NIK2011 пишет: ↑11 мар 2024, 22:31
Michal Isakov пишет: ↑11 мар 2024, 02:33
Там не факт, что сама модель так называется. Передал информацию, посмотрим.
Не думаю, что перевозчик на своём же сайте стал бы неверно указывать модель.
Спасибо, что передали.
I'm the person who introduced this tram type.
This was analogous with the series 400.
https://transphoto.org/model/348/
In 25 years, nobody complained about this.
In Russia, vehicle types are given official designations and are also displayed in the vehicles on a factory plate.
Elsewhere, this is not the case: at best, there is a 'model' (think Bombardier Flexity, CAF Urbos) where numerous variants are built according to customer requirements. In some cases, such as Vienna, the customer wants their own design, which is therefore not based on the existing catalogue.
This tram type does not even bear an official name: the tram will simply carry a plate with the name of the manufacturer (Bombardier) with the year of construction.
The invented name - 500 - simply refers to the customer's internal numbering. Was it already known when the order was placed? I absolutely do not know this and is not even relevant. Of course, I also did the necessary research, both on paper (books) and online. In English literature, I read 'Class 500', but in German equally 'Reihe 500' and also somewhere 'Serie 500'.
Transphoto is an international website and we use the manufacturers official names whenever possible. Here this does not exist and, depending on the language, between the name of the manufacturer and the numbering is also freely written what it is about: series / triebwagen and so on.
For a local Austrian site, I fully agree to append TW or Reihe, here the designation as it is is also correct. I understand German, can also read it but the number of users who know the meaning of TW seems to me to be limited.
Finally, it may well be that people locally talk about a TW 500. We, like Bombardier, are international and cannot respond favourably to your query.