Showing posts with label Germany in the 2000s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany in the 2000s. Show all posts
Friday, 24 May 2024

Stealing the Freiburg seal …… and catching the wrong colour tram

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I have never hidden my obsession for collecting street furniture, be it a lamppost a coal hole cover, or an old manual petrol pump. Some sti...
Thursday, 23 May 2024

So good it had to be done twice ……..

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And why not? The network may only run for 15 miles along two lines with 22 trams but then the city according to one source is “of a managea...
Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Tramming it in Ulm

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Now it’s slim pickings when you come to look for information on the tram network in the German city of Ulm. But then it only operates two li...
Tuesday, 26 October 2021

A little bit of Manchester …………. in Saxony ……. the city of Chemnitz

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There will be those who question a story about a German city with the tenuous link that it was once known as Saxonian Manchester. But Chemni...
Friday, 1 November 2019

That special excursion from Alex ..... taking in a big square, a very tall building and ending with a museum

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This is a tram story, although along the way it reveals a bit of detective work, includes one of those preservation societies and ends in a...
Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Bowling along on the Berlin Tram

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Now I will apologise at the outset for the title and move on, to the interesting stuff. The Berlin network is one of the oldest, having...
Sunday, 30 September 2018

Be careful of the past you wish for .......

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Now, I do feel a bit old when posters I knew have become museum pieces. I don’t have a date for this one but it was typical of a period...