Trivia: Tramway infrastructure served by multiple operators

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We're all familiar with mainline railways carrying services from more than one operating company. But which tramways have multiple operators covering the same track?

To start the thread off: there is a tramway in Vienna, Austria, served by two different transport companies (albeit both ultimately owned by the city government) - Wiener Linien (local services within Vienna) and Wiener Lokalbahnen (the Badner Bahn service to the town of Baden)

 

[nwales58]

AVG runs over VBK tracks in Karlsruhe, though both have a common owner.

BLT over BVB in Basel, Land versus Stadt

FB over VBZ in Zürich but I think VBZ own it. VBG overlaps VBZ, owned by different local authorities.

Rhonexpress runs over Tramways de Lyon

Some of these have railway/tramway split legal persona.

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Inevitably, Rheinbahn, DVG, Ruhrbahn and BOGESTRA to varying extents

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Can't remember exactly how Köln, Bonn and the KBE are structured but two operators and 2-3 track owners

Talking of which there are oddities such as Heilbronn who have tracks but own no trams, though I think they have some drivers.

And the glories of Mannheim+Ludwigshafen (single operator) and Heidelberg, Rhein-Hardt bahn runs over both.

City Bahn runs over Chemnitz tracks, can't remember ownership but probably like AVG/VBK

Innsbruck: Stubaitalbahn and Iglerbahn over city tracks, again would have to look which are separate legal entities. Eg Pöstlingberbahn is operated by Linz now, Gmunden-Vorchdorf operating over Gmunden tram tracks is all Stern u. Hafferl owned I think.

I'll be dreaming of more all night now

Anyone know the Liberec situation? It used to be two operators, different gauges, so sharing one rail through the town but the interurban was shut last I knew.

 

[The exile]

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Inevitably, Rheinbahn, DVG, Ruhrbahn and BOGESTRA to varying extents


Anyone know the Liberec situation? It used to be two operators, different gauges, so sharing one rail through the town but the interurban was shut last I knew.

Reopened in May - and has been a single operator since 1949 at least.

Add Krefeld and StOAg to the Rhein/Ruhr “salad”!

 

[dutchflyer]

nwales in his posting has pretty much all that I know of-and indeed all are in german-speaking countries.
And! some-like the big MA-LH-HE area that used to have 5 interworking, is now pretty much merged into a giant holding. I leave it to the hair-pin-splitters as to if it then still applies. Essen and Mülheim have also merged as Rurbahn and also run the Oberhausen line. Bochum+Gelsenkirchen were 1 as BoGeStra since as long as I know-but EVAG-Essen, so now Rurbahn, run on a small part into Gelsk.
For the same group the Innsbruck system-city and an interurban that once was kind of apart of it, but thats also a common 1 system since long.
More interesting is the situation in Krefeld, N-E of Düsseldorf: the Rheinbahn (its former interurban line K) came into on normal gauge, the local SWK (former KreVAG) has meter gauge. Currently however the RhB tracks are under repair and its SEV-bus
Here in NL the RET-but as Metro, using the tracks of the former railwayline-the very 1st to get electrified once, the Hofpleinlijn from R´dam to den Haag ends at Central Station den Haag on rail tracks (re-aligned since) in the midst of the HTM tram network, but interworking is on the last part by HTM-Randstad rail -more as Light Rail and not the tipical urban trams. In fact these also run on former trainrailtracks-the Zoetermeer loop.
In Ukrayna-mostly the now Russky occupied part named DonBass (Donyetsk-Lugansk and in between) have many also smaller local systems that may touch in @ some points, but from what I remember do not interwork. Many of these have ceased running to extensive war damage etc.

 

[AlexL]

Can't remember exactly how Köln, Bonn and the KBE are structured but two operators and 2-3 track owners

KVB own the infrastructure in Cologne, SWB own the infrastructure in Bonn, HGK (formerly KBE) own the infrastructure in between.

HGK sections:
Line 7: Brahmsstraße - Frechen Bahnhof
Line 16: Heinrich-Lübke-Ufer - Buschdorf
Line 18: Klettenbergpark - Dransdorf