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The Zurich Tram Museum was founded in 1967, and at first it used various borrowed locations to store and work on its exhibits. In 1989 it took over the tiny former Strassenbahn Zürich–Höngg [ de ] (StZH) tram depot at Wartau, which had been out of use as a tram depot since the 1923 acquisition of the StZH by the city, and opened its first ...
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 ...
The square is one of the nodal points of Zurich tram lines 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, and 15, as well the regional bus lines 912 and 916, being the border between the Rathaus and Hochschulen quarters. The square was not used in the classical sense as a public square for recreation until the adjoining Sechseläutenplatz was rebuilt in 2013 for public use.
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.
Category: Transport museums in Switzerland. 6 languages. Deutsch; ... Zurich Tram Museum This page was last edited on 17 September 2019, at 00:01 (UTC). ...
Bürkliplatz landing gate towards General-Guisan-Quai, Dampfschiff Stadt Rapperswil on occasion of one of its centennial roundtrips. The square is one of the nodal points of the Zurich tram system, with lines 2, 5, 8, 9 and 11 passing through it, as well as regional bus lines 161 and 165, on the boundary between Lindenhof and Enge quarters.
Passengers were required to change at Leonhardsplatz for the separate city tramway system until 1931, when the ZOS was taken over by the Städtische Strassenbahn Zürich, who operated the city's trams. [4] [5] Today, the Zurich tram lines 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 and 15, and VBZ trolleybus lines 31 and 46 provide public transportation. The Polybahn also ...
Trailer car, B 119 originally built 1930 for Lausanne Tramways, was preserved in the Zürich Tram Museum from 2007 until 2021. [17] In spring 2021 it was regauged for 760 mm ( 2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in ) Bosnian gauge and is used for heritage trains on the Agnita railway line in Romania .