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Ganz Type A tram #34
6 october 2008 - Arad – Ghiroc depou/zajezdnia. The impressive front of a Sageate Verde motor tram – image one of these coming down the road towards you! If you can’t, look at those glorious pictures at http://tramclub.org/viewtopic.php?t=5347 and http://tramclub.org/viewtopic.php?t=760. At least the line still remains (Arad to Ghiroc, at least) and restored trams like these still run occasionally for tram fans. The Arad-Ghiroc line was the first electric railway in Eastern Europe.
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Ganz Type A tram #14
6 october 2008 - Arad – Ghiroc depou/zajezdnia. A 1st Class compartment with padded seats. Would you prefer to ride this to your work or school, or a Konstal 105N?
Ganz Type A tram #14
6 october 2008 - Arad – Ghiroc depou/zajezdnia. Inside a Ganz car, showing the wooden seating and separate compartments for each class of travel. This style is very similar to some of the huge interurban cars that ran in America until the 1940s, but which are now found only in museums.
Ganz Type A tram #16
6 october 2008 - Arad – Ghiroc depou/zajezdnia. Inside the tiny depot are several more motor trams and matching trailers, some fully restored. Photography is very difficult, though. Note the compartment marked for 1st Class. These trams were supplied by Ganz of Budapest in 1912, when Arad was still under Hungarian rule. The line was originally operated by a separate company – Podgoria IJTL or Podgoria Electric Railway – but later passed to Romanian Railways (CFR) before Arad city tramways took over in 1984.
Ganz Type A tram #6
6 october 2008 - Arad – Ghiroc depou/zajezdnia. Talking with Adam G reminded me that I have some photos of the huge interurban bogie trams (almost like trains) of the Sageata Verde line that once ran from Arad to Ghiroc and other villages to the east. Here is one of those cars at the museum depot in Ghiroc. Amazingly, they worked from 1912 until 1991 (!). To see these trams in their prime, go to http://tramclub.org/viewtopic.php?t=5347 for some wonderful 1970s photos.
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