Bo' wheel arrangement. The axle distance is , the bogie-centre distance is and the wheel diameter is .
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GB Class 3 tram of the Trondheim Tramway Class 3 was a single tram and trailer built for Graakalbanen of Trondheim. Each of the four Siemens motors had an effect of . The trams were criticized for not having sufficient space for baby buggies. Despite running in part in city streets, the trams were wide.
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From May the buses and trams were repainted in a new color scheme. The former two-color trams (with blue tops and yellow bottoms) and red buses were instead painted two-color with yellow tops and blue bottoms. In 1975, pensioners and welfare recipients received half price, after having fought for this since 1957.
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In 1909 the network was taken over by the "Russian Company of Urban and Suburban trams" and in 1913 it was transferred into the ownership of the city authorities. Between May 1918 and 7 August 1921 the trams stopped, thanks to the First World War and the Civil War that followed the 1917 Russian Revolution.
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There has been a growing tram network in Tallinn, Estonia since 1888, when traffic was started by horse-powered trams. The first line was electrified on October 28, 1925. The first electric trams were built by Dvigatel, Ltd., in Tallinn before World War II and for some years after that, the last one in 1954.
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T8M-900M is a tram serving the tram system of Sofia, Bulgaria. The trams were made between 1999 and 2001 by Tramkar as a renovation of the older T8M-900 trams. They have 3 sections (the second is low-floor) and they can carry up to 300 passengers. Their maximum speed is 60 km/h.
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A 600 V DC power supply was used. Six years later, the broad gauge track on the route to Kopli was replaced with gauge, which was now standard across the network. After this, the line, which hitherto had been operated by a combination of steam- and petrol-powered trams, used only petrol-powered trams.
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Thus Zhytomyr became the 5th city with electric trams within the territory of present-day Ukraine. Trolleybuses appear in Zhytomyr in 1962. The total length of Zhytomyr city electric transport routes (trolleybuses and trams) is 275 km. Zhytomyr is the first city in Ukraine to implement e-ticket system in all municipal public transport.
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In the 1930s an additional eight trams were bodied locally by the Kalgoorlie Electric Tramway. Two of the trams from the network have been preserved by the Perth Electric Tramway Society, at its heritage tramway in Whiteman Park, Perth.Tram & Trolleybus Fleet Perth Electric Tramway Society A third has been preserved by the Sydney Tramway Museum.
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Trams were traditionally operated with separate levers for applying power and brakes. More modern vehicles use a locomotive- style controller which incorporate a dead man's switch. The success of the PCC streetcar had also seen trams use automobile-style foot controls allowing hands-free operation, particularly when the driver was responsible for fare collection.
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Overhead wires used to power trams in Athens.Tram overhead lines and various electrical devices create risks in rescue operations. Heavy vehicles and structures of trams also require heavy tools and good rescue skills. In tram accidents, overhead lines and various electrical devices in a tram can create a risk in firefighting and rescue operations.
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Electric tramway started to operate on 22 August 1907. Trams were imported from Germany. The city's public transit system is currently made up of trams, trolleybuses, buses and fixed-route taxis (marshrutkas). Odessa also has a cable car to Vidrada Beach,Odessa Cable Car to Vidrada/Otrada Beach on Wikimapia and recreational ferry service.
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T6B5, also known as T3M, is a four-axle motorized single-ended tram. Tram cars can be used autonomously as well as in multiple units, controlled from single console. These trams cannot be used with motorless trailer tramcars. It is possible to rise only one pantograph, when such trams are driven in sets of two.
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The company disposed of some trams in 1924 to Bolton Corporation Tramways. The remaining trams were sold in 1925, sixteen to Grimsby Corporation Tramways and others to Manchester Corporation Tramways. The tramway system closed on 15 July 1925 and the company was renamed as the Sunderland District Omnibus Company, running a fleet of blue buses.
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Cars are excluded from most of that area. Tickets for public transport must be bought before boarding (from a 'Tabacchi' or directly at the metro). Tickets for regular ATAC buses, Metro, and trams are the same fares and are compatible with each other. ATAC polices the buses, Metro, and trams for people riding without tickets.
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Each unit had capacity for twenty seated and fourteen standing passengers. The company inherited twenty trams and twelve trailers in the KKS takeover. These had an identical long and body with wooden exterior paneling. KKS ordered the trams from Schukert & Co., who built the electrical and technical equipment, while the bodies were built by Busch.
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Articulated tramcar 215 in Karl-Friedrich-Straße near Rondellplatz. The rolling stock was renewed with the procurement of 23 four-axle tram cars from 1954 and 75 six-and eight-axle articulated trams between 1959 and 1978, so that the pre-war two-axle trams were withdrawn from the operating fleet by the early 1970s.
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Tram number 572 of Lisbon, Portugal. Trams in Berlin, Germany. Electron T3L44 in Lviv, Ukraine Europe has an extensive number of tramway networks. Some of these networks have been upgraded to light rail standards, called Stadtbahn in Germany, premetros in Belgium, sneltram in the Netherlands, elétrico in Portugal and fast trams in some other countries.
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The negotiated agreement was passed with 51 against 34 votes in the city council. After all the agreements were in place, TT announced on 30 December 1989 that it had found a new buyer for the trams. An agreement had been made with the Copenhagen-based Unimex Engineering, who would sell the eleven trams to the Cairo Tramway. On 2 January 1990, TT sent a letter to Gråkallbanen giving them the option to purchase the trams for the same price as the Egyptions, at an estimated NOK 17–20 million.
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The Transit Museum Society of British Columbia (TRAMS) is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of decommissioned transit vehicles in Vancouver and the adjoining areas. Based in Burnaby, TRAMS currently has a fleet of thirteen operational vehicles and two non-operational. These vehicles were previously in use by both public and private operating companies between 1937 and 2010. Volunteers from TRAMS also operated the Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway and carried out restoration and maintenance of the historic electric interurban cars used on that line, until its operation was suspended indefinitely in 2012.
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The first trams of the Bristol Tramways Company ran in 1875, and in 1906 the company started to operate motor buses to bring extra passengers to their trams. In 1908 the company decided to build bus chassis for its own use, the first one entering service on 12 May. The Motor Department was initially based at the tram depot in Brislington, on the road that leads east from Bristol to Bath. The Car Building Works there had been responsible for erecting electric trams and had gone on to build horse- drawn vehicles for the company.
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The Vienna tram fleet consists of both high-floor and low-floor vehicles. On weekdays, some lines operate with a combination of high and low-floor trams, but on weekends (especially Sundays), only a limited number of high-floor trams are used on lines D, 2, 5, 25, 31, 38 and VRT. Low-floor trams were successively introduced from 1995, most recently on line 33 in September 2011. This allowed all tram stops in Vienna to be served by such vehicles, thus providing step-free travel throughout the entire network.
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Therapia Lane Six units were ordered for Tramlink by Transport for London in August 2011 at a cost of £16.3 million with an option for up to eight more. Three of the Croydon trams were diverted from a batch of five which were ordered for the Bybanen line in Bergen, Norway. Stadler built these earlier than the contractual delivery date to make use of free capacity at its factory. Three more trams were built directly for Croydon, plus three trams for Bergen to replace the ones which went to Croydon.
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A W5 class tram, 1969 W-class trams were introduced to Melbourne in 1923 as a new standard design. They had a dual bogie layout and were characterised by a substantial timber frame supplanted by a steel underframe, a simple rugged design, and fine craftsmanship (particularly the older models). The W class was the mainstay of Melbourne's tramways system for 60 years. A total of 752 trams of all variants were built. The W2 variant was supplemented in the late 1930s by 120 W5 (or "Clyde") class trams with wider cabins, and more powerful motors.
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For these events trams were typically dispatched in convoy for track control purposes (to avoid collisions). Even so, the demand they placed on the power supply was so great that the trams were often slowed to a walking pace. The tramway power supply was improved in the 1920s when automatic substations were installed in Cashmere (1920) and Fendalton (1922) to boost power to southern and western sections respectively when required. They were supplied AC power from the State hydro scheme and converted it to DC for use by the trams.
