A little bit of history

Been to Prague's transport museum today. Opened in May 1993, it takes you on a time trip from the horse tram car from 1886 to the articulated bus from 1998. All these years are well represented with around 50 vehicles, original photos, tickets and other historical documents.

Unfortunately for us, everything was in Czech. But we still enjoyed the visit, just like kids do. Jumping on every car, staring at the pictures and making up the rest…

Here’s a photo of a tram over the Charles Bridge. Today, you can only go by walk and soon it will be closed for reconstruction. It would be impossible to still have cars over the bridge now, the crowded groups of strollers would block their way every sec!!

This is a motor car from 1900. The dark green colour and labelling indicated the route followed. The numbering of lines was introduced later in 1908, it was then also that the red&white became the official coating for all these cars.

This car comes from 1908, and we can see the final red&white touch. They don’t look much different from the ones we use today, inside clearly less comfort but still…

On 1972 the Trolleybus - those funny buses attached by strings like puppets to the electric lines - operation was suspended. First time I saw one, was in Ukraine last year. Two years later the Metro system was opened, just one line, today’s line C between Florence and Kačerov.

In 2002 Prague suffered the most devastating floods ever. One third of tracks and metro stations were affected. Today, in some of them, like in Karlovo Naměsty, you can see the marks left by the flood, scary…