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Historic 6-axle Duewag articulated tram car. The most common vehicle type currently in use in Germany is the articulated tram, either in its high floor or low floor variant. Articulated trams are tram cars that consist of several sections held together by flexible joints. Like articulated buses, they have an increased passenger capacity. These ...
Hamburg is the only major German city with only a U-Bahn (Hamburg U-Bahn), but no extant tram or light rail system. The Hamburg tram network was one of oldest and largest in Germany and largest closed system. Hamburg-Harburg: Electric 30 Sep 1899 24 Sep 1975 Alt-Rahlstedt – Volksdorf: Electric 30 Oct 1906 15 Apr 1923
By 1923, a total of 29 towns and cities in the country operated tram networks, and at 170 km in extension and operating beyond the country's borders into France, Geneva's tram network became Europe's largest system [44] After WW2 and the introduction of buses and trolleybuses, many of the networks shrunk.
This is a list of cities and towns in Europe that have (or once had) town tramway (e.g. urban tramway) systems as part of their public transport system. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows.
The Melbourne tram network is the longest tram system by route length. The New Orleans streetcar system was one of the first in the world and it is the oldest system still in operation. The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars ), or light rail systems as part of their ...
The network was reduced to only one surviving line in the 1960s. It has been re-expanding since then, back to over 40 km. Trams in Budapest: Hungary 158 Trams in Sofia: Bulgaria 154 Trams in Leipzig: Germany 148 Peninsular Railway: USA 146.6 Trams in Prague: Czech Rep. 145,7 As of 2019, the Prague tram network operates 882 tram vehicles. Trams ...
Germany 146 km (91 mi) 522 15 134 245 2016 [14] 16 Prague: Czech Republic 145.7 km (90.5 mi) 596 31 373 857 2017 [15] [16] 17 Bucharest: Romania 141 km (88 mi) 598 24 322 483 2013 [17] 18 Dresden: Germany 134.3 km (83.5 mi) 259 12 145 2018 19 Stuttgart: 131 km (81 mi) 201 17 170 204 2016 20 Warsaw: Poland 131.5 km (81.7 mi) [Note 9] 26 248 772
Since 2017, the tram system also reaches Kehl on the right bank of the Rhine, in Germany. While the prior tram network also included such a Rhine-crossing line at times, this section of the Rhine did not form the border between France and Germany from 1871 to the end of World War I and during World War II when Alsace (including Strasbourg) was ...