Postcard: Copenhagen railcar 503 (1975)

Archive: Henrik Boye.
Drawer: John Lundgren.
Publisher: Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS).
Date: 1975.
City: Copenhagen (Denmark).

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Copenhagen tram line 7: Husum - Kongens Nytorv
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Copenhagen railcar 503, manufacturer Københavns Sporveje (KS), type Bogiemotorvogn, series 501-618, width 2.02 m, length 12.30 m, manufactured 1930-1941, with 28 seats and 39 standing places, in the direction of Kongens Nytorv.

Bogie railcar designed by architect Ib Lunding 1929.
A total of 118 railcars and 83 sidecars of this popular railcar type were built between 1930 and 1941. The railcars were later converted to the permanent conductor system, where they lost their original distinctive features.

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Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 7 at Kongens Nytorv (1915)By Henrik Boye, IMK.
1915.

Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 2 with articulated tram 833 at Brønshøj (1961)Skjoldenæsholm Tram Museum Brønshøj Torv in Copenhagen, Easter 1961. The line 2 carriage is a newly delivered German-built articulated carriage, it is believed that the line 7 carriage consists of a bogie motor carriage from the 1930s and a scrappy carriage from the 1940s.By Henrik Boye, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - April 1961.

Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 7 on Hovedvagtsgade (1917)Hotel d'Angleterre. The Sidewalk Café.By Henrik Boye, Politikens Pressefoto - 1917.

Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 7 on Kongens Nytorv (1905-1907)Copenhagen. Kongens Nytorv and NyhavnBy Henrik Boye - 1905 - 1907.

Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 8 with railcar 308 at Degnemose Allé (1958)Tram Museum Skjoldenæsholm The terminus in Degnemose Allé in Copenhagen, February 1958. Railcar no. 308, built by Scandia in 1911, is one of a series of carriages designed by architect Knud V. Engelhardt. Railcar no. 3060 is a test carriage that was on loan from Hamburg. The carriage - a PCC carriage - was built in 1951 by La Brugeoise in Bruges. The carriage later came to Brussels.By Henrik Boye, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - February 1958.

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Postcard: Copenhagen animal show line Buh at Hovedbanegård (1943)By Henrik Boye, John Lundgren, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS).
July 1943.

Postcard: Copenhagen articulated tram 805 (1972)Articulated trams supplied by Duewag. The first articulated tram was put into operation on line 5 on 19 September 1960. A total of 100 modern articulated trams were purchased, the last just a few years before the abolition of tram operations on 23 April 1972.By Henrik Boye, John Lundgren, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - 1972.

Postcard: Hotel 3 Falke in Copenhagen, Denmark (1959-1966)By Grønlund, Henrik Boye.
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Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 5 with railcar 610 on Nørregade (1972)"More and more goes on at Nørregade" was for many years a slogan for Daells Department Store, and stops at the store were some of the most used on line 5. A bogie combinations keeps the image by Daells Department store in Nørregade in the latter half of the 1960s . (KS 'principal work place in 1934), had a history of NESA, where it had no. 922. NESA's tram traffic ceased in 1953. Line 5 was the last tram line in Copenhagen. It was transferred to bus services in 1972.By Henrik Boye, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - 1972.

Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 9 with railcar 543 on Christmas Møllers Plads (1966)Tram Museum Skjoldenæsholm Christmas Møllers Plads with the large roundabout 1966. Railcar no. 543 was built by the Copenhagen Tramway's main workshop in 1932.By Henrik Boye, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - 1966.

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