That is so cool to see all these places and how they looked back then. Brings back memories... Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

My first visit to Stuttgart was Saturday 2nd August 1997. The first of the U Bahns that I rode was a meter gauge GT4 on the line 15, from Hauptbahnhof to Milchhof, which was not yet "U15" until the GT4s were withdrawn from regular service. Just about every underground station at the time had a low floor section for the GT4s and a high floor section for the newer DT8s. I can still remember back to February 2007 when the line 15 GT4s stopped at Eugensplatz where the German YHA affiliate hostel is located. Back then, there was a dedicated section of the street that was blocked off, while the GT4s stopped, and riders were expected to climb up and down the steps. The newer stepless platforms for the Eugensplatz station were under construction at the time and when the meter gauge GT4s went out of service, the U15 used the stepless platforms ever since. As far as I know, the meter gauge tracks remain along bits of line 15, but only for Sunday heritage exhibition service as line 23, from Bad Cannstatt to Ruhbank, passing by Eugensplatz. I look forward this next month to visit Stuttgart once again and ride the line 23 to Ruhbank and back.

How weird would it be to see oneself in one of those 80s videos! 30 odd years younger. I was the same age as those kids at 26:32 back then. Good times! There are hardly any videos from 80s Stuttgart. And an Aussie is providing us with 80s Stuttgart footage. How cool is that? Good on ya, mate!

The dual-gauge trackwork was really fascinating, especially when seeing these complicated sections. When I was going to Stuttgart by bus then I always picked the bus to Feuerbach and there I spontaneously decided about how to get into the city centre ... S-Bahn S6 (still in love of the old VT-420 train design), or the tram - usually it was the wider DT-8, not sure if the old GT4 was also still going to Stadtmitte - it was mostlikely in the end of the 80s and later. At 27:19 it is interesting to see a Mercedes O 305 GT trollleybus. Never seen one before in Stuttgart. But well, mostlikely I was also more over from the area of Feuerbach-Zuffenhausen and then going from there to the centre by S-Bahn or U-Bahn. Thanks a lot for sharing these amazing video clips. And figuring out that Eszet was a company in Stuttgart. I am still remembering the Eszet-Schnitten to place these chololate slices on a bread or bun with butter, hehe. Nowadays it's made by another big player in the chocolate industry but still keeping the name Eszet.

I'd lived in Stuttgart off and on for some 20 years and enjoyed your video of the trams very much. The scenes bring back many pleasant memories. I loved Stuttgart in the 70s.

Very good - remember visiting in the early 70s with three other youthful British enthusiasts and couldn't get over how friendly and proud the tramway staff were. We were welcomed into one depot where the manager had been a war time pilot with appropriate photos in his office! The organisation seemed extremely paternalistic with its own social housing and tramway band. They were keen to emphasise that the GT4s were stove enamelled an not just painted. Still remember the basic german they tought us - luft bremse etc. etc. - happy days

*nostalgie*

You filmed one of the only 3 Mercedes O 305 GTD Duobusses, Number 308 was also a former Kerb Guided Trolleybus Prototypes at the Rastatt O-Bahn test track. Also many Thanks for Filming the loop at Mineralbäder, was searching for Fotos or Videos of it for Ages!

Also I really like all the comments you tell at the video, they’re helpful! Thanks to Gerhard Wandel too. Interesting that the SSB decided to name the lines without the U for the converted ones for some time. I prefer this, the lesser letters the better, ahaha.

Interesting conversion period! I tried looking up if the metre guage was still being used but couldn't find a good answer, the GT4 stock has been disused but I did see a recent picture showing the dual guage was still in place at the Rathaus station.

There was a tram accident with a truck in Untertürkheim in the mid 80s where a schoolmate of mine was killed. He must have been 7ish. Did you happen to hear about it, too?

Interesting look at a complicated system, although I assume it got simpler. Do the standard gauge cars have dual level floors in the doorways to cater for high and low level platforms? Cheers

Lovely film. The prototypes that ran at the line 3 that appeared in your 84 film never ran in another line nor were in service in 86 right?

absolutely fascinating. the odd shaped b is the same as double s, for those who don't know. i'm under the impression that the odd shaped b is getting phased out.