Talking about trams

It is my private property to visit Wuhan by braid tram.

Electricity 2 is painted on Zhongshan Avenue, and electricity 3 is posted on Jiefang Avenue. Two lines can tell most of the history of Old Hankou.

Electricity 1 and electricity 4 sew the three towns of Wuhan together. 530 inner and outer rings connect Wuchang's past and present, which is lively and deserted.

The crowd on Jianghan Road, the laughter of the Youth Palace, the quietness of Jiefang Park, the traffic jam at the cavalry training ground, the river wind on the bridge ... Long braids are blowing drooping leaves, and the spider silk tram network connects Wuhan.

In recent years, Wuhan people themselves don't know how to sit on the familiar braid tram, and the braid is gone.

The line is still there, only a "real tram" with a braid all the way and electricity 3.

Drivers in Wuhan all pee in the famous mountains and seas in autumn, so it is common for them to lose their braids by tram.

Every time a tram loses its braid, the driver is like a thorny soil. He got off the bus with a fork and picked up the braid. When it was hung up again, the passengers who craned their necks to watch cheered loudly.

I don't know whether the connection technology is getting better and better or there are too few trams with braids. Nowadays, such a famous scene is rare.

△ Braids are the lifeblood of trams, and their scientific name is collecting poles. The tram is connected to the power grid through it, forming a circuit and transmitting electric energy to the tram. Between the collecting pole and the conductor, there is a sliding rope embedded with coal concentrate. When the car body is running, the left-right swing exceeds 4.5 meters, and the collecting pole will fall off.

When I was a child, when it rained, trams roared by, and my braids were scratched and sparks splashed. I'm afraid the braid will suddenly cut off the net and electrocute the unlucky pedestrians passing by.

The real fear is that two trams get stuck together. Walk slowly in front and die behind. You can't take a detour by dragging your braids. Once there is a traffic jam, you can only wait.

When many trams are stranded and stacked, they will "squat". My aunt, who used to sell newspapers at the bus stop of the cavalry training ground, didn't know until she saw the bus lined up at Dadongmen: "There is another tram squatting on the bridge."

Not knowing how to detour is the original sin of weaving trams. It is also good to obey the rules. Trams are quiet and smooth, not as "puma" as ordinary buses, and have no smell of gasoline, so they are favored by carsick people.

It is not surprising that Wuhan people are used to trams. In fact, the lovely braid tram was once synonymous with "advanced".

1958, shortly after the completion of the Yangtze River Bridge, the first tram line in Wuhan was opened to traffic. After Shanghai, Beijing and other places, Wuhan became one of the earliest big cities with trolleybuses in China.

The Yangtze River Bridge and trams are stamped and distributed nationwide, which is a privilege that other cities in China do not have.

China's trams were brilliant in the 1980s. After the 1990s, cars rose and trams shrank.

In addition to the long-out-of-service Electricity 6, there are 8 trams in service in Wuhan: Electricity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 530.

There are not many lines, but the "ingredients" are messy. The models are subdivided into three categories: old-fashioned woven cars, "online charging" and pure electric vehicles.

The "purebred" old tram with pigtails and running cables all the way is a horse.

Diansan is the only "horse" in Wuhan. In China, electricity 3 is the living fossil of trolleybus. Many bus fans and electric car fans from other places will come to Wuhan for an electric 3 "pilgrimage".

A tram with no pigtails and all batteries is a completely different donkey from a horse.

Electricity 2 is a donkey, BYD pure electric car, no braid tied behind its back, and the smell in the old tram is castrated. Except for the name "electricity", this river has already entered the sea, and there is no ordinary bus.

Xu's father was very dissatisfied with Dian2 who lost his braid. He is an old passenger of Dian2. Before going to Liudu Bridge from Qiaokou, he always kept an nunnery. At that time, Hanzheng Street and Liudu Bridge were the most lively places, and the trams were almost full.

"On-line charging" can be either battery-driven or charged with a braid, which is a string of mules crossed by a horse and a donkey.

The humble "mule" accounts for the largest proportion in Wuhan. 14, 15 Yangtze River "online charging" was put into use in Wuhan, with electricity consumption of 1, electricity consumption of 4, electricity consumption of 5, electricity consumption of 7, electricity consumption of 8 and electricity consumption of 530.