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In Turku, there were horse-drawn trams from 1890 to 1892, and electric trams from 1908 to 1972. The tram network was abandoned in 1972, when the last remaining tram line was replaced by buses. The arguments against the Turku tramway were associated with the 1960s view that trams were an outdated mode of transport, while buses were seen as modern technology. The decision to close the Turku tramway network can also be seen in part as inspired by events in Stockholm, which had closed most of its tramway network a little earlier.
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Trams number 34–37 were built while wartime restrictions were still in place and the quality of this tram type was poor. While the war still continued, new trams were built for Turku in 1944. Following the end of the war passenger numbers started declining rapidly, which meant the tram operations were making loss by the end of the decade.Sirkiä [2003]. p. 21. In 1950 an experiment was carried out to give up having separate conductors in trams and have the driver sell tickets in order to cut costs.
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The tramway is operated by 74 Alstom Citadis type 302 low-floor trams, built by Alstom in France.Casablanca chooses Citadis trams Metro Report International 17 November 2009Casablanca tram contracts awarded Railway Gazette International 15 November 2010 Final assembly was completed in Reichshoffen, Alsace. Trams have air conditioning and tinted windows, and an information system in both Arabic and French. They run typically in pairs with a total length of .Inauguration of Casablanca's first tram line in Morocco Alstom 12 December 2012 A further 50 are to be delivered in 2018 to operate Line T2.
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On 12 December 2014, during maintenance work, cracks were discovered on the underside of the wagon boxes on seven different trams, which were then put out of operation. The other six trams approved for passenger operation showed no abnormalities, with MVG implementing shorter periods between checks for the six unaffected trams. After further inspections by Stadler, on 7 January 2015, TAB, the Technical Supervisory Authority, ordered that vehicles which had not previously been affected by the damage should also decommissioned and remedied. The vehicles were returned to service in May.
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Melbourne tram route 109 now operates on the converted track. The section from Southbank Junction to Port Melbourne was converted to light rail, requiring the conversion from broad gauge used by the Melbourne rail network to tram track, as well as reducing the overhead voltage from 1,500 V DC to 600 V DC required for the trams. Additionally, low level platforms were built on the sites of the former stations to accommodate the trams which contained steps to street level. Low floor trams have since been introduced to the route.
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The tram network currently operates using low-floor trams of the types NF6D (made by DÜWAG and similar to the R1.1 cars of Bonn tramway's system) and Variobahn (by Stadler Rail). Some lines still use type M high-floor articulated trams (also from DÜWAG), but these will ultimately also be replaced by Stadler Variobahns. The Stadtbahn line uses a separate fleet of high-floor Stadtbahnwagen B and Tango trains. It is not connected to the low-floor network and therefore trams on one system cannot operate on the other.
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Liège Public Transport Museum Trams in front of the post office at Liège (1909) The tram network in Liège (1939) Trams in Liège, Belgium, date back to 1871 which is when the first tramcars using rail tracks and powered by horse traction were introduced in the city. The number and variety of horse-trams proliferated. Electrification began in 1893 and was followed by a decade of rapid network expansion. After 1945 the network was progressively reduced, however, as motor buses were thought to offer better flexibility and lower maintenance and running costs.
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In January 1997, two bogies were installed and tested on a ST55-tram trailer. On 10 February 1997, a mock-up of the driver's cab was made in Italy and sent to Oslo to try to optimize the layout. On 8 April 1997, Oslo Sporveier decided to order an additional 13 trams. The full options were not realized due to lack of funding. At the same time it was decided that all SM91-trams would be retired, while some SM83-trams would remain in service after the full delivery of the SL95s.
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At the beginning of 2008 fresh hopes of reviving the tram project were raised. Keolis who would have been operating the trams originally, confirmed they are still on board and in ongoing talks with Merseytravel. From 1 October 2008 new health and safety regulations were applied to light rail (trams) as well as to heavy rail (trains) meaning that required safety levels became higher and more expensive. On 18 April 2008 a new bid for funds was requested by the Department for Transport, now seemingly considerably keener on the idea of trams on Merseyside.
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Originally, the square had an imposing design, with statues and decoration with plants and intersected by the Leien and Turnhoutsebaan. However, due to its central position at the crossing of these two major axes, the square soon became a hub for public transport. Beginning in 1934, more and more vicinal trams of the NMVB started to have their terminus at the Victorieplaats. Gradually, the amount of space taken in by public transport rose, up until 1968 vicinal trams, later buses and city trams, operated by the MIVA, and after 1992 by De Lijn.
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Opponents mostly expressed the view that the tram line would increase traffic congestion as the roads were not wide enough to accommodate existing traffic and trams, and that traffic would be displaced into side roads, as well as concerns over the disruption caused by tramway construction. While a majority of residents thought that trams were environmentally friendly, a majority believed that trams take up too much space on the road. Most interviewees felt that reducing congestion on the Uxbridge Road was important, an improved bus service was favoured by many.
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Of the 65 trams purchased, only about 35-40 are usable. Due to further delays on the part of Ansaldobreda with the corrosion repairs and substandard quality in completed works, the council of Gothenburg cancelled the contract for corrosion repairs in November 2015. None of the three repaired trams that AnsaldoBreda delivered was in working order and might actually be scrapped. The investigation launched into the matter found that the trams were jerry-built and that AnsaldoBreda did not have the will, nor the competence to do anything about the problems.
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Oslo Sporveier was therefore given the task of operating the lines as tramways until the metro could open. The company considered building additional MO and TO units and move the new bogie trams to the suburban lines, but the poor performance of the rebuilt units soon made the company change its mind.Andersen & Kjenstad: 30 Although Oslo Sporveier was determined to buy bogie trams, it considered options other than additional MBOs. A derivative of Stockholm's A24 was considered, as was a modernized Gullfisk with Vickers motors and two variations of Hägglund trams.
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By 1897 the basic network had been expanded to eight lines. In the meantime, in 1895 Königsberg began to bring electric trams into service. The first line, linking the (pulled down even before 1945) "Pillau mainline station" ("Pillauer Bahnhof") to the "New Market place" ("Neuen Markt", today Moskowskij-Prospekt) was opened on 31 May 1895. It crossed the existing horse-tram line at Kaiser Wilhelm Platz, but at this stage the electric trams had no interconnections with the horse trams, and they used a narrower one meter gauge which allowed for tighter turns.
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Initially ex-Sydney self-propelled D1 class double decked trams were used on the system. Due to the AA Company rail bridge over (what is now) Hunter Street and the overhead rail bridge to the Lambton Colliery between Hobart and Howe streets, the top deck was removed meaning that the capacity was severely reduced. The self-propelled trams were not popular and were rarely used and eventually removed from service in 1896. In addition to the self-propelled trams, Baldwin style steam locomotives were used to haul C1 and C2 class trailers.
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Most bus services until the earlier 1970s were provided by the Midland Red, West Bromwich and Birmingham. In the early 1970s, all local bus transport was taken over by the WMPTE until deregulation in the 1980s. Since then National Express West Midlands, has been the primary operator in the West Midlands. Steam trams started through Smethwick in 1885 operated by Birmingham and Midland Tramways. These were replaced by electric trams in 1904 and then merged into the Birmingham Corporation Tramways in 1906 and trams eventually ran from both the Dudley Road and Hagley Road direction.
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The chief of operations, Fredrik Kleven, suggested that they should operate to Trondheim Central Station. Ideally he wanted them to operate to Voldsminde, but he did not want to mix trams with and without conductors on the Lade Line. Director Jon Garstad instead wanted the trams to terminate at Torvet, thus saving NOK 20,000 annually in operating costs. The board suggested that the trams run in a loop down Prinsens gate, and along Dronningens gate to Munkegata where they would connect to the existing track. This would cost NOK 52,000 to build.
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During rush hour, an extra tram was put into service, decreasing the intervals from six to five minutes. Eventually trailers were also put into use. All this was despite a price increase with 50% in 1955.Kjenstad (2005): 165–66 After the Dalsenget fire on 10 October 1956, where all the newest trams burnt down, the Singsaker Line was again served by the oldest trams with wooden benches.Kjenstad (2005): 176–78 This lasted until the delivery of the Class 7 trams in 1957, which were also put into service on the Singsaker Line.
