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Good news for the Achenseebahn: Public funds now available von Dirk Budach

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


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Achenseebahn Insolvency: Plans for a modern regional light rail on hold von Dirk Budach

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


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Victor Harbor’s horse tramway von Gunter Mackinger

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…


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Autonomous minibus in Monheim von Christian Marquordt

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


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Barcelona: Reconstruction of the Tibidabo tram on hold von Dirk Budach

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


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Crowdfunding Campaign for a Trolleybus von Dirk Budach

A Skoda/ETI trolleybus of Dayton’s transport operator GTRTA has been handed over to the team of Czech public transport magazine „Ceskoslovensky…


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New GT6 museum tramcar in Łódź – tribute to German-Polish friendship von Stefan von Mach

It is not an ordinary historical tramcar that rolled out of the depot Chocianowice in mid-November 2019. It stands for almost 30 years…


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Bielefeld: Survivor in the Historical Museum von Dirk Budach

A remarkable survivor of the former tramway fleet in Bielefeld can be found in the Historical Museum of the city:

A part of the former …


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Naumburg’s Tram celebrates its 127th anniversary – operation secured until 2035 von Editorial | UTM

Naumburg, a 33,000 inhabitant city in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, is operating Germany’s smallest tram system. The tram line has a …


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Looking back: Görlitz in 1992 von Dirk Budach

Tramway operations in Görlitz started in 1882 and all its trams ran electric already since 1897. The small system saw several years …


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