>>1178103In 1923 the company that owned the Badalona line bought new trams. These were at the time the first metal-bodied trams in Barcelona, the first trams running on bogies, and the largest trams in the city, not counting the Vallès line trains. These trams were of belgian design, since the company that ran the Badalona tram was of belgian capital.
Because of their large size and riveted metal body, they were nicknamed "tanks". These would remain as the only rolling stock for the Badalona line until its demise.
These trams endured uncountable changes, some were double ended, some were married pairs with one motor car and one control trailer, some were married pairs with both motor cars. And then they were remodelled accordingly over time. And starting in 1946, some of these trams were converted to standard gauge and ran on the urban lines in Barcelona, where they would run until the very end of tram service in 1971.
Pic related shows a meter-gauge tram on the Badalona line, at the final Barcelona terminus near Estació del Nord (train station which is now bus terminal). That terminus was only short lived, the tram would be supressed not much later.
