European Trams
Strasbourg, France
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The Strasbourg tramway (French: Tramway
de Strasbourg, German: Straßenbahn Straßburg), run by the CTS, is a
network of six tramlines, A, B, C, D, E and F that operate in the city
of Strasbourg in Alsace, France, and Kehl in Baden-Württemberg,
Germany. The first tramline in Strasbourg, which was originally
horse-drawn, opened in 1878. After 1894, when an electric powered tram
system was introduced, a widespread network of tramways was built,
including several longer distance lines on both sides of the Rhine.
The decline of the tramways system began in the 1930s, and ended with
the retirement of the service in 1960 in parallel to the closure of
many such systems in France and the rest of the Western world.
However, a strategic reconsideration of the city's public transport
requirements led to the reconstruction of the system, a development
whose success led to other large French cities reopening their
tramways, such as Montpellier and Nice. Lines A and D were opened in
1994, lines B and C were opened in 2000, line E was opened in 2007 and
line F was opened in 2010. It is regarded as a remarkable example of
the tramway's rebirth in the 1990s. Together with the success seen in
Nantes since 1985, the Strasbourg experiment resulted in the
construction of tramways in multiple other French urban areas, and the
expansion of tramway systems remains an ongoing project in Strasbourg
and throughout France. |
2019
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Unidentified Eurotram in city centre |
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Eurotram 2003 in city centre |
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Eurotram 2016 in city centre |
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Eurotram 2016 by the river |