{"id":2755,"date":"2024-04-09T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ernstkers.nl\/blog\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2024-04-09T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T19:35:00","slug":"brill-28-plataforma-salao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ernstkers.nl\/blog\/brill-28-plataforma-salao\/","title":{"rendered":"Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1938 (re)construction of the Brill-28 ceased in favour of reconstruction into the Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o model. In total 24 to 26 were made until 1946. Work on the last one only began short before take over by the STCP on 1 July 1946 and the car was only ready after this date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o CCFP no.244 was one of the last made of this type, only finished after take over by the STCP in 1946. Here it’s on the premises of Boavista depot already with STCP crest, but before it was renumbered to STCP 201. (MCE)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Most of these trams were numbered by the STCP as series 200-223. However two tramcars had, or retained the numbers 160 and 169, which places them in the Brill-28 class. It’s unknown when the platforms of these two trams were extended making them the Plataforma Sal\u00e3o type. The narrow corner pillars of no.169 prove it was originally a Brill of the first, 1909 order. It might be that 169 was the prototype for the Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o class and 160 was the result of a modification of a Brill-28 tram about 1950.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o tram STCP no.160 on Avenida da Boavista, about 1975.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o tram STCP no.169 in Foz, February 1992. (EK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This class was In many aspects similar to the Brill-28, but they had longer platforms increasing the standing capacity. Probably none of these cars was totally new but all were reconstructions out of Brill-23 cars or constructions with the use of parts of older cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In later years many of these trams got platform doors instead of folding gates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of the Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o trams was equal to those of the Brill-28 type. When the tram operations of the STCP were diminished, these were the most numerous of the last cars in use. Five are in use on the current heritage system, one is available for special services and two are in storage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brill-28 Plataforma Sal\u00e3o tram no.206 on Pra\u00e7a de Lisboa \/ Rua das Carmelitas in December 1993. (EK)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n