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these Soviet air trams still run in leig Germany the tatra t4d dm1 here was built in communist Czechoslovakia back when Czechoslovakia was a country that actually existed the latest of them went to service here in leig in the 1980s and thousands of them used to roam the streets around the cities of each Germany today though the only cities left running them are Gara zal magur and leig and even Liv will be retiring them in the next few years so ride them while you still can or done they certainly have the ride quality of something from the last century
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Leipzig doesn't need to retire them. Yes, they may look a little dated, but they are really good trams that will run in the roughest of conditions.
Did you mean Tatra Trams in general, or specifically the Tatra T4D-M1?
Because there are more cities still running Tatra Trams built in Czechoslovakia, for example Frankfurt/Oder, Potsdam, or even Berlin, in Friedrichshagen
Tatra trams run literally everywhere. The only reason to get rid of them is their limited accesseblitily
Chemnitz actually had them up until 2022 where they retired them
Some of this trams will have new home in Dnipro, Ukraine
I have lived my whole live in Zwickau and I ve never seen these trams here.
Beautiful
Plauen also still has Tatras ;3
The newer trams are wheelchair accessible, the T4 series is not.
They are actually pretty OK, I always get a little bit of a thrill here in Dresden when they send one out for a fun run, I think our track Inspektion/cleaning tram is the last Tatrabahn which still regularly runs around in the Dresden network. I am glad we mostly have much newer trams though!
The ride quality of the Tatra is actually really good, perhaps it was just caused by poor track below
Don't ring the bells, let us prepare
Passenger services with Tatra trams in Germany turn of the year 2024/25:
-Brandenburg an der Havel **
Tatra KTNF6-B (ex KT4D)
-Cottbus *
KTNF6 (ex KT4D)
-Frankfurt (Oder)*
Tatra KT4DM (ex KT4D)
-Gera*
KT4DMC + KTNF8 (ex KT4D)
-Gotha
KT4D + KT4DC + KT4DC-Z
-Görlitz**
Tatra KT4D-C (ex KT4D)
-Leipzig**
T4D-M1/2 (ex T4D)
-Magdeburg*
KT4DM
-Plauen * * *
KT4DMC (ex KT4D)
-Potsdam *
KT4DMC (ex KT4D)
-Zwickau *
KT4DMC (ex KT4D)
* will be replaced in 2025-27
** will be replaced in 2028-30
* * * only at events/football games
Dont ring the bells, let us prepare.
If you don't manage to ride them in time, you might as well head to Dnipro where part of these trams were delivered. The issue is that they have been repainted to fit Dnipro's unified transport livery tho.