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The electric trams ran around the loop at Devonport in a clockwise direction which removed a potential conflict between north and southbound trams at Cumberland Street. The tracks in Plymouth and Devonport were sold to the respective corporations and leased back to the tram company, but the section through Stonehouse remained in its ownership. The leases ran for 21 years, after which the Stonehouse company sold out to the Plymouth Corporation Tramways Department, which by then was operating all the other trams in the city.Langley and Small (1990) pp.
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Starting in 2007, all the Red line trams were upgraded to by inserting two more articulated sections, with the last one converted by June 2008. Both configurations of tramcars are fully compatible with both the Red and the Green Lines. Twenty-six new 43-metre Citadis 402 trams, numbered as the '5000 Class', were ordered for delivery in early 2009. These are 100% low-floor configuration and solely operate on the Green Line, with the 4000 Class trams cascaded to the Red Line after the entire 5000 Class had been introduced.
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The earliest double-deck trams were horse-drawn. The first electric double-deck trams were those built for the Blackpool Tramway in 1885, where Conduit tramcar No. 4 is the sole survivor of its class and is preserved at the National Tramway Museum in Crich, UK. They were common in the United Kingdom until the 1950s. London Transport was a heavy user of double-deck trams until the system closed in 1952. Apart from the Blackpool tramway, the Glasgow Corporation Tramways was the last urban British tramway to close, in 1962.
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Tickets are purchased from the conductor on board each tram, with daily, 3 Day, 7 Day and monthly 'saver' tickets also available, which can be used on trams (excluding heritage trams) and Blackpool Transport buses. Heritage tram tickets are available for a round trip tour between Pleasure Beach and Cabin. Family day tickets are also available (1 adult and 4 children or 2 adults and 3 children). In addition to heritage tours, heritage day tickets can also be used on all Blackpool Transport trams and buses as well as autumn illumination tours.
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The negotiated agreement was passed with 51 against 34 votes in the city council. After all the agreements were in place, TT announced on 30 December 1989 that it had found a new buyer for the trams. An agreement had been made with the Copenhagen-based Unimex Engineering, who would sell the eleven trams to the Cairo Tramway. On 2 January 1990, TT sent a letter to Gråkallbanen giving them the option to purchase the trams for the same price as the Egyptions, at an estimated NOK 17–20 million.
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One of the original T-68A trams, now retired, street running along Eccles New Road in 2005. To commence operations in 1999, six T-68A trams were ordered to operate the line. These were variants of the original T-68 trams which had operated the original system from 1992, which had modifications to allow them to operate on the street running section of the Eccles line with other motor traffic. All of the T-68 fleet was eventually modified to allow them to operate on the Eccles line.
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A distinctive feature of many Australasian trams was the drop-centre, a lowered central section between bogies (wheel-sets), to make passenger access easier by reducing the number of steps required to get inside of the vehicle. Californian combination cars had an enclosed centre section, with open-sided sections at each end. Hong Kong or toast rack (toastrack) cars were open, with the roof supported by a row of stanchions on each side. Most electric trams were single-deck, but Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and initially Dunedin had some open-top double-deck trams.
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The tram stop opened on 9 March 2004, along with the rest of NET's initial system. With the opening of NET's phase two, Royal Centre is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Section 10D.07 In Australia and New Zealand, buses and trams may have a white "B" and "T" light respectively to indicate they may proceed through the intersection in any direction. A white arrow indicates that they only may proceed in the arrow's direction, common for trams to indicate that they may proceed and the points are set for proceeding that direction. Transit signals may be accompanied by red and yellow B/T signals indicating to buses and trams stop and caution respectively.
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Six prototype trams were delivered by Strømmen in 1937, with four different motor solutions, from AEG, Siemens, Vickers and Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri (NEBB). None of these were particularly successful, and the 40 serial production trams used conventional motors from ELIN. These were delivered in 1939, with 20 (class E) being used by Oslo Sporveier mainly on the Kjelsås Line, but also on other services. The remaining 20 trams (class B) were leased to Bærumsbanen, that used them on the Kolsås and Østensjø Lines, and later on the Ekeberg Line.
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During the 1930s, Oslo Sporveier operated a fleet of 150 trams and 130 trailers. The latest series, the HaWa Class, had been delivered during the early 1920s and were, by the late 1930s, becoming old fashioned, with low speed, uncomfortable interiors and a two-axle wheel arrangement. Increased competition from cars and buses made the tram company start a process to find a new "generation" of trams and buses. In 1935, an agreement was made with Stømmmens Værksted to build a series of aluminium-bogied trams and buses.
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Noel Street is at this point one way northbound, and the stop has a single side platform flanking the single track. With the opening of NET's phase two, Beaconsfield Street is now on the common section of the NET, where line 1, between Hucknall and Chilwell, and line 2, between Phoenix Park and Clifton, operate together. Trams on each line run at frequencies that vary between 4 and 8 trams per hour, depending on the day and time of day, combining to provide up to 16 trams per hour on the common section.
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The first electric double-deck trams were those built for the Blackpool Tramway in 1885, one of which survives at the National Tramway Museum. Double decker trams were commonplace in Great Britain and Dublin in Ireland before most tramways were torn up in the 1950s and 1960s. New York City's New York Railways experimented in 1912 with a Brill double deck Hedley-Doyle stepless centre entrance car, nicknamed the "Broadway Battleship", a term that spread to other large streetcars. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia made extensive use of double decker trams.
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Passengers appreciate the ease of boarding and alighting from low-floor trams and moving about inside one hundred per cent low-floor trams. Passenger satisfaction with low- floor trams is high. In some jurisdictions this has even been made mandatory since the 1990s, for example by Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate in Britain and the Disability Discrimination Act in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries. Various companies have developed low-floor designs, varying from part-low-floor (with internal steps between the low-floor section and the high-floor sections over the bogies), e.g.
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Bombardier CR4000 tram 2558 at East Croydon in 2013 The current tram system has been in operation since May 2000, although a service ran along the A23 until 1951.London Trams - History Transport for London Croydon Tramls has 39 stops along of track. The system is operated by 23 Bombardier CR4000 and 12 Stadler Variobahn trams.London Tramlink British Trams Online The system's tracks follow three main spurs to Beckenham Junction, Wimbledon and New Addington, and include a one-way loop around Croydon town centre where the trams arrive roughly every one to six minutes.
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Full-time tram lane Yarra Trams is a partner in the Think Tram program with VicRoads, aimed at improving tram travel time and reliability. In conjunction with the Victorian government several initiatives are in place to enable trams to better meet punctuality targets. These include 'T-lights' which give trams priority at traffic signals, as well as part-time tram lanes and full-time tram lanes. Part-time tram lanes are used often only during peak hours, with an example of this being on High Street along the route 6.
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741, which had joined the TPG fleet in 1984. The new trams were supplied by Ateliers de Constructions Mécaniques de Vevey (ACMV) in Villeneuve, Vaud, in collaboration with Düwag and BBC / ABB. The colloquial expression "DAV", which is used to denote these vehicles, is an acronym for Düwag - Ateliers de Vevey. Following this new procurement, TPG's existing fleet of old trams could be completely withdrawn, as future network expansion, including the introduction of new lines 13 and 16, had already been taken into account when the order for the new trams was placed.
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Bærumsbanen had a fleet of Class A trams, and these were along with Akersbanerne's units put into use on the combined service. The first Class B trams were delivered to Oslo Sporveier in 1937, and these put into service on the Bærum–Østensjø Line after the serial delivery started in 1939. They aluminum trams were faster and had better comfort, allowing a single tram could replace a Class A tram and trailer. The Kolsås Line was connected to the Common Tunnel from 15 June 1942 and became part of the underground service.
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Trolleybus sweeps round the roundabout at the junction of Gregory Boulevard and Sherwood Rise in October 1965 Horse-drawn buses operated in Nottingham from 1848. The Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited opened its first routes in 1878 with horse-drawn trams, and experimented with steam traction a few years later. The company was taken over by Nottingham Corporation Tramways in 1898. Electrification followed, with the first electric trams operating in January 1901 and within two years over 100 trams were in service on eight lines. The first motorbuses were introduced in 1906.
