LISBON Tram TrainOCCRE

Product description : LISBON Tram

Little by little, assemble this wonderful kit model of the Lisboa tramway. It will allow you to spend long and pleasant moments of creative leisure by building a faithful replica of the original tram with all the railway details.

"This tram was part of the 701/735 series of the Compañia de Carris de Ferro de Lisboa which built them between 1936 and 1940.

Considered the safest in Lisbon thanks to a reinforced braking system, these trams covered lines with difficult routes such as the 12, the 25 or the 28, which included ramps of up to 12%. These trams were also the most robust in the whole world running on single grip lines.

This vehicle is equipped with five types of brake: pneumatic, mechanical. , electric, electromagnetic with pads and mechanical on the pads.
It integrates two powerful Metropolitan Vickers electric motors of 45 HP each and a Brill 21-E type truck built by Maley & Tauton.
Its bodywork corresponds to the standard type of Lisbon, which comes from the American designs of the Brill company. Its main characteristic lies in its largely rounded roof.

It retained its original state until the renovation that the series underwent between 1985 and 1987 during which pneumatic doors and indicators were installed and the doors on one side were closed in order to adapt it to the single agent system (driver/receiver).

We began to withdraw these trams from circulation from 1995 in order to replace them with renovated vehicles from the 500 series. That said, several units continue to operate as part of charter services and to provide occasional reinforcements for the regular service."

Be passionate and let yourself be drawn into the time when these wonderful trams circulated in the streets.

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