{"id":8487,"date":"2024-10-18T01:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/lovely-liepaja-part-3\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T01:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T01:30:28","slug":"lovely-liepaja-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/lovely-liepaja-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovely Liepaja Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Clean, Tidy but Flat Ride<\/span><\/p>\n It is a bit scary, but the tram sets off enthusiastically on its reserved track.<\/p>\n … before making a sharp right hand turn to get to the railway station.<\/p>\n The station is almost unchanged since the 1900s …<\/p>\n The route then continues …<\/p>\n … southbound to the town centre.<\/p>\n We pass the turnoff to the depot and enjoy some road works (track works?)\u00a0 …<\/p>\n …nwhere cobbles are being replaced by cobbles. Nice!<\/p><\/div>\n We cross the cut-through from sea to Liapaja Lake …<\/p>\n … and continue southbound; where the ambiance, although not totally rural, is very much small town in character …<\/p><\/div>\n … with lots of greenery.<\/p>\n There is even a little bit of tram only track, where road traffic has been sent round two sides of a grassy triangle.<\/p>\n More semi-rural progress …<\/p>\n … unil a community of low rise and bigger blocks of flats is encountered<\/p>\n Next comes the point at which the 2013 extension turns left leaving that former stub unserved and trackless.<\/p>\n We are now on the first extension to Ezerkrats<\/span>, the only extension of the system since 1899 …<\/p><\/div>\n … which must he some kind of record.<\/p><\/div>\n The terminal loop (above) is almost on the shore of the Liepaya Lake; althogh the “waterfront” has a touch of the shanty town about it!<\/p>\n Note the buses parked in the tram loop!<\/p>\n As the transport network map shows,\u00a0Ezerkrats is also the terminus of several bus routes.<\/p>\n Note also that the bus map does not show the tram – that would never do!<\/p><\/div>\n