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Christchurch heritage tramway circuit with extensions through City Mall A separate project that affected the City Mall redevelopment was the extension of the heritage tramway. From the previous circuit on Worcester Street, the extension would see the trams turn left into Oxford Terrace (The Strip), and then left into the Cashel Street part of City Mall. At the intersection with High Street, trams would turn south-east towards Lichfield Street. On the return journey, trams would travel north-west along High Street, including the City Mall part of it.
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Despite such closures, the official policy as stated by Robert Taylor, the General Manager, was that trams would remain a major component of transport in Dundee, and this continued to be the position until the early 1950s. Taylor reduced the fleet from 99 to 60 trams, but he implemented a major rebuilding programme for those that were left. The new trams for the Lochee route were supplied with EMB swing-axle trucks, manufactured by the Electro-Mechanical Brake Company of West Bromwich, which gave a much smoother ride, and caused less wear of the track.
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The first HM V tram, number 1, was delivered to the HKL on 27 April 1959, with number 15 delivered last in the series on 23 October 1959. Coinciding with the delivery of these new trams the HKL had decided to reset their numbering scheme. Therefore, the HM V trams were numbered starting from one and not from 376, as they would have been had the old numbering been continued. The HM V trams were built to be compatible with the HP II type trailers that had been constructed in 1958-59, also by Karia.
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The structure, however, was originally located at the Petrie Bight gasworks, where it was erected in 1873. The suburb was served by first horse drawn trams from 1885. From 1897 electric trams ran along Commercial Road (until December 1962) and along Ann and Wickham Streets until April 1969. Light Street tram and bus depot was located in the suburb. It opened as a tram depot in 1885, saw its last trams in December 1968 and finally closed as a bus depot in the mid 1990s, making it one of Queensland's longest continually operating industrial sites.
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The trams are stored and maintained at the Wilkinson Street depot, which was expanded as part of the phase two works.
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Products: rollovers, wash tunnels, jet washes, rollovers for commercials, equipment to wash trains and trams, accessories, chemicals and water treatment solutions.
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Cleethorpes converted the system to a trolleybus route just one year later, and trams finally stopped running on 17 July 1937.
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The Bombardier M5000 trams used on the Manchester Metrolink, England are almost identical to the K5000/K5200 series used in Cologne.
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Nowadays a major route for buses, the street once formed part of a tram route that included a tunnel for trams.
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Prahran is serviced by Prahran station, on the Sandringham line, as well as trams routes 5, 6, 64, 72 and 78.
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The suburb is well serviced by route 67 trams and Glenhuntly railway station which is on the Melbourne-Frankston train line.
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The Jar—Kolsås Line was upgraded and the stock was replaced with wider suburban trams. Kolsås station is from Nationaltheatret station.
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There are a number of trams which operated on the Ballarat tramways which have survived, and some are still in service.
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In 1933 it was decided to back-fill the canal. Since 1883 horse trams have been driving through Vijzelstraat and Vijzelgracht.
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Tickets must be validated inside the trams when boarding. There are also some staffed ticket offices opened for limited periods only.
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The city of Amsterdam also has various public transportation options available to students. These include the Metro, trams, buses, and ferries.
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Tickets must be validated inside the trams when boarding. There are also some staffed ticket offices opened for limited periods only.
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These were all twin axle vehicles with wooden bodies. From 1922 until 1971, all trams had mailboxes at their rear side.
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In 1979, TT started working on the process of ordering new trams. The whole fleet of Class 7 trams was from 1958, and these would soon need replacement. Invitations to tenders were sent in July 1980. A study trip was taken by seven people to the factories of ČKD Tatra in Czechoslovakia and Düwag in Germany.
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The Milan interurban tramway network, although using double-ended trams, had balloon loops at termini within the city limits so that they could be used as backup termini by the single directional trams used on urban service. In Milan, tramway depots are built as balloon loops, just as urban termini. Another example is in Potsdam, Germany.
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TS Class 6 was a series of sixteen trams built by Strømmens Værksted for Trondheim Sporvei. They were delivered in two slightly different batches; ten in 1948–49 and six in 1955. The trams delivered with four Siemens motors, each at . They remained in service until the Dalsenget fire on 10 October 1956, in which all burnt down.
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TS Class 1 was a series of twelve trams built by Hannoversche Waggonfabrik for Trondheim Sporvei. Eleven trams were delivered for the opening of the Trondheim Tramway in 1901, while a single tram built by was delivered in 1903. These were numbered 1–12. In 1904, four unpowered trailers were delivered by HaWa and numbered 20–24.
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Therefore, a guard had to be posted at the curve.Fristad: 104 This changes made it possible to use the wider trams on the route. This allowed Oslo Sporveier to start using Gullfisk trams on the route when it was combined with 13. This started with on 6 February, the same day the Korsvoll Line was closed.
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Preserved tramlines pictured in 2009. Maidstone Corporation Tramways began operation on 14 July 1904 with the introduction of a service to Barming, supplemented by routes to Loose and Tovil by 1907. The Barming trams were replaced by trolleybuses in 1928, and the Loose trams replaced in 1930. The Tovil tram was replaced by buses in 1929.
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The SEC donated the equipment, track, overhead wires, and trams. A new tram depot was built as the original depot site was sold in June 1972. The City of Ballarat provided land in the South Gardens Reserve. Six Ballarat trams which had been stored in the old depot had to be towed around Lake Wendouree to the new site.
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In April 2017, the BBC Two programme Victoria Derbyshire reported that its own investigation into drivers falling asleep at the controls of trams on the Tramlink network revealed four such cases. Six drivers claimed that the dead- man's vigilance device fitted to the trams was not fit for purpose. Tramlink stated that the devices were "fully functional".
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The Middlesbrough system had a track gauge of , and the trams had to be regauged on arrival at Southend. Cars 66 to 68 came from Accrington Corporation Tramways, and had been built by Brush in 1919-1920. They were fully enclosed double deck trams, with 8 wheels, and again had to be regauged, as the Accrington system was gauge.
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Opening of the Geelong Tramway in 1912 The city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia, operated an extensive tramway system from 1912 until 1956, when the service was replaced by buses. Unlike Victoria's other major regional cities, Ballarat and Bendigo, which have kept some track and trams as tourist attractions, no trams or tracks remain in Geelong.
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Bombardier developed a new low-floor tram based more on the K5000 (see below) than on the K4000. These new trams were named K4500. Delivery of 69 units started in 2005 and was completed in late 2007. The Bombardier CR4000 trams operating on Tramlink in Croydon, England are largely based on the original K4000 stock used in Cologne.
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The factory in Poznań at Wieruszewska street is a facility focusing on the production of rolling stock, where the final assembly of Solaris Tramino trams takes place. Just like the plant in Środa Wielkopolska, this facility was built to handle orders placed by MPK Poznań. Earlier prototype models of trams were manufactured in production halls of external firms.
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Mülheim U-Bahn station under the main station, 2005 An underground station for line U18 of the Essen Stadtbahn, line 102 of Mülheim/Oberhausen trams and line 901 of Duisburg trams lies adjacent to the former RhE station and is connected to the current station by a corridor. In addition, the station is served by several bus lines.
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Much of the system was destroyed during the Battle of Manila in 1945. The trams were superseded in the late 20th century by a still-growing urban rail network, beginning with the Line 1 in the late 1980s, followed by the Line 3 a decade later. Trams were also formerly used on the island of Corregidor.
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Although still used upon request, the station does not appear on any of the railway's official timetables, though timings can be ascertained by following the timings for the nearest two stopping places at Ballaglass Glen and Dhoon Glen both of which have allocated timings. Passengers may alight trams by informing the conductor, and board by flagging trams down.
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Articulated SL79 trams were introduced on 2 April 1984, after which they served most of the departures. From 18 April 1988 evening and Sunday routes from the Briskeby Line terminated at Stortorvet. During the 1990s the line would often be served using SM91 trams. Line 1's eastern end was moved on 2 August 1993 to the Ekeberg Line.
