Which tramways have you used?

[The exile]

That must be the longest list on this thread so far. However I noticed that on your visits to Italy you haven't yet made it to Napoli or Messina.

Slowly working south…

 

[Amos]

Another one for the list in Lusail,Qatar

 

[DiscoSteve]

Expect the Bratislava trams to get some visits next week - I'll be able to tick them off myself.

 

[Western 52]

Expect the Bratislava trams to get some visits next week - I'll be able to tick them off myself.

I was there last year. It's an interesting system.

 

[mathstrains19]

UK
Blackpool
Crich
Croydon
(DLR)
Douglas (IOM)
Edinburgh
Glasgow Sumerlee Museum
Great Orme
Manchester
Nottingham
Sheffield

Ireland
Dublin

France
Montpellier
Mulhouse
Nice
Paris
Strasbourg

Switzerland
Zurich

Italy
Rome

 

[Alvin_official]

UK(In order of most to least)
London DLR (If you call it a tram)
Blackpool,
Edinburgh,
Manchester.

 

[class444 fan]

Ive been on edinburgh,blackpool and dlr.

 

[SLTRegular]

Seen the New Parramatta L4 trams on test recently unfortunately it won't launch until transdev can get the drivers to operate the route 4 minutes faster from what I hear

I've also seen New L1 Trams on test but yet to see any in service personally.

 

[TheHSRailFan]

WM Metro
Croydon Tramlink
Manchester Metrolink
Nottingham Express Transit
DLR
Haagse tram (The Hague, Netherlands)

Helsinki Trams
Tampere Ratikka (Tampere. Finland)
Belgrade Trams
Gasteizko tranbian/Tranvia de Vitoria (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain)

All this year alone! (Thank you Job and cheap flights)

 

[PeterC]

Recently added Shipley Glen to my list in company with my two and a half year old grandson. I am not sure which of us was more excited

 

[eoff]

I can add Ostrava to my previous entries now.

 

[wattman]

UK:
Blackpool, DLR

Austria:
Vienna

Belgium:
Antwerp, Brussels, Coast (Kustlijn, NMVB/De Lijn), Charleroi-Vicinal + MLC (SNCV/TEC), Gent

Germany:
Berlin, Bonn, Cologne, Duisburg, Heidelberg. Oberhausen, Potsdam, Woltersdorf

Portugal:
Lisbon

Netherlands:
Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam, Utrecht

Sweden:
Stockholm

 

[dutchflyer]

I've not read much about light rail in Spain but they have evidently opened several systems, including one on Tenerife, since the 1990s, with more under construction. Anyone know how successful they have been? Once again the UK is seen as lagging behind progress in mainland Europe.

As I now reread this thread-and did hardly see any total counts, to this question not responded to:
One of these new ´systems=1 single line (and I was on it when operating) is closed as too few pax; VELEZ Malaga, on the south coast east of Malaga-but they now seem quite committed to re-opening it again. And a not yet and still waiting to possibly open similar system in Jaen-also Andalucia. Last one to open as partly converted and then newly built branch is from Cadiz-again Andalucia, but done by RENFE=state railway and yes, I´ve been on it. I am not aware of any other really new systems being built-but some extensions to existing systems are: like in Barcelona it is intended to link up the now still separate lines.
In general though it seems the newly opened systems-over 10, have been quite succesfull in nr of pax carried-though most of them simply replaced very busy buslines and were building as a heavy metro was a bit overdone, but less so in finance.
A good site for overveiws, network maps and even news of openings expected etc is-beside of course the works of the LRTA/Modern Tramway, Urbanrail.net, by someone who also published it in print as atlases- mostly in german.

 

[geoffk]

Wikipedia pages often include daily users, although not always up to date. Tenerife is given as 50,000 users per day, which sounds like a success. The only Spanish tram I have been on was the one in Bilbao and that was very busy every time we used it

I'm hoping to get to Bilbao later this year. I read that, in the case of tramways in Jaén and Vélez-Málaga, local politics seem to have played a part, but in the latter case the town centre extension was never opened. Nevertheless Spain has made more progress than the UK, from a similar starting point in the 1990s (i.e. few first generation tramways remaining).

