Tatra T6B5 is a Czechoslovak-built high floor four axle tram with a pulse-width-modulation ('chopper') speed control. This model of tram was produced by CKD Praha in Smíchov, Prague in the period of 1983–1995, following one year in Zličín until 1996. After ČKD Praha went bankrupt, the final assembly and sale of incomplete trams were managed by Inekon Trams until 2007. The last four trams were supplied to the city of Ufa by late 2007. About 1,150 tramcars of this model were produced. In the former Soviet Union, it is also known as Tatra T3M. In 2015 most of these trams were used in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.In 1994-1996 being licensed Czech Manufacturers Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro) based plant, Pivdenmash (literally translated as "Southern Machinery Plant", because it is located in Dnipro, southern Ukraine) built 38 trams of this kind, designated as Tatra-Yug (Tatra-Yug is Russian for "Tatra-South", the index word "south" came from the fact that Dnepropetrovsk is located in the southern part of Ukraine). Then they produced 75 modified trams based on T6B5 model, which was designated as Tatra-Yug K1. Besides the countries of the former Soviet Union, T6B5 trams were also supplied to Bulgaria and North Korea.
Tram description The T6B5 is notably distinct from the other sub-classes of the T6 series. Its most noticeable difference is its extra width, which causes the front end not to look as "pointed" as the other T6 types.
General T6B5, is a four-axle motorized single-ended tram. Tram cars can be used autonomously as well as in multiple units, controlled from a single console. It is possible to rise only one pantograph when such trams are driven in sets of two. Yet using three-car tram sets, two pantographs must be up. Controlling the second tram cars from a first is possible even if the traction equipment of a first car is out of order.
Production 1,279 trams were produced and delivered to: Country City Type Delivery years Number Fleet numbers Minsk T6B5SU 1990 – 1996 24 001–025 Sofia T6B5B 1989 37 4101–4137 Pyongyang T6B5K 1990 – 1992 142 1046–1174, 2001–2073, 3006-3049 (not all numbers used) Riga T6B5SU 1988 – 1990 62 201–262 Barnaul T6B5SU 1985 – 1989 106 1001–1032, 3001–3209 Izhevsk T6B5SU 1987 – 1991 35 2001–2035 T5B6-RA 2003 10 2036–2045 Yekaterinburg T6B5SU 1987 – 1989 34 357–372, 730–747 Kursk T6B5SU 1987 – 1995 78 009–086 Lipetsk T6B5SU 1988 – 1989 45 2101–2145 Moscow T6B5SU 1984 2 001–002 Nizhny Novgorod T6B5SU 1988–1989 25 2901–2925 Novokuznetsk T6B5SU 1989 15 215–228 Oryol T6B5SU 1989 – 1990 14 086–099 Rostov-on-Don T6B5SU 1988 – 1989 40 800–839 Samara T6B5SU 1989 – 1993 48 853–867, 1003–1036 Tula T6B5SU 1988 – 1996 77 13, 14, 17, 18, 23–30, 47, 48, 83, 84, 301-358 Tver T5B6SU 1985 – 1988 35 1–35 Ufa T5B6SU 1988 30 1101–1130 T5B6-MPR 2007 4 2007–2009, 2031 Ulyanovsk T6B5SU 1988 – 1990 45 2173–2217 Vladikavkaz T6B5SU 1988 20 110–129 Volgograd T6B5SU 1987 – 1989 20 2834–2853 Voronezh T6B5SU 1989 12 105–116 Kharkiv T6B5SU 1988 – 1990 55 4519–4573 Dnipro T6B5SU 1996 – 2002 12 3001–3012 Donetsk T6B5SU 2003 6 3001–3006 Kamyanske T6B5SU 1996–2000 5 2000–2004 Kyiv T6B5SU 1985 – 1994 97 001–077, 100, 101, 301–318 Kryvyi Rih T6B5SU 1993 1 Mykolaiv T6B5SU 2000 – 2001 3 1915, 2001, 2002 Odesa T6B5SU 1999 1 7001 Zaporizhia T6B5SU 1988 – 1996 50 417–466 Tashkent T6B5SU 1991 – 1999 100 2701–2757 Total:1,279
Note: This is the list of first owners. Stock may have later been resold to other cities not on this list.
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See also Pyongyang tram system Trams and trolleybuses in North Korea
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