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The company bought five bogie trams. They had pointed ends to ease meeting the shorter trams in the city, and had a low-floor center section, with internal steps. The body and mechanical equipment was built by Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk, while the electrical components were built by Siemens-Schuckertwerke. Capacity was for 40 or 38 seated passengers.
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It is powered by two electric engines providing a total power of . Their maximum speed is . They can theoretically be coupled to form trains of up to three trams, however the single tram configuration is the preferred one on the Charleroi network, with only a few peak hour services on line M4 being operated by 2 trams coupled together.
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As the trams could not face the competition of rickshaws, they ceased operations. The Singapore Electric Train Company had its trams running along the road from 1905 to 1927. Trolley buses also used South Bridge Road as one of their routes, competing with the "mosquito bus" until 1962 and it became one-way road until 4 April 1993.
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Almaty's older tramcars uses a mixture of panto-graph & bow collector Like other Kazakh towns and cities, Almaty's tram system was also opened directly as an electric tram. It never ran horse or steam trams. Many changes of rolling stock occurred, and recently new modern low floor trams were introduced. The first tram ran here on 1 December 1937.
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In the front-line city of Leningrad, trolleybus service ceased operations in November 1941 and was not restored until the end of the war. City trams were relaunched in April 1942 and performed without interruption under siege conditions. This restored Soviet plans of mass transit development in the form of co-existence of subways, trams, and trolleys.
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Even before the closure of the city's trams in 1963, there were plans for conserving the tramcars. In 1969 the precursor organisation to the "Carinthia Museum railway" was founded. One of its most important priorities involved the Klagenfurt trams. By 1975 a collection of 40 European tramcars - not all of them from Klagenfurt - representing various epochs had been assembled.
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By the early 1990s there was a lack of trams due to expansion of the tram network. In order to solve this problem, it was decided to acquire used trams. In 1993 a PCC tram from Saint-Etienne (France) arrived in Gent, board number STAS 507. Its stay in Gent was not successful and saw little use.
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The museum was opened on the site in May 1992. One hall of the building houses the trams and the other the electrical equipment. An additional shed houses the trams that are still used on a daily basis. The museum closed in December 2012, re- opening in November 2015 after repairs costing around one million Euros.
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Electronic sign at a Luas stop indicating the minutes until the next tram. Trams operate from 05:30 to 00:30 Monday to Friday. On Saturday services run from 06:30 to 00:30, while on Sundays it is only from 07:00 to 23:30. Public holidays are the same as Sundays, except trams run until 00:30.
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Belgrade tram grid in 1908 In 1894, the first strike occurred, which halted trams for several days. Employees had only 2 days off in a month and the bosses wanted to abolish that, too. In the end, the company raised wages for 10 dinars per month. Citizens often made official complaints to the city regarding trams.
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A tram in Kolkata In addition to trains, trams were introduced in many cities in late 19th century, though almost all of these were phased out. The trams in Kolkata are currently the only tram system in the country. The nationalised Calcutta Tramways Company is in the process of upgrading the existing tramway network at a cost of .
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Initially one horse pulled about five trams, making one return journey a day. Later trains of about 25 trams hauled by 3 horses became normal. The owners of the line did allow other people to use it on payment of a toll but it is not known if anyone did. Regular locomotive working began in 1832.
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The tramway began operations on 27 February 1879 using horsecars. All lines were electrified in 1900 and operated by single-car tramcars. In 1930 the TNL was operating 144 km of lines, 183 tramcars and 96 trailers. At Cagnes, passengers could board trams of trams in Cannes and travel to Juan-les-Pins, Cannes and Mandelieu.
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Most of the 21 tram stops were reconstructed with higher platforms to allow level access to the new low-floor trams. The overhead electrical supply was upgraded and some minor modifications were made to the H type trams and Glengowrie depot. Tram services were replaced with substitute bus services during this period. Services resumed on 8 August 2005.
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The only passenger services on the line are operated by the Pemberton Tramway Company. This tourist service is currently limited to the section between Pemberton and The Cascades, operated by diesel trams. Previously, the company operated passenger services along its entire section of the line, with steam-hauled trains Pemberton-Lyall and diesel trams Pemberton-Northcliffe.
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During World War I and the Civil War virtually no trams plied. Tram traffic was restored March 12, 1924. In 1941, the depot was more than 50 cars. In November 1941 suspended plying of trams. During the Second World War was blown up tram depot burned 12 cars, dismantled the entire rail network and more than 100 steel poles.
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Tram tracks outside the station. The railway station is served by Edinburgh Trams service, which began operating in May 2014. Renovations to station, in compliance with the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme, have turned it into an intermodal transport interchange, whereby it is simple to connect between the trams, Lothian Buses, National Rail and taxi services.
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Compressed-air locomotives are a kind of fireless locomotive and have been used in mining and tunnel boring. Various compressed-air-powered trams were trialled, starting in 1876. In Nantes and Paris such trams ran in regular service for 30 years. Currently, no water or air vehicles exist that make use of the compressed air engine.
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Buses first started to use the Tramways Centre in 1910, initially only on the route to Clifton. By 1913, ten bus routes started from The Centre. In 1938 and 1939 the tram routes serving the Tramways Centre were replaced by buses, so that trams ceased to use the island. Trams elsewhere in the city ceased completely in 1941.
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One proposes pedestrianising the whole segment, with trams running on the surface and only delivery vehicles authorised at certain hours. Another, much more costly, involves finishing the tunnel and diverting all trams underground. Tramway lines 8 and 93 runs the entire length of the avenue, all on segregated track except in the short "goulet Louise" section.
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A new line 18 ran on the route, and was extended to CERN in May 2011. For the inauguration of the TCOB route, the TPG ordered 32 Tango trams, made by the Swiss company Stadler Rail. Like the Cityrunners, the Tango trams are bidirectional. After the new route to Bernex P+R was commissioned, the network was simplified.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, 112 T2 trams were modernized into T2R. Modernization included overhauling of electrical equipment (similar to Tatra T3) and some changes in the car body. That modernization helped the trams to survive into the 1990s. Two T2Rs were remodernized in the early 2000s in Liberec and these two remained in everyday use till 2018.
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The THS (Inc.) is registered as a not-for-profit charitable organisation under the 2005 Charities Act. The Society also has a commercial branch, the Heritage Tramways Trust, which was created in 1993 to restore five trams for the Christchurch Tramway. These trams are owned by the THS, but leased by the HTT to the Christchurch Tramway operator.
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An Alstom Citadis tram at Cité International (line B terminus) The Tramway de Grenoble is served by a total of 88 pieces of rolling stock. Of those, 58 are TFS trams and the other 35 put in service on the occasion of the opening of the B line extension and the C line are Alstom Citadis trams.
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Driver training started in January 2014 and all the trams had been delivered to Besançon by March 2014. The individual trams were required to complete 500 km each before being certificated for public service. Each tramset is long and wide, with space for 132 passengers. Only 38 of the passengers are able to sit on a seat, however.
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When it commenced services it was the first electric tramway in Scandinavia. It originally opened the Briskeby Line and the Skøyen Line to Skillebekk using a fleet of Class A trams. Later the company also ordered Class U and Class SS trams, for a total 78 motor cars and 66 trailers. Skøyen was reached in 1903.
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A/S Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei was incorporated on 16 December 1892. Heyerdal was appointed chair of the board, a position he held until his death in 1917. Fenger-Krog was hired as managing director. Six companies bid to deliver trams and electrical equipment; Allgemeine Elektrizitäts Gesellschaft (AEG) won and delivered seven Class A motor trams and five trailers.
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The company also had thirty-two similar trailer units built by Herbrand. One of the trams, no. 117, was a prototype built by Skabo with motors from Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri. Trailer 347 on display in the original Blue Tram colors at Oslo Tramway Museum Twenty-four Class U trams were delivered between 1899 and 1906.
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At the same time, Yarra Trams said it was working with the restaurant operator to enable a "stationary dining experience" to continue.
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level, with exits onto the street. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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The station consists of two street platforms, with pedestrian crossings to the adjacent footpaths. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for .
