Tatra T6B5

The T6B5 is a tramcar the Czech manufacturer Tatra CKD. The vehicles that were constructed from the mid- 1980s, are mainly in the former Soviet Union on the road, where they operate under the name T3M. The T6B5 was the first type of series T6.

Types

T3M

In 1983, the first two prototypes were tested with the numbers 0016 and 0017 in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague. The vehicles were developed from the predecessor series T5 and received from the very beginning a thyristor. After successful testing of the two units came to Moscow tram where they are under the numbers 0001 and 0002 on the road since 1984. The serial production began in 1985.

A total of 1,037 cars of the type T6B5 arrived in the former Soviet Union, 23 of these vehicles were produced locally in the jums plants in Dnepropetrovsk under Tatra license. Until then, an exception, because even the presence in more than 10,000 copies T3 came exclusively from the Prague works by CKD Tatra. To distinguish it received the designation T3M -Jug, whereas the original Czech car T3M be called.

T6B5B

With the beginning of re-gauging of the tram network in Sofia transport companies began in the Bulgarian capital initially to build their own vehicles. After this, however, did not meet the desired requirements, they turned to CKD Tatra, which began with the delivery of 37 as T6B5B designated ( for Bulgaria) vehicles. Both externally and technically these are no different from their Soviet sister series. The trains are mainly used on the line 22.

T6B5K

More vehicles were delivered in the North Korean capital in 1991. In addition to 50 vehicles of the type KT4 as well as 45 coaches of the type KT8D5 ( delivered in 1990 ) also came 129 cars of T6B5K to Pyongyang. There, they are mostly used in the double header.