| Local newspaper and the obligatory mural |
| Riding the metro with the locals |
| Train approaches with Kim Il Sung watching over |
| The up escalator with the speaker playing martial music to everyone |
| A view of the deep metro escalator |
| First view of the metro |
| Busy station |
| Must be modelled on Moscow, with picture of Kim Il Sung at end of platform |
| T3 of 1980 |
| Overhead view - note the lack of traffic |
| On Railway Station turning circle |
| Doors receiving attention! |
| Railway Station |
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| Songsan Tram Depot |
| Songsan Tram Depot - we didn't get to look inside, but it was an achievement to get this far |
| Running into the depot off service |
| Running into the depot off service |
| And again |
| Our charter tram |
| Tram and trolleynus stop at the Railway Station |
| Our Chollima 70 of 1970 charter trolleybus |
| Works vehicles |
| Trolleybus overhead platform |
| Fairly simple lift |
| Works vehicle |
| Our Chollima 70 at the end of the journey. A reporter from the Pyongyang Times arrived to interview a couple of our group and they can be seen on the trolleybus.
Transit vehicles and cycles open to tourists
Kind people, clean environment and special tours in particular and drawing an increasing number of foreign tourists.
To meet their diverse tastes, the Korea International Travel Company has launched tours by public transit vehicles and bicycle.
During their stay in five days and four nights the tourists can see the course of development of the local transit system.
The most available public transport vehicles are trolley buses and trams, which encompass different types of trolley buses ranging from the earliest Chollima-70, which was made 50 years ago, to the latest ones and trams T3, T6 and B5.
“Trolley buses show the development of the Korean nation in the 1960s. We are pleased that you respect your heritage. And you have kept them in good order. I think many countries neglect their heritage. But you have taken care of your heritage. You haven’t put them in museum but kept them in good working order, which is very encouraging and commendable,” British tourist Hasel Dine Peter said after travelling between August 19 and 23.
“We cycled on streets, farms and mountains. All of the cycling was great. When we came down Mt. Paektu through the beautiful fields of wild flowers and forests, it rained at times, but it actually made the riding even more fun,” said American Adam Sullivan, who enjoyed cycling tour from August 14 to 21.
Cycling tour through Pyongyang and local areas gives a good chance for tourists to get closer to the local life and scenery.
You cannot imagine what it is like to cycle along the hilly roads on Korea’s celebrated Mt. Paektu, Mt. Chilbo and others.
Tourists will have a good time in Pyongyang and local areas during a week-long cycling tour.
By Kim Rye Yong PT
This is the article from the Pyongyang Times issue 35 of 8/2014 (Juche year 103). Some fairly quaint English and Peter Haseldine now has a Korean version of his name! By the way we didn't do the cycling bit.
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| Opposite the railway station |
| Chollima type 091 built 2009 in front of Railway Station |
| Trolleybus 209 with lots of accident free stars on its sides |
| The stars which appear on the sides of some of the trolleybuses denote how many miles of accident free work they have accomplished - each star is equivalent to 50,000 km, also an indicator of the age of the trolleybus. |
| The Chollima brand symbol. Chollima is the name of the winged horse (Pegasus) in Korean. |
| This was the first of our chartered trolleybuses - a Chollima 964 built in 1964. It was in good condition, but a little slow. |
| This is the Chollima 964 in front of the winged horse it is named after |
| Our group at the end of the trolleybus hire with the driver and conductress in our midst. The two men on either end of the group were the depot/transport managers for Pyongyang and they were very pleased to meet such an interested crowd. We also found out which towns in DPRK still have trolleybuses and trams, useful for a further visit. |
| Trolleybus and tram stop outside the Railway Station |
| Some very pretty liveries |
| One of the older type trolleybuses |
| On it's way round the Railway Station turning ciurcle |
| En route from Arch of Triumph to Kim Il Sung Square |
| Passing the Arch of Triumph with a 2 pieces of traffic! |
| Two types of trolleybus |
| Passing through Kim Il Sung square, familiar from military parades |
| Kim Il Sung Square |
| Wiring crossover |
| Most recent model of trolleybus. Note the young lady traffic person, present at most road junctions. Not much traffic to direct and some seemed to spend most of their time saluting to cars with blacked out windows! |