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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 tram to Ober Gatlinburg ski resort and amusement park in Gatlinburg, Tennessee; Texas. The Wyler Aerial Tramway ascends the Franklin Mountains as part of the Texas State Park system. It closed indefinitely in September 2018 due to safety concerns relating to its age. Utah. The tram at Snowbird, Utah, a ski and summer resort near Salt Lake City
In 1912, the horse-drawn tram had to cease to operate for one year because the Ministry of Defence sent all the horses to the front during the Balkan War. The tram network was electrified by overhead contact wire on 2 February 1914. The tram began to run on the Anatolian part of Istanbul on 8 June 1928 between Üsküdar and Kisikli.
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 ...
Class H of the Berlin U-Bahn. The following list of metro systems in Europe is ordered alphabetically by country and city.Although the term metro (or métro, metró, metrosu, metropoliteni, or metropolitano / metropolitana in Southern Europe, or mietrapaliten / metropoliten in Eastern Europe) is widespread in Europe, there are also other names for rapid transit systems, such as subway ...
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 ...
It includes all tram systems in Denmark, past and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan ...
The tram-train often is a type of interurban [3] — that is, they link separate towns or cities, according to George W. Hilton and John F. Due's definition. [4] Most tram-trains are standard gauge, which facilitates sharing track with main-line trains. Exceptions include Alicante Tram and Nordhausen, which are metre gauge.