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Trams In Odesa
As of the middle 2011, trams are one of the basic types of public transportation in the city of Odesa, Ukraine. Odesa is served by 19 regular, and 5 non-regular, tram routes. Electric trams have been operating in Odesa since 1910. The tram network is laid along mainline streets from the city center, serving as a convenient connection with the more outward neighborhoods of Odesa. System facts are: * As of early 2011, Odesa has 210 Tatra T3 tramcars, 106 of them having been modernized. * In 2006, К-1 tramcars started to be delivered. They are manufactured on Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro. There are also Tatra-Yug trams, manufactured there. * For heritage purposes, there is one pseudo-Nivelles retro tram, which was made out of MTV-82 tram. * The Odesa Tram Network is served by two depots. One is located near the railway station, the other is located in Slobodka (in the western part of the city). A service tram depot (located near "Tovarnaja" station) used to house some of the passenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tram K-1 In Odessa
A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are called tramways or simply trams/streetcars. Many recently built tramways use the contemporary term light rail. The vehicles are called streetcars or trolleys (not to be confused with trolleybus) in North America and trams or tramcars elsewhere. The first two terms are often used interchangeably in the United States, with ''trolley'' being the preferred term in the eastern US and ''streetcar'' in the western US. ''Streetcar'' or ''tramway'' are preferred in Canada. In parts of the United States, internally powered buses made to resemble a streetcar are often referred to as "trolleys". To avoid further confusion with trolley buses, the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) refers to them as " trolley-replica buses". In the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
