List of largest tram and light rail transit systems ever explained

This is a list of the largest town tramway systems that have ever operated. Town tramway systems include all light rail, tram, interurban, streetcar, or other comparable modes of public transport which uses rails while mainly traveling among other traffic. All figures reflect the system at its height. To keep the list manageable, only systems with over 90km of track are included.

List

!System!Country!Length (km)!Notes!Closed
Vicinal tramwayBelgium4,095[1] Networks between towns ceased in the 1970s, but one line (the Coast Tram) remains in operation.
Streetcars in Los AngelesUSA1,770+[2] Composed of Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric.1963
Chicago Surface LinesUSA1,600+[3] 1958
Trams in ParisFrance1,111[4] Original network stopped service in 1938. Since then, a new 186.6 km network has been built.[5]
Trams in Buenos AiresArgentina875[6] [7] Still operating some lines
Trams in Saint PetersburgRussia700+[8] 205 km of lines remain.
Detroit United RailwayUSA6401956
Trams in BerlinGermany624[9] 194 km of lines remain.
Tram in MoscowRussia560[10] 208[11]
Trams in LondonUK523[12] 1952
SFMTAUSA[13] Length in 1921
Manchester Corporation TramwaysUK470[14] Milage could relate to all track in (what is now) Greater Manchester including other neighbouring operators (but with much inter-running/shared routes).[15] Others suggest about 430 track miles.[16] All trams removed from region by 1950s, but modern light rail, Manchester Metrolink introduced 1992.1949
Market Street RailwayUSA457[17] 1944
Trams in Rio de JaneiroBrazil433[18]
Streetcars in Washington, D.C.USA320[19] 1962
Trams in ViennaAustria318[20] Today 172 km remain.[21]
Sacramento NorthernUSA2951941
Trams in SydneyAustralia291[22] 1961
San Diego Electric RailwayUSA165miles1949
Trams in MelbourneAustralia256Current largest tram system by route length
Glasgow Corporation TramwaysUK227.511962
Trams in BrisbaneAustralia1991969
Cologne StadtbahnGermany194.8
Trams in MilanItaly181.8km (113miles)[23] Data as of 2017. The network was longer in the past.
Silesian TramwaysPoland178
Tidewater Southern RailwayUSA
Trams in GenevaSwitzerland170[24] The network was reduced to only one surviving line in the 1960s. It has been re-expanding since then, back to over 40 km.
Trams in BudapestHungary158
Trams in SofiaBulgaria154
Trams in LeipzigGermany148
Peninsular RailwayUSA
Trams in PragueCzech Rep.145,7As of 2019, the Prague tram network operates 882 tram vehicles
Trams in BucharestRomania144
Liverpool Corporation TramwaysUK1401957
Trams in KyivUkraine139.9
Trams in BrusselsBelgium139
Trams in DresdenGermany134.3
Trams in WarsawPoland132
Trams in StuttgartGermany131
Trams in HanoverGermany127
Birmingham Corporation TramwaysUK129.6[25] 1953
Central California Traction CompanyUSA[26]
Trams in LodzPoland124.1
Tram in ZürichSwitzerland122
Trams in Greater CairoEgypt120[27] 2019[28]
Trams in ZagrebCroatia116
Visalia Electric RailroadUSA
Key SystemUSA1959
Dublin tramwaysIreland97No original tramways still exist, but modern light rail, the Luas, was introduced in 2004 and operates 42km of track.1959
Trams in GothenburgSweden95
Trams in KrakówPoland97

