Reșița tram
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 former Dortmund type GT8 articulated car
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| Route length: | 9.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 750 volts = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Reșița tram was the tram system of the Romanian city of Reșița . It existed from 1988 to 2011 and was standard gauge . The tram was opened by the former transport company of the Caraș-Severin district , the Întreprinderea Judeteană de Transport Local Caraș-Severin . As a result of the Romanian Revolution of 1989 , the municipal company PRESCOM took over operations in the early 1990s .
history
In the course of the political promotion of electric transport by the then socialist government under Nicolae Ceaușescu , the Constanța tram (1984) and the Brașov tram , the Craiova tram , the Cluj-Napoca tram and the Ploieşti tram (1987) went to the industrial city of Reșița in south-western Romania sixth new tram system in operation. The opening took place on August 23, 1988, the Romanian national holiday at the time, and initially only comprised the 2.8 kilometer long northern section RENK-Intim. After completion of the subsequent bridge over the railroad tracks across the tram was on 1 May 1989 on a diameter line to be extended between RENK and Piaţa Republicii. On August 23, 1989, exactly one year after the opening, the final section Piața Republicii - Stavila was followed by the completion of the 9.5-kilometer tram route. The new means of transport connected the residential areas in the north of the city via the city center with the large steelworks in the south and served a total of 18 stops . After the completion of the entire route, two lines ran which overlapped in the middle section:
- 1 : Triaj - Piața Republicii - Stavila
- 2 : RENK - Triaj - Piața Republicii
The company had to struggle with serious technical problems from the start. The extension to Stavila had to be stopped in November 1989 - only three months after the opening - due to poor construction, which led to damage to the wheel tires and bogies . For example, the radii of the turning loops were too narrow and the track geometry of the route was also wrong. Additional difficulties arose from the initial maintenance and parking of the vehicles in the open air, because the high-rise buildings on the depot site - including the workshop - could not be completed until mid-1992. Repairs were therefore initially carried out in the RENK turning loop. Due to a lack of spare parts deliveries, a large part of the - originally 22 - Timiș 2 four-axle trains delivered in 1988, 1989 and 1990 had to be cannibalized as spare parts donors.
Soon after it opened, the tram could only be operated to a limited extent. As early as 1991 there was an emergency operation with four trains in the 15-minute cycle , in September 1992, were finally back then twenty existing Timis 2 sets only three operational. The remaining courses therefore operated in the rail replacement service with Ikarus omnibuses taken over from Germany . This was possible without any problems because the entire route of the Reșița tram ran on grooved rails in the road surface .
The poor condition of the infrastructure and the vehicles finally led to a temporary suspension of all traffic in August 1994 - after only six years of operation. After a repair, the tram finally resumed operation in February 1995, but the section Piața Republicii - Stavila remained closed due to the gradients in the course of the bridge over the Bârzava .
The procurement of used trams from Germany brought an improvement in the wagon sector. Initially, the local transport company received a total of 21 GT8 articulated cars from the Dortmund tram between 1997 and 2000 in three delivery lots . In November 2004, eight also eight-axle articulated cars of the followed type N of the streetcar Frankfurt with the car numbers 802, 809, 810, 811, 815, 816, 817 and 824. With the help of German cars and the route Stavila was back in operation go, so two lines are running again:
- 1 : RENK - Piața Republicii
- 1b : RENK - Piața Republicii - Stavila ( dashed line , b = barat, Romanian for deleted)
On August 27, 2011, the Reșița tram was finally switched to bus transport. A restart is specifically planned.
literature
- Hans Lehnhart: Public Transport in Romania . In: Stadtverkehr , issue 6/92 (37th year), pages 15-17.
- Axel Reuther: Urban traffic in Romania 1992 . In: Blickpunkt Straßenbahn , issue 01/93, pages 218–222.
- A. Günther, S. Tarkhov, C. Blank: Tram atlas Romania 2004 . Working group Blickpunkt Straßenbahn eV, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-926524-23-5 .
Web links
- Schematic route graphics on www.urbanrail.net
- True-to-scale route graphics on www.transira.ro
- Gallery on tramwaysdumonde.skynetblogs.be
