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ACEC VAU #001
Details
| Name | ACEC VAU (ACEC) /ACEC VAU (1984-1984) | |
| VIN | ||
| Build Number | ||
| Built | 1984 | |
| Scrapped | ||
| Owners | ||
| 1984 | TEC Liège | |
| Vehicle Numbers | ||
| Year Of Get | Year Of Remove | Vehicle Number |
| 1984 | 001 / TEC Liège | |
| Other Information | ||
| Prototype light metro car, built by ACEC Charleroi - never ran in service. | ||
Photos
5 june 2009 - Liege (BE) – museum Natalis. The ‘secret’ metro that never was…..in 1985, the city of Liege began to construct a metre-gauge light metro, based on VAL principles, called the Transport Automatise Urbain (TAU). Some tunnels were started and a test track was installed behind the TEC depot in Jumet (Charleroi), where these two prototype cars ran for some time- then the project was suddenly (and very quietly) abandoned. The two cars now stand in the Natalis Transport Museum.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
5 june 2009 - Liege (BE) – museum Natalis. The control desk in TAU Car 1, which would normally be closed, as operation would have been entirely automatic.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
5 june 2009 - Liege (BE) – museum Natalis. This passenger information display inside Car 1 gives a clue to where the Liege TAU would have run – it would have been lit from behind when in use, so it’s rather difficult to photograph. It gives some idea of the original plan, though. They say that at least one tunnel is still there, but closed off. Now Liege is just a city of buses, having scrapped all its trams, too.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar