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| Trams, or street cars, hold a particular fascination to me. A city is not a city unless it has trams (exclude Wolverhampton as I don't like that place very much) |
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| Trolley buses were prevalent in the USSR and some were exported to Athens (like this but painted yellow). |
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| Here is a single car on a long thin route to a park outside Kharkov. |
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| I like the over sized pantograph |
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| The loading of walking cargo appears to take place in the middle of a busy street |
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| This is probably the personal transport of the Mayor of Kharkov |
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| The biggest samovar in the Ukraine |
Onlt thing missing from the photos is the obligatory tram spotter, complete with notebook and anorak. have you been to the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft?
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ReplyDeletesorry, no trams here, only buses or monorail. I took a cable car down in San Francisco a few years ago, but they are propelled by grabbing an underground cable, no engine, just brakes.
greatings from rain-soaked BC
bob
Riding the Wet Coast
What you actually need is a bottle of Karkov vodka inserted in there to add a little class, because nothing brought class to a party like a liter of Karkov.
ReplyDeleteBrady
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Wonderful samovar!
ReplyDeleteTaken at the Yakolev Tractor Collective and filled with vodka for the morning break??
That's a big tea urn! Do they have them on trams?
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One of my earliest memories of London is of being taken to the Festival of Britain and for a ride on one of the few remaining trams (of course, I hadn't actually been born at that point).
ReplyDeleteI hate modern trams - so darn big - and particularly hate the Sheffield trams. But it is still (just) possible to ride a proper tram in Hong Kong - but maybe for not much longer.
Hi Bikerted
ReplyDeleteWhat are you doing in September - I'll take you to Thornton Heath Bus garage?
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Hi Bob
ReplyDeleteMonorail will do at a pinch.
SF streetcars are quite gay...
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Geoff
ReplyDeleteAllegedly this samovar produced all the tea for Ukraine (central planning etc etc). Vodka is piped through the central "water" system in some areas at certain times.
happy soma!
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Brady
ReplyDeleteWhere do you party?
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Miss Scarlet
ReplyDeleteI have an affinity to urns too as I used to make teas for the 1st XI Cricket team, as it was safer apparently, for me to try to light the gas than be on the cricket pitch.
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Affer
ReplyDeleteRemember you are only as old as the tram you sit in.
Vienna has proper trams that Einstein used to think about.
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Yeah, I agree Niko: we have trams and trolly-buses in Cluj, and sometimes the pantographs get dislodged from the lines, requiring that the driver come and poke it with a very long pole - there really should be a special word for this particular activity, do you know what it is?
ReplyDeleteDear Gadjo
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about something along the lines of:
ηλεκτρικό άτομο προωθητών πόλων
Sory Nikos, already been there and got 25 points in my I-Spy book on British Stations. The way petrol prices are going we could be spending two weeks in Walthamstow's station.
ReplyDeleteI, too, love trams. They still have them where I come from, although newer ones. I much prefer the cool old antiques.
ReplyDeleteAnd what a adventure to drive in one! 1,5 grevna.. 1/13 €!!....
ReplyDeleteMrs Nikos