A four wheel electric tramcar stands on the track under a large lyre shaped bow collector, its fleet number above a destination board whose Cyrillic lettering has worn too far to read. Overhead wires run away on timber poles and a bare tree stands at the left, with bicycles propped along the kerb and a cart in the distance. The long low depot shed lies behind the car with vehicles drawn up inside it. On the right a modernist house with a rounded corner carries a first floor balcony over an open colonnaded ground floor, where a jeep and a small van are parked and a group of people stand about in the shade.
About this place
The depot of the Novi Sad electric tramway housed the cars of a line powered by the town's first power station, which began supplying current in 1910. The line opened on 30 September 1911, run at first by a Budapest tramway company with motor cars built by Ganz, the first of which had arrived on 21 August, and this archive holds a photograph of the cars drawn up at the new depot that September. The bombing of 1944 badly damaged the power station and stopped the trams. They ran again from 25 May 1945, and in 1958 buses replaced them. The archive's photograph from the 1950s shows a car outside the long, low depot shed in those last years.
- Date
- 1950s
- Coordinates
- 45.24495, 19.84022
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1582 × 975 px
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