On this page we want to show you an overview of HTM's tramparade on Saturday, the 16th of October 2004. You can also find some photographs of tramparades in 1989 (125 years HTM) and 1983 (opening of line 2).
By using the thumbnails you can jump to the parade of your choice.
Parade 16-10-2004
Parade 27-05-1989
Parade 01-10-1983
100 YEARS ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS
Hundred years ago HTM started with their first tram powered by electricity (line 9). Also on Saturday the 16th of October 2004 HTM lines 2, 3, and 6 went underground in the centre of The Hague. It is because of these two events that HTM organised a tramparade.
At noon the following trams left the Tramwaymuseum and went to the start of the parade at Lange Vijverberg: 164, 265+505+614, 57+118, H41, 810+769, 2+14, 826+H25, 215+780, 1022, 1101, 1165, 1210, 1304+2101, 1302, 1315 and 1139.
At Lange Vijverberg the museumtrams joined 3061 (overall advert for 100 years of electric traction) and oldtimer 2 on the tracks leading towards Central Station. On the opposite tracks articulated trams HTM 3001, 3101 and 3090 were present.
At 14:30 the mayor of The Hague fired the starting gun and the parade went to Schedeldoekshaven.
Beautiful photographs were taken in Vondelstraat.
Maintenace of way PCC cars and trucks are followed by 3090 (overall advert for the tramway tunnel).
Following the route of line 17 passing Statenkwartier terminus, the parade reached Eisenhowerlaan (Dutch cogress building) for a short stop.
After the stop the trams went along the route of line 10 till they reached the startingpoint of the parade.
Here some of the trams are seen at Scheveningseweg, Javastraat and Plein 1813.
As the trams reached Lange Vijverberg, the tramparade was officially over. However, the trams from the Tramwaymuseum and the m.o.w. PCC cars passed Grote Marktstraat on their way to the depot.
It was the last oppurtunity for taking photographs above the ground in Grote Marktstraat.
Grote Markstraat at Grote Markt, with PCC 1139 closing the queue.
Half an hour later oldtimer 2 passes Grote Marktstraat as last and final tram, not under it's own power though but towed by an Unimog.
Four photographs taken by Kees Verhulst.
125 YEARS HTM
In 1864 the first horse-drawn tramcar appeared in the streets of The Hague, making 1989 the year when the 125th anniversary of tram operation was to be celebrated.
On the 16th February of that year HTM 164 and horse-tramway '125' were for one day placed at Binnenhof (that had not seen a tramcar since 1924).
On saturday the 27th of May 1989 there was a parade between the centre of The Hague and Scheveningen (oldest route).
The following trams appeared that day: 125, 8 (steam)+780, 164, 265+505+614, 57+118, 36+14, 810+769, 819+905, 826+H25, 2, 215, 1022, 1304+2101, 3047, P1 (partytram ; nowadays 1302), H2, H23, Unimog+H30 and H41.
In the summer of 1989 steamengine 8+780 made a few trips on several sundays between the Tramwaymuseum and Delft.
OPENING LINE 2
Celebrating the opening of line 2 on the first of October 1983 a tramparade drove between termini Kraayenstein and Central Station with the following trams:
H23, 33, 26, 3058, 3043, 1022, 215, 265+614, 36+505 and 74.
