Trams in Magdeburg

Magdeburg tramway network

An NGT8D tram in Magdeburg, 2010.

Operation

Locale

Electric tram era: since 1899 (1899)
Status	Operational
Lines	9
Operator(s)	Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (MVB)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)
Propulsion system(s)	Electricity
Electrification	600 V DC
Route length	60.5 km (37.6 mi)
Magdeburg tramway network.
Website	Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (MVB) (German)

The Magdeburg tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Magdeburg) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Magdeburg, the capital city of the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Opened in 1877, the network has been operated since 1999 by Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (MVB).

References

Bauer, Gerhard; Kuschinski, Norbert (1994). Die Straßenbahnen in Ostdeutschland [The Tramways in East Germany]. Band 2: Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen [Volume 2: Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia]. Aachen, Germany: Schweers + Wall. ISBN 392167980X. (German)
Schwandl, Robert (2012). Schwandl's Tram Atlas Deutschland (in German and English) (3rd ed.). Berlin: Robert Schwandl Verlag. ISBN 9783936573336.

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Stadtbahn and town tramway systems in Germany by Land and city

Baden-Württemberg	Freiburg im Breisgau Heilbronn Karlsruhe Stadtbahn Trams Heidelberg Mannheim Stuttgart Ulm

Bavaria	Augsburg Munich Nuremberg Würzburg

Berlin	Berlin

Brandenburg	Brandenburg an der Havel Cottbus Frankfurt (Oder) Potsdam Schöneiche and Rüdersdorf¹ Strausberg Woltersdorf¹

Bremen	Bremen

Hesse	Darmstadt Frankfurt am Main Stadtbahn Trams Kassel Stadtbahn Trams

Lower Saxony	Braunschweig Hanover

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Rostock Schwerin

North Rhine-Westphalia	Bielefeld Bochum Stadtbahn Trams Bonn Cologne Dortmund Duisburg Stadtbahn Trams Düsseldorf Stadtbahn Trams Essen Stadtbahn Trams Gelsenkirchen Krefeld Mülheim/Oberhausen Rhine-Ruhr

Rhineland-Palatinate	Ludwigshafen am Rhein Mainz

Saarland	Saarbrücken

Saxony	Bad Schandau-Kirnitzschtal Chemnitz Dresden Görlitz Leipzig Plauen Zwickau

Saxony-Anhalt	Dessau Halberstadt Halle (Saale) Magdeburg Naumburg (Saale)

Thuringia	Erfurt Gera Gotha Jena Nordhausen

¹ Tramway lines departing from Berlin

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

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