Tatra T3

T3
Number built	13,991
Built from	1961 - 1990
Length	14,000 mm
Width	2,500 mm
Height	3,050 mm
Weight	16 t
Maximum power	160 kW
Maximum speed	65 km/h
Passenger capacity	23 seats 87 standing
Manufacturer	ČKD Tatra

T3 is a type designation for the Czech manufacturer Tatra tram cars. The T3 was built between 1960 and 1989, were a total of 13 991 railcars (Tw) and 122 sidecar (Bw), he is the most built trams in the world. The T3 is a further development of the American system constructed in accordance with the PCC T2.

T3

At the T3 high demands were made. The cars should indeed have the same capacity as the vehicles of the type T2 predecessors have, but instead be easier. To achieve this goal, for example, the vehicle walls thinned and replaced the seat cushion against such laminate. The T3 was delivered to all tramway undertakings of the former Czechoslovakia, he was most strongly represented in Prague with over 1,000 vehicles. The T3 is, now often modernized in many forms, in the Czech companies are still the backbone.

T3SU

Similar to the first T2SU T3SU were delivered with two instead of three doors per car. Later, on individual request, the car but also comes with a third door. Again, the vehicles showed a closed cab and the weather conditions were adjusted. A total of 11 368 T3SU were delivered, which is the largest quantity of a single tram car. The downside to the high sum, however, was that by insisting on a car unit, the development and delivery of new and more modern cars for a long time delayed.

The T3SU was in 1963, first to Moscow and later shipped to 33 other Soviet cities. forms, now often modernized in many forms, in the Czech companies are still the backbone.

T3SUCS

It was originally set in 1976, the production of T3 and concentrated production on newer vehicles. In 1980, two railcars already made a first exception to the Slovak city of Kosice. As of 1985, finally, the production of type KT8D5 start, as this is delayed, however, had other cars here. Another production of T3 would have been too expensive, instead, were vehicles of the type T3SU re-imported and adapted. The enclosed cab has been maintained, the vehicles have all three doors and T3 are different from the origin only in a few details. Traction formation with the same vehicle is possible and has been and is practiced.

T3D

In the GDR wrong the first three test cars of the type T3 (railcars and trailers), first in 1964 and 1965 in Dresden. Since restricted due to their width of 2.5 m of the operation was only possible, the vehicles were only in Schwerin and Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) are used. Here she frequented as a solo or in traction railcar (Tw + Tw, Tw + Tw + Bw) or as mini-train (Tw + Bw). The ability to Beiwagenbetrieb resulted from the fact that the received with the same engines (TE 022) such as the Czech original T3-equipped motor coaches suitable for Beiwagenbetrieb electrical equipment and a different gear ratio, making the maximum speed while at 55 km / h (instead of the usual 65 km / h) decreased, but the other was the pulling force increases, which made carrying a sidecar.

In addition to the Yugoslav enterprises only the German plants were equipped with a Beiwagentyp. This was described as B3D and corresponded in large parts of the wagon-building the T3D.

T3YU

The distinction from Yugoslavia in 1967 for vehicles delivered from the models of type T3 with a different arrangement of current collectors, here on the rear bogie, and in some cases smaller trucks. Moreover, also, as in the GDR, trailers have been delivered. In addition to two Czechoslovak and a Soviet operation, the vehicles were also the only narrow gauge cars of the type.

T3R

By RGW Romania was also the end of the 1960s to encourage them to order Tatra cars. The first cars arrived in 1967 to the city of Galati and differed on the Czechoslovakian vehicles by changing the electrical equipment operating at 750 volts DC. As the car bodies were built for other companies too wide, they remained in Galati.

Production

	City	Year	T3	T3SUCS	T3SU	T3D	B3D	T3YU	B3YU	T3R	Total
	Barnaul	1967-1985	0	0	444	0	0	0	0	0	444
	Bratislava	1964-1989	58	130	0	0	0	0	0	0	188
	Brno	1963-1989	109	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	162
	Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz)	1966-1988	0	0	0	132	62	0	0	0	194
	Dnipropetrovsk	1968-1987	0	0	370	0	0	0	0	0	370
	Dniprodzerzhynsk	1972-1986	0	0	183	0	0	0	0	0	183
	Donetsk	1967-1987	0	0	251	0	0	0	0	0	251
	Galati	1971-1974	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	50	50
	Grozny	1981-1986	0	0	70	0	0	0	0	0	70
	Irkutsk	1967-1968	0	0	30	0	0	0	0	0	30
	Izhevsk	1966-1986	0	0	270	0	0	0	0	0	270
	Kharkiv	1967-1987	0	0	735	0	0	0	0	0	735
	Kiev	1964-1987	0	0	923	0	0	0	0	0	923
	Košice	1963-1989	97	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	184
	Kramatorsk	1967	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2
	Krasnodar	1980-1986	0	0	115	0	0	0	0	0	115
	Kryvyi Rih	1986-1987	0	0	50	0	0	0	0	0	50
	Kursk	1966-1987	0	0	278	0	0	0	0	0	278
	Liberec	1965-1987	20	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	54
	Mariupol	1967-1975	0	0	32	0	0	0	0	0	32
	Moscow	1963-1987	0	0	2069	0	0	0	0	0	2069
	Most	1967-1987	9	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	76
	Nizhny Novgorod	1978-1986	0	0	220	0	0	0	0	0	220
	Novokuznetsk	1967-1986	0	0	215	0	0	0	0	0	215
	Odessa	1966-1987	0	0	484	0	0	0	0	0	484
	Olomouc	1966-1987	30	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	69
	Oryol	1976-1985	0	0	85	0	0	0	0	0	85
	Osijek	1966-1982	0	0	0	0	0	26	4	0	30
	Ostrava	1965-1987	97	127	0	0	0	0	0	0	224
	Pilsen	1964-1989	48	80	0	0	0	0	0	0	128
	Prague	1960-1989	901	292	0	0	0	0	0	0	1193
	Pyatigorsk	1967-1987	0	0	117	0	0	0	0	0	117
	Riga	1974-1987	0	0	243	0	0	0	0	0	243
	Rostov-on-Don	1967-1987	0	0	405	0	0	0	0	0	405
	Samara	1964-1986	0	0	619	0	0	0	0	0	619
	Sarajevo	1967-1969	0	0	0	0	0	20	0	0	20
	Schwerin	1973-1988	0	0	0	115	56	0	0	0	171
	Tashkent	1983-1985	0	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	18
	Ufa	1966-1987	0	0	360	0	0	0	0	0	360
	Ulyanovsk	1966-1986	0	0	401	0	0	0	0	0	401
	Tula	1965-1986	0	0	401	0	0	0	0	0	401
	Tver	1967-1986	0	0	306	0	0	0	0	0	306
	Vladikavkaz	1972-1987	0	0	129	0	0	0	0	0	129
	Volgograd	1967-1987	0	0	425	0	0	0	0	0	425
	Volzhsky	1967-1980	0	0	75	0	0	0	0	0	75
	Voronezh	1977-1986	0	0	209	0	0	0	0	0	209
	Yekaterinburg	1964-1986	0	0	530	0	0	0	0	0	530
	Zaporizhia	1966-1987	0	0	304	0	0	0	0	0	304
		Total	1369	911	11368	247	118	46	4	50	14113

Photo gallery

Tatra T3

Trams type T3SU in Moscow

Trams Tatra T3A in Riga

Interiot of T3 tram

Picture of tram T3D

2 trams in Kiev's Kontraktova Square (Typ: Tatra CKD T3SU).