Košice Tram - VarioLF2+ & KT8D5 in construction site madness (14.-16.05 2015)
YouTube name: KT4Dani.
Language: Slovak.
Date: May 14, 2015 - May 16, 2015.
City: Košice (Slovakia).
The video shows
Dopravný podnik mesta Košice (DPMK)
Operational
Košice extra line R1: Staničné námestie - Vstupný areál U.S.Steel
Operational
Signed Vstupný areál USS.
Košice extra line R2: Vstupný areál U.S.Steel - Važecká
Operational
Košice tram line 3: Staničné námestie - Važecká
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Košice tram line 4: Havlíčkova - Socha Jána Pavla II
Operational
Košice articulated tram 500, manufacturer Tatra, type KT8D5, length 31.20 m, weight 27.0 t, power output 360 kW, signed Barca.
Košice tram line 9: Važecká - Havlíčkova
Operational
Description
Vario LF2+ from minute: 00:16 min.
Tatra KT8D5 from minute: 18:20 min.
This video was made during my sixteenth visit to Košice. Over half of the entire tram routes in the city were under reconstruction in the summer of 2015 and thus used as rail replacement services. The three remaining shortened tram lines 3, 4 and 9 therefore had to turn centrally via stump crossings, which was done using "climbing switches". For this reason, KT8D5 and the partially low-floor KT8D5.RN2 were used exclusively on the city lines. The interurban route to the steelworks was completely served by the new Vario LF2+ vehicles. These one-way vehicles could not use a turning loop on the city side due to their use on the R1 line and therefore turned around at the large Bardejovska/Alejova track crossing. At the time of the visit, 19 of the 28 Vario LF2+ had been delivered and 14 were already in use...for the first time in 52 years of tram service in Košice, no T3SUCS were in use! These cars have recently been massively decommissioned!
