page_title: Trams in Vinnytsia
section_title: Current Condition
hierarchical_section_title: Trams in Vinnytsia / Current Condition
caption_attribution_description: English: Tram in Vinnycya, Ukraine. This tram set, consisting of a four-axle powered tramcar and four-axle trailer, is a Swiss Standard type.
context_page_description: The Vinnytsia Tramway network is the part of the public transportation system that since 1913 serves Vinnytsia, the administrative center of the Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine. The tram system has a narrow rail gauge of 1,000 mm that only exists in Ukraine in the cities of Lviv, Zhytomyr and Yevpatoria, as well as Vinnytsia. The system currently consists of 21.2 km of tracks.
context_section_description: The most common kind of tram rolling stock in Vinnytsia are 
  single ended articulated 6-axle motorized VBZ Be 4/6 Mirage trams, produced in Switzerland and previously worked in Zürich.
  single ended 4-axle VBZ Be 4/4 Karpfen trams, produced in Switzerland and previously worked in Zürich
  and some 2-section articulated 4-axle Tatra KT4SU trams produced by the Czech ČKD Tatra Works.
  In nearest past many Tatra T4 trams were in use; now most of them are rebuilt into service trams for different purposes.  GothaT57 tram is still kept.
  Between 2005 and 2009 the city of Zürich replaced the trams of Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ) built in the 1960s and 1970s with low floor trams nicknamed Cobra. 
  The city of Zurich donated the surplus trams to the city of Vinnytsia, the cost of transport being paid by the Swiss government.
  In 2007 13 sets (motor and trailer car) of "Karpfen" series were transferred to Vinnytsia, and in 2008 the first couple of "Mirage" tram sets were transferred.
  Staff of Vinnytsia tramsways had been trained at workshops in Zurich, thus ensuring that the trams could continue to be maintained at their new owners.
  As of now, they are widely used on the tracks of Vinnytisa Tram network since mid-2007. They perform even better than well known Tatra КТ4SU trams.
  Given technology is already mastered by Vinnytsia TTA employees (both drivers and service specialists), and in spite of its respected age (produced sometime in the 60s), made city streets look much younger.
  Since 2011 Vinnytsia Tram and Trolleybus authority is planning to use mostly ex-Zurich trams, and leave up to 10 Tatra КТ4SU trams. As of January 2011 Vinnytsia received 105 tram cars from Zürich.
caption: a Be 4/4 Karpfen tramway, trailer B4 at the end, in Vinnytisa year 2008
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