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Tatra T6B5 is a Czechoslovak-built high floor four axle tram with a pulse-width-modulation ('chopper') speed control. This model of tram was produced by CKD Praha in Smíchov, Prague in the period of 1983–1995, following one year in Zličín until 1996. After ČKD Praha went bankrupt, the final assembly and sale of incomplete trams were managed by Inekon Trams until 2007. The last four trams were supplied to the city of Ufa by late 2007. About 1,150 tramcars of this model were produced. In the former Soviet Union, it is also known as Tatra T3M. In 2015 most of these trams were used in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.[note 1]
Tatra T6B5 | |
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Manufacturer | ČKD Tatra Tatra-Yug |
Assembly | Prague Dnipropetrovsk |
Family name | Tatra |
Constructed | 1983–2007 |
Number built | 1,279 |
Predecessor | Tatra T3 |
Successor | Tatra-Yug K1 |
Capacity | 120 |
Specifications | |
Car length | 15,300 mm (50 ft 2 in) |
Width | 2,500 mm (8 ft 2 in) |
Height | 3,145 mm (10 ft 3.8 in) |
Doors | 3 |
Maximum speed | 65 km/h (40 mph) |
Weight | 18,000 kg (40,000 lb) |
Engine type | TE 023 |
Traction motors | 4 |
Power output | 4×45 kW |
Electric system(s) | 600 V DC |
Current collector(s) | pantograph |
Wheels driven | 4 |
Bogies | 2 |
Coupling system | Scharfenberg |
Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in), 1,524 mm (5 ft) |
Tram description
editThe T6B5 is notably distinct from the other sub-classes of the T6 series. Its most noticeable difference is its extra width, which causes the front end not to look as "pointed" as the other T6 types.
General
editT6B5, is a four-axle motorized single-ended tram. Tram cars can be used autonomously as well as in multiple units, controlled from a single console. It is possible to rise only one pantograph when such trams are driven in sets of two. Yet using three-car tram sets, two pantographs must be up. Controlling the second tram cars from a first is possible even if the traction equipment of a first car is out of order.
Production
edit1,279 trams were produced and delivered to:[1]
Country | City | Type | Delivery years | Number | Fleet numbers | |
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Belarus | Minsk | T6B5SU | 1990 – 1996 | 24 | 001–025 | |
Bulgaria | Sofia | T6B5B | 1989 | 37 | 4101–4137 | |
North Korea | Pyongyang | T6B5K | 1990 – 1992 | 142 | 1046–1174, 2001–2073, 3006-3049 (not all numbers used) | |
Latvia | Riga | T6B5SU | 1988 – 1990 | 62 | 201–262 | |
Russia | Barnaul | T6B5SU | 1985 – 1989 | 106 | 1001–1032, 3001–3209 | |
Izhevsk | T6B5SU | 1987 – 1991 | 35 | 2001–2035 | ||
T5B6-RA | 2003 | 10 | 2036–2045 | |||
Yekaterinburg | T6B5SU | 1987 – 1989 | 34 | 357–372, 730–747 | ||
Kursk | T6B5SU | 1987 – 1995 | 78 | 009–086 | ||
Lipetsk | T6B5SU | 1988 – 1989 | 45 | 2101–2145 | ||
Moscow | T6B5SU | 1984 | 2 | 001–002 | ||
Nizhny Novgorod | T6B5SU | 1988–1989 | 25 | 2901–2925 | ||
Novokuznetsk | T6B5SU | 1989 | 15 | 215–228 | ||
Oryol | T6B5SU | 1989 – 1990 | 14 | 086–099 | ||
Rostov-on-Don | T6B5SU | 1988 – 1989 | 40 | 800–839 | ||
Samara | T6B5SU | 1989 – 1993 | 48 | 853–867, 1003–1036 | ||
Tula | T6B5SU | 1988 – 1996 | 77 | 13, 14, 17, 18, 23–30, 47, 48, 83, 84, 301-358 | ||
Tver | T5B6SU | 1985 – 1988 | 35 | 1–35 | ||
Ufa | T5B6SU | 1988 | 30 | 1101–1130 | ||
T5B6-MPR | 2007 | 4 | 2007–2009, 2031 | |||
Ulyanovsk | T6B5SU | 1988 – 1990 | 45 | 2173–2217 | ||
Vladikavkaz | T6B5SU | 1988 | 20 | 110–129 | ||
Volgograd | T6B5SU | 1987 – 1989 | 20 | 2834–2853 | ||
Voronezh | T6B5SU | 1989 | 12 | 105–116 | ||
Ukraine | Kharkiv | T6B5SU | 1988 – 1990 | 55 | 4519–4573 | |
Dnipro | T6B5SU | 1996 – 2002 | 12 | 3001–3012 | ||
Donetsk | T6B5SU | 2003 | 6 | 3001–3006 | ||
Kamyanske | T6B5SU | 1996–2000 | 5 | 2000–2004 | ||
Kyiv | T6B5SU | 1985 – 1994 | 97 | 001–077, 100, 101, 301–318 | ||
Kryvyi Rih | T6B5SU | 1993 | 1 | |||
Mykolaiv | T6B5SU | 2000 – 2001 | 3 | 1915, 2001, 2002 | ||
Odesa | T6B5SU | 1999 | 1 | 7001 | ||
Zaporizhia | T6B5SU | 1988 – 1996 | 50 | 417–466 | ||
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | T6B5SU | 1991 – 1999 | 100 | 2701–2757 | |
Total: | 1,279 |
Note: This is the list of first owners. Stock may have later been resold to other cities not on this list.
Gallery
editSee also
editNotes
edit- ^ In 1994-1996 being licensed Czech Manufacturers Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) based plant, Pivdenmash (literally translated as "Southern Machinery Plant", because it is located in Dnipro, southern Ukraine) built 38 trams of this kind, designated as Tatra-Yug (Tatra-Yug is Russian for "Tatra-South", the index word "south" came from the fact that Dnepropetrovsk is located in the southern part of Ukraine). Then they produced 75 modified trams based on T6B5 model, which was designated as Tatra-Yug K1. Besides the countries of the former Soviet Union, T6B5 trams were also supplied to Bulgaria and North Korea.
External links
edit- ^ "Tatra T6". transphoto.org. Retrieved 2021-03-08.