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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kyiv's trolleybus network is the largest in the Ukraine.

Note vintage photos (note older photo where the electric coaches are operating together in a "train")............

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Kyiv
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In Donestk (Eastern Ukraine) this past Thursday, a shell hit a bus stop, wrecking a trolleybus and killing eight people......

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Public transport in Kyiv (trolleybuses, rapid transit, heavy rail, funiculars, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Kyiv
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 2:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This extensive (1997) page features several interesting (and illustrated) articles on electric transit/light rail.

Scroll down page for an excellent article (w/photos) on the TATRA cars operating in Pyongyang, North Korea.......

https://erausa.org/pdf/headlights-previews/1997-headlights-04.pdf
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Earlier on the news, there was a frightening scene along a deserted street in Kyiv, on which trolley buses operated.

A sudden explosion shook the street, and the trolleybus overhead danced and and twisted about like snakes; indeed, it WAS surreal to watch....as well as sobering

Who knows when (or if) the trolley buses will ever return; and, of course, will life ever return to the way it was, just one short week ago, for the thousands upon thousands of law-abiding, hard-working Ukranian, citizens now displaced.....

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2022 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trolleybus usage by country (a great deal here on European operations, photos, etc)......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus_usage_by_country
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Links to photos and info on vintage Soviet/Ukranian buses.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Buses_of_the_Soviet_Union
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Classic TATRA units "on the job".......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136689

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136693

(courtesy: nycubway.org)
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Electric transit in St. Petersburg.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?103825

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?103831

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 02, 2022 11:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"UKrFERRY" provides ferry service (on the Black Sea) between the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia.

There are also photos of their huge vessels* on this page......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UkrFerry

*(According to this page, two out of three vessels are Danish owned)


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2022 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_Ukraine
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 04, 2022 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

......just finished watching an excellent (and, indeed, sobering) report on ABC's (7) World News Tonight, covering the refugee exodus out of the Ukraine, via buses.

Surprisingly, no older buses were seen; these buses were of the up-to-date "highway coach" type, nothing that could be considered "old", as you would usually think you would see, bus-wise, in that part of the world.

Excellent, professional report.....but truly heartbreaking.....

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is an OUTSTANDING gallery of historical photos on Moscow's trolleybuses; many early pictures are here, as well as photos from the 1950's through the 197o's.

Be sure to note the "Yellow Coach-knock-offs" on the streets of Moscow, many years ago.

This is an EXCELLENT collection of rare trolleybuses photos*...... Wink

https://www.rferl.org/a/end-of-the-line-for-moscow-s-trolleybuses/27670769.html

*Of particular interest here, note the one old b/w photo showing a double-decker trolleybus; I had no idea these ever operated in Moscow.

It is virtually identical to the ones then operating in London.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's another interesting article (w/vintage photos) about Moscow's trolleybuses......

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/12/end-road-moscow-trolleybuses-campaign
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is an excellent, detailed page on the Kyiv Metro system (history, rolling stock, operations, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Metro

The "wagons", as the rolling stock is referred to as, are mostly Soviet-era.......
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