Postcard: Copenhagen tram line 5 with railcar 610 on Nørregade (1972)
Archive: Henrik Boye.
Publisher: Sporvejshistorisk Selskab (SHS).
Date: 1972.
City: Copenhagen (Denmark).
The picture shows
Københavns Sporveje (KS)
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Copenhagen tram line 5: Husum - Formosavej
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Copenhagen railcar 610 (ex Copenhagen railcar 549), manufacturer Københavns Sporveje (KS), type Bogiemotorvogn, series 501-618, width 2.02 m, length 12.30 m, manufactured 1930-1941, with 28 seats and 39 standing places, in the direction of Formosavej (Copenhagen).
Description
"More and more goes on at Nørregade" was for many years a slogan for Daells Department Store, and stops at the store were some of the most used on line 5. A bogie combinations keeps the image by Daells Department store in Nørregade in the latter half of the 1960s . (KS 'principal work place in 1934), had a history of NESA, where it had no. 922. NESA's tram traffic ceased in 1953. Line 5 was the last tram line in Copenhagen. It was transferred to bus services in 1972.
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