Our nostalgic Line 42 passes through the most beautiful locales of the Prague Conservation Area! You can take a ride on one of our many vintage trams, from the oldest dating from the start of the 20th Century, to types from the 1970s. 349 Car No. 349 built in 1915 has a one-piece sliding door and electromagnetic rail brakes. Ema Destinnová may have listened to their gentle screeching when she went from her chateau in Stráž nad Nežárkou to a performance or meeting in Prague at the very end of World War One. 351 Motorized car No. 351 also comes from the wartime year of 1915. The Prague-German journalist Egon Erwin Kisch, nicknamed the ferocious reporter, may have sat on its wooden benches, accompanied by Jaroslav Hašek, author of The Good Soldier Švejk — the most translated Czech book, who also ferociously frequented Prague pubs between 1920 and 1922. 412 The 1920 car is one of the first series of tramsmade in Czechoslovakia! The author of the redesign of Prague Castle, Slovenian architect Josip Plečnik may have ridden in one. He probably did not take it too frequently, but while riding in it, he may have run into his colleague, the brilliant architect of Czech cubism, Josef Gočár. 2210 This was the most widely used double-axle motorized car. Four of them — made between 1928 and 1931 — serve on Line 42. the last one cruised the streets of Prague until 1974. This type of car may have therefore carried French poet André Breton, when he lectured on poetry in Prague in the 1930s, or the American poet Allen Ginsberg, who was proclained king of the student May festival 30 yers later. 2272 It wa built in 1931 at Ringhoffer’s factory in Smíchov and ran on Prague’s tracks until 1974, when it was phased out like all two-axle trams. In the meantime, it may have carried the world-famous Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha and the internationally renowned photographer Jan Saudek. Today, you can be part of the picture framed by the window of 2272. 5002 Only two of these T1 type cars, inspired by an American design, can be found in all of Prague. the one that serves Line 42 was built in 1952. When brand new, it may have taken František Kriegel — company doctor at Tatra Smíchov — on his way to work. Between 1960 and 1963, Kriegel was an advisor to Fidel Castro, and helped eradicate polio in Cuba; and in 1968, he was the only member of the Czechoslovak delegation to Moscow to refused to legalize the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Army. 6003 The quadruple-axle T2 car is truly unique — only two of them served in all of Prague (one is in the Prague Public Transport Museu). Our nostalgic Line 42 is served by the 1958 car No. 6003 wich was made for the City of Ostrava (in the 1970s version) and may have passed by the Vítkovice steel works, which are inherently connected with the German Jewish Rothschild family that owned and significantly developed the Ostrava steelworks, as well as iron ore mines, in the early 1800s. 6102 This model of the T3 tram is the world’s oldest surviving car of this type. Made in 1962, it could have carried, for example, the famous Polish film director Agnieszka Holland who studied at the film school in Prague between 1966 and 1971. Among other people, she befriended future Oscar laureate, director Miloš Forman. They may have taken this tram when they attended a party together. 7000 The legendary K2 articulated tram, manufactured in 1977 at ČKD Tatra Praha, served for over 30 years in Bratislava to train future tram drivers — a job that many dreamed of. Tram drivers included French actor Jean Lefebvre (Fougass from the series The Gendarmes of St Tropez) and American screenwriter Anthony Zuiker (CSI: Las Vegas). Hop aboard the tram that takes people to their dreams. More at www.prague.eu/tram42