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Upper Douglas Cable Tramway: 914 mm (3 ft) Cable 15 Aug 1896 19 Aug 1929 [5] Winter service withdrawn from 1927. Douglas – Keristal – Port Soderick: Douglas Southern Electric Tramway (Marine Drive Tramway) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Electric 1896 15 Sep 1939 Opened to Keristal 7 August 1896, completed 1897. Operation suspended c.1914 ...
Electrified and incorporated into Athens tramway network Electric 1908 1960 Gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) Athens: Athens Tram: Electric 19 Jul 2004 Two modern tramlines. Piraeus: Piraeus Harbour Tramway: Horse 1883 1908 Electric 1910 1960 Piraeus – Perama: Piraeus-Perama light railway: Electric 1936 1977 Thessaloniki: Trams in ...
Tram in Athens, Greece. Trams were the main mode of mass transportation in Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Volos, Kalamata and Piraeus before World War II but were ripped out due to the cars and busses rapidly rising popularity. [24] [25] [26] The first trams in Athens began operating in 1882. They were light vehicles drawn by three horses ...
In 2004, 44 years after the last tram operated in Athens proper, trams returned to the streets of the capital, in the form of modern and technologically advanced tram vehicles running on a standard gauge rail network. Operation of the modern Athens Tram system began on 19 July 2004, [1] just a month before the 2004 Summer Olympics were held in ...
The Athens Tram is the modern public tram network system serving Athens, Greece.The system is owned and operated by STASY, which replaced Tram S.A. in June 2011. [3]STASY operates a fleet of 25 Alstom Citadis and 35 Sirio vehicles, [4] which serve two tram lines and 60 stops.
The following is a list of tram stops on the Piraeus branch, from the junction of Poseidonos Avenue and Achilleos to Omiridou Skylitsi, via the Piraeus loop. [8]Services on this branch were suspended from 16 March 2020 to 21 January 2021, due to realignment works associated with the Faliro Waterfront regeneration project: Tzitzifies, Kallithea and Moschato were also rebuilt during the ...
A modern Athens Tram station and vehicles. Stasy operates a fleet of 60 vehicles, [5] 35 'Ansaldobreda Sirio' and 25 'Alstom Citadis 305', [6] which serve 60 stations, [5] employ 345 people with an average daily occupancy of 65,000 passengers. [5] The tram network spans a total length of 27 km (17 mi) and covers ten Athenian suburbs. [5]
These lines had many "tramway" characteristics as built but few today. Some town tramway systems had lines or groups of lines that were geographically isolated from the "main" system. Long-lived examples (i.e. excepting those during formative or closing years) are tabulated if known. Examples include Volgograd, Russia and New York City, US.