Trams in Hamburg

Hamburg tramway network

A tram of line 2 in the Rathausmarkt, 1975.
Operation
Locale	Hamburg, Germany
Horsecar era: 1866 (1866)–1922 (1922) Status Closed Operator(s) Pferde-Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (1866–1881) Hamburg-Altonaer Pferdebahn (1878–1896) Straßen Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (1880–1919) Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge Propulsion system(s) Horses Route length 1879: 28 km 1881: 66 km 1896: 100 km 1909: 167.17 km
Steam tramway era: 1878 (1878)–1897 (1897) Status Closed Operator(s) Pferde-Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (1878–1880) Straßen Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (1880–1897) Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge Propulsion system(s) Steam power Route length 1879: 28 km (17 mi) 1881: 66 km (41 mi) 1896: 100 km (62 mi)
Electric tram era: 1897 (1897)–1978 (1978) Status Closed Routes 1955: 19 1965: 11 1970: 10 1974: 5 1978: 1 (line number 2) Operator(s) Hamburger Hochbahn (1920–1978) Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge Propulsion system(s) Electricity Electrification 500 V DC overhead line (initially) 550 V DC (later) Route length 1909: 167.17 km (103.87 mi) Hamburg tramway network, 1955. Website Hamburger Hochbahn (German)

The Hamburg tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Hamburg) once formed part of the public transport system in the city and federal state of Hamburg, Germany. Opened in 1866, the network lasted until 1978.

A similar style of transport was to have been provided by the Hamburg Stadtbahn project, but following the Hamburg state election, 2011, the newly elected First Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, announced that that project would not be going ahead.

See also

• List of town tramway systems in Germany
• Trams in Germany
• Hamburg U-Bahn
• Hamburg S-Bahn
• Transport in Hamburg

References

Further reading

• Höltge, Dieter; Kochems, Michael (2008). Straßen- und Stadtbahnen in Deutschland [Tramways and Stadtbahnen in Germany] (in German). 11: Hamburg. Freiburg: EK-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-88255-392-5. 

External links

Media related to Trams in Hamburg at Wikimedia Commons

Urban public transport networks and systems in Germany
S-Bahn	Berlin Bremen Cologne Dresden Erfurt1 Freiburg Hamburg Hanover Karlsruhe Magdeburg Mitteldeutschland Munich Nuremberg Offenburg Rhine-Main Rhine-Neckar Rhine-Ruhr Rostock Stuttgart
U-Bahn	Berlin Hamburg Munich Nuremberg
Stadtbahn	Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Chemnitz Cologne Dortmund Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen Frankfurt Gelsenkirchen Hanover Karlsruhe Kassel Saarbrücken Mülheim Stuttgart
Trams	Aachen2 Augsburg Bad Schandau-Kirnitzschtal Berlin (Suburban: Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf · Woltersdorf) Bochum Bonn Brandenburg an der Havel Braunschweig Bremen Chemnitz Cologne Cottbus Darmstadt Dessau Döbeln Dresden Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt (Oder) Freiburg Gelsenkirchen Gera Görlitz Gotha Halberstadt Halle Hamburg2 Hanover Heidelberg Heilbronn Jena Karlsruhe Kassel Kiel2 Krefeld Leipzig (History) Lößnitz Ludwigshafen Magdeburg Mannheim Merseburg Mülheim Munich Mainz Münster2 Naumburg Nuremberg Nordhausen Oberhausen Plauen Potsdam Regensburg2 Rostock Saarbrücken Schwerin Strausberg Stuttgart Ulm Weil am Rhein Wuppertal2 Würzburg Zwickau
Trolleybuses	Eberswalde Esslingen am Neckar Solingen
Suspension monorails	Dortmund H-Bahn Schwebebahn Dresden Düsseldorf SkyTrain Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Other	Bad Schandau Elevator
1 Former S-Bahn network 2 Former tramway network

Coordinates: 53°33′01″N 09°59′32″E / 53.55028°N 9.99222°E / 53.55028; 9.99222