All Urban rail operators articles – Page 15

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    Xiamen Rail Transit Group Ltd

    Opened 2017, China’s 32nd metro. Three line network serving 64 stations. See Xiamen network map. Work on north-south Line 1 (30·3 km, 24 stations) began in 2013, with the line opening on December 31 2017. It connects Xiamen Island to the high-speed mainline station at Xiamen North. The east-west Line ...

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    Xuzhou Metro Group

    Opened 2019, China’s 38th metro. Three metro lines serving 51 stations. See map of Xuzhou. Work on a test section of east-west Line 1 began in April 2013, with some test running from the end of 2016. The full line, running from Xuzhou East high-speed station via the central station ...

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    Tianjin Rail Transit Group (TRT)

    Opened 1984, China’s 3rd metro. Ten routes, serving 171 stations. See Tianjin network map.Tianjin’s first line opened in 1984, but closed in 2001 for rebuilding and extension. Line 1 (26·2 km, 22 stations) opened throughout in 2006, followed by Lines 2 and 3 in 2012. These both intersect with Line ...

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    Semitag (Grenoble)

    Société d’Economie Mixte des Transports de l’Agglomération Grenobloise

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    MZK Gorzów Wielkopolski

    First line opened 1899; the present ‘Y’-shaped network comprises 3 routes serving 28 stops. On October 1 2017 tram all services were suspended for network modernisation. The main 9·5 km west–east route from Wieprzyce to Dowgielewiczowej reopened on July 2 2020, with the 2·7 km northern branch from Katedra to ...

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    Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH (MVB)

    Tram network comprises 9 routes with 124 stops. A tangential line from Südring in the southwest running east to Raiffeisenstraße was opened on August 9 2018, and this was extended further east to Warschauer Straße and the existing line on Schönebecker Straße on December 16 2020, with routes 2 and ...

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    Nahverkehr Schwerin GmbH (NVS)

    First line opened in 1881, with first electric tramway opened 1908; X-shaped network operated as 4 service routes with 36 stops. AddressLudwigsluster Chaussee 7219061 SchwerinGermanyPhone+49 385 3990 0Fax+49 385 3990 999Emailinfo@nahverkehr-schwerin.deWebsitewww.nahverkehr-schwerin.de Traffic Passenger journeys12·3 million (tram only)Information year2019 Network data Gauge1435 mmLength21 kmElectrification21 km - 600 ...

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    Plauener Straßenbahn GmbH

    First line opened 1894. Tramway has seven radial lines, operated as 5 routes serving 41 stops. AddressWiesenstraße 2408527 PlauenGermanyPhone+49 3741 2994 0Fax+49 3741 2994 15Emailinfo@strassenbahn-plauen.deWebsitewww.strassenbahn-plauen.de Traffic Passenger journeys8·4 millionInformation year2017 Network data Gauge1000 mmLength16·4 kmElectrification16·4 km - 600 V DCRolling stock24 LRV/tram cars (9 x Bombardier ...

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    Regionalbahn Kassel GmbH (RBK)

    Jointly owned by Kasseler Verkehrs Gesellschaft AG and Hessische Landesbahn. Originally part of the operating consortium for Kassel’s RegioTram lines, it now acts as an infrastructure manager and holding company. It owns the 28 RegioTram LRVs and part of the Kasseler Verkehrs Gesellschaft AG urban tram fleet. AddressKönigstor 3 - ...

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    Ruhrbahn GmbH

    First line opened 1893. Network of three light rail/Stadtbahn and 11 tram routes serving Essen and Mülheim/Ruhr. See Essen and Mülheim on the Rhein-Ruhr network map. Ruhrbahn AG was formed in 2017 as a result of the merger of the transport operators in Essen (EVAG) and Mülheim/Ruhr (MVG). Sections of ...

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    Saarbahn GmbH

    Single tram-train route serving 43 stops inuagurated in 1997. The first on-street section opened October 24, 1997, with extended 1999. Dual-voltage cars now start at Sarreguemines in France operating north over SNCF/DB mainline tracks to Römerkastell, where a central section of street-running continues northwest to Ludwigstraße. From here, the line ...

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    S-Bahn Nürnberg GmbH

    Four-route network serving 78 stations, operated by DB Regio Mittelfranken. See Nürnberg network map. The first route was line S1 to Lauf, opened in September 1987. The S-Bahn now has 75 km of segregated route. Line S4 services were extended from Ansbach to Dombühl (15·6 km, 1 reopened station) at ...

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    Schöneicher-Rüdersdorfer Straßenbahn GmbH (SRS)

    Opened in 1910 and electrified in 1914; single route with 20 stops. See Berlin network map. This inter-urban tramway runs from the Berlin S-Bahn and city tram network at Friedrichshagen station further east to the districts of Schöneiche and Alt-Rüdersdorf. AddressDorfstraße 1515566 Schöneiche-bei-BerlinGermanyPhone+49 30 654 86831Fax+49 30 654 86844Emailinfo@srs-tram.deWebsitewww.srs-tram.de ...

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    Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Zwickau GmbH (SVZ)

    First line opened 1894. Network comprises four radial route with 37 stops, run as two service routes. The line south from Zwickau Zentrum to Stadthalle (1·7 km) is dual 1000 mm/1435 mm gauge, connecting to the mainline network in Schledewitz; since 1999 Vogtlandbahn RegioSprinter units have provided through services from ...

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    SWK Mobil GmbH

    First tram line opened 1900. Tramway network of 4 routes being modernised to light rail standards, largely on reserved track. See Krefeld on the Rhein-Ruhr network map Line U76 runs through to Düsseldorf (1435 mm gauge) and is operated by Rheinbahn; it is separate from the SWK network. AddressSWK Stadtwerke ...

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    SWU Verkehr GmbH

    First line opened 1897; two-line network serving 39 stops. By 1964 the former network had been cut to a single line from Söflingen to Donauhalle (4·8 km, 15 stops). In 2007 an upgrading and an extension project was approved, with the line reopened and extended northeast to Böfingen Ostpreußenweg in ...

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    Thüringerwaldbahn und Straßenbahn Gotha GmbH (TWSB)

    First line opened 1894. Y-shaped tramway serving Gotha, operated as three routes (7·5 km, 18 stops). TWSB also runs a long rural line southwest from Gotha to Reinhardsbrunn and Tabarz, plus a branch to Waltershausen (18·2 km, 14 stops). AddressWaltershäuser Straße 9899867 GothaGermanyPhone+49 3621 431 0Fax+49 3621 431 111Emailinfo@waldbahn-gotha.deWebsitewww.waldbahn-gotha.de ...

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    ViP Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam GmbH

    Opened 1880, with first electric tram in 1907; network comprises 7 routes with 67 stops. See Potsdam network map and Berlin region map. Potsdam’s network of seven radial routes has been extensively modernised to include much segregated alignment. The branch from Campus Fachhochschule north to Viereckremise opened in 2001. On ...

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    Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe GmbH (VBK)

    First tram route opened 1877; network operated as 6 urban tram routes, plus inter-urban and tram-train routes. Karlsruhe’s complex tram network has been upgraded with much reserved track. Interurban routes connect north to Leopoldshafen and Hochstetten (in part using a DB Netz freight line), northeast to Spöck, southeast to Bad ...

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    Verkehrsbetriebe Nordhausen GmbH

    First line opened 1900. Two-line tram network in the town centre serving 21 stops. An inter-urban service using dual-mode LRVs runs from the Südharz Klinikum branch of the urban network to the station before continuing north over the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH’s line to Ilfeld (Line 10: 11·4 km). AddressRobert-Blum-Straße 199734 ...