Trams in Prague

[railsquid]

Due to an unexpected sequence of events I find myself this weekend not whiling away the hours on the daikon-infested plains of western Tokyo, but in Prague, which is full of trams, to my surprise many of them still Tatras, so took the opportunity to ride around a bit to stave off the jetlag. Here's a random photo:

 

Prague Tatra trams, I.P. Pavlova, 2023-05-21 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

More to follow when I feel like it.

Edited May 20 by railsquid

[bill937ca]

I will be there later this year.

Edited May 22 by bill937ca

[railsquid]

I'm not here for pleasure, alas, but managed to negotiate arrival at the weekend to acclimatize and get over the culture shock.

[brill27mcb]

I must paint my Tomytec Prague Tatra pantographs yellow sometime.

 

Rich K.

[railsquid]

Meanwhile not a tram but a metro station:

 

Můstek Station (Prague) by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

I had forgotten how ineffably cool these are.

[katem]

I've been in Prague on Saturday too! Model train fair slash flea market for people to buy, sell, exchange... Too bad it took place somewhere totally off because the usual place near main train station is being reconstructed.

 

Enjoy your stay even though it is not for pleasure 🙂 

[bikkuri bahn]

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I had forgotten how ineffably cool these are.

I remember the escalators being really, really fast, probably because many of the stations are so deep.  Seemingly frantic when contrasted with some of the department store escalators here in Japan- slowed, slowed down for the oldies.

[railsquid]

I think they have been slowed down, I remember being surprised by the speed the first time I went on them (early 1992) but now they feel about as fast (or as slow) as the ones on the Oedo Line.

[ED75-775]

Ooooh, Prague trams, that reminds me I was there in 2013:

 

 

 

We weren't there for too long, just two days between a one-night stay in Austria and a three-night stay in Berlin. Having never seen a Tatra T3 IRL, I was kind of intrigued by them. They weren't the only things running though, there was a smattering of other types - Škoda 14T and 15T articulated trams, plus the older single-unit T6A5s - we didn't see anything else in service apart from them, although I did see an older tram and trailer being used as a café in Wenceslas Square.

 

Still hasn't convinced me to buy a Tomytec version though, as I'm trying to religiously stick to Japanese and, if any were to come up, Australasian trams. We'll see how long that lasts when I'm in Japan!

 

Alastair

[bill937ca]

Sad news from Prague today. A 14T was hit from behind by a T3 set.  Both T3s were heavily damaged and the driver of the T3 had to be extradited from the cab.

 

 

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