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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 ...
Trams in der Schweiz: von Basel bis Zürich: Strassenbahn-Betriebe einst und jetzt [Trams in Switzerland: from Basel to Zurich: Tramway Operators Then and Now] (in German). München: GeraMond-Verlag. ISBN 393278507X. Buckley, Richard (2000). Tramways and Light Railways of Switzerland and Austria. UK: Light Rail Transit Association.
Two membership associations, the Zurich Tram Museum and the Aktion Pro Sächsitram, also use VBZ tracks to operate occasional heritage tram services. [5] [7] The VBZ owns 313 tram vehicles, which between them cover over 16 million vehicle-kilometres per year. Of these, 88 are modern low-floor Bombardier Cobra trams delivered between 2001 and 2010.
VBZ trams of line 2, here at the Farbhof stop, also use tracks of Limmattalbahn. The Limmattal light rail line (German: Limmattalbahn) is a metre gauge tram line in the Limmat Valley between Zürich Altstetten and Killwangen which started service in 2022. The line is 13.4 kilometres (8.3 mi) long and serves 27 stops.
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 ...
The remaining section, between Letzigraben and Farbhof, is still in use, having been integrated into the Zürich city tram network as part of Zürich tram route 2. [1] [2] [3] The preserved car 2 in the Zürich tram museum, with the postal trailer. One of the line's trams, numbered Ce 2/2 2 and dating from 1900, is preserved at the Zürich tram ...
S8: half-hourly service to Pfäffikon SZ via Zürich HB, and to Winterthur. S14: half-hourly service to Affoltern am Albis via Zürich HB, and to Hinwil. S19: half-hourly service to Dietikon (during peak hours to Koblenz) via Zürich HB, and to Effretikon (during peak hours to Pfäffikon ZH). Nighttime S-Bahn (only during weekends): [8]