The Kirnitzschtalbahn 2/2 - Trams in the Kirnitzschtal - historic
YouTube name: Barnim3040.
Language: German.
Date: May 2013.
City: Bad Schandau (Germany).
The video shows
Regionalverkehr Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge (RVSOE)
Operational
Bad Schandau Kirnitzschtal 241: Kurpark - Lichtenhainer Wasserfald
Operational
Bad Schandau railcar 4 (ex Zwickau railcar 91), manufacturer VEB Waggonbau Gotha, type T57, in the direction of Lichtenhainer Wasserfald, interconnected with:
Bad Schandau railcar 2 (ex Plauen railcar 63), manufacturer VEB Waggonbau Gotha, type T57, in the direction of Lichtenhainer Wasserfald.
Bad Schandau railcar 3 (ex Plauen railcar 73), manufacturer VEB Waggonbau Gotha, type T57, in the direction of Lichtenhainer Wasserfald, interconnected with:
Bad Schandau Traditionsverkehr: Kurpark - Lichtenhainer Wasserfald
Operational
Bad Schandau museum tram 9 (ex Dresden railcar 9), type Bau/Nied, in the direction of Lichtenhainer Wasserfald.
Bad Schandau sidecar 25 (ex Zwickau sidecar 237), manufacturer VEB Waggonbau Gotha, type B2-62.
Bad Schandau sidecar 24 (ex Leipzig sidecar 468), manufacturer VEB Waggonbau Gotha, type B2-62, interconnected with:
Bad Schandau sidecar 21 (ex Leipzig sidecar 949), manufacturer VEB Waggonbau Gotha, type B2-62.
Description
The Kirnitzschtalbahn in May 2013, episode 2 of 2.
The Kirnitzschtalbahn is a meter-gauge interurban tram in Saxon Switzerland that was opened in 1898 and is now operated by the OVPS. The Kirnitzschtalbahn is 8 kilometers long and is not a heritage railway, but the smallest tram service in Saxony. On August 7, 2010, there was a severe flood in the Kirnitzschtal, so that operations were stopped because the track and vehicles were damaged. After the flood damage was repaired, the train has been running again to the Lichtenhainer Wasserfall terminus since December 14, 2012.
The oldest vehicle on the Kirnitzschtalbahn, railcar 9, comes from the Lockwitztalbahn and was built in 1926 by the W. C. F. Busch wagon factory in Bautzen. Railcar 8 is also one of the older vehicles. It was built in 1938 for the Erfurt tram and used on the Lockwitztalbahn (Niedersedlitz - Kreischa) from 1968. On December 18, 1977, the Lockwitztalbahn was closed and Tw 8 then came to the Kirnitzschtalbahn where it still runs today. In normal scheduled services, Gotha railcars of the type T57, which were built between 1957 and 1960, are now used on the Kirnitzschtalbahn.
This makes the Kirnitzschtalbahn (alongside the Woltersdorf tram in Brandenburg) the only tram company that uses exclusively Gotha railcars in normal scheduled services.
Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76_7_Dci30k
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