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The station consists of two platforms at ground level. Platform 1 services trams to , platform 2 for . Platform 2 is wheelchair accessible.
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In 2018, 12 KONCAR NT2300 low-floor trams were ordered, with deliveries scheduled to begin at the end of September of 2020.
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's mining locomotives and trams. Here the heat of compression is effectively stored in the atmosphere (or sea) and returned later on.
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In Christchurch several firms constructed trailers and horse-trams: Boon & Stevens (later Boon & Co), Moor and Sons, and Booth McDonald and Co.
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Heritage trams still operate today, but only in the Wellington Tramway Museum at Queen Elizabeth Park in Paekakariki on the Kapiti Coast.
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Great Depression in the 1930s Brisbane's trams ran at a profit Between 1923 and 1934 tram services in Brisbane were greatly expanded.
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This brought the total Variobahn fleet up to ten in 2015, and twelve in 2016 when the final two trams were delivered.
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The museum have part of their website dedicated to the histories of the trams in their collection which can be found here.
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The line is served by route 17 and 18 by Oslo Sporvognsdrift using SL95 trams, while the tracks are owned by Kollektivtransportproduksjon.
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The line was served by shuttle trams to Jomfrubråten, except during rush hour when there were direct services to the city center.
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It is served by line 17 and 18, using SL95 low-floor trams, giving the station step-free access to the vehicles.
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The stop was one of the 15 request stops on Tramlink, however from 15 December 2019, all trams will stop here regardless.
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So do the new trams linking suburbs close to Paris proper, and tramline 3 around the edge of the city of Paris.
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As at December 2019, the depot had an allocation of 51 trams: 22 B2 Class, 21 D2 Class and 8 Z3 Class.
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London Trams refers to the arm of Transport for London (TfL) that manages Tram and future tram projects in Greater London, England.
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Commemorative pins were awarded to the first 100,000 passengers. As of 2007, the trams have traveled , conveying more than 25 million passengers.
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Lakeside Arts news web page In July 2015, Nottingham Express Transit named one of their new trams "Stephen Lowe" in his honour.
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The trams would switch to battery power during the travel through tunnel before switching back to the overhead lines outside the park.
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London Buses routes 64, 130 and 664 serve the station. Interchange between trams and these bus routes is free in New Addington.
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The Little Dancer is a low-floor tram brand built by Alna Sharyo, a Japanese manufacturer of trams and light rail vehicles.
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The Moscow transportation network uses buses, trams, subway system, motorways, trains, helicopters and planes to provide connectivity between Moscow's districts and beyond.
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Other ancillary vehicles include a pole crane, a Smith Electric Vehicles parcel van, three tractors and the lower saloons of two trams.
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Canton Metro stations The station is the terminus of the Haizhu Tram line of Guangzhou Trams, which runs to Canton Tower Station.
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Two lines presently exist, with another two extensions planned, doubling the network length. Dubrovnik, Opatija, Pula and Rijeka previously also operated trams.
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The upgrades were to improve reliability, support regeneration in the Croydon metropolitan centre, and future-proof the network for Crossrail 2, a potential Bakerloo line extension, and extensions to the tram network itself to a wide variety of destinations. The plans involve dual- tracking across the network and introducing diverting loops on either side of Croydon, allowing for a higher frequency of trams on all four branches without increasing congestion in central Croydon. The £737m investment was to be funded by the Croydon Growth Zone, TfL Business Plan, housing levies, and the respective boroughs, and by the affected developers. All the various developments, if implemented, could theoretically require an increase in the fleet from 30 to up to 80 trams (depending on whether longer trams or coupled trams are used).
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Bombardier Incentro trams were designed and built by ADtranz for the Tramway de Nantes in 2000–2001, and the AT6/5 is almost identical but 3.4 metres shorter. In 2000 ADtranz signed a package deal for the construction of the NET tramway and for the delivery of 15 trams but in 2001 before work began ADtranz was acquired by Bombardier Transportation, which carried out the construction and manufacturing work between 2002 and 2003.Bombardier reveals the first of Nottingham's 15 trams Rail issue 442 21 August 2002 page 14 The trams entered service on 9 March 2004 and run on 750 volts DC with a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph). They are articulated in five sections, and are 33 metres long and 2.4 metres wide.
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During 1904, electric trams replaced horse- drawn trams on the Kalemegdan – Slavija and Kafana Žagubica – Električna centrala routes and in 1905 the last ones were replaced at Terazije - New Cemetery route. Apart from performing the function of public transport, “horse trams” were also a focus of great interest in Belgrade at the time and their striking image remained with their contemporaries for a long time. The introduction of the trams in general is today considered as a major step in the modernization of Belgrade, and victory of "Europe over the Orient". Despite the frequent friction between the city and the Society, the contract was expanded in 1911 to include two more lines: Slavija-Čubura (via Makenzijeva Street) and expansion from the New Cemetery and the Grobljanska Street to Trošarina on Smederevo Road.
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In the 19th century numerous horse drawn systems were established, with Adelaide and Brisbane establishing reasonably large systems (for their day) and retaining their horse-drawn trams when other systems had adopted steam or cable traction. Victor Harbor and Gawler in South Australia are examples of small, single-line horse-drawn systems which survived until 1955 and 1931 respectively; the Victor Harbor tramway reopened in 1986. Trams at Railway Square in Sydney Following a short lived experiment with a privately run horse tram line in Pitt Street in the 1860s, Sydney adopted steam trams, which were operated by the state government. By comparison, Melbourne adopted cable trams, the infrastructure (tracks and winding-houses) was owned collectively by the local municipal councils, but operated initially by a private company.
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A number of factors combined in the decline of Dublin's tram system. The advent of buses and large-scale competition meant that buses often ran the same routes as the trams and would jump in front to "grab" customers, while buses were able to move into Dublin's expanding hinterland quicker and at less cost that the trams, and the belief that trams were outdated and old technology all led to declining use. Meanwhile, the DUTC's takeover of many bus operators left the DUTC with a large number of buses which were used and expanded to areas of Dublin with no tram service, and buses eventually became the DUTC's core business. There was a belief that buses were cheaper to run than trams and that the system was in a poor state of repair.
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1947-built Swiss Standard tram 83 with Lake Neuchâtel Two ex-Genoa articulated trams passing on route 5 The interurban line to Boudry always had a separate fleet from the urban fleet, but one small group of trams began service on the urban system and later moved to the interurban line after closure of the last urban line (3). These were cars 81–83, built in 1947 by Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) and purchased new by TN. These four-axle cars were the only double-ended (bi- directional) Swiss Standard trams ever built. They were originally purchased for use on line 1, but were later used on line 3. All other trams used on the urban lines were two-axle cars and trailers, most commonly operated in sets of one powered tram and one trailer.
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The trams lines 20 to 22 and the city bus 153 have a stop at the University of Munich with the name Lothstraße.
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However its popularity is increasing due to its proximity to the hip but expensive Prenzlauer Berg. Its trams make reaching Mitte very convenient.
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In October 2019, the Minister for Public Transport, Melissa Horne, announced that E-class trams would be tested for service on Route 58.
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Trams in Izhevsk is the main surface transport network in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. The tramway was founded in 1935 and currently operates 11 tramlines.
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The closest Barcelona Metro station is Gorg, on lines L2 and L10. It is also served by trams belonging to the Trambesòs system.
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This north–south line connects Fleury-les-Aubrais with Orleans La Source, and serves 24 stations. The line is served by 22 trams.
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Following the withdrawal of the last AnsaldoBreda T-68 and T-68A trams in May 2014, the M5000s have operated all Metrolink services.
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Each tram had four motors totalling in power output, giving a maximum speed of . The trams seated 38 people and stood 38 more.
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The route length of the tramway network is . The total track length is . The trams are powered using direct current at 600 V.
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Fifteen new trams have been ordered from Spanish CAF (locally called A35) and they started operation in October 2013 on the Solna extension.
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At Manor House, the station was designed with subway exits directly on to pedestrian islands in the road served by the local trams.
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The last arrived on 25 June 2002 and entered service on 30 August 2002. All C1-class trams initially operated on route 109.
