Tatra T2

Tatra T2
T2 restored to its original state in Pilsen
Number:	771 railcars
Manufacturer:	Vagonka Tatra Smíchov
Year of construction (s):	1958–1962
Retirement:	2005
Axis formula :	Bo'Bo '
Length:	14,000 mm
Height:	03,050 mm
Width:	02,500 mm
Trunnion Distance:	06,400 mm
Bogie axle base:	01,900 mm
Hourly output :	160 kW
Motor type:	TM 22
Power transmission:	Overhead line
Number of traction motors:	4th
Operating mode:	Unidirectional locomotive
Seats:	25 (T2), 38 (T2SU)
Standing room:	75 (T2), 56 (T2SU)

Tatra T2R (modernized T2) as a service vehicle in Brno

Tatra T2 is the type designation for a tram from the manufacturer Vagonka Tatra Smíchov , which was designed according to the American PCC system. A total of 771 vehicles were built between 1955 and 1962 . The T2 was built as a standard tram car for Czechoslovakia .

Types

T2

In 1955 two test cars were tested in Prague , they were given the numbers 6001 and 6002. It was not until 1958 that serial vehicles were delivered to almost all tram companies in Czechoslovakia, only in Jablonec nad Nisou and Prague the cars were not used, because in Jablonec they were still over the whereabouts of the meter-gauge lines were discussed and the network of the Czech capital was not yet designed for operation with 2.5 m wide vehicles.

Unlike their predecessors of the T1 type , they were built to be more robust and therefore more durable. Most of the vehicles were retired by the 1980s, although some museum vehicles and work cars have survived today. Only in Liberec are T2 still (only again since 1995) being used as planned until today, after they had already been removed from the portfolio in 1988. These are vehicles that were bought second-hand from Ostrava , as more and more standard-gauge vehicles were required in the course of the change of gauge to standard gauge. The last two T2 in regular use worldwide are therefore wagons 26 and 27 in Liberec. Operation with T2 on standard gauge ended in the spring of 2006, the use of unmodernized T2 on August 26, 2006 with the end of the construction sites on the overland railway. Some vehicles were already externally and partially also technically adapted to the successor types T3 in the 1960s .

T2SU

380 vehicles came under the designation T2SU to the Soviet Union , where they held their own in regular service until the 1980s. In contrast to the T2 vehicles, the T2SUs delivered later did not have the middle double door, which resulted in a higher number of seats. However, the first cars also had three doors. In addition, some cars were designed for operation under the harsh climatic conditions of the Soviet Union.

Deliveries

Country	city	Type	Delivery years	Number of pieces	numbering
Soviet Union	Kiev	Т2SU	1960–1962	50	5002-5051
	Kuibyshev	Т2SU	1958–1962	43	501-542
	Leningrad	Т2SU	1959	2	1001, 1003
	Moscow	Т2SU	1959-1962	180	301-480
	Rostov on Don	Т2SU	1958-1959	40	321-360
	Sverdlovsk	Т2SU	1958–1962	65	301-367
Czechoslovakia	Bratislava	Т2	1959-1962	66	201-266
	Brno	Т2	1958–1962	94	401-494
	Košice	T2	1958–1962	31	211-242
	Liberec	T2	1959-1961	14th	10-23
	Most – Litvínov	T2	1961–1962	36	235-270
	Olomouc	T2	1960-1961	4th	111-114
	Ostrava	T2	1958–1962	100	600-699
	Pilsen	T2	1960–1962	26th	134-159
	Prague	T2	1955	2	6001-6002
	Usti nad Labem	T2	1960–1962	18th	151-168
Total:				771

Individual evidence

1. ^ Trams in Liberec (Reichenberg) and Jablonec (Gablonz) from 1897 until today
2. ↑ Mara, p. 331.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Mara, p. 332.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Mara, p. 343.
5. ↑ Mara, p. 301-302.
6. ↑ Mara Robert: tramvaje Tatra T2 . Ed .: Pavel Malkus - dopravní vydavatelství. Praha 2005, ISBN 80-903012-7-4 , p. 147-148 .
7. ^ Mara, p. 316.
8. ^ Mara, p. 182.
9. ^ Mara, p. 192.
10. ^ Mara, p. 204.
11. ↑ Mara, pp. 260-262.
12. ^ Mara, p. 274.
13. ↑ Mara, p. 14.
14. ^ Mara, p. 282.

Web links

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