Bern Steam Tram No 12 - City Tour - 18/08/19

Another most enjoyable excursion during The Swiss Bernese Oberland Rail tour organised by The Railway Touring Company took place on the Sunday morning of 18th August when Bern Steam Tram No 12 with trailer car (No 31) was chartered for a two hour tour of the city tramway network. No 12 and her sister Steam tram No 18 had worked the Bern network until being replaced by electric traction in the early years of the 20th Century. No 18 and trailer car (No 26) is housed in the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne. No 12 had been for many years a static open air exhibit outside Techorama, the Swiss Science Centre in Winterthur. From 1994, No 12 was extensively refurbished by a group of volunteers in Bern and returned to steam in 2002.