Thursday, March 25, 2010

A Better Class of Loo

Vienna's railed public transport system consists of a comprehensive network of U bahns, S bahns and Trams and some funny linked twin car crossover train/tram things.  Some of the modern trams are street level designs that do not appear to have conventional bogies.  Today's excursion involved taking the S bahn to a nearby town.


Confusingly this is the East branch of the South main station. That's probably why no one we asked knew where it was.

The station is being built in front of our eyes:  This looks to be a temporary station knocked up one Sunday in March by a band of railway enthusiasts.

This is a view looking towards the terminus end - over to the left is presumably the site of  a permanent new South main Station.

This electrical multiple unit looks very nice and probably has electro pneumatic brakes just like the slam door junk used in London up till very recently.

The view through the length of the train - a single interconnected corridor that makes cleaning easy  - see the dayglo clad team?

A better class of loo

The turntable at the place on the name board - not actually required for these modern EMUs but a nice decaying touch redolent of the steam era.

A right hand drive Ural combination.

4 comments:

  1. That looks like the same type of carriage that we've got now in Romania; I think it's made by Siemens, but I'm not sure. The seats are as hard as f**k and the windows are so massive that you can never get any sleep with all the light that's coming in from them. Oh, and you have to be a high-jumper to get into the train from the platformless country stations. Bastards. Bring back Electroputere Craiova.

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  2. Hi Nikos,

    Thats the best bathroom I've ever seen on public transport, I would be happy to spend the whole journey sat in there.....puts our own British Rail to shame!!

    Cheers,

    Dave....

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  3. I see the curse of hi-vis extends to cleaners.....oh well. But I have a 'public order' question: do the proles stick their grubby feet up on the seats like they do in OUR trains?

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  4. Gadjo: Yes
    Dave: Yes
    Affer: Yes I did!

    Thanks for dropping in folks and y'all have a nice day!

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