ROMANIA APRIL 2015 - CLUJ NAPOCA

Trabant - reminder of pre 1989 days

Cluj Napoca has a long cross-city tramway with new Astra low-floor cars and ex-Berlin KT4D.

Steam engine at Cluj station

Astra approaching Cluj railway station

Tatra passing the park

Astra car passing the park

ROMANIA APRIL 2015 - IASI

In Iasi, the city has a big metre-gauge tramway with a variety of rolling-stock -
mainly now GT4s ex-Stuttgart, Augsburg etc., plus Swiss Standards (some with
trailers) ex-Bern.  Still a few Tatra T4 left as well.

Stuttgart

Darmstadt

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Trams on the tram

Prototype

Depot view

All trams go through the wash every time in service

One of our tour cars

One of our tour cars

Familiar faces on the back platform

ROMANIA APRIL 2015 - BRAILA

Here you will find ex-Rotterdam GT8 (8), Wien E1 (11), Berlin Tatra KT4Ds (8)
and possibly still two Nurnberg Grossraumwagen cars in operation. It is a 4 route
system with route 22 currently closed for modernisation.  Temporary route 25 is
operating from Monument (24 terminus) to Lacu Sarat.

                                                                            Depot yard with works car

Our tour tram outside the depot

Tatra

Reminder for drivers exiting depot

Former Vienna car

ROMANIA APRIL 2015 - BOTOSANI

Tram on route 102

Line up in depot yard

There is a one route, 15.8km long, with a branch tramway, using 26 Dresden Tatra T4 cars in Dresden livery.

ROMANIA APRIL 2015 - GALATI

Part of depot yard

Derelict Timis car in depot

Looks like the trams are more necessary than ever

Wondered if this boat is destined for Blackpool

CHESTERFIELD 7 IN WW1 RECRUITING LIVERY ON 17 APRIL 2015 - Frank Bagshaw

At Crich, Chesterfield 7 has been decorated to demonstrate the recruiting trams that ran in cities during WW1. Despite adverse critical comments appearing on another website, I think the museum staff have done a wonderful job in decorating this tram to give a feel of what recruiting trams looked like.

Seen here is the tram on it's test outing on April 17th. 

DUBLIN LUAS AT EASTER 2015 - Luis Vieira

Short Easter holidays in Ireland and the registered trams in Dublin Luas  07 and 08 Green Line, all others Red Line.

 

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SOUTH AFRICA - Frank Bagshaw

Frank Bagshaw has recently visited South Africa and courtesy of the Friends of the James Hall Museum of Transport was able to inspect the collection of trams and trolleybuses.

Jo'burg 20

Here is Jo’berg 22, the last tram to run in the city in 1961. This tram nearly came to Crich but was finally substituted for number 60

To reach the top of Cape of Good Hope, a cable tramway operates with two cars to take visitors to the summit and lighthouse.

Jo'burg 214

Notices at the bottom of the stairs

Interior Jo'burg 214

Upper deck end seats in Jo’burg 214

he wine estates at Franschhoek were connected by a narrow gauge railway. The track is still in place so part of it has been “fettled up” and a single replica toast-rack tram fitted with a diesel engine operates a daily tourist service linking wine estates with a connecting bus service. I sampled the tram and the produce of the estates. 

Here is a photo of an unusual bus that would have interested Richard: built on a trolleybus chassis. Half the fleet were fitted with Rolls Royce marine engines.