Volgograd is the only city in Russia where trams go underground too. This tram on the pic above is a regular tram like in any other big city, but in Volgograd a big part of tram rails lay under the city. The reasons for this may be the geographical specialty of the area or probably they wanted to protect the citizens of the cold winters so transfered trams under the ground where it’s not that freezing in the winter.
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Very cool.I like trams.
Its a nice idea that the underground trams might be there because of the cold..if only people were more thoughtful here in Wales
first (well actually second, but i am the first one to say first)
It looks like a well-maintained and efficient system. The stations are very nice.
more about “The Volgograd Express Tram” (Skorostnoy Tramvaj) http://urbanrail.net/eu/vol/volgograd.htm
other underground rapid tram line
http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/kry/kryvy-rih.htm
Very nice. Thanks for the links.
Actually – Volgograd wanted a subway but didn’t qualify for funding from the state to build one. So they built a light-rail subway instead.
Are there any signalized at grade road crossings with the Light Rapid Transit in Volgograd?
fantastic! can you make pictures indoor tram?
In Boston, trams go underground too – for instance the Green T line. They also have underground trolley buses on the Silver Line.
In soviet russia, tram cathes you
We have a similar Tram-System in Hannover:
http://public-transport.net/bim/Hannover.htm
wow, a nice looking transport!
IKARUS!
Reminds me a lot of the Washington, D.C. Metro, actually, in terms of underground station design. Like maybe a cross between the Metro and an Amtrak train. I like the colors.
they have this in toronto as well
There is a similar system in Vienna. The irony is that it looks pretty “Russian” in comparison to this one here. The stations are from the 60s or 70s and have never been throughly renovated, they have long underground corridors with bare brick walls, etc.
The system of a high-speed tram in Volgograd is made such because of city geography. The city very narrow and long and consequently to reach usual means from suburbs in the centre is necessary long enough because of crossroads…
The line of this tram passes along all city and is not crossed anywhere with highways not to stop on traffic lights. In city centre it is impossible, therefore the underground site there is made.
The underground site of a high-speed tram is made with possibility of expansion to the underground – there like even fastenings for a contact rail are
The similar system is in Krivoi Rog on Ukraine.
And in Russia in area Sochi there is a long-distance trolley bus (the longest trolleybus line in the world)
What do you think of monorail? In other countries it has been the success.
Isn’t Volgograd home of the world’s largest freestanding statue?
This one is there:
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=motherland+statue&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
not sure if it’s the largest, try more Google
No in Sochi area, the longest trolleybus line in the world is in Crimea, Ukraine.
Looks kind of like Metra and the “el” in Chicago (parts of it are underground, but we still insist on calling it the “el”, don’t ask me why). Metra is pretty nice, but I don’t know enough about the el to say much.
Have you visited Russian Tea Time?
No, but I shall have to some time.
Been in that station thousands of times! brings back memories. love that city.
It is not to protect the tram from freezing… Volgograd is the southern city and its winters are mostly mild. The climate there is very similar to the one of Toronto, Canada, where streetcars run on surface during winters.
And by the way guys do you know that Volgograd is the new name for Stalingrad ?!
Newark, New Jersey’s light rail line goes underground downtown too. Not only that, they used 1940s PCC trolley cars until 2001, when they replaced them with modern light-rail trains. Those particular PCC’s were originally owned by Twin City Rapid Transit (here in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota), but they were sold to Newark in the early 1950s when Twin City Lines converted to buses. Some pics of them in Newark can be found at world.nycsubway.org (among other places). As for where they are now, one was sold to the Minnesota Streetcar Museum back in 1990 (it now runs on the Museum’s Como-Harriet Line in Minneapolis), and some of the others are now on San Francisco, California’s F Line (they’re painted in the colors of other trolley systems that once used PCC’s, including TCRT).
It looks like Volgograd hasn’t changed that much from the last time I visited almost 17 years ago.
I think the city fathers just wanted a fancy underground system like the big boys in Moscow had. They still had above ground trams too.
What I do want to know is if they ever finished or removed that one building that was like 30 stories and uncompleted for like, 30 years. It was near the Pioneer station on the underground tram.
As I recall, the tram only had three underground stations, Oktoberist, Pioneer, and Komsomol.
Also I liked the Russian term for riding free… Riding with the Rabbit. I have no idea where that comes from, but it strikes me as funny.
looks like czechoslovak tram model T-4
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Hello al tram fan ! Shall we pull kick runs a tram driver forum here ? I can be first out with my own opinions.Uniform vs Waist.Tram driver in Russia have waist.
I my self support waist.I think that waist is better and more practical this is what i think here in Sweden Goteborg.
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I suggest a booty we receives your new tram from wagonmash in Volgograd.And Volgograd receive our new tram from Italy.
I think this is a nice exchang for Sweden Goteborg.
I LOVE WAGONMASH IN MY HART.TRAM FROM ITALY IS GOOD BAT 71-154 FROM WAGONMASH IS BETTER.LOVE WAGONMASH ! ! !Take a look on wasttrafik.se
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