Tatra T2

T2 is the model designation for a tram car manufacturer Vagonka Tatra Smíchov, which was designed according to the American PCC system. A total of 771 vehicles were built 1955-1962. The T2 was built as a unit tramcar for Czechoslovakia.

Types

T2

1955 two test cars in Prague were tested, they were numbered 6001 and 6002nd was not until the 1958 series vehicles were delivered to almost all street railway companies of Czechoslovakia, only in Jablonec nad Nisou and Prague did not get the car to use, there's over in Jablonec the whereabouts of the meter gauge lines was discussed and the power of the Czech capital was not designed for use with 2.5 -m-wide vehicles.

Unlike their predecessors of type T1 they were built robust and thus more durable. Most vehicles were retired by the 1980s, where today some museum vehicles and trolleys are still preserved. Only in Liberec T2 yet ( again only since 1995) until now in regular use after they 've visited in 1988 resigned from the inventory. These are vehicles that were bought used from Ostrava, as in the course of re-gauging of the lines to standard gauge standard gauge vehicles were increasingly needed. The two last standing in regular use T2 world, therefore the car 26 and 27 in Liberec. Operation with T2 standard gauge ended in the spring of 2006, the use unmodernisierter T2 on 26 August 2006 with the end of the construction sites on the overland track. Some vehicles have already been adapted to the successor T3 externally and partially also technically in the 1960s.

T2SU

380 vehicles were called T2SU in the Soviet Union, where they held up until the 1980s in regular service. In contrast to the T2 - vehicles was dropped with the T2SU delivered later to the middle double door, resulting in a higher number of seats returned. However, the first car also had three doors. In addition, some cars were designed to operate under the harsh climatic conditions of the Soviet Union.