VIETNAM - 1990 & 1996

The photographs in 1990 were taken by my late wife Jennifer, tour leader of one of the first independent tour groups to visit Vietnam and Cambodia. Jennifer got some good photographs of the trolleybuses on the short-lived system in Hanoi as well as the tram system on its last legs. She didn't realise the significance of both of these modes in the history of public transport in the Country.
In 1996 Jennifer and I were invited to Vietnam by Vietnam Railways, whose staff had been driven and escorted through Queensland in 1993 on a buying spree for locomotives, carriages and wagons to upgrade their rail system. Vietnam Railways had purchased about 20 diesel-hydraulic DH-class locomotives from Queensland Railways, locos used in Queensland for shunting and short trip freights. In Vietnam they often hauled up to 16 carriages on the heavily graded line to Lao Cai, near the Chinese border.
I have arranged the bus photographs in registration order, generally from north to south with Government buses for military, airline shuttle and airside shuttle services being prefixed by letters, these appear at the foot of the album.