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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 ...
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 ...
The tram stop was named after the latter street, which itself had been named for Werner Stauffacher in 1893. Stauffacher is officially just the name of the tram stop, not the square itself. There was formerly a Stauffacherplatz some 200 m (660 ft) farther along the street towards the Sihl , named in 1898.
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.
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
Category: Transport museums in Switzerland. 6 languages. Deutsch; ... Zurich Tram Museum This page was last edited on 17 September 2019, at 00:01 (UTC). ...
' Railway Station Street ') in the Swiss city of Zurich is the city's main downtown street and one of the world's most expensive and exclusive shopping avenues. In 2011, a study named Bahnhofstrasse the most expensive street for retail property in Europe, and the third most expensive worldwide. [1] In 2016, the street ranked ninth. [2]