Tokyu Tamagawa line trams 1969

[bill937ca]

Tamagawa line color including the Catepillar trams.

 

http://youtu.be/2vvWjdz6WAQ

[Sacto1985]

Question: are these the old Tokyu Corporation trams that ran in the Tokyo area? Were they phased out in favor of subway lines and commuter rail?

[gmat]

The old and defunct Tamagawa Line used to run from Shibuya to what is now the Futako-Tamagawa Station at the Tama River. The current Setagaya Line was a branch line. The Den-en-toshi Line pretty much replaced the Tamagawa Line. Tokyu operated a replacement bus service from 1969 until the underground Den-en-toshi Line was completed in 1977. 

More info can be found here in the Wiki entry for the Den-en-toshi Line.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōkyū_Den-en-toshi_Line

 

Best wishes,

Grant

[Mudkip Orange]

It's sort of amazing how little traffic control there is in these videos. Roads have no lanes, not even a center stripe. At at 4:45 you have an oblique tram crossing of a six-lane arterial with no more than a blinking yellow light (which appears to be ignored by drivers until the tram is right up on them).