Sapporo Streetcar A830 series

The Sapporo Streetcar A830 series was a Japanese articulated streetcar type operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau on the Sapporo Streetcar network from October 1965 to June 1976.
==History==
The A830 series cars was a series of articulated streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Streetcar network. A total of six two-car sets were manufactured in October 1965 by Nippon Sharyo and Tokyu Car Corporation; these were the last articulated streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau until the A1200 series cars in 2013.
Operation began in October 1965; their "beautiful style and perfected passenger flow systems" won the sets many fans locally and abroad. The sets were withdrawn in June 1976 when all other articulated streetcars were withdrawn. Three of the sets were later resold to the Nagoya Railroad, where they operated until April 2005 when their streetcar system was abolished; the remaining three sets were left in storage before they were scrapped in December 1984.
The A830 series sets are the recipient of the 1966 Laurel Prize.
==Design==
The A830 series cars featured a curvy design. The cars were painted in the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau's corporate colors of a tan body with green accents.
==Specifications==
Construction of the cars was of steel. The cars used a nose suspension drive system powering Tōyō Denki Seizō TDK532 traction motors and rode on Nippon Sharyo N-108 and N-109 or Tokyu Car's TS-119 or TS-120 bogies, the latter being the articulated bogies between segments.
A number of improvements were made in the A830 series cars over the preceding A820 series cars, such as three doors per side to improve passenger flow.
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