We start off another year of “Around the World in Trams” and for January 2026 it will be a case of anything goes as we will dart all over the world for the next five editions!
And for this edition we are heading into Hungary as we take a look at a couple of trams operating in Debrecen. This is Hungary’s second biggest city (after Budapest) and has a population of just over 201,500. Its tramway runs on standard gauge and was a relatively late opening with the first electric line stating operation in 1911. That first line still remains operational today and after a period of contraction, the current line 2 started in 2014 to make up the current two line network.
The tramway is now served by two different classes of tram. There are 10 Ganz KCSV-6 trams of which the production models started to be introduced from 1997 and they were joined from 2014 by 18 CAF Urbos3 models.
And its two of those Urbos3s trams which we see in this photo. On the left is 518 (built 2013) and its joined by 511 (also built 2013, but six months earlier than its fellow photo star).
Photograph by David Mee, 8th June 2024