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The Czech capital Prague had planned one new line and the extension of eight others between 2007 and 2016, with an official of the Prague Public Transport Company stating that "In Europe in the past 10 years, tram transportation is the preferred way of transit; we can say that tram transportation is going through its renaissance period".
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.
In 2012, the first Tram-EM (German: Tram-Europameisterschaft, or Tram European Championship) was created for the 140th anniversary of the Dresden tram network.The championship is hosted yearly in Europe by rotating local transit companies in cooperation with the Dresden-based production company that created the concept.
Two trams collided at Strasbourg's central station on Saturday, injuring 68 people, authorities said. Reports said that one tram, which had been stopped, moved backwards down a slope for unknown ...
By this standard, virtually all Japanese examples of "steam tramways" would be classified as "light railways," because none (based on the photographic record) used European-type enclosed locomotives. Also in Japan, many of today's suburban electric railways were built under "tramway" concessions ("licenses") and were eventually changed to ...
As of 2019, the Prague tram network operates 882 tram vehicles. Trams in Bucharest: Romania 144 Liverpool Corporation Tramways: UK 140 1957 Trams in Kyiv: Ukraine 139.9 Trams in Brussels: Belgium 139 Trams in Dresden: Germany 134.3 Trams in Warsaw: Poland 132 Trams in Stuttgart: Germany 131 Trams in Hanover: 127 Birmingham Corporation Tramways ...
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 ...
4 (1 heritage tram line) 38 131 2023 27 Manchester: United Kingdom 103 km (64 mi) 99 8 44.3 120 2020 [25] 28 Arad: Romania 100.17 km (62.24 mi) 118 16 43.3 138 2014 29 Portland: United States 97 km (60 mi) [26] 94 5 38.4 145 2023 30 Gothenburg: Sweden 160 km (99 mi) 132 13 (1 heritage tram line) [27] 140 [28] 263 [29] 2018 31 Denver: United States