: Taken over by the company as Strausberg articulated tram 21 (ex Košice articulated tram 527), manufacturer Tatra, type KT8D5, length 31.20 m, weight 27.0 t, power output 360 kW.
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Strausberg tram (2014)Here is a video about the Strausberg tram. You can see the following types:
F6Z (Flexity Berlin): 0041, 0042.
KT8D5: 21.
T6C5: 30.
I was lucky with the T6C5. Because it is no longer used for passenger service. The T6C5 was travelling with a tower trailer, and I even caught the T6C5 entering the depot.By tramfreak2000 - .
Strausberger Eisenbahn - Strausberg Tram (2012)A visit to Strausberg and it's railway - or tram? Often it is asked if this is a railway or tram system. While originally founded as a railway the mixed service of trains and trams ended in 2005 with the removal of the tracks connecting DB network and the STE with each other. Since 2006 it is by law only a tram so I nowadays it can't be called a railway anymore. The freight train tracks were removed, some remains are still there, see the pics and the end of the video.
The freight train locos were given to the Buckower Kleinbahn. The station buildings are from the first years of railway service. The whole line is single-track with a passing loop at Hegermühle.
In service are three Tatra KT8D5 trams which were bought in 1995 from Kosice. In 2003 a Tatra T6C5 car was bought which was a former test car for New Orleans. It is only in service at weekends or at non-busy periods.
New low-floor trams are ordered and will come intro service in 2013. They are Bombarder Flexity trams and the same type like the short bi-directional cars from Berlin. One of them was tested at the end of 2010 - with success.
The tram can be reached at station Strausberg served by S-Bahn Berlin and the NEB railway company. It is in the C fare zone of Berlin so these tickets can be used here. On weekdays it is in service every 20 minutes, on weekends only every 40 minutes.By Klingl3r - .
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KT8D5 farewell in Strausberg (2015)After almost 20 years, the use of high-floor Tatra KT8D5s in Strausberg came to an end. After car 23 was sold to Prague in October 2014 and car 22 was modernized (RN2S) and returned to use in Strausberg, the time of the last high-floor KT8D5 no. 21 as a reserve car was over! So on January 11th 2015 there was a farewell trip for car 21 - the route to the S-Bahn station in the suburbs was traveled twice, which was documented from the outside in this video. The modernized KT8D5.RN2S was used as the line car for the time of the cycles... the route encounters between the two car types were almost unique on site!
After car 21 ... returned to Strausberg in a modernized (RN2S) format. last time, preparations for transport to Prague followed in week 3, which took place in the night of January 19th to 20th, 2015. In the morning hours of January 21st, 2015, the transport reached the main workshop in Praha Hostivař, where the car will be modernized to KT8D5.RN2P and will reinforce the scheduled services in the Czech capital of Praha under the new car number 9098.By KT4Dani - - .
: Taken over by the company as Prague articulated tram 9098 (ex Košice articulated tram 527), manufacturer Tatra, type KT8D5, length 31.20 m, weight 27.0 t, power output 360 kW.
