Photo: Herbert Heller (Belgium).
Negative and photo from my collection and written permission to use the collection in my possession.
In the meantime, there are fences around which make such images impossible. The dunes have also increased enormously in volume.
The tram carried out an express service: it only stopped at a limited number of stops along the way.
Higher speed was not an argument. The same type of tram drove 109 km/h (!) with a trolley on a test drive. The story is written in a book: I was not there and that was before I was born. What I can confirm is that we drove 88 km/h in Charleroi: this was measured using the GPS function on a smartphone. It was with this tram: https://transphoto.org/photo/1295863/?vid=359312 The N.M.V.B. (S.N.C.V.) was very early on to use pantographs and more specifically from the 1930s onwards, in Antwerpen and the Coastal tram. On the one hand there was relatively little experience and knowledge about pantographs, on the other hand there was one specific problem: the bridges. This was also one of the reasons why the company experimented relatively early with pantographs. https://transphoto.org/photo/1214332/ On the picture above, the problem is clearly visible. The tram company was at that time economical. As long as a pantograph (even very old ones) was not broken, it could be used. The design was built until late the 1950s. This tram was still carrying its original pantograph at the time of the photo (1973).
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