Tatra T6A5

The T6A5 is a tramcars the Czech manufacturer Tatra CKD.

Development

The T6A5 was designed for the Czechoslovak market, the T6A2 served as the template. The biggest difference between the two types lies in the carbody width larger precipitates on T6A5 with 2,500 mm as the T6A2.

In 1992, the first city Bratislava 34 railcars. In the autumn of the same year Košice also received 30 railcars.

The Czech capital Prague, where the vehicles were produced, fielded the cars only from 1995 test runs, a year later in a line operation. Other customers were Brno and Ostrava.

The vehicles were aligned with the zeitgeist Western standards. Thus, these railcars received openers and digital displays for the first time. At the Prague car for the first time GF couplings came (type GFT) with essays by Sécheron used on the now traction currents are transmitted - in the previous Tatras in Prague this was not possible, between the cars only control currents were transferred, when driving in double traction of the second car is now running abgebügelt.

To date, yet all cars in use.