Sapporo Streetcar A800 series

The Sapporo Streetcar A800 series is a Japanese articulated streetcar type operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau on the Sapporo Streetcar network from August 1963 to July 1974.
==History==
The A800 series cars was a series of articulated streetcars manufactured for the Sapporo Streetcar network. A total of three two-car sets were manufactured in August 1963 by Nippon Sharyo; these were the first articulated streetcars to be used on the network.
Operation began in August 1963. Withdrawals started in April 1972, with all sets withdrawn from service by July 1974, some years before the withdrawal of all other articulated streetcars in June 1976.
==Design==
The A800 series cars featured a boxy 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 and rode on Nippon Sharyo's N-104A or N-106 bogies, the latter being the articulated bogies between segments.
==Preservation==
A801-A802 is preserved at the Sapporo City Transportation Museum. It is the only articulated streetcar operated by the Sapporo Municipal Transport Bureau preserved in its entirety.
A803-A804 was used as a coffee shop in Sapporo's Higashi Ward and A805-A806 was used as a warehouse in a sportspark in Shinshinotsu; both sets have since been removed and scrapped.
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