Once upon a time, Schaffhausen (Switzerland) had trams ...
... just one route, imaginatively numbered 1. There is a video on YouTube but it lasts 18 minutes so fbb has take a few screenshots. Quality is not very good, understandably, but you will get some idea of the "network". Services were operated by a mixture of bogie cars ...
Some of the older single cars are seen showing route 2 which fbb assumes was for short-workings.
On the video there are shots of trams entering and leaving the depot ...
... with the main road doing a sharp "S" bend under the railway.
Well, here is the junction today with a modern building (the Fire Station) on the deport site.
The road is wider, the railway bridge is new and bigger, but the wiggle is still there!
The location is just one tram stop north of the railway station and the modern replacement for route 1 still goes that way.
The trams ran from Neuhausen, where there was a terminal loop in the town centre, via Schahffhausen station and on to Walfriedhof ...
... a large wooded cemetery.
In 1966, as a result of the obligatory referendum, the trams were replaced by trolleybuses but running only as far as a turning circle at Ebnat.
The extension back to Walfriedhof had to wait until 1970.
The Google bus stop "blobs" indicate a large terminal loop ...
... with some parts of the route operating along some narrow "local" roads. Just round the corner (below) is the Birkenstrasse stop.
An extension to Herblingtal was added in 1974 operated as service 9 at peak hours only. Soon after leaving Ebnat the route extension passes the new-ish bus and trolleybus depot.
One of the 1966 start-up trolleys is seen here ...
... being replaced by low floor artics in 2011. Here is one at the central Neuhausen stop (Migros Supermarket) ...
... and it is what also serves that stop that will feature in tomorrow's blog.
Pretty impressive "network", eh?, for just one trolleybus route with a PVR of just six vehicles with one spare!
Next electric bus blog : Wednesday 3rd April
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