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Timiş 2 TM69E #263
Built: 1979
Uploaded: 2011-04-14 15:22:26
Place: Timişoara / Timiş
Width: 890, Height: 500
File size: 195.66kB
File size: 195.66kB
4 april 2011 - Timisoara (RO) – Bulevardul Take Ionescu. The old tram depot opposite the RATT Headquarters offices in Timisoara is now disused and stores only a few trailer cars. Part of the site has already been demolished. Each morning, a works car from the main Dambovita depot comes here and turns through the remains of the depot yard, along track which can only be described as ‘marginal’. It’s a miracle that the tram doesn’t derail (perhaps it does, on days when we weren’t there). Why the tram comes here every day, no-one could tell us – perhaps just because it always has. Now Cluj-Napoca has withdrawn its remaining Timis cars, this might be the very last Romanian-built tram in service anywhere? The remains of the depot tower is in the background, below which was a rare tramway signal box.
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Wow! They shut down Take Ionescu depot? Does that mean there is only one functioning depot left now?
- dvigar (*.as13285.net) (2011-04-14 17:34:07.870676)
Yes - just Dambovita is left, and the sidings are crammed full. They aren't allowed to scrap many of their old trams (which still have a book price, evidently) and must also keep all their accident victims. So, the place looks a bit like the Somme. There is a cunning plan to buy a new, low-floor fleet as they did with the trolleybuses, so a new depot will be required for this.
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