Which tramways have you used?

[GrimsbyPacer]

Hi everyone.
Just wondering which tramways, existing and lost, at home and abroad, you have used.
Trams are wonderful in my opinion, and sharing knowledge about any trip on any tramway would be interesting.
If in doubt about whether steam trams or "tram-trains" count, it always does as far as this thread is concerned.
Feel free to say which are your favourites trams.
Many thanks

Personally I used both cliff trams in Scarborough, the one in Saltburn, and in Lynton.
Used traditional trams in Blackpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Great Orme, and also the DLR.

 

[Ken H]

cliff Tramways - Folkestone, Bridgnorth

also extensively used Kusttram in Belgium

Trams in Brussels, Ghent, Berlin.

 

[pdeaves]

Of the cliff 'tramways', the only one not done is Lynton-Lynmouth as it's too land-locked.

 

[BJames]

I quite like Nottingham's (NET) - although some of the locals don't seem to be too fond of it (I'm a student). It works for where I want to go (more so last year to be fair - but the public transport around the city is quite well integrated).

 

[Peter Mugridge]

"One or more not on the list"

Paris trams. Most of them...

 

[AM9]

"One or more not on the list"
Vienna trams
Brussels trams and pre-metro
Santa Cruz (Tenerife) - nice weather, good views
Prague - best for Tatra trams
Hong Kong Island - probably the nearest to old London trams - but a lot hotter
Lisbon - best ride down from St Georges Castle on a four-wheeled tram
Soller-Puerto Soller, Mallorca
Boston (Mattapan High Speed Line) - great ride on a PCC Streetcar, at speed
Boston Green Line Metro
Las Vegas 'Tram' - rubbish really but convenient

 

[D365]

Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Nürnberg. Possibly several other German tram systems that I have forgotten.

 

[station_road]

Vienna
Brussels
Lille
Paris
Krakow
Warsaw
Bratislava
Seattle
San Francisco
San Diego
New Orleans
Boston
Melbourne
Sydney
Hong Kong

 

[U-Bahnfreund]

I like trams, so quite a lot of systems

Not counting museum lines:

Benelux:
Amsterdam, Utrecht, Brussels, Antwerp, Kusttram, Luxembourg

France:
Paris, Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Nice, Bordeaux, Nancy

UK:
London, Manchester, Blackpool, Edinburgh

Switzerland, Austria:
Basel, St. Gallen, Vienna, Innsbruck, Bern, Zurich

Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland:
Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Warsaw, Szczecin

Bulgaria, Romania:
Sofia, Bucharest

Latvia, Estonia:
Riga, Tallinn

Denmark, Sweden, Finland:
Aarhus, Helsinki, Stockholm

Germany:
Rostock, Schwerin, Berlin, Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf, Woltersdorf, Potsdam, Brandenburg (Havel), Frankfurt (Oder), Bremen, Hanover, Dresden, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Erfurt, Nordhausen, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Bochum-Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Mülheim-Oberhausen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Köln, Bonn, Kassel, Frankfurt (Main), Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Freiburg, Saarbrücken, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Munich, Ulm, Mainz, Gotha, Jena, Gera, Halle (Saale), Magdeburg, Naumburg (Saale)

 

[W-on-Sea]

Moscow
Vienna
Istanbul
Odessa
Prague
Brussels
Ghent
Budapest
Hong Kong
Lille
Bratislava
Helsinki
Bordeaux
Trieste (Tranvia)

 

[plugwash]

Blackpool - Visited loads of times over the years, nearly always ended up riding at least some trams when I do. I'm pretty sure I've ridden the whole line both pre and post modernization.
Metrolink - my nearst city (though it doesn't run to the suburb I live in), used it loads of times to get around and I think once or twice just for the sake of riding it but there are parts of the network I've never ridden.
Croyden - had a holiday in croyden where I visited a couple of steam railways and also road most if not all of the tram network
Sheffield - visited specifically to try out the tram-trains, don't remember if I rode the whole network though.
Beamish - Visted once, think I rode a tram or two while there.
Heaton park - Visited when the tram was running, I think I rode on the tram but I don't remember.
Marsellie - I think I rode one tram during my short (non transport related) visit to the city but my memory is hazy.

 

[DanNCL]

Edinburgh
Manchester
Blackpool
Sheffield
Nottingham
West Midlands
Croydon
Crich
Beamish
Seaton
Saltburn Cliff Lift
Manx Electric Railway
Snaefell Mountain Railway
Douglas Horse Tram
Amsterdam
Frankfurt am Main (both the Straßenbahn and the Stadtbahn)
Stuttgart (both narrow and standard gauge, as well as the Zanradbahn)
Munich

 

[Ashley Hill]

Babbacombe Cliff Railway
Blackpool
Manchester

 

[Zamracene749]

Off list-
Lisbon
Porto
Seville
Barcelona
Hannover
Munich
Augsburg
Bremen
Dusseldorf
Leipzig
Gorlitz
Poznan
Wroclaw
Katowice
Bytom
Warsaw
Krakow
Lodz
Bratislava
Kosice
Trenciana Teplice
Poprad
Szeged
Budapest
Miskolc
Debrecen
Timisoara
Cluj Napoca
Oradea
Vienna
Prague
Pilsen
Liberec
Ostrava
Brno
Riga

Loads more to tick off, in particular the Ukrainian systems and parts of Romania!

