Estonia Special Part One

I'm pleased to say my plea for more foreign material was answered, and today I bring you the first part of an Estonia/Finland special, with pictures supplied by David Squire, Managing Director of First Eastern Counties. Great to have you on board, David, and thanks for sharing your pics with us. I'll quote a section from David's accompaning email; Please note all pics remain copyright to David.

As promised here is the first instalment of my travels.

To kick off we are in Tallinn, Estonia, the Baltic State immediately opposite Helsinki in Finland of which more in the next mail, it is May 2013.

As a former soviet state, the fleet has a number of aging vehicles, surprisingly the municipally owned operator in Tallinn, the major city and capital operates buses, trams and trolleybuses. Trams are painted in various liveries whilst buses are green and trolleys blue although there are numerous allover adverts. Below we have a tram, a modern low floor trolley and a superb older articulated trolley of which there were still a significant number in service!

A tram in Tallinn, Estonia

The modern trolleybus - anyone know the make?

And the older trolleybus, again with big wheels!

Not sure I can see a pantograph on the next one so it must be a bus. Over to you wonderful people to identify it please as my knowledge of all things Estonian is approximately zero!

An Estonian bendibus in Tallinn

More to come tomorrow, when we also pop over the border to Finland, where we find a beer tram??? Not to be missed!