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? |
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!
Interesting to notice that neither trolleybus appears to have a numberplate (unless there's one on the back). Presumably they are regarded by the licensing authorities as "trackless trams".
ReplyDeleteAnd the bus seems to have its fleet number as its numberplate: TAK is the abbreviation for the Tallin Transportation Company.
The trolleybus looks like a Solaris.......
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