KT8D5 farewell in Strausberg
YouTube name: KT4Dani.
Language: German.
Date: January 11, 2015 - January 19, 2015.
City: Strausberg (Germany).
The video shows
Strausberger Eisenbahn
Operational
Strausberg tram line 89: S-Bahnhof Strausberg - Lustgarten
Operational
Strausberg articulated tram 21 (ex Košice articulated tram 527), manufacturer Tatra, type KT8D5, length 31.20 m, weight 27.0 t, power output 360 kW, signed S-Bahnhof.
Strausberg articulated tram 22 (ex Košice articulated tram 503), manufacturer Tatra, type KT8D5R.N2S, in the direction of Lustgarten (Strausberg).
Strausberg low-floor articulated tram 0041, manufacturer Bombardier, type Flexity.
Strausberg railcar 06 (ex Berlin railcar 223 022), manufacturer Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Berlin-Schöneweide (RAW), type Reko, signed line 89 Strausberg-Stadt.
Description
After almost 20 years, the use of high-floor Tatra KT8D5s in Strausberg came to an end. After car 23 was sold to Prague in October 2014 and car 22 was modernized (RN2S) and returned to use in Strausberg, the time of the last high-floor KT8D5 no. 21 as a reserve car was over! So on January 11th 2015 there was a farewell trip for car 21 - the route to the S-Bahn station in the suburbs was traveled twice, which was documented from the outside in this video. The modernized KT8D5.RN2S was used as the line car for the time of the cycles... the route encounters between the two car types were almost unique on site!
After car 21 ... returned to Strausberg in a modernized (RN2S) format. last time, preparations for transport to Prague followed in week 3, which took place in the night of January 19th to 20th, 2015. In the morning hours of January 21st, 2015, the transport reached the main workshop in Praha Hostivař, where the car will be modernized to KT8D5.RN2P and will reinforce the scheduled services in the Czech capital of Praha under the new car number 9098.
