The many and varied trams of Poznan, Poland

[TimmyC62]

When to Poznan in July 2016 for a conference and had to document some of the trams I saw. Many of them being made by DuWag, they share some distant similarities with Calgary's U2 cars. Wiki has quite an excellent article on the history of the trams and the system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Poznań

 

This first batch of photos show mainly exterior shots of the older second-hand trams from West Germany (GT6 and GT8) and those from Polish firm Konstal. 

One of the extra activities of the conference was a chartered ride on the older trams from their museum - the interior shots in this post are from that on a GT6:

 (note the absence of interlock on the front door, which is opened while the tram's still moving)

On weekends, they pull one of their museum pieces out for an extended tourist route - I believe I caught their oldest working unit here:

And a smattering of shots of GT8s:

So-called "aquarium" trams due to their appearance, this is a Konstal 105 variant:

Another museum piece, a Konstal 102N:

This is probably the youngest of the museum's weekend pieces - a GT6 that retired from regular revenue service only in 2014 with the classic DuWag door button used on Calgary's U2 cars:

 

And for contrast, the system's newest addition - Polish firm Solaris's Tramino:

 

 

Overall, really cool system for fanning with plenty of photographing opportunities and access, but do get there before the older ones get replaced!

Feel free to ask any questions!

[LRT]

Those are some incredible pictures!!

[1604]

Really nice photos, thanks for sharing!

[T3G]

Very nice photos!

[captaintrolley]

Awesome photos.

[98 Willowdale-Senlac]

really nice photos im from poland too

[TimmyC62]

Glad you all like them! The framing options are a lot more friendly with these subjects than with "true" mass/rapid rail. Photos taken on my phone, a Lumia 950XL. 

 

Here are two videos I took while riding the museum GT6: