Some Trams around Eastern Europe

[Arun Sharma]

Having spent the last couple of weeks wandering around Budapest, Vienna and Prague and being pleasantly surprised by their extensive and easy to use tram services, I have attached a few pics of some of the vehicles:

 

 Budapest 4024 is a Tatra T5C5K vehicle.

 

Vienna 302 , seen here heading towards the Soviet memorial to those who died during their liberation of Vienna, is one of Vienna's latest trams a Bombardier Flexity Wien.

 

Prague 9224 in all-over advertising is a Skoda 15T vehicle and Prague 8442 is a modernised Tatra T3RP vehicle. These seem to frequently run coupled together in pairs or as triples.

 

 

 

 

 

[Arun Sharma]

Budapest also has some rather nice articulated new looking single deck trolleybuses [as well as some nonarticulated ones]. As a Londoner I am pleased that they are the same shade of Ayres Red as London buses used to be!

 

[Arun Sharma]

I had reason to revisit Prague and Vienna this week and managed to take a few photographs of trams.

 

Vienna 776 is a Siemens Type B [Long] articulated set whearas 30 is a shorter Siemens Type A. Many routes  in Vienna still employ the power car and trailer units such as this one of Trailer 1509 [together with unidentified power car] at Quartier Belvedere in SE Vienna. 

Edited July 4, 2023 by Arun Sharma

[Arun Sharma]

Prague has a somewhat greater range of car types though the basic workhorse is still the Tatra T3 in basic or modernised forms.

Prague 9113 is a Skoda 14T, 8014 is a Tatra T3M and 6921 is a rather old, probably unmodified basic T3. 

Prague 8255 is another Tatra T3 but one which has been modified with a low floor as well as some deeper side windows.

Prague 9077 is a Tatra KT8 D5R.N2P variant.

 

Additionally, there are a couple of older heritage cars in both Prague and Vienna that seem to be available for hire and tours around their respective cities. Wenceslas Square  [actually a very long rectangle] also has a couple of old cars parked halfway down which have been converted into a cafe though still wearing their old livery.

Edited July 4, 2023 by Arun Sharma

[Arun Sharma]

I did manage to photograph one of the heritage/Private Hire trams in Vienna whilst looking for the still extant pair of concrete flak towers in  the Augarten Park in the NE of the city. Tram 4134 was racing past Franz Josef bahnhof at the time. I could hear it long before actually seeing it.   Note that it has a long bow collector rather than the more modern types of pantograph seen in the other pics.

 

 

 

Edited July 4, 2023 by Arun Sharma

[RobClogs]

Thank you for those nice pictures, @Arun Sharma. To complete the captions, might I add that the red T3 Tatra's seen in your Prague shots are all running on the 23 service. The 23, 41 and 42 services are tourist lines operated with historic vehicles. The T3 Tatra's went out of regular service in 2011.

 

More here:

https://www.dpp.cz/en/entertainment-and-experience/dpp-history/nostalgic-line-no-23

and make sure to check out the menu on the left of that page.

 

Edited August 2, 2023 by RobClogs