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Siemens Combino #C023
16 march 2010 - Setubal (PT) - Corroios. The recently opened tramway on the southern shore of the River Tagus, opposite Lisboa, connects several large suburbs with these smart Combino Plus cars. Here at Corroios is a main interchange point with the suburban railway from the city centre.
Leyland Atlantean / Caetano #268
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) - Massarelos. One of the big Leyland double-deckers exported to Portugal from the UK and fitted with a locally-built body. There were once English-style double-deck trolleybuses here, too.
Volvo B58-55 / Caetano #570
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) - Massarelos. Luckily, I can read well enough to see that this bus says "V-O-L-V-O" on the front - here my knowledge ends!
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Leyland Royal Tiger #453
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) - Massarelos. A Leyland Royal Tiger, I think - or a Worldmaster? As you know, I'm not very good on identifying buses.
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BUT / UTIC / Metro-Vick #23
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) - Massarelos. Inside trolleybus #23.
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BUT / UTIC / Metro-Vick #23
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) - Massarelos. The nice Porto Tram Museum also has some buses, mostly kept in a reserve store. Until the 1970s, most buses in Portugal came from the UK, including ths 1959 B.U.T. trolleybus, one of many double and single deck vehicles that ran here.
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Siemens-Sorefame ML95 #M-621
15 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) –depot/zajezdnia Pontinha. The newest coaches are these Simens-Sorefame cars from 1997, which also run as three-car M-T-M sets (two sets make a train). The connections between cars are articulated. This motor car has been separated from its train and lifted for repairs.
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Siemens-SOREFAME ML90 #R-305
15 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) –depot/zajezdnia Pontinha. These Type ML90 trains arrived in 1993 from Siemens-Sorefame, the local Portuguese constructor, and are found all over the network. This is an intermediate trailer from one of the three-car sets, which run in M-T-M configuration.
LHB ML7 #A-2
15 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) –depot/zajezdnia Pontinha. One three-car set of the original Metro cars has been nicely restored – these Type ML7 trains ran in normal service between 1959 and 2000. These cars remind me very much of the Metropolitan Line ‘A’ Stock trains in London. The Lisboa system is third-rail, 750v DC and runs on standard gauge.
Siemens-Sorefame ML95 #M-652
15 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Carnide. A TWB debut? I find this amazing, because this is a big system (four lines) and Lisboa is a popular city. Had I known we had no photos, I would have taken many more. This is one of the suburban stations on the Blue Line – the art work above the platforms lights up as trains pass by. Everything on the metro is very clean and tidy.
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Tecnobus Gulliver U520 #279
16 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) - Praca do Comercio. Another shot of a STUC electric bus - there have only eight seats, but they operate a proper bus service and aren't just granny chariots (although older people tend to use them).
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Tecnobus Gulliver U520 #279
16 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT - Praca do Comercio. One of the little electric bus-ettes which serve the old city, mostly along streets that are reserved for pedestrians.
Volvo B10MA / Camo UR83 #1035
22 january 2007 - Porto. Depósito dos STCP.
Volvo B10M / Irmãos Mota Atomic IM #53-23-MA
9 february 2010 - Faial. Takie coś z układem siedzeń 2+3 wozi się jako PKS na Maderze. Gąszcz wszelkich kabli i innych wynalazków mocno psuje efekt z oceanem... Jakby ktoś dysponował typem nadwozia, to niech się pochwali.
Siemens Combino #C013
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) - Cacilhas. The Metro Transporte do Sol has full computer control of route setting and drivers have radio contact with the central control room at all times. Er.... what's up, Doc? All that expensive technology seems to have failed completely!
Siemens Combino #C003
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) - Corroios, depot/zajezdnia MTS. A close-up view of the low-floor drive system of a Combino, showing the motors (one per axle) and the axle-mounted gears - all very compact.
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Mercedes Unimog U400/Hartmann #58 CS 76
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) - Corroios, depot/zajezdnia MTS. The MTS works/breakdown vehicle is this very smart Unimog which is equipped to do anything, including making the coffee (it has a little water heater). However, it doesn't look as if it has ever been used - either the trams are totally reliable, or they don't want to make it dirty?
