Škoda 9Tr
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9Tr museum car in Brno |
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| 9Tr | |
| Manufacturer | Škoda |
| design type | City bus |
| Production period | 1958-1981 |
| axes | 2 |
| power | 110-120 kW |
| length | 11.0 m |
| width | 2.5 m |
| height | 3.24 m |
| Seats | 23–26 (with three doors), 39–41 (with two doors) |
| Standing room | 42–46 (with three doors), 29–31 (with two doors) |
| Empty weight | 8,900-9,600 kg |
| Previous model | Škoda 8Tr |
| successor | Škoda 14Tr |
The Škoda 9Tr is an earlier Czechoslovak trolleybus type and the successor to the Škoda 8Tr model. The abbreviation Tr stands for Trolejbus , and a distinction is made between the six sub-types 9TrL, 9TrP, 9TrT, 9TrH and 9TrHT. The 9Tr was also produced in a more common three-door version and a rarer two-door version, with the latter omitting the middle door. The letter H indicates the two-door version.
history
The 9Tr was built in large numbers from 1958 to 1981 by the Škoda company from Ostrov nad Ohří , the electrical equipment was supplied by ČKD . With 7372 units built, it is one of the most built trolleybus types in the world. In contrast to the previous 8Tr model, the 9Tr was no longer designed for trailer operation. Nevertheless, it was used together with supporters in the GDR until the mid-1980s. A joint variant was to be produced under the type designation 10Tr, but this project did not get beyond the planning phase.
The type 9Tr could be found in all Czechoslovak trolleybus operations. However, most of the cars were exported to the Soviet Union . In the Ukraine , some of them are still in use today. Further series went
- to the GDR (134 cars)
- to Afghanistan (86 cars to the Kabul trolleybus )
- Bulgaria (480 cars)
- India (12 cars on the Bombay trolleybus , right-hand drive)
- Lithuania / then USSR (295 cars to the Vilnius trolleybus and 21 cars to the Kaunas trolleybus )
- Estonia / then USSR (210 cars to the Tallinn trolleybus )
- Norway (20 cars on the Bergen trolleybus )
- Poland
In 1982 the 9Tr was finally replaced by the successor model Škoda 14Tr . In February 1988 the last regular service of a 9Tr in Germany took place.
In November 2017 there are only two companies in the Ukraine that use the Škoda 9Tr on a regular basis:
- Krymskyj trolejbus with one last copy in the Alushta city network.
- "Rivneelektroavtotrans RMR" still operates 21 vehicles in the city of Rivne.
Double traction
A special feature of this series were the trolleybus double units of two Škoda 9Tr vehicles that were customary in the Soviet Union and its successor states from 1968 onwards . The production of such trains ex works was planned under the name Škoda 12Tr , but was not implemented. Altogether there were 483 trains, they were spread over the eleven cities of Kharkiv , Dnipro , Horlivka , Yerevan , Kiev , Mariupol , Riga , Sevastopol , Simferopol , Sukhumi and Tallinn .
Overland version
Another special feature was the operation on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea , where type 9Tr cars from the Krymskyj trolejbus company were used on the longest trolleybus line in the world. Special features of the vehicles there were their additional fog lights , the permanently locked middle door, the 2 + 2 seating and the curtains in the interior of the vehicle . Krymskyj trolejbus now only uses a single copy of this series in the Alushta city network (as of November 2017)
Web links
literature
- Škoda 9 TR trolleybus. In: Motor Vehicle Technology 11/1962, pp. 463–467.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kost Koslow, Stefan Maschkewytsch: Kyjiwski Trolejbus . Kyjiw " KYJ ", Kyjiw, 2009. p. 216
- ↑ www.kubtransport.info
