Barnaul is a city of 604,000 inhabitants with quite a large tramway operating some 300 Tatra cars. There are no Russian built trams with the newest trams being delivered in 1990. Tatras have better acceleration and braking than KTMs and hills are descended at normal speeds. The service level is very good with 5 minute frequencies on Sunday mornings on route 1.
Both the trams and the track are maintained to reasonable standards. The T3s seemed less jerky at low speed than in many places leaving me to wonder if they have a local modification.1 & 2. There are two types of Tatra; round ones and square ones. 1075 is a T3 of 1975 and 3152 is a T3-M of 1988. (I suspect that 1075 may be newer and second hand from Moscow)
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