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Siemens Combino Plus #C008
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) – Corroios, depot/zajezdnia MTS. Inside a Combino Plus.
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Siemens Combino Plus #C008
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) – Corroios, depot/zajezdnia MTS. The controls of an MTS Combino Plus. These trams are double-ended, of course, and this particular vehicle is the one fitted with the experimental HES technology.
Siemens Combino Plus #C008
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) – Corroios, depot/zajezdnia MTS. This is a very special tram. Although it looks like a normal Combino Plus, this is actually the Siemens test bed for their Hybrid Energy Storage system. Siemens hope to sell this new technology to places where overhead wires aren’t wanted in historic city centres – other manufacturers are also developing their own systems to do this, so trams can run short distances away from the wires.
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Siemens Combino #C005
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) – Corroios, depot/zajezdnia MTS. The Space Age depot of the new Metro Transportes do Sol - they even polish the floor every day. Just like a Romanian tram depot, isn’t it?
Solaris Trollino 12 #75
17 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) - Travessa Oleiros. The first TWB picture of #75, a Solaris Trollino 12 now running in Coimbra. It is rumoured that more will soon be purchased by SMTUC to replace all the old Caetano trolleys. Those Polish get everywhere........!
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Caetano 190TR110 / Efacec #66
17 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) - Avenida Santa do Bandeira. Coimbra now operates the last remaining trolleybus system in Portugal.
Caetano 190TR110 / Efacec #56
17 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) - depot/zajezdnia Guarda Inglesa. Inside one of the little Caetano trolleybuses.
Caetano 190TR110 / Efacec #59
17 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) - Praca do Republica. The historic city of Coimbra has nice old trolleybuses (but not as nice as the trams they replaced).
Brill Americano #275
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) – Massarelos. An inside view of the unusual ‘semi-convertible’ design developed by Brill of Philadelphia, which became something of a Portuguese speciality. Each whole window frame slides up into the curved roof, leaving an open car for summer. The cane rattan-covered, reversible seats are also typical of American trams of the period.
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Brill Americano #275
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) – Foz. A Porto bogie car. STCP once had many bogie trams, but most have now gone and just a few remain for special museum services. Car 275 was built locally but is typical of the Brill ‘semi-convertible’ design. As Porto is a standard-gauge tramway, their cars could be much bigger than the little 900mm and metre-gauge trams in other Portuguese cities. Bogie trams can only use the riverside line, so don’t now get much use.
Brill-23 (STCP) #191
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) – Carmo. A Porto museum tram on the recently rebuilt line leading to the upper city. The extent of these new tracks can be seen in the photo. Three public routes are operated, but only run about every 30 minutes between 0900 and 1700, so these aren’t really a serious means of transport but are really just for visitors, who can also ride on a special tourist tram that runs once an hour. Car 191 comes from the excellent museum at Massarelos depot and is an original 1912 American-built Brill. Because of the steep gradients, only two-axle cars are allowed up here.
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CCFP Brill-28 #205
19 march 2010 - Porto (PT) – Batalha. Like tramways in other Portuguese cities, Porto almost closed down completely and just one short line along the banks of the Douro river survived - many of the old trams on American and British trucks were sold to museums. Everyone thought the trams were finished, but there was a sudden change of policy a few years ago and the riverside line was rebuilt and extended. Now, new lines have brought the trams back to the city centre and further extensions are planned (although it seems the money has run out for the time being). Tram 205 is a 1930s rebuild of an earlier car but retains its clerestory roof.
Carris Remodelado #543
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Cemiterio dos Prazeres. A 500 Series ‘Remodelado’ and #735 stand together at the terminal loop, showing the differences. 500 Series cars are single ended, have a modern and much heavier truck, a pantograph and trolley pole and dummy offside doors that don’t open. The remaining un-rebuilt 700 Series trams have identical bodies (which were used to make the 500s) but are double ended and have a lighter Maley and Taunton British-built truck of traditional 1930s design.