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Tunis had traditional trams until about 1960. A new light-rail line began operation in 1985, and has been followed by other systems.
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Trams returned in 2004 with the opening of a standard gauge modern tram network in Athens just prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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Trams of Putilov plant - wagons of series F (Fonarniy), MS (Motorny Stalnoy) and PS (Pritsepnoy Stalnoy), made by Putilov plant in Saint Petersburg.
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According to the official website, as of 2006 there are 308 km of track, with 190 trams in service on any given weekday.
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On 2 January 1990, TT sent a letter to Gråkallbanen giving them the option to purchase the trams for the same price as the Egyptians, at an estimated NOK 17–20 million. However, Gråkallbanen pointed out to the politicians that it was possible to purchase used articulated trams for DEM 20,000 from the Stuttgart Stadtbahn. The company took the press with it to Stuttgart to negotiate the agreement, and the following Adresseavisen presented the cities new trams to the people. However, by the time the delegation had returned, they were informed that the deal had been annulled.
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In 1934 SAT started a new line of business despite of the just recently ended great depression: the company started producing trams and the first three units were handed over to the city of Turku in the same year. This was followed by seven trams delivered in 1938. According to some sources, one two-axle tram was delivered to Viipuri in 1939, but this cannot be confirmed from any reliable sources. Between 1941 and 1944 total 18 units were built for the city of Helsinki and four motor trams and six wagons were sold to Turku.
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To provide safety, comfort and aesthetics, the Dubai Tram corporates methods not found in many trams around the world. These trams use ground-level power supply; in other words, the trams do not need overhead cables. This recently invented method, also referred to as Alimentation par Sol or "Aesthetic Power Supply" (APS), is currently used in Bordeaux, France. In June 2010, the consortium led by France's Alstom and the local/Belgian Belhasa Six Construct stopped work on the estimated $1.1bn Al-Sufouh tram project in Dubai because of irregular payments from the project client, Dubai's Roads & Transport Authority (RTA).
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Hamer began the modernisation of Melbourne's moribund tramway system (now the world's biggest by route length), ordering 100 new trams immediately with further orders following, and approving the extension of the Burwood tram line from Warrigal Road to Middleborough Road. These were the first new trams and first new tram line since 1956, when Bolte stopped further expansion of the system and cancelled an order for 30 extra W7 class trams. Restrictions on shop trading hours, and on public entertainment on Sundays, were eased. A major new centre for the performing arts was built in the centre of Melbourne.
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A pair of new NET Citadis trams at Wilkinson Street depot 22 new Alstom Citadis 302 trams were ordered in preparation for the Phase Two extensions to Beeston and Clifton. The first Citadis tram (216) arrived at the depot on 10 September 2013. Along with the current Incentro fleet, they ran test operation on the new lines from Summer 2014 and also on the current network. The first Citadis trams (216-221) entered passenger service for the day on 27 July 2014, as part of a trial for the new timetable, which was then introduced on 26 August 2014.
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The E-class trams are three-section, four-bogie articulated trams that were first introduced to the Melbourne tram network in 2013. They are being built by Bombardier's Dandenong factory, with the propulsion systems and bogies coming from Bombardier factories in Germany. The E-class is part of the Tram Procurement Program, a Public Transport Victoria project aimed at increasing capacity and reliability of the tram network through the introduction of new trams, creation of new depot space, and upgrades to existing infrastructure. In September 2010, 50 were ordered with an option to purchase a further 100.
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Signaling uses the German BOStrab system, not traditional Norwegian light signals. The line has traffic signal preemption, so the trams send a signal to the traffic light control when the driver starts the door-closing signal to give the tram priority at traffic lights. The depot is at Kronstad, at a former yard used by the Norwegian State Railways, where a track that connects the light rail network to the Bergen Line. The depot was finished in 2009, and has room for 16 trams plus a workshop with space for two trams and a garage with place for three.
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Four Motor tram 497 at Milton in 1949 Officially referred to as "drop centre saloon cars", or "four motor cars", they were popularly referred to as "400s", "FM's" or "silver bullets". They were the first class of trams built in Brisbane with airbrakes. 155 were constructed by the Brisbane City Council between 1938 and 1964, with a maximum carrying capacity of 110 passengers. Trams 400–472 were built with wide centre doors, 407 was altered to narrow centre doors and renumbered 473 (and the tram to be numbered 473 entered service as 407), trams 474–554 built with narrow centre doors.
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The Cable Trams of Sydney and the experiments leading to final electrification of the Tramways Wylie, R.F. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, July/August, 1974 pp145-168/190-192 Cable Trailer 23 is preserved at the Sydney Tramway Museum at Loftus NSW. Additionally, horse trams operated between Newtown and St Peters railway stations in the 1890s and between Manly and North Manly from 1903 to 1907. However these two instances, the operation of horse tram services were acting as replacements for the existing steam trams services on these lines due to the low patronage during the indicated years.
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Looking south towards Melbourne University tram stop, with the shunts in the foreground Melbourne University tram stop consists of one island platform that provides accessible entry to low-floor trams, it is long enough to serve two D2-class trams at the same time, and has three shunts. It was designed by FMSA Architects for Yarra Trams and Department of Infrastructure. The design consists of six steel 'trees', clad with polycarbonate roofing protecting the seating areas; staff amenities; and ramps permitting full disabled access to the stop. The design is intended to complement its environment while also improving reliability and flexibility.
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In 1898, the then- independent Pöstlingbergbahn opened from Linz Urfahr railway station to the summit of the Pöstlingberg. This line was built to and there was therefore no possibility of trams running through from Linz city centre to the Pöstlingberg. Instead passengers changed trams at Linz Urfahr. Trams at the former Hauptbahnhof street terminus in 1965 In 1902 the main tram network was expanded by a line linking Blumauerplatz, on the existing line south of the city centre, with the northern side of the bridge over the Traun river in Kleinmünchen, giving a total length of .
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On 9 July 1861, an Act was passed that allowed for a company to be formed for the purpose of providing horse-drawn tram services between Sea Point and Cape Town. The founding company in the GABS dynasty was the Cape Town & Green Point Tramway Company, which began operating on the 1 April 1863. Major technological innovations that shaped the fledgling industry subsequent to this were the replacement of horse-drawn trams with electric trams in 1894; the introduction of fuel powered motor buses in 1911 and trackless electric trams in 1934. During this period of innovation, mergers and acquisitions amongst competitors occurred.
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The depot was situated on Rutland Street and contained a boiler and a stationary steam engine, which pulled the cable and lifted the trams 300 feet up Bank Road. Fares used to be Tuppence up, Penny Down. Bank Road was not wide enough for two tracks, so a single track was used, with a passing place where the trams met. The up and down cables had to run in the same tube between the rails. The trams averaged 5½ mph, and had the advantage of the down-tram balancing the up-tram, and saving power in the Depot steam engine.
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As well as workers streaming out of factory gates, Mitchell & Kenyon filmed street scenes, parades, marches, walking out on Sunday and the fairgrounds. Charmingly, as the crowds pass by there are usually a few who come up and stare or wave at the camera, in a way that nowadays annoys news presenters. The street scenes are busy with pedestrians wandering across in front of the slow horse-drawn carts and trams, some horse- drawn as well as the new electric trams, and Mitchell & Kenyon added variety by filming from moving trams. Bicycles abound, and they also showed the novel rarity, a motor car.
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Planned to replace the pre-WWII design TM trams, with 377 units, the UV series became the most numerous type of tramcar produced in Hungary. The first car entered passenger service in 1956, and the type was ultimately decommissioned in 2007, after roughly 51 years of continuous service. UV trams became one of the symbols of Budapest, and had appeared in a number of Hungarian and foreign movies as plot elements. Two preserved, paired UV cars now annually serve as the city's so-called Christmas light trams in the festive season, decorated with white and blue LED lights.
