
Travels 2019 – Part IX
On 30. October 2019 by WebmasterMany of the VDVA members just joined us for the main part of this fall (autumn) tour: Lviv. But we had more to offer for those who are interested in trolleybuses! 4 systems in the region nearby were thus explored. We rented a large van for this (from/to Lviv). Trains could have been used but

Travels 2019 – Part VIII
On 30. October 2019 by WebmasterMost of the VDVA members joined us in Lviv. We visited both tram depots (the company has asked us not to show unsuitable photos of depot no.2 as this facility is still under reconstruction and is used to store all the retired & rusting equipment) and the trolleybus depot. Our members were able to ride

Travels 2019 – Part VII
On 29. October 2019 by WebmasterRivne was the starting point for the final 2019 VDVA tour (Lviv was the main target for this trip and only a small number of VDVA members made it to Rivne). The last system in the world that runs Skoda 9Trs in numbers. They will probably not last forever, even there. We did of course

Travels 2018 – Part IV (VDVA Bucharest & Poland)
On 18. October 2018 by WebmasterA short repeat visit to Lodz. In October 2018 VDVA visited Bucharest. You will find photos of trams, trolleybuses and metros here. As usual, we visited quite a number of depots and had some charters (private hires). If you are interested in joining us on these VDVA tours in Europe, visit the www.vdva.de website (we

Travels 2018 – Part II (Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Denmark & VDVA Sofia)
On 12. August 2018 by WebmasterThis trip took us from Odessa to Chisinau by car. We started in Odessa, went to Moldova and then drove around Romania in a big circle ending up in Moldova & Transnistria again. Here you will see photos from Rasinari – Timisoara – Targu Jiu – Craiova – Ploiesti – Braila – Galati – Vaslui

Travels 2018 – Part I (Denmark, Ukraine, VDVA Belgrade & Germany)
On 31. May 2018 by WebmasterWe started the year with a visit to the National Tramway Museum in Denmark to witness the big celebrations there (40 years!) with a short side-trip to Aarhus. In May we went to Ukraine again. We had travelled to most of the countries’s systems before but we had never managed to go East of Charkiw

Travels 2017 – Part XII (VDVA Helsinki)
On 13. September 2017 by WebmasterWe decided to add Helsinki at the end of our Baltics tour because it is fast and easy to reach by direct ferry from Tallinn. The top highlight in Helsinki was probably the private tour we had using a metro train to ride directly into the depot. We had a number of highlights during this

Travels 2017 – Part XI (VDVA Tallinn)
On 13. September 2017 by WebmasterWe reached Estonia with our coach and explored both the meter-gauge tramway and the remaining trolleybus network (which unfortunately has shrunk quite a bit recently). day 8 Pärnu (Pernau) day 8+9+10 Tallinn (Reval)