 

[Western 52]

I can add Istanbul to my list now, some very busy trams!

 

[Amos]

Riga
Was there probably 20 years ago,but didn’t get to use the tram.Rectified now though.

 

[VioletEclipse]

Has anyone mentioned the Summerlee museum tramway in Coatbridge? curious if anyone else has travelled on Düsseldorf tramcar 392 either in Düsseldorf before 1972 or in Sumerlee

Or in general if anyone here has travelled on a secific tramcar in regular service that has since gone to a museum.

 

[bluegoblin7]

I travelled on most of the post-2011 preserved Blackpool cars in Blackpool, and have done again since at their new homes (where applicable).

 

[MaidaVale]

Within the UK
Croydon
Manchester Metrolink
West Midlands Metro
Nottingham NET
Edinburgh Trams
Blackpool Trams
Sheffield Supertram
Great Orme
Lynmouth & Lynmouth Cliff Railway (if you count it)
Bridgnorth Cliff Railway (if you count it)
DLR (if you count it, which I don't)

Western Europe
FR| Paris (T1, T2, T3a/b, T6, T10, T12 and CDGVal if you count it)
FR| Lyon (T3)
FR| Nice
BE| Brussels (Both Tram and Pre-metro)
LU| Luxembourg

Northern Europe
SE| Stockholm (Tvarbanan, Sparvag City, Djurgårdslinjen and the Saltsjobanan & Roslagsbanan if you count them)
SE| Gothenburg (All lines)
SE| Lund (Was closed on the day I was there, but I visited multiple stops by walking)
NO| Oslo (All lines)
DK| Copenhagen Metro (If you want to count it, it's not heavy rail and is classified as a light metro)

North America
USA| JFK AirTrain (if you count it, I wouldn't really)

 

[daodao]

While I have not visited Milan, a neighbour currently there has sent me a short video clip that might be of interest. Wikipedia states that these tramcars were delivered in 1929–1930, so are nearly 100 years old - 502 were built, of which about 135 remain in service.

ATM Class 1500 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[GregSRHST]

Würzburg - Germany
Stuttgart - Germany
Karlsruhe - Germany
Köln - Germany
Berlin - Germany
Frankfurt - Germany
München - Germany
Nürnberg - Germany
Hamburg - Germany
Duisburg - Germany
Dortmund - Germany
Gothenburg - Sweden
Oslo - Norway
Bergan - Norway
Helsinki - Finland
The Hague - Netherlands
Rotterdam - Netherlands
Brussels - Belgium
Nice - France
Riga - Latvia
Wroclaw - Poland
Warsaw - Poland
Krakow - Poland
Brno - Czechia
Belgrade - Serbia
Budapest - Hungary

Plus
Edinburgh and Dublin from the list.

My favourite is Gothenburg or Würzburg for the simple reason I have used them the most and love the two cities!

 

[Purple Train]

Since my original post on the thread two and a half years ago, I've been on the Sheffield Supertram as well. A very enjoyable excursion, although the information screens weren't entirely trustworthy, but on the plus side I did get randomly treated to a few magic tricks by a punter! Only in the North...!

 

[Pete 1981]

Paris, Warsaw,Salzburg,Vienna,Rome, Krakow, Brussels,Amsterdam,Prague, Bratislava,Munich,Berlin, Dusseldorf,Koln,Augsburg,Lisbon,Stuttgart,Zurich,Bern,Basle,Geneva and Innsbruck

 

[The exile]

Surprised I've never added my list to here - apologies if I have and have just missed it.


