In past years, we have returned home on the Monday, directly after the exhibition.  However, this time around we decided to stay on another day and get into the centre of Stuttgart.  Most years, there is just too much to do at the show to escape for long!

Maxine and I went into town, but Allan and Derek took what turned out to be the better option with a visit to the tram museum, quite close to the central station.  Stuttgart’s trams were metre gauge, but became standard gauge in the 1960’s, when the system began to expand (and is still expanding) into an integrated tram, light rail, and metro systems. 

Allan’s pictures are all taken in the museum, with the odd sneaky shot into the workshops through an open door.  I understand that the city has maintained a loop of metre gauge track to allow the preserved trams a little outing.  I doubt that the horse gets out much, though!

An overview…

Trams old….

Trams new…

An interesting ro-rail lorry….

And something that I’m not sure what it is, but it looks useful!

A few buses…

A nice little tram layout to finish.

Maxine and my excursion will complete the Stuttgart epic in the next post.