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Friedrichplatz blue 20230510--045
Friedrichplatz blue 20230510--045

Tram 619 stands at Fridrichsplatz in Kassel city centre, working a route 4 service from Hessisch Lichtenau to Druseltal.

This is a Bombardier eight-axle single-ended "Flexity Classic", one of twenty-two built for Kassel in 1999-2000. Although trams and buses in Kassel are operated by Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft AG (KVG), two routes were built over lines owned by Regionalbahn Kassel GmbH (RBK), and this tram carries the initials of that company on the front. The off-white tram behind it is one of the RegioTram tram-trains, which run over DB infrastructure.

Having left the UK on the overnight ferry to Hoek van Holland on Sunday, spent most of Monday travelling the Rotterdam tram network and staying overnight in Den Haag, on Tuesday I continued my journey to Poland for the Branch Line Society four-day railtour which started on Friday morning. On the way across Germany I stayed near Kassel for two nights, with a full day (Wednesday) exploring the trams; I then continued to Wrocław on Thursday.

The plan for today was to travel as much of the network as possible (including the two routes over RBK infrastructure, and possibly the RegioTram link onto DB metals via Kassel Hauptbahnhof). If the weather was good, I also planned to do some photography if I was in the right place at the right time. The weather forecast for today was mixed, and it was mostly cloudy but with a few breaks, while during the afternoon there was also some rain.

Having been to Hessisch Lichtenau during the morning (I made a mistake here: the trams are hourly with a 45-minute wait at the outer terminus during the morning, but half-hourly in the afternoon), the sun came out when I got back into the centre. But getting shots without pedestrians in the way was challenging, especially as the break in the cloud didn't last very long. I decided to move on, but first went to visit the WC in the nearby shopping centre; when I came back out, the sun had dropped into another blue hole, allowing me a second - and more successful - attempt at shots.

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Taken on: May 10, 2023
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