TRAMS

UK and IoM
Edinburgh
Blackpool
Manchester
Sheffield
Nottingham
West Midlands
Croydon
Crich
Seaton
Llandudno
Douglas (and all other IoM)
(Glasgow Garden Festival)

Ireland
Dublin

France
Reims
Strasbourg

Belgium
Brussels
Kusttram

Netherlands
Amsterdam
Den Haag

Spain
Soller

Germany
Bremen
Rostock
Schwerin
Hannover
Braunschweig
Köln
Bonn
Düsseldorf
Krefeld
Duisburg
Oberhausen
Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
Essen
Bochum/Gelsenkirchen
Dortmund
Bielefeld
Frankfurt-am-Main
Mainz
Darmstadt
Kassel
Stuttgart
Ulm
Freiburg
Karlsruhe
Saarbrücken
Ludwigshafen
Mannheim
Heidelberg
München
Augsburg
Würzburg
Nürnberg
Leipzig
Halle
Nordhausen
Erfurt
Jena
Plauen
Zwickau
Chemnitz
Dresden
Bad Schandau
Görlitz
Berlin
Strausberg
Schöneiche-Rudersdorf
Woltersdorf
Potsdam
Magdeburg
Halberstadt
Cottbus
Frankfurt a.d. Oder

Poland
Sczeczin
Gdansk
Warsaw
Krakow
Poznan
Wroclaw

Czechia
Liberec
Olomouc
Ostrava
Brno
Prague

Slovakia
Bratislava
Kosice

Switzerland
Basel
Zürich

Italy
Milan
Bergamo
Rome
Florence

Austria
Linz
Vienna

Hungary
Budapest
Debrecen

Romania
Bucharest
Oradea

Serbia
Belgrade

Funiculars and other "oddities"

Lynton/Lynmouth
Bridgnorth
Saltburn
Wuppertal (Schwebebahn)
Heidelberg
Meissen
Bad Schandau (lift!)
Zürich (Dolderbahn)
Bergamo
Prague
Budapest

A belated addition of Gotha last December.

 

[Andrew S]

Blackpool
Manchester
Sheffield
Croydon
Edinburgh
Zagreb
Lisbon

 

[High Dyke]

In some examples selected, I've not used all of the system, mainly newer parts of UK systems.

Cliff systems: all three at Scarborough, though only one survives in service. Also Folkstone, Lynton/Lynmouth.

 

[Omnidekkalover]

To add to the list of tramways not included that I’ve been on
Kosice (Slovakia)
Vienna
Zurich
Rotterdam
Brussels
Budapest
Seville
Barcelona

 

[pokemonsuper9]

Discovered the other day when looking through my Google photos that I used the trams in Rome in 2018 (I had forgotten we had, but hazily remember now.)

 

[py_megapixel]

Cliff systems: all three at Scarborough, though only one survives in service.

Scarborough has two surviving cliff tramways, the Scarborough Spa Cliff Lift and the Central Tramway. Both serve the south bay.

There is a third serving the south bay which is now decommissioned; both cars have been moved to the top of the incline and are now used as a cafe, if memory serves. I believe at some point in history there was also a fourth and possibly a fifth, serving the north bay.

 

[AWWisher]

Scarborough has two surviving cliff tramways, the Scarborough Spa Cliff Lift and the Central Tramway. Both serve the south bay.

There is a third serving the south bay which is now decommissioned; both cars have been moved to the top of the incline and are now used as a cafe, if memory serves. I believe at some point in history there was also a fourth and possibly a fifth, serving the north bay.

There were, indeed, 2 Cliff Lifts in North Bay although not operating at the same times.

The first, Queens Parade Cliff Lift, had its top on Queens Parade near the top of Albert Road and its foot on Royal Albert Drive opposite the (long gone) Promenade Pier.
It opened on 8 August 1878 and closed the same day after one car broke free and crashed into the lower station. It reopened the following year and thereafter was plagued with landslips which finally caused it to close in 1887.

The second, North Bay Cliff Lift, had its top behind the Floral Hall and its foot opposite the Corner Cafe.
It opened in August 1930 and closed in Sept 1996. needing expensive repair and maintenance.