The Yangtze River Bridge is the easiest place to catch mules. When crossing the bridge, "online charging" usually hangs a braid, which seems to be an unwritten rule, and it is easy to identify after crossing the bridge.

Every time Rocky, an electric car fan, comes to Wuhan, he will take the old model of Electric No.3 Road, start from Qiaokou, go along Jiefang Avenue and sit at the terminal of Erqi Road.

Electric 3 must run the whole distance with braids, and it is the only truly trolleybus in Wuhan.

Braids whined and slipped, and the scenery of old Hankou flashed like a picture, suddenly sitting in a time machine, so romantic.

Rocky is from Zhengzhou. There used to be trolleybuses in Zhengzhou, but they all stopped at 20 10. There are old trams like Dian3 in Wuhan, and he is envious.

A few years ago, Jiefang Avenue was rebuilt, and the contact network along the road and the "pure blood" of Dian3 were preserved.

There are 43 electric buses on No.3, including 4 1 old trams and 2 "online charging". In other words, there are only 4 1 "pure-bred" woven trams in Wuhan.

The electricity used to drop once every three days, but now it doesn't drop once a month. Except that the braid is stronger, it is not much different from the first batch of old trams in Wuhan more than 60 years ago, retaining the dullness of the times.

The car body, woven fabric and steel wire mesh are closely linked in a physical way, driving in a fixed lane, and I don't know how to change. In today's intelligent electrification, it seems clumsy and old-fashioned.

Electricity 3 uses a classic tram in 2009, with a blue-purple body and a little fluorescence, which looks like Altman. From the current point of view, it is a bit retro technology.

It's a beautiful armchair in the room. In summer, gray shading curtains are hung, and the air conditioner blows gently. I saw it for the first time when I was a child, and I felt so advanced.

Kaka still remembers the magical news of Route 3 in 2005: passengers who went to the grave in Tomb-Sweeping Day, carrying incense sticks and paper money, suddenly caught fire in the carriage.

When we are talking and laughing, talking about strange ideas about trams, and talking about the embarrassment of losing braids, perhaps we are missing that clumsy but naive era.

If memory is a photo, the background is probably a tram.

In 1980s, @ Leroy W. Demery, Jr., a young American teacher, traveled to China and recorded the memories of Wuhan trams with a camera.

△ The tram driver and two ticket sellers stood in front of the "Jingyi" tram and took a group photo. The first generation of trams in Wuhan was opened with the help of the Soviets. There are three doors, and each class must be equipped with a driver and two ticket sellers.

△ At the entrance of Hubei Xinsheng Company, blue and white trams passed by one by one.

△ Braided trams pass Jianghan Bridge.

△ On the Yangtze River Bridge, electricity 1, electricity 4 will pass.

△ 1983 The tram at the intersection of Vu Thang Road has two doors, and the organ fold in the middle is clearly visible. Organ pleats connect the front and rear carriages, and children like to stand here and swing for excitement.

△ Sanmin Road starting point station, electric 1 road starts from here.

Trams with zero pollution and low energy consumption eased the national oil shortage in the 1960s. Wuhan's economy and environmental protection have its merits.

In the wave of "changing electricity to gas", Wuhan people were nostalgic and affectionate, and stopped several lines, but most of the tram lines stayed.

Dian5, which opened in 2009, is a new tram line in Wuhan after 16 years. Wuhan has also become what I know. In the past twenty years, the only one of the old tram cities has opened a new trolley bus line.

65438+In March, 2008, it stopped power for many years and resumed business. There are 8 tram lines in Wuhan, ranking fourth in China.

In Chinese mainland, only 12 cities have woven trams. Wuhan is one of them.

When passing by the tram station, remember to look at the sky. The net is undulating like waves and belongs to the scenery of Wuhan sky.

Electricity 3 passes by, follows it, and reviews its appearance again:

The blue-purple car body is equipped with a ladder, a steel wire wheel and a semi-circular clip to restrain the steel wire rope behind the ass.

Braids half cocked in the air, like grasshopper's hind legs arched.

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Editor/Bear Fish

Photography/Huang Datou

* 1980s tram photographer @ Leroy W. Demery, Jr.

His Flickr photo album contains more memories of Wuhan trams.

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