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A deputation from the Canning and South Perth Road Boards to the Acting Minister For Works, Mr E. H. Gray, in June 1940 complained about the congestion in Albany Road. The traffic delays were worsened by cars parked on both sides of the road and slow-moving trams. The deputation suggested extending Berwick Street to Albany Highway as the solution, as well as removing the trams. Gray contended that parking should be prohibited, and refused to scrap the trams, but said he would consider the resumption of land east of Berwick Street to enable a extension to Albany Road.
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Trams travelling along Canterbury Road In 1921, a tram line was extended from Hurlstone Park to Canterbury Station, in 1927, a through service from Canterbury to the city commenced. The Canterbury line commenced at the Canterbury terminus in Broughton Street where a tram turning loop was provided.Gregorys, map 33, circa 1945 Trams travelling towards the City or Balmain headed north-east along Canterbury Road. A service that was provided for by the Darling Street Wharf trams branched off from the main line at New Canterbury Road and connected with lines running along Parramatta Road for Balmain.
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Until December 1956, trams provided public transport along Queen Street, and it was the only street in New Zealand with grand unions, double- track to double-track junctions, where trams could go to all directions from all directions. These junctions were at the intersections with Customs Street and Wellesley Street.The End of the Penny Section: When Trams Ruled the Streets of New Zealand – Stewart, Graham; Wellington: Grantham House, Revised Edition 1993, Page 149 Since the closure of Auckland's tram network, Balaclava Junction on Melbourne's tram network has been the sole grand union left in the Southern Hemisphere.
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All operations are conducted on contract with Ruter, the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus, which operates the ticket system and manages public grants. Throughout the history of the Oslo Tramway and Metro, 15 different companies have owned, constructed or operated parts or all of the network. The first street trams in Oslo were built by three different companies, each with their own network. The private Kristiania Sporveisselskab started with a horsecar service in 1875, but electrified their lines after Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei started with electric trams in 1894. Between 1899 and 1905, the municipality operated street trams through Kristiania Kommunale Sporveie.
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The Blackpool Flexity 2 trams are bi-directional five-section articulated tramcars. There are four doors on each side, two single doors next to the driver cabs in the first and fifth cars and two double doors in the centre of the second and fourth cars. They can accommodate wheelchairs and pushchairs, with level boarding from low platforms which were built at stops ready for the introduction of the trams. The trams have two powered Flexx Urban 3000 bogies in the centre of the first and fifth cars and an unpowered set in the centre car.
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Corporation buses and trams outside the Theatre By 1930 it was becoming necessary to renew much of the tramway rolling stock. Consideration was given to converting to trolleybuses, but instead it was decided to implement a ten-year programme to replace the trams by motor buses. The first line to be converted was the Devonport to St Budeaux line which was closed in October 1930 when six new double-deck buses replaced the trams. The line to West Hoe closed in 1931, the line to Compton closed in 1932, and regular services to the Royal Naval Barracks withdrawn in 1934.
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Though electric buses may be a better solution than the trams, the reasoning is dubious. Trolleybus has the same traffic avoidance as an electric bus and much easier than a tram. Contrary to the trams, which indeed stop all the trams behind when one malfunction because they all use the same tracks, when a trolleybus is broken, it is simply unhooked from the grid and is easily bypassed by the trolleybus behind it. In November 2018, Vesić, now a deputy mayor, confirmed that the tram line No. 1 will be conducted through downtown instead of electric buses.
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The first ever network of public transport in Ipswich was one of horse trams. The proposal was accepted by the Board of Trade in 1879 and on 13 October 1880, the first line between Cornhill and the railway station opened, using 2 trams, drawn by only one horse each. The two trams were made in Birkenhead, were painted in a brown and cream livery and each carried up to 18 seated passengers. New routes soon opened: Princes Street to Brooks Hall Road in 1881, Cornhill to Barrack Corner in 1882 and Majors Corner to Derby Road railway station in 1883.
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Within a year the outcry was so great that the lines were pulled up, and trams were not reintroduced until the Tramways Act 1870 permitted them to be built again. Trams were restricted to operating in the suburbs of London, but they accessed the major transport hubs of the City and the West End, conveying passengers into and away from the suburbs. By 1893 there were about 1,000 tram cars across 135 miles worth of track. Trams could be accessed in Central London from Aldgate, Blackfriars Bridge, Borough, Moorgate, King's Cross, Euston Road, Holborn, Shepherd's Bush, Victoria, and Westminster Bridge.
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Mannheim also uses gauntlet track to run trams within less space. In Potsdam, a short section of interlaced track takes trams through the historic Nauener Tor into the old city. In Stuttgart, gauntlet track was used extensively by the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen in order to run services using the newer Stadtbahn, or light rail system, on route sections previously served by the older narrow-gauge tram system. The trams have now been completely phased out, save for occasional "old-timer" special runs, and all platforms are being converted from street-level to raised in order to accommodate the higher floors of the new vehicles.
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The Tramway Museum, St Kilda operates an extensive fleet of historic South Australian and interstate tram cars and trolley buses. Work began in 1958 with the arrival of donated vehicles, the first of which was an old trolley bus from the Municipal Tramways Trust, and the museum was opened in 1967 as a static display. The museum houses more than 30 electric trams, horse trams and electric trolley buses, many of which are restored and operational. Visitors can ride the electric trams along 2 km of purpose built track that runs between the museum and an adventure playground.
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For the Nr I type trams, HKL decided to adopt a new livery. Instead of the traditional green/yellow colours, the new trams were painted light grey, with an orange stripes running along the top and bottom of the carriage. In 1986 HKL decided to abandon the unpopular orange/grey livery, and by 1995 all trams of this type were painted in the green/yellow colours, with the top half of the tram painted yellow and the bottom half green. Tram number 45, the first to be modernised into Nr I+ class, was painted in an experimental livery coinciding with the modernisation.
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The Essendon tram depot was opened in 1906 by the North Melbourne Electric Tramway & Lighting Company."Melbourne's Electric Trams" Trolley Wire issue 307 November 2006 page 11 It passed with the company to the Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board on 1 August 1922."Victoria's Tramway Heritage" Trolley Wire issue 159 August 1975 page 14 When the Public Transport Corporation was privatised in August 1999, Essendon depot passed to M>Tram."Swanston Trams" Trolley Wire issue 279 November 1999 page 25 It passed to Yarra Trams when it took control of the entire tram network in April 2004.
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Trams TransAdelaide This service was a carry-over from the days of the steam railway, which had also performed this function. Another unusual feature was operation of triple sets of H type trams in peak hours, and express trams that ran non-stop over a significant portion of the route. In 2006, only one express service remained. The line was the only route to survive the closure of Adelaide's street tramway network during the 1950s, saved largely by its high proportion of reserved track, which enables fast journey for passengers and minimal interference with road traffic.
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Systems which have or have had restaurant trams include Adelaide, Bendigo and Melbourne, in Australia; Brussels in Belgium; The Hague in the Netherlands; Christchurch in New Zealand;The service is operating again after being suspended for a few years following Christchurch's 2010 earthquake Milan, Rome and Turin in Italy; Moscow, Russia; Almaty, Kazakhstan and Zürich, Switzerland. Restaurant trams are particularly popular in Melbourne where they operate as the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant. Three of the iconic W class trams were converted to restaurant tram since 1983. All three often run in tandem and there are usually multiple meal sittings.
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When Bombardier Transportation bought Adtranz, it ceased production of the GTx-trams; however, the concept of articulated railcars for low floor trams was carried forward to its Incentro model, which was eventually replaced by Bombardier's standardized Flexity family of vehicles. Of these, the Flexity Berlin was specially designed with a layout similar to the Incentro and GTx-series and can be considered to be among its immediate successors. These trams entered revenue service in 2011. Competing manufacturer Siemens Transportation Systems had been offering the Combino models with articulated railcars until some Combino construction flaws were observed.
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Saloon Car No. 95 There is a variety of rolling stock currently in use on the tramway. The two grip cars operated by Portland Cable Trams are copies of Melbourne cable trams which ran from 1885 to 1940, constructed to the specifications of that period. They were built from scratch under the auspices of Keith McMillan, and are exact replicas, apart from the diesel engines that they use in place of the cable system. That method of propulsion was chosen because it would be virtually impossible to build the complicated underground cable network which originally pulled cable trams along.
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