On Sundays, there is a special heritage tram route 7, with a tram every hour. Some photos can be found here:
Lisbon also has three funiculars which are worth visiting.
Do the Porto trams count?
Out of interest, was it a trolleybus? They still had old Ikarus types running last spring (though I didn’t find out until I was on my way to the airport to get home!). Or if it was a bus, was it step entrance?
I’m hopefully visiting Gotha next month. I’m staying in Leipzig for a couple of nights so will aim to get visit from there - just an hour away on an ICE train. I will try to get to another eastern German city as well. Maybe Erfurt or Zwickau.
The tram up to the superga basilica is 1920's stock. Rack. But considered a tram
It was a regular bus, full of diesel fumes inside to boot.
Potentially an Ikarus, an icon of the Eastern Bloc.
Think you may be thinking of Riga, as Vilnius doesn’t have a tram network!
Yes that was it. Thanks
I must have been thinking of the trolleybuses when I mentioned Vilnius. I definitely wasn't thinking about Rīga, having just returned from Vilnius when I posted.
On Sundays, there is a special heritage tram route 7, with a tram every hour. Some photos can be found here:
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Normal tram fares apply. Every Sunday, they run a different heritage tram.
Besides the heritage tram route, there are many Series 2800 trams running in regular service. They were originally built single car in the 1930s, and recosntructed to be articulated 2-cars in the 1950s. Some photos here:
Thanks for that, good to know.
It will have been an Ikarus, either 260 or 280. All gone now sadly, since late last year. Even the 280Tr trolleys have been replaced. Still ancient Ganz trams on the 47/49, and Tatras on line 1 and the route up to the childrens railway, the nuimber of which I've forgotten.
Indeed - line 14 (which, conveniently, stops at Rome's railway terminus) still has some services operated by these 1948-49 era beauties.
Lisbon still has lots of old, and very busy, trams.
Looks like I’ve missed out again then! On my Feb trip this year, I only saw the K2 on driver training duties and not in service! For those unaware, the live tracking for Brno is excellent, giving full fleet details of what’s running - you can even select vehicle types to show on the map. Sadly the K2 didnt appear the whole time I was there.Was in Olomouc two weeks ago, plenty of T3 action there still.
Also, in Brno, as well as the many T6 they have, they still put out the semi preserved 1973 Tatra K2 on peak hour services on the 10
Edit- [Images posted showing Brno trams, of the T6 and K2 variety at work last month]
Think I need to try and see a bit more of Italy to track down these old types!
On my list to do one day. I’ve heard these trams are often impossible to get a ride on though with the hoards of tourists.
There is also a Museum line (21) from the Tram Museum at Burgwies using Heritage Stock on the last weekend of the month. The last time I rode it the line was extended to Oerlikon from Rehalp. Normal fares apply so if you have a zone 110 ticket it’s good for the museum tram as well.
The tourists tend to board in the city centre. My tip- head out west to Campo Ourique, the western loop terminus of the famous 28E. There's a cafe etc there. You shouldn't have any trouble getting a seat on an Eastbound tram towards Alfama (the cool, narrow hilly bit
)Milan, iirc, even has the world's oldest trams in regular service.
The northern section, surely, Quartier Belvedere is the current northern terminus - services running from there instead of Oper.
Of course, sorry. So yes, SGPs only on the northern section. Not sure how I got that mixed up!