Carris (Maley & Taunton) #735
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) - Calcada de Santo Andre. Chaos in the Alfama (2). Suddenly, a man appears from nowhere holding one of the little red/green signalling bats once used to control the two-way tram traffic along these very narrow streets – I have no idea who he is, or where he obtained the bat. I don’t think he works for Carris! For some years now, traffic signals have replaced the men who once stood on duty here.
Carris (Maley & Taunton) #735
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Calcada de Santo Andre. Chaos in the Alfama (1). Line 12 used to run in both directions here – just look at the problems facing trams climbing this very steep and narrow street. This is a 700 Class tram – not a Class 500 ‘Remodolado’ – so is double-ended and has only a trolley pole. The 500 series cars have been heavily rebuilt as single-enders, of course, from this original 700 type.
Bombardier Eurotram #MP 005
18 march 2010 - Porto (PT) – Aeroporto Francisco sa Carneiro. One of the slinky Eurotrams that operate the Porto Metro. Some b***d took my wallet when I was travelling on one of these – there are pickpockets everywhere. By the way, photography is strictly prohibited here…….
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Brill Crossbench tram #1
21 march 2010 - Sintra (PT). The 14 km long, metre-gauge Sintra-Atlantico tramway opened in 1904 with the original trams still working there today. The line actually closed down several times in the past fifty years, but somehow managed to survive and a major rebuilding is almost complete, with a new depot and improved track. It runs between Sintra town and the little seaside village of Praia das Macas along a hilly and winding route, mostly along the side of the road. Almost all the rolling stock, built by Brill of Philadelphia, is over 100 years old and (despite some steep gradients) is hand braked only. Here in the new depot are 1903 trams 1 and 7, open crossbench cars, and #4 which was rebuilt locally from an identical car. At the time of my visit there was no electricity, but the line will reopen for business in April – I’ll certainly be back! (this picture for af_robert).
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Birney Safety Car #15
18 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) – depot/zajezdnia Guarda-Inglese. A Coimbra tram. The city ran metre-gauge trams until 1980, when trolleybuses (first introduced here in 1947) took over the remaining routes. By this time, all the trams were very old, but kept in good condition – what a pity that some of the lines didn’t survive just a few more years, as they would certainly now still be operating. This one is an extremely rare type – a Birney Safety Car built by Brill of Philadelphia in 1928 and one of just five to reach Europe. Many smaller cities in USA had trams exactly like these.
Bedford TJ #9
18 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) – depot/zajezdnia Guarda-Inglese. A very nice early 1960s, British-built, Bedford J-Type tower wagon for overhead line repairs to the trolleybus network. If a wire breaks today, though, they’re a bit stuck………
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Tecnobus Gulliver U520 #279
18 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) – depot/zajezdnia Guarda-Inglese. Another view of a Coimbra electric microbus. In the background is one of three historic Coimbra trams that are stored in the back of the depot – there are several others in a little museum near here.
Tecnobus Gulliver U520 #279
18 march 2010 - Coimbra (PT) – depot/zajezdnia Guarda-Inglese. When I grow up, I want to be a bus! One of three tiny electric buses operated by Transportes Urbanos do Coimbra in the narrow streets of the old city. Inside, they have only eight seats, but seem to be perfect for the job.
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Carris Remodelado #11
6 february 2010 - Lisboa, Calçada Nova de São Francisco. Special tram for tourists is leaving Baixa district and entering located a little bit higher Chiado. Ticket price for this tram is 18 euro, which means you can buy almost 5 Carris&Metro day passes for the same money... Especially for dvigar, of course! :)
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Carris Remodelado #564
14 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Praca da Figueira. A late evening study of Remodolado car #564 at the Line 12 layover point, with a modern Siemens car arriving behind. There is unfortunately no passing track here, so trams are often held up waiting for a Line 12 car to depart.
Carris Remodelado #550
22 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) - Calcada Nova de Sao Francisco. A Remodolado hauls itself up the last few metres to the top of the hill out of the Baixa district - this track climbs at over 15%, which must be some kind of record for an adhesion line.
