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Two-rooms-and-a-bath car (or multi-articulated tram) [1] is a type of tram or streetcar with one or more suspended sections. The shortest examples consist of three sections; so called car bodies. The sections at the ends each have two axles or four wheels. The centre section is suspended between the end sections, spanning like a bridge.
In 1928 an experimental tram was constructed in Görlitz and then put into service in Dresden until the mid-1960s. This car was numbered 2501 and had three sections: the center section had four fixed wheels, both end sections had each only one adjustable axle. [4] Genoa was the first city to have a series of trams of this type. From 1940 ...
Trams have been used since the 19th century, and since then, there have been various uses and designs for trams around the world. This article covers the many design types, most notably the articulated, double-decker, drop-centre, low-floor, single ended, double-ended, rubber -tired, and tram-train; and the various uses of trams, both historical and current, most notably cargo trams, a dog car ...
In Sydney, trams returned in the form of light rail with the opening of the Inner West Light Rail line in 1997, which has seen extensions and now covers 7.2 mi (11.6 km). In Prague, in 2009, Škoda 15 T, the world's first completely low-floor tram with articulated bogies was introduced.
Trams with Jacobs bogies were not suitable for the partially narrow, curved radii in Freiburg, so a new type of tram was created. Freiburg's trams were based on the classic 1956 Duewag articulated tram. In contrast to conventional articulated trams, the centre of gravity of Freiburg's trams was not located at the Jacobs bogies but underneath ...
Historic 6-axle Duewag articulated tram car. The most common vehicle type currently in use in Germany is the articulated tram, either in its high floor or low floor variant. Articulated trams are tram cars that consist of several sections held together by flexible joints. Like articulated buses, they have an increased passenger capacity. These ...
When the tram drives around a curve, the underframe prevents the body from overhanging the inside of the curve, allowing tighter clearances and more flexibility than a non-articulated tram. On all except the Neunkirchen vehicles only the inner axle on each bogie is powered, with two thirds of the vehicle's weight resting on the powered axles.
GT4 train from Bremer Wagonbau in original colours in front of the city hall of Bremen GT4/GB4-train from Wegmann & Co. GT6 car derived from a Wegmann GT4. The Bremish GT4 is a GT4 type tramcar that was built in two main versions from 1959 to the 1980s.