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Liepājas Tramvajs
Liepājas tramvajs is a municipal company that operates a single tram line in Liepāja, Latvia. The current double-tracked tram line has a length of . History 1899 The first electric tram line in the Baltic states was founded in Liepāja, September 26, 1899. The first nine trams used by the company were made by Herbrand (based in Köln, Germany). The first tram line was built to Karosta. 1903 In 1903 the company ordered six new trams from Herbrand. The new trams received numbers 10 to 16. 1904 Two-way tram line has been built at Liela street in the city center. 1940 After World War II the old Herbrand trams has been placed to new self-made frames. 18 March 1941 for the first time since 1899 the woman (Anna Cekuse) has become the Conductor (transportation), conductor. The company starts to use tree-digit numbering, precessing tram number with 1. In 1949-1956 few trams has been built in Liepāja using the details from Kaliningrad and self-made frames. 1957 In 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Owned
State ownership, also called public ownership or government ownership, is the ownership of an industry, asset, property, or enterprise by the national government of a country or state, or a public body representing a community, as opposed to an individual or private party. Public ownership specifically refers to industries selling goods and services to consumers and differs from public goods and government services financed out of a government's general budget. Public ownership can take place at the national, regional, local, or municipal levels of government; or can refer to non-governmental public ownership vested in autonomous public enterprises. Public ownership is one of the three major forms of property ownership, differentiated from private, collective/cooperative, and common ownership. In market-based economies, state-owned assets are often managed and operated as joint-stock corporations with a government owning all or a controlling stake of the company's shares. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gera
Gera () is a city in the German state of Thuringia. With around 93,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Thuringia after Erfurt and Jena as well as the easternmost city of the ''Thüringer Städtekette'', an almost straight string of cities consisting of the six largest Thuringian cities from Eisenach in the west, via Gotha, Erfurt, Weimar and Jena to Gera in the east. Gera is the largest city in the Vogtland, and one of its historical capitals along with Plauen, Greiz and Weida, Thuringia, Weida. The city lies in the East Thuringian Hill Country, in the wide valley of the White Elster, between Greiz (upstream) and Leipzig (downstream). Gera is located in the Central German Metropolitan Region, approximately south of Saxony's largest city of Leipzig, east of Thuringia's capital Erfurt, west of Saxony's capital Dresden and 90 km (56 miles) north of Bavaria's city of Hof (Saale). First mentioned in 995 and developing into a city during the 13th century, Gera has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottbus
Cottbus () or (;) is a university city and the second-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after the state capital, Potsdam. With around 100,000 inhabitants, Cottbus is the most populous city in Lusatia. Cottbus lies in the Sorbian settlement area () of Lower Lusatia, and is the second-largest city on the River Spree after Berlin, which is situated around downstream. The city is located on the shores of Germany's largest artificial lake, the Cottbuser Ostsee (). Cottbus is considered the political and cultural center of the Lower Sorbian-speaking Sorbs (in Lower Lusatia also called the Wends), while the overall center of all Sorbs (Lower and Upper) is Bautzen (''Budyšin''). Cottbus is the largest bilingual city in Germany. Signage is mostly in German and Lower Sorbian. The city is the seat of several Lower Sorbian institutions like the Lower Sorbian version of the Sorbischer Rundfunk (/), the Lower Sorbian Gymnasium, and the Wendish Museum (). The use of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatra KT4
Tatra KT4 is the name of a GT4 (tram), four-axle type articulated tramcar developed by the Czech firm ČKD Tatra. The first pre-production vehicles entered service in Potsdam in 1975, with the first production vehicles in 1977. A total of 1,747 units were built, with initial deliveries to DDR (state), East Germany (DDR) and later to USSR, the USSR and SFR Yugoslavia. KT4 variants were built for both standard gauge and metre gauge tramways. Production of the KT4 tramcar was halted in 1991 due to Fall of communism, worldwide economic and political changes at the time. Production was briefly resumed in 1997 to construct the last 20 units for Belgrade tram system, Belgrade, Serbia. Since the start of the 1990s, many of the earliest production tramcars have gone through extensive refurbishment and rebuilding, including the replacement of folding doors and the installation of Low-floor tram, low-floor center sections. The design of the tram, being without a bogie over the joint necessita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TMK 2300
TMK 2300 (sometimes alternatively regarded as TMK 2200-K) is a low-floor tram produced by Končar - Electric Vehicles. It began production in 2009, based on further development of its predecessor, TMK 2200, using Končar's proprietary R&D and technology. The vehicle was exhibited at 2022 InnoTrans in Berlin. Technical specification One unit is long, high without pantograph, wide and weighs . It is able to reach a speed of , but is restricted to for safety reasons in an urban environment. The tram is equipped with batteries in case of a power outage, giving it an additional distance at low speed without an external electric source. The vehicle also boasts a modern passenger notification system, video surveillance, an air conditioning system and other similar equipment. As with the previous 2200 model, the bogie is designed as to store wheels in the bearing boxes that form the basic frame. The basic frame is then stored in the chassis (bogie) frame itself, and the axle is r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezerkrasts
Ezerkrasts is one of the largest and most modern neighbourhoods of Liepāja, Latvia. It is located near the southern border of the city, on the western coast of Liepāja lake Liepāja () (formerly: Libau) is a state city in western Latvia, located on the Baltic Sea. It is the largest city in the Courland region and the third-largest in the country after Riga and Daugavpils. It is an important ice-free port. In the .... Ezerkrasts named so after the naming contest in 1975, in which this name was selected from 108 other variants. Ezerkrasts consists of three parts called Ezerkrasts 1, Ezerkrasts 2 and Ezerkrasts 3. Wikimapia References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatra T2-62
Tatra may refer to: * Tatra Mountains, a mountain range in Slovakia and Poland ** Tatra County, an administrative division of Poland in the region of the Tatra Mountains ** Tatra National Park, Poland, a national park in Poland ** Tatra National Park, Slovakia, a national park in Slovakia * Low Tatras, a mountain range in Slovakia * "Tatra Tiger", the nickname for the economy of Slovakia during its high growth period since 1998 * Tatra (company), a car and truck manufacturer from the Czech Republic * ČKD Tatra, a producer of trams from the Czech Republic * Tatra, Estonia, a village in Tartu County, Estonia * Tátra-class destroyer, a torpedo boat class of the Austro-Hungarian Navy * Tatra pine vole, a species of vole * FK Tatra Kisač, a football club in Serbia * Tatra, a Czech brand of milk produced in Hlinsko * Tatra, a Polish brand of beer produced by the Żywiec Brewery See also * Tatar (other) Tatar may refer to: Peoples * Tatars, an umbrella term for different T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotha Т59Е
Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the end of monarchy in Germany in 1918. The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha originating here spawned many European rulers, including the royal houses of the United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal (until 1910) and Bulgaria (until 1946). In the Middle Ages, Gotha was a rich trading town on the trade route ''Via Regia'' and between 1650 and 1850, Gotha saw a cultural heyday as a centre of sciences and arts, fostered by the dukes of Saxe-Gotha. The first duke, Ernest the Pious, was famous for his wise rule. In the 18th century, the ''Almanach de Gotha'' was first published in the city. The publisher Justus Perthes and the encyclopedist Joseph Meyer made Gotha a leading centre of German publishing around 1800. In the early 19th century, Gotha was a bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