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Carris Remodelado #577
22 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) - Travessa do Sao Tome. All tram fans who visit Lisbon will recognise this place - no apologies for another picture. Line 28 climbs steeply to meet Line 12 (the tram in the background) at a junction in three dimensions.
Brill (Carris) #330
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Rua Bartholomeu Dias, Belem. Another rare outing for one of the few remaining four-axle cars in the Carris fleet, here seen on a special charter trip. There were once quite a few of these, but now they have mostly gone to museums. The vast building behind is the Jeronimos monastery. This picture didn’t go according to plan – three of us arranged to be picked up as soon as the tram reached us, but the driver didn’t see us, so we had to quickly find a taxi and say the immortal words “Follow that tram”.
Brill (Carris) #283
20 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Praca do Comercio. Like me, this tram doesn’t get out much. It normally lives in the Carris museum and only comes out on very special occasions – and only when it isn’t raining (this isn’t so much for the tram’s benefit, but because the drivers don’t like getting wet!). It’s an original Brill summer car from 1902 and now the only one remaining.
Carris Remodelado #554
14 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) – Rua do Voz do Operarie. A tram plunges (the only word for it) down into the Alfama district on the famous Line 28. It has already come down the line from Graca, a steep descent by any normal standards, and now simply drops off the end of the world – see the angle on the wall behind the post box (and it gets even steeper). These ‘Remodolado’ trams use old bodies mounted on new underframes and are very powerful – they just sail up these remarkable gradients like mountain goats.
Carris Remodelado #574
14 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) - Calcada Nova de Sao Francisco. No trick photography here - Lisboa trams really do travel in three dimensions!
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Carris Remodelado #8
14 march 2010 - Lisboa (PT) - Alfama. I must be the only tram fan in the world who never visited Lisboa. What an amazing place! Even though many lines have closed, there are still many places where the trams do things that would be regarded as impossible anywhere else.
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Siemens Combino #C012
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) - Cacilhas. The ferry terminal opposite Lisboa is a busy interchange with the Metro do Sul. Here, four Combinos wait to leave for one of the two routes across the city, either to Corroios or to the University. Many people travel to work by tram and boat into Lisboa city centre, which can be seen in the background.
Siemens Combino #C013
16 march 2010 - Almada (PT) - Corroios, Avenida 25 da Abril. The Metro do Sul is a new light rail system that forms a 'Y' shaped network through the residential cities opposite Lisboa, on the far side of the Tagus river. Twenty-four Combino Plus trams provide the service. Here, car #CO13 runs towards the depot on track that is not currently used for passengers, but which will form part of a planned extension.
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MAN 18.280 HOCL-NL / Caetano City Gold #2415
7 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua São Pedro de Alcântara. Srebrny pojazd parkujący na przystanku dobrze nadawałby się do wzbogacenia galerii na stronie jakkutas.pl, która obecnie funkcjonuje pod nieco stępioną nazwą "swietekrowy.pl". Ale to tutaj normalne.
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MAN 18.280 HOCL-NL / Marcopolo Viale #2495
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua do Alecrim. Tu już niestety tramwaje nie kursują.
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Mercedes O405N2 / Camo #4053
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua de São Domingos.
Mercedes O405N2 / Camo #4058
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua de São Domingos.
Mercedes O405N2 / Camo #4032
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua Garcia da Orta.
Mercedes O405N2 / Camo #4033
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua de São João da Mata
Volvo B10MA / Camo Camus #1517
8 may 2000 - Lizbona, Cais do Sodre. Poprzednia generacja lizbońskich przegubów.
Volvo B10MA / Camo Cronus Artic #1554
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua do Arsenal.
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Volvo B10MA / Camo Cronus Artic #1568
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua do Arsenal. Volvo wtacza się na Praca do Comercio.
Volvo B10MA / Camo Cronus Artic #1541
7 february 2010 - Lizbona, Estação Oriente.
Volvo B10MA / Camo Cronus Artic #1578
4 february 2010 - Lizbona, Rua Aurea. Jak widać nie tylko na wschodzie Unii mają dziurawe ulice ;-)