30 März 2004 - Bremen, Borgfeld. 4S, or the "Fast 4" - the tram does not stop at some stops heading towards the centre, and its departure is synchronised with the arrival of suburban bus line 30. That's what I call public transport :D
2 Oktober 2004 - Bremen, St-Jürgen-Str. The "Werder Tram" filled with mostly green football fans with a touch of red. Only two hours to go before the Werder-Bayern match!
30 März 2004 - Bremen, Arsten. The terminus is exactly on the border of the city. The great wall of earth in the background is the A1 motorway between Hamburg and the Ruhr Basin. Behind it we have Lower Saxony already.
2 Oktober 2004 - Bremen, St-Jürgen-Str. A green worm gets moving from the stop in front of the Werder Bremen stadium. On the left you can see the "livestock" that came for the Bayern-Werder match.
15 Oktober 2003 - Bremen, Hauptbahnhof. Waiting for the solaris test bus I photographed this tram with a lovely light-green head. Sadly, it's almost impossible to photograph a tram without people in front of it. On the other hand, you can walk all around the square and nobody ever got run over.
4 November 2004 - Bremen, Hauptbahnhof. 3027 has just squeezed through a very low tunnel (the pantograph almost touches the roof!) and will turn into the local transport station.
16 April 2004 - Bremen, Georg-Bitter-Straße. The track is used for trams from Sebaldsbrück depot and for detours like this. Lovely red moss by the way... :D
12 Oktober 2003 - Bremen, Sebaldsbrueck. The third car on the special route "E" that brought visitors from the city to the opening of the tram museum in Sebaldsbrueck depot. The car is in the original livery of the Wegmann-cars from the 1970s.
3 September 2004 - Bremen, Markt. The essence of the city. The monumental city hall to the right, the Roland statue to the left, and a Worm heading for Weserwehr between them. This is Bremen for you!
16 April 2004 - Bremen, Buergermeister-Hildebrand-Str. The last GT8N in original livery, which has survived only thanks to the ad. An interesting mural can also be seen on the left.
17 September 2004 - Bremen, Hauptbahnhof. The track grinding car made of a Hansa GT4 at the main station, heading towards Neustadt depot. The rear end of the car was shortened by a length of one side-window upon conversion to a works vehicle.
13 Oktober 2004 - Bremen, Osterholzer Heerstrasse. It's slowly time for these oldies to go. Although it has to be said they are in a much better condition than the MAN buses from Rönnebeck depot.
4 September 2004 - Bremen, Wal-Mart Gelsenkirchener Strasse. Route 59 is the shortest route in Bremen - it`s around 500m long, has no intermediate stops, and it ferries shoppers between Wal-Mart and the nearby tram stop. This elderly Mercedes with a matching ad is the usual sight on this route.
30 März 2004 - Bremen, Kattenturm Mitte. A Merc is resting before going back north on route 22. The bus shelter has an in-built toilet for the drivers.
2 April 2004 - Bremen-Blumenthal, Fresenbergstr. A Neoplan is climbing the hill in 2nd gear. The bus had a defect earlier, but the driver managed to notify the repair service, which met the bus at Bf Blumenthal. After minor repairs the bus continued on its way with a 10-15 minute delay.
15 September 2004 - Bremen, University campus. An MAN in a full-body advertisement (quite rare for Bremen) approaches the penultimate stop on the rather short route 32, which links the suburb of Upper Borg with the tram line 4 and the university.
6 November 2003 - Bremen, Vegesack station. Probably one of the worst buses of the BSAG has just emptied itself of its passengers at the train station. In about 10 minutes it'll be leaving as a 79 service to Aumund-Hammersbeck, but the display is already changed.
27 Oktober 2004 - Bremen, Auf den Hohen Ufer. The season of fog has finally arrived! The drivers are getting worried, whereas bus fans are happy to have nice photo conditions. An MAN is seen here passing the stop LIDICE-Haus, around 150m from the gates of the International University Bremen campus.
8 November 2004 - Bremen, Auf dem Hohen Ufer. A Neoplan at sunset departs from the Richthofenstraße stop. It's sometimes amazing what lovely sights you can find only two stops from your university...
6 November 2003 - Bremen, Vegesack station. A 1995 Neoplan from Rönnebeck depot is warming himself in the evening sun at the bus station. This is the crossing point for all Bremen-Nord bus lines and the RB Train between Bremen-Vegesack, Bremen-Hauptbahnhof and Verden(Aller)
6 November 2003 - Bremen, Rönnebeck depot. #4873 and the sunset! This depot is located around 30km from the central BSAG depot in Bremen-Neustadt and serves the peripheries in northern Bremen.
6 November 2003 - Bremen, Rönnebeck depot. The main "gate" of the depot - no barriers, nasty security personnel, etc. Unfortunately, on this day, there was no reserve-driver that would show us around, so we just shot pics from the sidewalk. In the foreground, #4873 is charging its battery.
25 November 2004 - Bremen/Schwanewede, Schwaneweder Heerstraße, stop Bockhorn/Landesgrenze. A Neoplan on route 74 is leaving Lower Saxony, county Osterholz-Scharmbeck, town of Schwanewede, and is entering the Free Hansa City of Bremen, City of Bremen, district of Blumenthal. Of course both towns are part of the VBN transport community, which simply means that the network card for those living in Lower Saxony costs a bit more...
6 November 2003 - Bremen, Bremen-Vegesack station. Two brothers in front of the train station. The one on the left left the Neuenkirchen terminus around half an hour ago and will reach his other loop, Gröpelingen, in another half-hour.
9 Oktober 2004 - Bremen-Rekum, Rekumer Strasse. The Neoplan-bus has just crossed the border between Lower Saxony and Bremen. Unfortunately, despite the fact, that the terminus of route 71 lies less than a kilometer (2 stops) from Bremen in the town of Neuenkirchen, you still have to buy an additional ticket...
17 November 2003 - Bremen-Grohn, bus stop Taunusstrasse. An older articulated bus on route 74 towards Bremen-Vegesack train station and Schwanewede. The loop in the background is used on weekends by route 75.