The future is electrifying! And at MAN Truck & Bus, the past was, too – back in 1970, the company showcased its first electric bus.…

On 17 February 1951, a new mode of transport was launched in Bonn, back then the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany for almost …

Photo-based review of the large history of the railway and tramway factory Machinenfabrik Esslingen (ME). TThis second part describes…

Setra celebrated a world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1955. For the first time, the bus builder from Ulm showed the smallest…

While in Western Germany tramway systems had only survived in major cities, there were still a number of small-town operationes in …

Due to a lack of financial resources and funds from the public authorities, the Achensee rack railway had to file for insolvency, the…

The Achsensee metre-gauge cog railway in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol has been operated for more than 130 years. Traditionally,…

It is for sure a tourist attraction but at the same time a means of transport for everyday use – the horse-drawn tramway of Victor…

The city of Monheim is located on the right bank of the Rhine, between Cologne, Leverkusen and Düsseldorf, and has some 50,000 inhabitants.…

Only two tourist lines survived the major decline and wide-scale tram abandonment programme in Spain until the mid-1970s. One is the…