You will definitely be surprised by how a living grandmother rides. The T1 tram has returned to Prague
/ PHOTO GALLERY 2019 / Just like last year, the Prague Transport Company (DPP) chose to launch the historic T1 tram, which was manufactured in the 1950s by Tatra Smíchov, on the occasion of the start of the winter season at the Museum of Public Transport in Střešovice. Passengers can take a four-axle car, which is also nicknamed the “Iron”, on Sunday on line no. 2.
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The Transport Company of the Capital (DPP) again sent a car from 1952 with the designation T1 ev. C. 5002.
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DPP wants to draw attention to the beginning season of the Museum of Public Transport, which opens its gates every weekend and on public holidays from 9 am to 5 pm. But he also wants to draw people back in time and show them how they’ve traveled in years past. For fans of public transport, it is such a small tasting that they can find in the Střešovice depot.
“There has been a lot of interest in driving historic cars for a long time. It is an experience that will be appreciated not only by the enthusiasm of fan traffic, “said Petr Malík, head of the Historical Vehicles unit, in a press release of the transport company. Praguers and visitors to the metropolis could see a car from 1952 marked T1 ev. C. 5002 already on Saturday.
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On Sunday, it is then in the eighth order of lines No. 2 with departures from the final Petřiny Housing Estate at 10:33, 12:33, 14:33, 16:33, 18:33 and from the Braník Railway Loop at 11:37, 13 : 37, 15:37, 17:37 at 19:37. The standard Prague Integrated Transport (PID) tariff applies in the car.
The production of these trams took place between 1951 and 1958. These were the first vehicles of the PCC concept (abbreviation Presidents’ Conference Committee-car) in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s. It was interesting that during the darkest totalitarianism and at the beginning of the so-called Cold War, there was also a license for the production of chassis from the American company TRC during production in the communist satellite of the Soviet Union.
The T2 tram returns. The renovated cars will pass through Prague on line no. 23
According to historians, however, there were significant problems in operation with the original prototypes and zero series. Therefore, serial production was delayed. A total of 287 T1 trams were produced in Smíchov (electrical equipment was manufactured by a factory with the then name ČKD – Stalingrad in Vysočany) until 1957. They were in normal operation in Prague until 1983. Cars with a characteristic one headlight (and unfortunately also a red star in the head) also drove in Ostrava, Olomouc, Most or Košice, Warsaw or Rostov-on-Don. Their last operator was Pilsen, where they said goodbye to these machines even in 1987.
Now the tram legend has returned to the tracks in the streets of Prague, which is a big event not only for “shots”. One of the drivers of the transport company, who has a popular Twitter account called Prague Tram, attracted people interested in a historic ride before the weekend: “Take a ride, it’s a beautiful machine. And you will surely be surprised how the grandmother lives. “
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