We've been having tonnes of snow in Leipzig over night - which is why, once again, I packed my things and headed out to snap some photos . The primary plan for today was to head up the 4 line to Gohlis, Landsberger Straße. Unsurprisingly, many trams and trains I encountered today had icicles hanging from their frames and fronts!

However, I first headed for line 16 where NGT12 car 1216 "Kiev" was ploughing through the snow at Eutritzscher Zentrum.

This impressive building on the southeast corner of the city centre and between Augustusplatz and Roßplatz was actually constructed in the 1950s and houses the so-called Ring-Café. In front of it, NGT8 car 1137 "Otto Mencke" with full body advertising for the Petersbogen Casino is on its way on line 8 to Paunsdorf-Nord.

Also at Roßplatz, Leoliner 1303 "Plagwitz" was working the 2 line to Lausen. The building in the background - which some of you might recognize from my last trip report in the summer of 2009 - was part of a factory belonging to the People-Owned Furniture Combine of the GDR.

And now I finally headed up the 4 line to Landsberger Straße and into a quintessential desert of snow. The General Olbricht barracks of the Bundeswehr are located to the west of the reversing loop and thus behind where I was standing here. The tram is NGT8 car 1108 "Adam Friedrich Oeser".

I then dropped off at the Coppiplatz S-Bahn station and captured 143 354 battling the snow on its way to Miltitzer Allee on the S1 line.

And on my way back to the city - I needed to have lunch, after all - I made one last photo stop at Stallbaumstraße and snapped Tatra car 2143 with a NB4 low floor trailer heading up to Landsberger Straße.

The Leipzig tram network is built to the somewhat unusual track gauge of 1,458 mm or 4 ft 9.4 in and fed with 600 V DC, by the way.