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The Zurich Tram Museum (German: Tram-Museum Zürich; TMZ) is a transport museum in the Swiss city of Zurich, specialising in the history of the Zurich tram system. The main museum site is located at the former tram depot, Tramdepot Burgwies. The museum also maintains a workshop at the much smaller former tram depot of Wartau. [1] [2] [3] The ...
Trams make an important contribution to public transport in the city of Zurich in Switzerland.The tram network serves most city neighbourhoods, and is the backbone of public transport within the city, albeit supplemented by the inner sections of the Zurich S-Bahn, along with urban trolleybus and bus lines, as well as two funicular railways, one rack railway and passenger boat lines on the ...
Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column. Basel (green trams in the city) Basel (yellow trams link the suburbs) Bern Geneva Lausanne The first electric tramway in Switzerland, that became the Vevey–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve tramway , c.1890 Zurich
The Städtische Strassenbahn Zürich (StStZ) came into existence in 1896, when the city of Zurich purchased the Elektrische Strassenbahn Zürich (ESZ). However privately owned tram systems had operated in the city since 1882, and private and public operation of tram systems within the city continued in parallel until 1931, with the StStZ gradually acquiring the private sector companies.
It links a lower station served by Zürich tram routes 9 and 10 and Zürich trolleybus route 33, with an upper station at Rigiblick on the Zürichberg hill. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Rigiblick funicular is one of two funiculars within the city of Zürich, the other being the Polybahn funicular in the city centre.
Swiss Museum of Transport; Z. Zurich Tram Museum This page was last edited on 17 September 2019, at 00:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The first Zurich trolleybus line was Bezirksgebäude to Bucheggplatz, [2] and is now part of line 32. Between its opening in 1946 and 1956, line C, latterly known as line 34, was isolated from the rest of the system. During that period, vehicle replacement on that line was carried out using a so-called Bügelwagen ("current collector") on tram ...
Museum director Alfred Waldis accepting a DC-3 as a donation from the president of Swissair in 1969. The museum traces its history to 1897, when the first attempts at creating a museum of railway equipment were made. Following a national exhibition in 1914, the Swiss Railway Museum was founded by Swiss Federal Railways in 1918 in Zurich. The ...