It’s a new month and you know what that means – we change location for the next set of photos in “Around the World in Trams”! And this time we return to Europe with a visit to Tallin in Estonia.
Tallin – which is the capital city of Estonia – is home to the only tramway in the country with five routes covering a total of just over 12 miles (19.7km). Its now an electric tramway running on a gauge of 3’6” but looking back in history and it has seen horse, steam and petrol trams and for a time also had some lines running on a 5’ gauge.
As with many systems across Eastern Europe, the system used to have a major reliance of Tatra trams and its one of those type that we see in the below image. This is no. 57 which is a Tatra KT4SU, built in 1980. With modernisation having taken place in more recent years this tram was withdrawn from service in 2013. The tram comes towards us along some grassed track with a route 2 service.
Photograph by David Jones, 6th August 2011