Travels 2019 – Part I
On 18. April 2019 by WebmasterPlenty of systems to visit this year in at least 6 countries but we started the tram season early with a “local” visit. Heinschenwalde – January (three ex Bremerhaven trams waiting for the scrap man – ex Wehmingen museum) Lodz – a fond farewell to line 43 (and more) – March Aarhus – March (including
"Helmuts" in Lodz (Update 2019)
On 26. January 2019 by WebmasterLodz is one of my favorite travel destination these days. The “Helmut” cars (this is the local nickname for all ex West German cars that went to Poland) are of special interest to me. Unfortunately, the wounding-down of the Lodz interurban tram companies MKT and TP in 2012 resulted in the scrapping of a number of these
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 III (Moldova/Transnistria & Romania)
On 9. September 2018 by WebmasterWe continue our road trip from Odessa to Chisinau (via all Romanian tram and trolleybus systems except Bucharest). Here you will find photos of the trolleybus systems in Chisinau, Bender and Tiraspol in Moldova (the last two in Transnistria). We also show photos of Iasi – Piatra Neamt – Brasov – Medias – Cluj-Napoca –
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 XIII (Denmark & Poland)
On 25. November 2017 by Webmaster2017-01-15-14-02-18-44.jpgVarious short trips took us to Denmark and Poland. Travels to the Ukraine (two trips this year) and the www.vdva.de trip to the Baltics & Helsinki are shown in separate posts! Aarhus – November Szczecin (Stettin) – October Museu m Skjoldenæsholm – October Poznań (Poznan/Posen) – September Łódź (Lodz/Lodsch) – July Poznań (Poznan/Posen) – July
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)