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The Urban Transport Group (UTG) is a British transport organisation created in 2016, replacing the former Passenger Transport Executive Group (PTEG).. It has seven full members, the six Passenger transport executives and Transport for London and three associate members: Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, Bristol and the West of England Authorities, and Nottingham City Council.
The tram type is offered in metre gauge and standard gauge and allows for a tram width of 2,300, 2,400 or 2,650 mm (7 ft 6 + 9 ⁄ 16 in, 7 ft 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 in or 8 ft 8 + 5 ⁄ 16 in). Trams can be assembled from 3, 5, 7 or (only for the Urbos 100) 9 modules, with the length ranging between 23 and 56 metres (75 and 184 ft).
Nr City Country Length Stops Lines Ridership (million/year) Fleet Info year 1 Melbourne: Australia 250 km (160 mi) 1763 24 206 500 2018 [1]: 2 Moscow: Russia 208 km (129 mi) [Note 1]
Trams in Saint Petersburg: Russia 700+ [8] 205 km of lines remain. Detroit United Railway: USA 640 1956 Trams in Berlin: Germany 624 [9] 194 km of lines remain. Tram in Moscow: Russia 560 [10] 208 [Note 1] Trams in London: UK 523 [11] All trams removed by 1952, but a much smaller modern tramway network, London Tram, reintroduced in 2000. 1952 ...
Qingdao Tram: Electric 5 Mar 2016 Shànghǎi 上海 /Shanghai: Trams in Shanghai: Electric 15 Mar 1908 1 Dec 1975 . A Chinese source states that one tramway line was closed in 1963, however, Line 3, the last closed in 1975. Zhangjiang Tram: Electric 1 Jan 2010 Translohr: Songjiang Tram: Electric 26 Dec 2018 Shěnyáng 沈阳 /Shenyang: Trams in ...
In 1860 the first urban horse railway line (a predecessor of trams), known as konka—from the Russian kon, "horse"—opened in Saint Petersburg. [3] In 1875, the world's first electric tram line operated in Sestroretsk near Saint Petersburg , Russia, invented and tested by Fyodor Pirotsky .
Public transport by tram, streetcar, and light-rail street systems — always running on rail tracks, and usually an electric rail transport system. For trams in U.S. English usage, see Trackless train .
Tramways & Urban Transit (TAUT or T&UT), also known as Modern Tramway, is a British monthly magazine about tramways and light rail transport, published continuously since 1938. Its content is orientated both to tramway enthusiasts and to persons working in the tram transport field or studying tramways.