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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".
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 ...
Location Name of System Gauge mm Traction Type Date (From) Date (To) Notes Douglas: Douglas Bay Horse Tramway: 914 mm (3 ft) : Horse 7 Aug 1876 [3] [4]Winter service withdrawn from November 1927, current operating season early May – late September.
March 9, 1976: In the Italian Dolomites at Cavalese, a cab fell after a rope broke, killing 43. (See 1976 Cavalese cable car crash) April 15, 1978: In a storm, two carrying ropes of the Squaw Valley Aerial Tramway in California fell from the aerial tramway support tower. One of the ropes partly destroyed the cabin. Four were killed, 32 injured.
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
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 ...
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
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 ...