PCC Tram original

Original | Model | Pricing

 

 

In 1949, the first tram motor car of the ‘PCC car’ type was delivered to the Hague tram (HTM). The designation “PCC” stands for (Electric Railway) Presidents’ Conference Committee, the American association of tram directors that had this tram type designed in the 1930s. Until 1975, 234 trams of the PCC type were put into service in The Hague. The last units were retired in 1993. Several Hague PCC cars have been preserved as museum trams in and outside The Hague.

The series 1200 was put into service in 1963. The new PCC trams had numbers 1201-1240. They looked a lot like the 1100s, except for the fact that they were a bit wider and had windows that were encased in rubber. Furthermore, the 1200s had fluorescent lighting in the interior. For the bogies, an improved version of the ‘B3’ type of the 1000 series was used.

From the beginning of 1965, the 1200s were deployed on lines 37 (later line 1) from The Hague to Delft and 36 to Voorburg Station. They replaced the “Buitenlijners” (see Yellow Tram) from the 1920s. Especially for the Delft line, the 1201-1225 received an electric horn at the end of 1965. Although this was not mandatory for services on interurban tram lines, it was desirable in connection with a number of dangerous exits along the Delftweg in the municipality of Rijswijk.

The 1200 series was in need of renovation in the early 1980s, but the costs were quite high. The HTM decided to discontinue the 1200 series prematurely. Several dozen cars were initially parked in the back area of ​​the Scheveningen depot for months. Parts of these PCC trams, such as bogies and engines, were exchanged with bogies and engines from the 1300s and 2100s, because the latter bogies and engines from the 1300s and 2100s would be used for the construction of the GTLs from the 3000 series.

The 1200s were taken out of service in 1982 and soon taken for demolition. The 1217 moved as a training object to the fire station on the Wilhelmina van Pruisenweg. It was not until 1992 that this PCC was removed for demolition. Parts of the 1217 were reused when refurbishing museum PCC 1210. The bogies and engines that originally came from the 1200s – and later ended up on a number of 1300s and 2100s – are still in use on some of the GTLs from the 3100 series.

(Text: Wikipedia)