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Posted by Jon Bell on Tue Nov 17 20:41:44 2009, in response to Re: PHOTOS: Germany & France, 1994 - Part 2, posted by Jon Bell on Mon Nov 16 21:40:09 2009. I just realized that Krefeld is now the German city that I've visited most often. A friend of my wife's from graduate school lives there, so we always visit when we go to Germany, so far in 1994, 2004 and 2009. By chance, this was also one of the cities that I visited way back in 1972 when I was in college. It has a nice medium-sized meter-gauge tram system with four routes, and a standard-gauge interurban line from Düsseldorf, about 12 miles away.When we visit, my wife always spends a day in the classroom with her friend, who also teaches. The husband has to work during the week, so I'm left to fend for myself, and I don't have to tell you what I spend my time doing! :-) Here's an 043 local tram and a U76 interurban at the terminal at Rheinstrasse in downtown Krefeld:  An interurban rolls down the Ostwall boulevard just after leaving the terminal. Note the logo at the front upper left corner. It indicates that this train carries a cafe (Rheinbahn-Bistro). If you look carefully at the track you can make out the dual gauge.  An interurban stops at the Grundend station at the edge of Krefeld. Not coincidentally, this happens to be the station closest to our friends' house.  Grundend is also a terminal for one of the local tram routes, which loops through the parking lot. This operator didn't have any problem with having his picture taken, in fact he volunteered when he saw me setting up. I wish I had waited a bit to get another shot as it was pulling out so I could have captured more of that paint scheme that reminds me of a traditional German Fachwerk-style house.  A short distance from Grundend is the tram stop for our friends' house.  These two types of local trams were built around 1970 and 1980 respectively, and are still running, but not for much longer. Operators are now training on new low-floor Bombardier Flexity Outlooks that have arrived recently. They're supposed to go into service starting next month. Lots of pictures on this page. I'm glad I got a chance to see the old-timers one last time this past summer. One of these days I'll get around to posting those pictures... |
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