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TEG/AMN Drieasser #354
Built: 1930
Uploaded: 2009-07-11 18:31:44
Place: De Panne / Vlaanderen
Width: 800, Height: 600
File size: 186.77kB
File size: 186.77kB
9 june 2009 - De Panne (BE) – depot/zajezdnia. One of the very unusual 3-axle trams which ran in Gent until the 1960s. Look at the wheels – the middle pair can turn on corners (we call this in English a ‘radial’ axle). This 6-wheel arrangement is quite rare – I have only seen it recently on some Munchen trams. They wear out the track very quickly, though, if not maintained well.
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There were a few more German cities apart from Munich that bought six-wheelers in the 1950s, although most of them look very similar to four-wheelers of the time. Oberhausen springs to mind (one of theirs is preserved in running condition in neighbouring Mülheim-on-Ruhr), but there were a fair few systems. Munich had the biggest fleet, though.
- dvigar (195.93.21.*) (2009-07-11 21:53:44)
Thanks for the info - I didn't know there were so many. I guess they were a compromise - if you had sharp curves, unsuitable for a conventional bogie tram, then a three-axle tram gave more seats than a long four wheeler.
- dvigar (195.93.21.*) (2009-07-12 00:21:21)
They were supposed to give a smoother ride and went round corners better than a four wheeler.
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