Tatra tram

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Tatra tram car in Prague

Tatra tram is the unofficial name for a number of tram series from the former Czechoslovak and Czech manufacturer ČKD Tatra based in Prague , which are technically based on the American PCC cars . The manufacturer himself referred to the cars as the T series. Vehicles of this type were used in almost all Eastern Bloc countries , including the GDR , the Soviet Union (USSR), Hungary , Romania and Yugoslavia , in addition to factories in the former Czechoslovakia (ČSSR) due to a Comecon Agreement .

history

The first tram car based on the PCC car model was manufactured as T1 in 1951.

Tatra instinctual and sidecar still drive among other today in the German cities of Berlin , Chemnitz , Cottbus , Dresden , Erfurt , Gera , Frankfurt (Oder) , Gotha , Görlitz , Leipzig , Plauen , Potsdam and Zwickau , but especially in Prague , Brno , Bratislava , Szczecin and other Eastern European cities. The most common variants in East German cities are the types T3D , T4D , KT4D and T6A2D as well as their modernized forms - some with low-floor middle parts. In Strausberg , cars of the type KT8D5 and the prototype of the T6C5 are now also in use.

In the meantime, the Tatra wagons are being further developed by Aliance TW , which was founded in 2001 , consisting of the railway repair plant Krnovské opravny a strojírny sro (KOS) in Krnov (Jägerndorf) as a production facility, the Prague design office VKV Praha sro and the Prague marketing company Pragoimex as

Series

Type
designation 		Construction year Countries to which the cars were delivered number
T1 1952-1958 Czechoslovakia, Poland, Soviet Union 287
T2 1955-1962 Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union 771
T2D 1966-1968 GDR 117
T3 1960-1989 Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, GDR, Romania, Yugoslavia 13991
T4 1967-1986 Soviet Union, GDR, Romania, Yugoslavia 2635
T5A5 1972 and 1981 respectively prototype 2
T5B6 1976 prototype 2
T5C5 1980-1984 Hungary 322
T6B5 1985-2000 Bulgaria, North Korea, Soviet Union 1203
T6A2 1985-1999 Bulgaria, GDR, Hungary 256
T6A5 1992-1997 Czechoslovakia 260
T7B5 1988-1993 Czechoslovakia 8th
T6C5 1998 Prototype, USA ( New Orleans ), since 2003 Germany ( Strausberger Eisenbahn ) 1
K1 1964 and 1965 respectively prototype 2
K2 1966-1983 Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia 567
K5AR 1970-1973 Egypt 200
KT4 1974–1990 and 1997 Soviet Union, GDR, Yugoslavia, North Korea 1767
KT8D5 1986-1999 Czechoslovakia, North Korea *, Soviet Union 205
RT6N1 1993-1997 Czech Republic, Poland 19th
RT6S 1997 Czech Republic 1
RT8D5 1997-1999 Philippines 73

Type designation

The many different types of wagons that were built by Tatra received a common identification scheme that has been modified and supplemented over the years. The main technical data can be derived from this combination of numbers and letters.

Vehicle type:

The following number indicates the development series (for articulated trolleys "RT" and "KT" the number of axles).

The next character was used from T5 or KT8:

The following number (from T5 / KT8) refers to the car body width:

  • 2 = 2.2 m
  • 5 = 2.5 m
  • 6 = 2.6 m

From T2 or K2, the type designation was supplemented by further capital letters that indicated the country of use (e.g. H = Hungary, SU = Soviet Union, D = GDR, YU = Yugoslavia). An attached (small) t indicates that the vehicle has been equipped with thyristor control.

Web links

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