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Erfurt, Germany: Streetcars (Trams)

Description

Erfurt is the capital of the German state of Thuringia (Thüringen), with a population of about 200,000. Its meter-gauge streetcar system has six routes and a total length of about 40 km. The backbone of the fleet consists of 48 Siemens Combino units built since 2000, supplemented by Tatras built in Czechoslovakia in the late 1970s through 1980s and modernized in the late 1990s, and some Düwags from the 1990s.

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These pictures were taken in late June / early July 2009.

[picture #1] | [picture #2] Combinos at the Fischmarkt.

[picture #1] | [picture #2] Another Combino at the Domplatz.

[picture] At the main railway station (Hauptbahnhof), streetcars and buses run through a street-level "tunnel" lined with shops that connects directly with the station concourse. Here's a Tatra coming out the north side...

[picture] ... and a Combino coming out the south side.

[picture #1] | [picture #2] Like many other German streetcar systems, Erfurt has special cars that can be chartered for tours and other events. This one is the "Birthday Streetcar" (Geburtstags-Strassenbahn), a modernized Tatra done up to celebrate the 125th anniversary of street railways in Erfurt.

This page was last updated on 1 August 2009.

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