Ride in the driver's cab on the Mallorca tram from Sóller to Puerto de Sóller
YouTube name: Pennula.
Language: German.
Date: September 29, 2014.
City: Sóller (Spain).
The video shows
Ferrocarril de Sóller (FS)
Operational
Sóller tram line: Sóller - Port de Sóller
Operational
Sóller railcar 20 (ex Lisbon railcar 20?), type Lisboa.
Sóller railcar 23 (ex Lisbon railcar 23?), type Lisboa.
Sóller railcar 1, type Soller.
Description
The railway company Ferrocarril de Sóller S.A. has been operating the daily train service from the island's capital Palma de Mallorca to Sóller in the northwest of the island since 1912 (Tren de Sóller or Ferrocarril de Sóller). Since 1913, the tram line from Sóller to Puerto de Sóller, i.e. from the train station to the port, has also been operated (Tranvía entre Sóller y el Puerto de Sóller). Pennula had the opportunity to film a ride in the driver's cab on this famous tram.
On October 4, 1913, the tram line between Sóller and Port de Sóller was inaugurated. The construction of the tram became necessary after the railway line from Palma to Sóller was built a year earlier. At that time, the connection from the train station in Sóller to the port in Sóller was still missing. Although the tram was originally intended as a means of transporting people, it was increasingly used for freight transport, with a small refrigerated truck transporting fresh fish from the port to the city. The route is just under five kilometres long and runs from Sóller to the stops Mercat, Can Guida, Can Reus, L'Horta, Monument, Can Llimó, Can Ahir, Roca Roja, Es Control, Sa Torre, S'Espléndido, Las Palmeras, S'Eden, Can Generós, Marysol and La Payesa. Initially, the tram was powered by its own power station in Sóller station; a 65 hp combustion engine was installed there, which drove a Siemens-Schuckert dynamo, generating a voltage of 600 volts. You can find more information at http://www.pennula.de.
