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Tenerife Tram (Spanish: Tranvía de Tenerife) is a light rail or tram service located on the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands in Spain. It is operated by Metropolitano de Tenerife, a limited company now 100% owned by Cabildo de Tenerife .
Tranvía Villasegura was a tramway that ran between Santa Cruz and La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands. Opened in 1901, it extended to Tacoronte in 1905, and closed in 1956. A new tram system, Tranvía Tenerife, started operation along a similar route in 2007.
The history of tramways in Spain began with animal-drawn trams in the nineteenth century, in Madrid (1871), Barcelona and Bilbao (1872), Valencia (1876), Valladolid (1881), Zaragoza (1885), Sevilla (1887) and Palma de Mallorca (1891). In 1879, the Madrid-Leganés tramway began working with steam traction, and in 1899 the first electrified line ...
Soon the tram replaced horses on the existing lines, and a new line was built from Santa Cruz to Icod de los Vinos. In 1904 track was laid from La Laguna to Tacoronte. By 1950, the company had 21 km of track, with four stationhouses: Santa Cruz, La Cuesta, La Laguna and Tacoronte. By 1959 it was all abandoned; bus service had replaced the trams ...
This is a list of town tramway systems in Spain by the autonomous community. It includes all tram systems, past and present. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with current operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows.
Cervera was also responsible for designing the original Tenerife Tram system. He helped build a tramway system in his native Segorbe. He helped build a tramway system in his native Segorbe. Personal life and political life
Cabildo Insular de Tenerife (the Tenerife Island Government) also owned 80% stake of the company. [53] This tram operation was passed down from the old Transdev. [54] The 14% was sold back to the Cabildo (Tenerife government) on 4 April 2017, who now owns 100% of MTSA. [55] [56]
Tenerife is the most visited island in the archipelago [8] and one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain. [9] In 2014, 11,473,600 foreign tourists came to the Canary Islands. Tenerife had 4,171,384 arrivals that year, excluding the numbers for Spanish tourists which make up an additional 30% of total arrivals.