Postcard: Skjoldenæsholm standard gauge with railcar 275 by The Tram Museum (1985)

Terminus: The Tram Museum.
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Publisher: Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS).
Date: 1985.
City: Skjoldenæsholm (Denmark).

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Skjoldenæsholm railcar 275 (ex Copenhagen railcar 275), manufacturer W.C.A. Hansen, Falkenried, Scandia, Vulcan, N. Larsen, De kjøbenhavnske Sporveje og Skarbo, type Hovedtype, width 2.10 m, length 8.90 m, manufactured 1901-1910, with 20 seats and 26 standing places, 2 axles, signed line 8 Chr.havn.

Skjoldenæsholm metre gauge: The entrance - The Tram Museum
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Skjoldenæsholm railcar 213 (ex Basel railcar 213), manufacturer BBC/Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG)/Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik (SWS), type Be 2/2.

Skjoldenæsholm railcar 1 (ex Aarhus railcar 1), manufacturer Københavns Sporveje (KS)/Scandia, type AAS, series 1-20, width 2.10 m, length 10.00 m, manufactured 1945-1947, with 22 seats and 28 standing places, 2 axles, signed line 1 Marienlund.

Skjoldenæsholm grinder car S1 (ex Copenhagen railcar 23), manufacturer F. S. Schultz.

Skjoldenæsholm sidecar 54 (ex Aarhus sidecar 54), manufacturer Københavns Sporveje (KS)/Scandia, type AAS, series 41-59, width 2.10 m, length 8.50 m, manufactured 1945-1947, with 14 seats and 30 standing places.

At the platform in front of and along the Tram Museum's depot, there is a transfer between the museum's two lines, one heading towards Højbjerg Skov and the other to the parking lot at Skjoldenæsvej. The trams shown in the picture are Copenhagen no. 275 (1907/1928), Basel no. 213 (1933), Aarhus no. 1 (1945), Copenhagen grinding trolley S 1 (1900/1952), and Aarhus sidecar no. 54 (1947).

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Postcard: Skjoldenæsholm standard gauge with railcar 470 The Tram Museum (1985)Tram museum forecourt with, among others, Copenhagen no. 470 (KS 1945), Copenhagen no. 275 (Scandia 1907), Basel no. 213 (SIG 1933), Aarhus no. 1 (KS 1945), Wuppertal no. 3241 (van der Zypen 1925) and Copenhagen no. 701 (KS 1949).By Henrik Boye, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - 1985.

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Postcard: Skjoldenæsholm standard gauge with articulated tram 890 at Eilers Eg (2001)In 2001, the Tram Museum succeeded in bringing back two of the Copenhagen articulated trams that had been running in Alexandria, Egypt for about 30 years. No. 890 (DÜWAG/Copenhagen Trams 1966) and 815 (DÜWAG 1960) are photographed in their Alexandria appearance in the loop at "Eilers Eg"By Henrik Boye, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - 2001.

Postcard: Skjoldenæsholm standard gauge with railcar 929 near Skovkanten (2009)Two anniversaries meet - the REO bus and the just-restored NESA bogie motorcar 929. Both were built in 1934 and are now 75 years old.By Henrik Boye, Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS) - August 2009.

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