Hiroshima 21.10.2019
Hiroshima Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Hiroden): the city of Hiroshima has the largest tram network in Japan, with 35.1 km of standard gauge tracks, electrified at 600 V DC. This network can be divided into two parts: the urban one, with 19.0 km o tracks, and the suburban light rail line of Miyajima (16.1 km). The rolling stock consists of almost 300 vehicles and, unlike most Japanese tram networks, there are a large number of long articulated trams.
The old tram 1907 arrives at the Hiroden-honsha-mae stop, working a service in the line 3 to Hiroshima Port.
This tram is part of a series of 35 built between 1955 and 1957 for the Kyoto tram network by Aruna Koki, Toyo Koki and Nippon Sharyo. In Kyoto they formed the series 901-935. In 1970, fifteen of them were transformed for the single agent operation (numbers 916-931), being renumbered as 1916-1931. After the closure of the Kyoto network, these 15 trams were transferred to Hiroshima between 1977 and 1980, where they were renumbered as 1901-1915.
Hiroshima 21.10.2019
Hiroshima Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Hiroden): the city of Hiroshima has the largest tram network in Japan, with 35.1 km of standard gauge tracks, electrified at 600 V DC. This network can be divided into two parts: the urban one, with 19.0 km o tracks, and the suburban light rail line of Miyajima (16.1 km). The rolling stock consists of almost 300 vehicles and, unlike most Japanese tram networks, there are a large number of long articulated trams.
The old tram 1907 arrives at the Hiroden-honsha-mae stop, working a service in the line 3 to Hiroshima Port.
This tram is part of a series of 35 built between 1955 and 1957 for the Kyoto tram network by Aruna Koki, Toyo Koki and Nippon Sharyo. In Kyoto they formed the series 901-935. In 1970, fifteen of them were transformed for the single agent operation (numbers 916-931), being renumbered as 1916-1931. After the closure of the Kyoto network, these 15 trams were transferred to Hiroshima between 1977 and 1980, where they were renumbered as 1901-1915.