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Instappen a.u.b.! Honderd jaar buurtspoorwegen in België. NMVB. 1985.
  2. Web site: From the Archives: Did Auto, Oil Conspiracy Put the Brakes on Trolleys?. 2003-03-23. Los Angeles Times. en-US. 2019-12-27.
  3. Web site: Ask Geoffrey: A Look Back at Chicago's Streetcar Era. WTTW News. en. 2019-12-27.
  4. KONOPACKI-MACIUK. ZBIGNIEW. 2014. TRAMS AS TOOLS OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION IN FRENCH CITIES. Technical Transactions Architecture. 10. 63.
  5. Web site: ratp.fr - Le réseau Tramway RATP en Île-de-France. https://web.archive.org/web/20140426233553/http://www.ratp.fr/en/ratp/r_108570/le-reseau-tramway-ratp-en-ile-de-france/. dead. 2014-04-26. 2014-04-26. 2019-12-28.
  6. http://www.elarcadigital.com.ar/modules/revistadigital/articulo.php?id=651 Historia del tranvía en Buenos Aires
  7. http://www.eldiario.es/viajarahora/viaje-historia-ciudad-viejo-Tramway-tranvia-Caballito-Buenos-Aires-Horario-recorrido-telefono-mail-parada-subte-colectivo-transporte-gratis-viajar-guia-barrio-restaurantes-comer-barato_0_368863117.html Un viaje por la historia de la ciudad en el viejo Tramway
  8. Web site: Monument to the Blockade Tram MC-29. www.visit-petersburg.ru. 2019-12-28.
  9. Web site: 150 years of trams in Berlin – International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. en-US. 2019-12-28.
  10. Web site: Konka horse-drawn trams, Lunar Rovers and electric buses: three centuries' history of Moscow transport. 2020-09-29. moscowseasons.com. en.
  11. This reference (Web site: Евгений Михайлов: Обособление трамвайных путей положительно сказывается на регулярности движения наземного городского транспорта . Мосгортранс [Mosgortrans] . Russian . Yevgeny Mikhailov: The separation of tramways' positive impact on the reliability of urban transport traffic . 17 March 2014 . 2015-03-06.) quotes the 2014 single track length of Moscow's tram network to be 416km (258miles) – for the purposes of this table, the double track system length of Moscow's tram network is assumed to be roughly half that figure, or approximately 208km (129miles).
  12. Web site: London 1934. www.tundria.com. 2019-12-27.
  13. Book: The municipal railway of San Francisco, 1912–1921 . O'Shaughnessy, M.M. . 1921 . J.A. Prudhomme Composition Co . San Francisco, California . January 17, 2017 . 5.
  14. Book: Transport Department, Manchester Corporation. A History of Manchester's Tramways : a Souvenir brochure on the occasion of the abandonment of the last tram service in Manchester on the 10th January 1949.. Manchester Corporation. 1949. Manchester.
  15. Yearsley, Ian. (1962) The Manchester Tram. Huddersfield: The Advertiser Press. p.21.
  16. Bett, Wingate H; Gillham, John C, The Tramways of South-East Lancashire (1972). London: Light Railway Transport League.
  17. Book: Vielbaum . Walt . Hoffman . Philip . Ute . Grant . Townley . Robert . San Francisco's Market Street Railway . 2005 . . 9780738529677 . 4.
  18. Web site: Rio de Janeiro 1958. www.tundria.com. 2019-12-28.
  19. Web site: History. DC Streetcar. en-US. 2019-12-27.
  20. Book: Czeike, Felix.. Historisches Lexikon Wien : in 5 Bänden. 1997. Kremayr & Scheriau. 3-218-00543-4. Wien. 362. 27458914.
  21. Web site: Zahlen Daten Fakten . 2022-12-28.
  22. Web site: The map which shows how Sydney is going backwards. 2018-04-12. NewsComAu. en. 2019-12-27.
  23. Web site: Carta della mobilità ATM 2017 . Azienda Trasporti Milanesi S.p.A. . it . ATM Mobility Charter 2017 . 2017 . 2019-06-05.
  24. Web site: Le tram 12, un vénérable genevois. 2009-08-09. Le Temps. Fr. 2021-03-24.
  25. Birmingham City Transport, Malcolm, etc. Keeley, Transport Pub. Co 1978
  26. Book: Demoro, Harre W.. California's Electric Railways. Interurban Press. Glendale, California. 1986. 202. 0-916374-74-2.
  27. Web site: Cairobserver — On Cairo's dying trams. cairobserver.com. 2019-12-27.
  28. Web site: Heliopolis Municipality Completely Removes Tram Line, Egypt EJAtlas. EJOLT. Environmental Justice Atlas. en. 2019-12-27.

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