Tatra KT8D5
KT8D5 is the type name of a bi-directional articulated railcar of the Czechoslovak manufacturer Tatra CKD. Of the delivered 1986-1999 vehicles exist a total of 205 copies, of which only three in Germany.
Types
KT8D5CS
In the early 1980s commissioned the Czechoslovak Interior Ministry, which was responsible for the marketing, CKD Tatra with the construction of bi-directional articulated vehicles. The vehicles should be in three parts and achtachsig. The first prototypes of the KT8D5CS (where CS stood for Československo ) designated vehicle reversed from 1984 in Prague. After an approximately two-year trial run first few copies were sent to individual Czechoslovak enterprises, among other things, to Prague, Plzeň, and Košice; in the same year, the series production started.
The cars are designed for solo operation, but can also take a double traction.
1995 bought the Strausberg Railway three supernumerary cars from Košice. After minor adjustments the cars were numbered 21 to 23
More KT8D5CS were transferred to the Hungarian city of Miskolc in 1997.
KT8D5 in Prague
KT8D5 in Strausberg
KT8D5K
1990 45 cars were delivered to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The first car with the number 1001 is regarded as the first commissioned in car tram, Pyongyang, today pennant remember it. Another car of this series also received in 1990 the tram Sarajevo. This is located there under the company number 300 still in use today.
KT8D5SU
A single railcar was delivered to the Moscow tram. After applications mainly on the line N1 he later came to Volgograd, where it is used on a rapid transit route.
KT8DN
The KT8DN is a KT8D5 railcar whose central part is designed for low -floor design. In Brno (Brno) 1998 for the first car of this type were put into service. In subsequent years, the center parts have been converted to low floor with other businesses in the context of modernizing initiatives; was carried out also that conversion device car in Ostrava.
KT8D5R.N2 in Košice
KT8D5R.N2 in Brno
KT8D5R.N1 in Ostrava