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2025-10-23
The first electric trams!
The first Vienna tram line to be electrified by the Vienna Tramway Company (WT) was the ‘Northern Transversal Line’. This was a combination of sections previously operated as horse-drawn tramways, which Viennese people today associate with parts of lines 2, 5, or O. The prerequisite for the conversion was the construction of the Leopoldstadt power station, which initially supplied the necessary energy.
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2025-01-22
The famous Tichy-ULF is back!
For all those who love the Viennese tram, for all those who missed the first edition and actually for all those who like to eat really good ice cream, we have excellent news this week - the legendary Tichy-ULF is back! The Tichy ice cream parlour, a cornerstone of the Viennese way of life, has had several trams wrapped every year for decades. These extremely smart advertising vehicles have become as much a part of the Viennese cityscape as horse-drawn carriages and coffee houses.
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2024-05-14
Old Vienna at its best!
The finely etched, full-colour and double-sided printed accessories with point tools and flags for the M wagons have run out. We have taken this opportunity to completely revise them and have added new roof advertisements, fresh destinations and previously unused rails. The current series of M-cars is now equipped with the sparkling Ottakringer roof advertisement, but the fine accessories can also be purchased separately and are suitable for all historic Viennese trams.
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2024-04-17
Unique opportunity!
The N railcars and the n trailer were used purely for light rail transport and on line 18G (1925-1961). The set of two railcars with a sidecar coupled in between is preserved in the Remise Transport Museum in very good condition to this day.
more News 2024.04 - Vienna Light Railway
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2024-02-27
The wild 1950s in Vienna!
The "Halbstarke", literally half-strengths, is an expression from the German-speaking countries of the 1950s. It was a colloquial and often derogatory term used to describe mostly male, working-class youths who had fallen prey to the harmful influences of rock 'n' roll.
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