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The whole line is located in Shanghai’s Pudong New Area. It is about 10 km (6.2 mi) long and has 15 stations. [14] [15] Zhangjiang tram adopts the French Translohr tram system, with low floor, monorail guidance, rubber wheels, three carriages, and a maximum capacity of about 167 passengers. [16]
12 Zhongchun Road Yard (Chinese: 中春路停车场): Located on the northwest side of the intersection of Gudai Road and the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway and on the west side of terminal station Qixin Road, covering an area of 13.35 hectares. It is the parking lot for line 12 trains. There is a connection line with the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway.
Songjiang Tram (also Songjiang Tramway) is a light rail tramway in Shanghai, China. The system consists of two lines (T1 and T2) totaling 31 km (19 mi) with 42 stations. [2] Unlike the Zhangjiang Tram, Songjiang trams use centenary power supply and steel-wheeled rail systems. Most of the route follows independent rights of way.
Plans for a rapid transit system went as far back as 2012, when Sun Jianping, then-chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Transport Commission, announced plans to construct multiple modes of rapid transit systems, including Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and trams in a number of regions, including Shanghai Corniche, Songjiang, Lingang and Hongqiao Business District. [8]
The Master Plan of Shanghai Metro-Region 1999–2020 was approved by the State Council of China on May 11, 2001. [16] The plan had 17 lines in total, containing four intra-city-region express rail lines, eight urban metro lines, and five urban light-rail lines with a total length of about 780 kilometers.
Shanghai's first generation trams operated between 1908 and 1975. The Zhangjiang Tram opened in 2009, using French Translohr rubber-tired trams. The Songjiang Tram opened in 2018, and is a modern light rail system with 2 lines. The Lingang DRT opened in 2021, and is an Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) system with three lines.
The first tram line in Shanghai (China’s first tram appeared in Beijing in 1899), Yingshang No. 1, opened on January 21, 1908, and operated between Jing'an Temple and The Bund. The line was 6.04 kilometers long and operated by British commercial interests.
Fushun, Liaoning had a tram system circa 1902, operated by the Manchurian Railway Company with 26 trams. Tianjin city, had a tram system that opened in 1906. By 1933 it had 9 miles of track and operated 116 tramcars. It was closed by 1972. The Changchun tramway system started operations in 1942. By the 1950s the system covered 28 km (17 mi ...