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Ganz UV Advent Tram

The Ganz UV was a series of tramcars manufactured by Hungarian companies:
Ganz Vagon- és Gépgyár
Rába Magyar Vagon- és Gépgyár,
and Klement Gottwald Villamossági Gyár (later: Ganz Villamossági Gyár).

This tram aims to recreate one of the units on the 2022 Advent tram that runs alongside with a Ganz KCSV-7 instead of the usual light trams due to cost cutting measures.

1,2 - Increase/Decrease Throttle
3,4 - Reverser Forward/Backward
5,6 - Indicators
7,8 - Doors
9 - Pantograph
0 - Lights

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Getting inside
Enter via the door buttons place infront of the front bogies


Operation
Raise the pantograph with 9
Set the reverser to forward with 3 or backward with 4
Increase throttle with 1, decrease with 2
The throttle has 2 levels, but it's not indicated anywhere. The only way to tell is:
Level 1: keeps the speed to a certain point (except at full speed)
Level 2: gives the beans

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The UV tramcars have four main variants, all are four axle rail motor coaches with a Bo'Bo'tr axle arrangement, capable of operating as electric multiple units. The cars were manufactured between 1956 and 1965 in Budapest, and overall 375 regular units and 2 prototypes were made. The UV type designation resolves to U típusú távvezérelt motorkocsi ("type U remotely controlled motor coach"). Two prototypes were made with aluminium carbodies, designated as UZ, these proved to be unsuccessful. In addition, in the 1990s, 20 UV cars were refurbished and they are referred to as MUV (modernized UV).
Planned to replace the pre-WWII design TM trams, with 377 units, the UV series became the most produced tram in Hungary.
The first car entered passenger service in 1956, and the type was ultimately decommissioned in 2007, after roughly 51 years of continuous service. UV trams became one of the symbols of Budapest, and had appeared in a number of Hungarian and foreign movies as plot elements. Two preserved, paired UV cars now annually serve as one of the city's so-called "Light trams" in the festive season, decorated with white and blue LED lights.
-Wikipedia