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PCC #1147
Built: 1957
Uploaded: 2018-07-26 12:52:04
Place: Crich / East Midlands
Width: 1400, Height: 787
File size: 523.98kB
File size: 523.98kB
9 august 2011 - Crich, UK - National Tramway Museum: An exhibition hall at Crich houses several displays about tramways and some vehicles that can`t be included in the operating fleet. Here is #1147 of the Den Haag (Netherlands) tramway, built in 1958 by the La Brugeoise factory in Belgium and a true PCC car (if you don`t know what a PCC tram is, please contact me and I will try to explain!). This tram can`t be operated at Crich because it is single-ended, but the running track here isn`t. It is, however, an example of a very important step in the history of world tramways.
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Interesting that Americans made PCC in 1930s and soon stopped to use tramways, while in Europe this construction lasted for decades.
- x (*.dynamic-2-waw-k-1-0-0.vectranet.pl) (2018-07-27 09:10:08.668168)
Even czech Tatra T1 and polish Konstal 13N were built using the PCC specification.
There is a story that an American PCC was taken to Eastern Europe somewhere and operated for a short time - it vanished into a shed for some
days and was then given back to the Americans without comment. A few months later, an exact copy appeared, which had been built in secret without paying for the PCC licensing rights.....
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