 

[duncanp]

The ones not on the list that I have used are:-

France
Lille
Valenciennes
Paris
Marseille
Lyon

Belgium
Gent
Antwerp
Brussels
The Coastal Tram

The Netherlands
The Hague

United States
River Line (New Jersey Transit)
Metrolink (St Louis)
DART(Dallas Area Rapid Transit)
McKinney Avenue Trolley (a vintage tram service in Dallas)

Canada
Toronto Streetcar

Australia
Sydney Light Rail

 

[Red Onion]

I’ve done Manchester, Sheffield, Edinburg, Dublin & DLR from the list.

For cliff railways, I only remember Scarborough as a child.

Other systems not on the list are Oslo, Berlin, Calgary, Toronto and Sydney.

 

[pdeaves]

I rode all the Grenoble system in 2000. It's expanded more since then!

 

[XAM2175]

On list: Croydon, Manchester, Amsterdam, and the DLR.
Off list: Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Geneva, Zürich, Vienna, Berlin, Augsburg, Köln, and Montpellier.

 

[D6130]

UK:

Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Blackpool.

Europe:

Milano,Torino, Roma, Napoli, Paris, Lille, Grenoble, Lisboa, Porto, Puerto de Soller, Praha, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Wien, Budapest, Brussel/Bruxelles, Antwerpen, Gent, Kusttram, Amsterdam.

I can highly recommend a day - or more - on the Milano tramways....one of the longest and most comprehensive networks in Europe - and still using many late 1920s/early 1930s cars, with their original polishes wooden bench seats and art deco interiors.

 

[Chipsetburden]

Sheffield Supertram, and I really enjoyed it.

 

[John Luxton]

Seemed to have omitted the Manx Electric and Snaefell which are essentially tramways or are they included in Douglas?

Also travelled on the Lisbon trams and visited the excellent tramway museum there which is part of the depot and also on the now I understand defunct La Coruna tram.

These trips were on cruises in 2012.

I took only my second trip on Metrolink in spring 2021 when I decided to use the Park and Ride rather than the very pricey city centre parking.

As I had some time to kill having dropped my camera off for a sensor clean I then killed some time riding out to Rochdale and back. My previous trip had been a run just after the system opened!

My only visit to Heaton Park was in the 1980s or early 90s.

I returned to Crich for the first time in 11 years in 2021 as well. Surprisingly very little appeared to have changed in the intervening 11 years.

Have done Blackpool system a few times in recent years on Branch Line Society railtours when rare track has been covered.

 

[Caboose Class]

All the major tram networks in the UK. A lot of the networks mentioned above by previous posters but I can also add the following:- Alexandria, Almaty, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Cairo, Daugavpils, Gdańsk, Gothenburg, Hakodate, Hiroshima, Kagoshima, Kiev, Kraków, Kuala Lumpur. Kyoto, Łódź, Lviv, Manila, Moscow, Nagasaki, Norrköping, Odessa, Osaka, Plzeň, Porto, Poznań, Riga, Sapporo, Sarajevo, Sofia, Sóller, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tunis and Volgograd. Also one of the last trams in Bradford (according to my Mum & Dad) which would have been in May 1950. I was a mere nine months old at the time - perhaps that was what inspired my fondness for trams.

 

[Busaholic]

All the major tram networks in the UK. A lot of the networks mentioned above by previous posters but I can also add the following:- Alexandria, Almaty, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bucharest, Cairo, Daugavpils, Gdańsk, Gothenburg, Hakodate, Hiroshima, Kagoshima, Kiev, Kraków, Kuala Lumpur. Kyoto, Łódź, Lviv, Manila, Moscow, Nagasaki, Norrköping, Odessa, Osaka, Plzeň, Porto, Poznań, Riga, Sapporo, Sarajevo, Sofia, Sóller, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tashkent, Tunis and Volgograd. Also one of the last trams in Bradford (according to my Mum & Dad) which would have been in May 1950. I was a mere nine months old at the time - perhaps that was what inspired my fondness for trams.

I went on the St Petersburg trams when the city was known as Leningrad and, being just that crucial bit older than yourself, the last two or three years of the original London trams. The photographic evidence of the latter only exists in an Ian Allan book of photos in which my father is quite recognisable (to myself) but I'd have been on that last day tram too!

 

[61653 HTAFC]

The defunct Transperience museum at Low Moor had a demonstration line, used a former Budapest tram there back in around 1996-ish.

Other overseas tramways used:
Brussels
Prague
Barcelona
Cologne
Munich
Dortmund
Salzburg
Linz

 

[ATW Alex 101]

My “One or more not on the list” would be the Hong Kong tramway.

 

[Bessie]

I've used trams in Santos, Brazil. Was there on a work trip in 2011.

 

[Welly]

Gothenburg and Trondheim (the most northernmost tramway in Europe)

 

[dgl]

I've done,
Seaton
Babbacombe (I think)
Lynton & Lynmouth
DLR

 

[Taunton]

I'm amazed how many I clicked, and that's even before listing the overseas ones.

The most obscure, Yakima, Washington state, USA. I think it only ran on summer Sunday afternoons by the 1980s, but on mainstream trackage used by electric tram locos in the week. We might actually have gone on the last run of the year, after the Labor Day holiday, and it might not have run at all the next year or two. A real "Toonerville" operation.

 

[miklcct]

According to my records, I have used 11 tram networks (I do not consider DLR or Saltsjöbanan as tram because they don't run with road traffic):

Hong Kong Tramways
Light Rail (New Territories, Hong Kong)
Tram Al Ramlh (Alexandria)
IETT T1-T4 (Istanbul)
Riga Tram
Prague Tram
Spårväg City (Stockholm)
HSL Tram (Helsinki)
tpg (Geneva)
London Trams
West Midlands Metro