Category Archives: Around the World in Trams

A change of continent this week as we head to South America and the country of Brazil for some images taken in Rio de Janeiro.

Whilst it may not be British events in Brussels in early May certainly deserve coverage as this was when the Belgian city celebrated 150 years of tram operation. On 1st May – a Bank Holiday in mainland Europe – the … Continue reading →

Returning to Bratislava for another tram image this week.

We now move to the Slovakian capital of Bratislava for a couple of week’s as we take a look at some of the trams that operate on the tramway there.

This week we have one final image from the Giardinetti Railway in Rome.

Rome is again the location as we feature another image from the Giardinetti Railway.

As we continue our look around Rome we are once again on the Giardinetti Railway for this week’s overseas tram image.

This week we stay in Rome for another image taken on the Giardinetti Railway.

From this week we move to the Italian capital city of Rome featuring images of the Giradinetti Railway – which although not a traditional tramway as such is an on street narrow gauge light railway meriting its inclusion on these … Continue reading →

Still in Palermo for this week’s photos from outside of the British Isles as we again feature a couple of images of Flexity Outlook 08.

This week we stay on Sicily to feature more images from the tramway in Palermo. This time we take a look at Flexity Outlook no. 08.

We move on this week to Italy as we visit the system on the island of Sicily operating around Palermo. Only just over three years old the network is the second to run in the city following on from the … Continue reading →

Concluding our look at trams in the Hungarian city of Budapest today we take a look a couple of the more modern trams in the fleet at rest.

As with many tram systems around the world, Budapest has also converted passenger trams for further use as a works car and that is what we feature in today’s image below.

From some of the newest trams in Budapest last week to some of the oldest as we feature an image of a Tatra (or more precise three Tatras)!

Today we feature one of the more modern trams to be found in Budapest – a Siemens Combino, numbered 2035.

Our look at trams from outside of the British Isles moves on this week as we head to the Hungarian capital city of Budapest. A city that has an extensive public transport network including a fleet of around 600 trams … Continue reading →

It is time for the last of our images for now from the Canary Islands as we take a look at one more of the Alstom 302 trams which operate the service in Tenerife.

Another image taken on the Canary Islands today as we feature Tenerife Tram once more.