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Crossing over on the Charleroi Metro
The Belgium city of Charleroi is home to the Charleroi Metro – a curious light rail system, with 33-kilometres of track circling the city centre in an underground tunnel, and forming three above ground branches to the surrounding suburbs, along […]
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Tagged Belgium, Charleroi, left hand running, light rail, premetro, rail operations, right hand running, tram stops
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Switcharoo on the Stockholm light rail
I’ve looked at many examples around Europe at trams tracks that switch from left-hand to right-hand running, and I’ve found yet another – on the Nockebybanan light rail line in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Photo by kaffeeeinstein from Berlin, […]
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Tagged left hand running, light rail, premetro, right hand running, Stockholm, Sweden, tram stops
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Another tram bent like a banana
A few years ago I found an articulated tram bent like a banana following a collision with a road vehicle, and now I’ve found another – this time in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Donald Ikkersheim photo via ad.nl Koen […]
Switching from right to left on the Wiener Straßenbahn
Trams on the Wiener Straßenbahn run on the right hand side just like every other road vehicle in Austria, but there is one exception – the elevated tracks of line 26. Opened in 2013, the 4.7 kilometre long extension of […]
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Tagged Austria, left hand running, light rail, premetro, rail operations, right hand running, tram stops, Vienna
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Gothenburg tram swapping sides from left to right
In the Swedish city of Gothenburg the tram network has a curious section of track – a diamond crossing that swaps the left and right tracks around. Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the […]
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Tagged Gothenburg, left hand running, light rail, premetro, right hand running, Sweden, tram stops, underground, underground trams
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Bending a tram like a banana
Modern low floor trams are made up of multiple articulated segments, which allow these long vehicles to make their way around sharp corners. But this 2018 crash in the German city of Bochum shows another thing these trams can do […]