8 Mai 2007 - Wien, Austria – Ring/Oper. At journey’s end in central Wien, WLB trams terminate alongside city trams on the famous Ringstrasse. Car 4-124 waits for the next trip to Baden as Wien 4544 passes on a Line 62 service.
7 Mai 2007 - Guntramsdorf, Austria – Feldgasse. A Baden-bound tram disappears down the little village street in Guntramsdorf. WLB also run freight trains, of course, but not on these tracks.
7 Mai 2007 - Guntramsdorf, Austria – Feldgasse. For a short distance in Guntramsdorf, WLB trams take to the street again. Car 403 leads a high floor/low floor pair towards Baden along the narrow village street.
7 Mai 2007 - Baden, Austria – Waltersdorferstrasse. Car 402 is a different and later design. What a strange paint scheme – it looks like someone dropped a paint tin on the roof. Ugh! These new trams also look a little odd running together with the classic Deuwag-style cars but this is deliberate, as the new trams have low floors, but the older cars don’t.
7 Mai 2007 - Baden, Austria – Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Ring. In Baden, the interurban trams run on single track in the gutter as far as the city limits, where the high speed tracks begin – just like all those American interurban lines of the 1920s and 1930s. Classic stuff!
7 Mai 2007 - Baden, Austria – Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Ring. Directly on leaving the WLB terminus, trams run into the centre of the street. Compared to city trams, these are very large and imposing vehicles – inside, they have wide, comfortable seats and tables for the long ride into central Wien. Until a few years ago, you could buy coffee or beer as you travelled.
7 Mai 2007 - Baden, Austria – Josefsplatz. Another view of the Baden dead-end terminal station – directly on the street and well placed to serve the whole town. WLB cars 4-112 (left) and 4-111 wait to start their journeys to central Wien. These two trams are actually identical, but a slightly different paint scheme makes them look different.
7 Mai 2007 - Baden, Austria – Josefsplatz. The classic Wien-Baden interurban (as its name suggests) runs from the small town of Baden, along high speed reserved tracks and then via the Wien tram subways to the city streets. The line runs every 15 minutes and carries over 30,000 passengers each day. This is the stub terminus in Baden.
27 Juli 2008 - Museum: Münchner Trambahngesellschaft Blindheim e.V.
P-Tw 2015 + M-Tw 2655 mit Generatorwagen für den Fahrbetrieb auf der "kurzen" Museumsstrecke.
15 Juli 2008 - Castrop-Rauxel, Weserstraße. W tym roku udało mi się sfotografować taką perełkę. Nie wiem co to za model Büssinga, ale z pewnością premiera, bo z czego widziałem, to na TWB nie było jeszcze żadnego przeguba. Widać go doskonale na satelicie. Dodam jeszcze, że na boku ma reklamę Chio Chips! Wygląda na równie starą co autobus ;) Oczywiście proszę o pomoc w ustaleniu modelu :)
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – Finthen Romerquelle. Preserved GT6 car 226 poses in front of some interesting modern architecture – I was told it’s a school.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – Gaustrasse. Spot the tram. Car 209 twists and turns up the fearsome hill out of the city centre. The roads are so narrow here that trams tracks run in two parallel streets.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – Schillerplatz. Mainz has some tight places for trams around the old city. Here, car 275 squeezes out between the buildings at the bottom of a very steep hill – one of the steepest used by trams anywhere, I’m told.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – depot/zajezdnia Rheinallee. In the depot is this Westwaggon car, typical of the trams that ran in Mainz in the 1950s and 60s. Retained as a party tram, 97 sees regular use around the city, together with a much older two-axle car.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany - Berlinerstrasse. The preserved GT6 leaves the city centre towards Hechtsheim across a grassed traffic roundabout. Again, you can see the dual-door layout common to all Mainz trams.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – Hechtsheim Burgerhaus. This GT6 wears a blue advertising livery. Once again, double-sided, double-ended configuration was specified for these latest acquisitions.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – Hechtsheim Burgerhaus. At the southern terminus of Lines 50 and 51, one of the newest MVG Adtranz cars waits to return to the city. These cars were bought in 1996.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – Am Wildgraben. Parts of the Mainz tramway are single track, although mostly separated from road traffic. Low-floor car 205 sweeps along a central reservation towards the city centre on a Line 52 service.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany – Finthen Romerquelle. When Mainz bought new low-floor trams to replace their traditional Deuwags, these were also double-ended. Car 206 shunts at the terminus of Line 50.
5 September 2008 - Mainz, Germany- Finthen Poststrasse. Although the long interurban line to Wiesbaden has gone, the city of Mainz has kept a small, metre gauge tramway network and bought new low-floor trams a few years ago. Although the other trams from this batch of 1958 Deuwag cars went to Elblag for further service, one has been retained by MVG and is shown at the Line 51 terminus.
21 November 2008 - Zielona Góra, ul. Chrobrego. MAN przejechał z rozszarpaną oponą od ul. Wrocławskiej aż do ul. Chrobrego przy ul. Mieszka I gdzie ją zgubił. Potem jeszcze pojechał prawie do samego dworca na samej feldze.