Комментарии к фотографиям из города Антверпен

Line 9 will go to Silsburg.
Line 4 (which now go to Silsburg) will be shortened to Berchem Station (Groenenhoek) with reduced intervals (15 min.). This will also be the case for other lines, due to the shortage of staff.

Line 9 will end where?

Lucky!

Yes, I waited for the tram for 20 minutes and then they went two in a row. Even though I knew there were a lot of people (there was an event in town) and cyclists. I tried it and it worked.

The available space is what it is. Between the tram tracks and the cycle track is a safety space.
This neighbourhood became very popular only after the reconstruction. Until a few years ago, there was neither a bicycle lane nor a tram line here.
Cycling within the city has also gained enormous popularity, also thanks to these bicycle lanes.
Now they are indeed considered as too narrow, also due to the many types of bicycles that exist nowadays. 10 years ago, when the plans were drawn up, this could not have been predicted.
Trams in Belgium fall outside the traffic regulations and therefore only have their internal regulations. There is no official speed limit.

Hm... What speed do the trams reach usually here? The bike path seems to be too close to the tram tracks, and it doesn't look so safe for the tram to drive along the crowds of cyclists. What if a cyclist suddenly comes out in front of a moving tram? A cyclist could lose his coordination for a while because of his head gets dizzy or kind of and then fall onto the track under a moving tram. It looks a little strange that there isn't a fence or a kind of a guardrail.

Хм... Какую скорость здесь обычно развивают трамваи? Велодорожка, кажется, находится слишком близко к путям, и проезд трамвая вдоль толп велосипедистов как-то не выглядит безопасно. А что, если велосипедист внезапно выскочит перед едущим трамваем? Велосипедист может на секунду потерять координацию из-за закружившейся головы, например, и упасть на пути под едущий трамвай. Странно, что тут нет никакого ни забора, ни отбойника.

Wow, very interesting. Thank you for telling me.

This is historical.

https://transphoto.org/articles/4349/

Trolleys were used until +/- 1963 (see historic photos). When they switched to pantographs, they opted to place them at the back, which roughly corresponds to the position of the contact of the trolley. This had everything to do with the electrical operation of the points via the catenary.
The advantage was that one could leave everything as it was.

Now it does not matter, and in the low-floor trams they also hang in the middle, which is very neutral in the two-way versions.

Ps the first PCC's were delivered with trolleys and not with a pantograph (also in Brussels).

This is called being lucky... The usual crowd of pedestrians and cyclists can be seen in the photo. And there are many more than trams...

Please tell the ignorant, why do these cars have pantographs in the back, and not in the front?

A better size and quality version of the photo uploaded.
Загружена более качественная версия фото, большего размера.

Нет ли ошибки в слове "металлический" в названии модели?

You accidentally took a special photo here.
On the tram you see the wrong indication 'Mortsel - Luchtbal'.
This was once planned but never carried out: a temporary line 70 was then put into service.
The never-used designation is present on the tram and was therefore used incorrectly here, and you happen to have a photo of it. Congratulations!
The correct one: https://transphoto.org/photo/1503455/

Thanks for this excellent photo!

Цитата (Сергей Савчук, 26.02.2021):
> We name this car "two horses" (dos caballos) in Spain. Pity that there are not many of them now. I like this car very much.

2CV и есть "де шво", то есть две облагаемых налогом лошадиных силы мотора.

We name this car "two horses" (dos caballos) in Spain. Pity that there are not many of them now. I like this car very much.

2018: https://transphoto.org/photo/1166973/
2019: https://transphoto.org/photo/1226343/
2020: your photo.
2021: who?

The yellow car (Citroën 2CV) is officially an old-timer...

Just take a look: "Show shooting location on the map" and the map (OpenStreetMap). The path leads to house number 444 and nothing else.
It also has no name and is therefore not a street.
Above it you will find another road, which is actually just as narrow, but has been given a name. This road is also a dead end, but it serves several houses (420 --> 438).
Thus, one can more or less deduce that one street is a public road, while the road next to the tram line is private property.
Such a private road may be used as a service road or included in a walking route, but only with the agreement of the owner. Here I suspect that the new owner has little interest in prying eyes...

Thank you for you detailed explatination. I would not expect this area will be in a private possession. It is intersitng he had had this fance installed up to the crossroad (the whole path). Personally, I do not want to say it is little bit selfished but more likely it is...

Until recently, the path was only used by people walking with dogs, tram enthusiasts and junkies. They were therefore responsible for a number of arson attacks. In 2016, the castle still looked like this, but it has become much worse. https://transphoto.org/photo/1071183/?vid=75063
Eventually, the remnants (rather: a ruin with run-down buildings) were sold.
The new owner has made an impressive job of it, also of the adjoining buildings, the gardens and, of course, the castle itself.
He has placed fences around his domain to keep out dissenters.
The path belongs to the estate and only a gateway is missing.
The fact that he has already had this fence installed may not be a coincidence. The path was used by all possible services that work there, on the trees, the verge, the tracks and the catenary.
Not only the trucks of the staff were parked there, but sometimes also a waste container...
As long as the castle was uninhabited, this was not a problem. Now that there is regular passage, I suspect that the owner wants to keep the city services (and those of the tram) outside his domain, so that he can just pass through.
Anyway, that fence has indeed become annoying and it is totally impossible to walk the short distance to the end point.