{"id":60485,"date":"2025-10-18T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60485"},"modified":"2025-10-12T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:29:08","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-rostock-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60485","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Rostock 59"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have another edition of \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d and we stay back in 1979 over the other side of the wall in East Germany.<\/p>\n

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The DDR wasn\u2019t always the grey and gloomy place of popular imagination, as depicted in countless films and novels. The centre of Rostock had undergone some tasteful renovation and Gotha 59<\/strong> is seen on the way through Neuer Markt, heading from Marienehe to the Hauptbahnhof. The power car and its two trailers are all well-patronised.<\/p>\n

The church in the background is the Lutheran Marienkirche, dating from the 13th<\/sup> century. Private car usage could not be entirely dismissed even in the 1970s as several eastern European models are parked in the market square.<\/p>\n

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Photograph by Donald Brooks, 11th August 1979<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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