West Berlin car No. 7000 in 1953 - a photo on Flickriver

West Berlin car No. 7000 in 1953

            An old amateur photograph (just 2" x 2") from a large collection of old European tram photos that I bought. This one is of BVG-West (West Berlin) car No. 7000 and trailer car No. 2000 showing '75 - Bf. Zoo' destination indicators.

The photo reverse is annotated "7000 & 2000 - West Berlin at Spandau, Hakenfelde, on line 75 - phot. Harder 7/1953", K. J. Harder is the photographer whose name appears on a number of these photos.

The Berlin tramway system split into East (BVG-Ost) and West in Aug 1949, between 1949-55 trolley poles were replaced by pantographs, and the last West Berlin tram ran in Oct 1967.

The full destination list for tram service 75 was 'Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten – Spandau, Hakenfelde (via Kantstraße)', the service closed in Jan 1966 and was replaced by bus routes 'A94, A97' (the line numbers in 2014 were X34, X49, 136, M49).

🚃 Thanks to Colin Withey for this comment/anecdote:-
"These cars were the experimental postwar West Berlin set to be the forerunner of a new fleet. I lived in West Germany knowing that the decision had been made by the Allied powers that the trams had to go to provide for a new bus fleet capable of evacuating West Berliners in that 'cold war' era. In fact every month I was out there I was called upon to become a HGV/PSV driver. Fortunately my RAF station could not afford to lose me each time so my fortnightly tram travels around W Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium continued!" 🚃

I have very little information about European trams or tramways, I bought the collection of old pictures rather than take the chance that they would be thrown away if unsold.

If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks.

📷  Any photograph I post on Flickr is an original in my possession, nothing is ever copied/downloaded from another location.  📷

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Taken in: Germany / Land Berlin / Berlin, Stadt / Klosterfelde (show map)

Taken on: July 1, 1953

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