Tram Procession in The Hague
On 16 October 2004, the new tram tunnel under the Grote Marktstraat was opened. The HTM decided that this was something to celebrate, and made a slightly spurious link with the centenary of electric traction.
The first electric tram actually ran in The Hague in 1890, so we already celebrated this once before, but in 1890 the trams still used accumulators; in August 1904 we had the first tram running off overhead wires...
Most of the pictures below were taken in the morning outside the museum depot at Frans Halsstraat as the old cars set off to line up on the Lange Voorhout. There aren's many phots of the procession itself, as I was sitting in car 3001 at the back of the line of thirty-odd vehicles.
