Which tramways have you used?

[birchesgreen]

WM Metro
Supertram
NET
Metrolink
DLR
Tramlink
Wirral
Crich

Also been on the HK trams, though a few years ago now

 

[Stewart2887]

Edinburgh, Zagreb, Stockholm (Ithink)

 

[gomango]

Edinburgh, Blackpool, Croydon, Manchester Metrolink, Beamish and DLR for me

 

[eoff]

I can now add Krakow to my list

 

[sprunt]

Does the Stuttgart Zahnradbahn count? Some of it is street running.

 

[gomango]

Edinburgh, Blackpool, Croydon, Manchester Metrolink, Beamish and DLR for me

Also Lisbon too

 

[TheHSRailFan]

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

 

[sk688]

Luas
Edinburgh
Sheffield
Croydon
Le Havre
Zurich
Strasbourg
Frankfurt
Magdeburg
Warsaw
Poznan
Wroclaw
Luxembourg
Santa Clara VTA
Berlin
Budapest
Munich
Nurnberg
Brussels
Rotterdam
Basel
Bielefeld

 

[gomango]

Luas
Edinburgh
Sheffield
Croydon
Le Havre
Zurich
Strasbourg
Frankfurt
Magdeburg
Warsaw
Poznan
Wroclaw
Luxembourg
Santa Clara VTA
Berlin
Budapest
Munich
Nurnberg
Brussels
Rotterdam
Basel
Bielefeld

Wow that's alot!

 

[AlexL]

UK:
Blackpool, Croydon, Edinburgh, Manchester (+Heaton Park), Sheffield

Austria:
Innsbruck, Vienna

Belgium:
Brussels

Germany:
Berlin, Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Cologne, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Frankfurt (Main), Frankfurt (Oder), Hannover, Halle, Kassel, Leipzig, Ludwigshafen, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Munich, Mülheim, Nürnberg, Potsdam, Stuttgart

Ireland:
Dublin

Poland:
Krakow, Warsaw

Sweden:
Stockholm

 

[alex397]

I can add Charleroi to my list. What a unique system that is! Never quite seen anything like it. It feels a bit bizarre travelling around on 2-car 80s trams which feel too small for some of the crumbling infrastructure there. I also had a look around the ‘ghost line’, which was completed but then never used. It appears in the last year stations such as Chet have been demolished in preparation for rebuild, as it looks like this line will finally be completed and actually used in the next few years.
The amount of, erm, characters around meant I really didn’t feel comfortable taking many photos!

One thing I really appreciated was the M1/M2 line to Anderlues, which has kept some of the features of the Vicinal tramways, such as the bi-directional single track running in semi-rural areas. This is surely the only section left in Belgium that feels like the true rural Vicinals. Obviously there is the Kusttram but I’m not sure that has many of the rural features as the Anderlues branch.

I also discovered that the trams stop running around 7pm! That seems exceptionally early for a European tramway. It is replaced by buses in the evenings, up until about 10.30pm. Presumably this is a cost-cutting exercise.

 

[Whisky Papa]

UK 'functional':
Blackpool (pre and post modernisation)
Croydon
DLR (although I wouldn't count this as one myself)
Edinburgh
Manchester
Nottingham
Sheffield
West Midlands

Belgium:
Antwerp
Brussels
Coast Tram
Ghent

Czech Republic:
Pilsen
Prague

France:
Nice
Paris
Rouen
Strasbourg

Germany:
Berlin
Düsseldorf
Potsdam

Ireland:
Dublin

Netherlands:
Amsterdam
Den Haag
Rotterdam

Portugal:
Porto ('metro' lines)

Primarily tourist and museum lines:
Beamish
Black Country
Crich
Great Orme (edit - forgot this one despite being the most recent of this section!)
Seaton
All IOM lines

Hoorn - Medemblik Steam Tramway (a borderline case, despite the name)
Illinois Railway Museum (actually on old Chicago L car but very tramlike!)
Porto (historic lines)
Prague (a private hire of a historic tram but running over the public network)

 

[Mcv378]

UK:
Croydon Tramlink
West Midlands Metro
Edinburgh Tram
Manchester Metrolink

Europe
Riga
Paris
Stockholm
Brussels
Amsterdam
Oslo
Tallinn
Lisbon
Berlin

Asia
Hong Kong
Pyongyang (yes, really)

 

[alex397]

How many vicinal tramways remain in Belgium? I would think only the Kusttram and the tourist tramway leading to Les Grottes de Hahn caves in Wallonia.

The branch to Anderlues also is still in operation, as part of the Charleroi “Metro”. Arguably this is the most authentic piece of former Vicinal network running, as it includes rural sections, and single-running along the road. The Kusttram is clearly the best part of the former Vicinals, but the Anderlues line has many features of the lesser-used rural Vicinals. It continued all the way to La Louviere until 1993 - if it lasted until the late 90s, it might not have been withdrawn at all seeing as there was a bit more of a tramway revival in Western Europe then.

There’s some very atmospheric videos on YouTube of the Charleroi-area Vicinals as many of those lasted until the 1980s, when obviously personal camera equipment was easier to obtain and use. If only I was able to see them for myself back then!

 

[Busaholic]

I can add Charleroi to my list. What a unique system that is! Never quite seen anything like it. It feels a bit bizarre travelling around on 2-car 80s trams which feel too small for some of the crumbling infrastructure there. I also had a look around the ‘ghost line’, which was completed but then never used. It appears in the last year stations such as Chet have been demolished in preparation for rebuild, as it looks like this line will finally be completed and actually used in the next few years.
The amount of, erm, characters around meant I really didn’t feel comfortable taking many photos!

One thing I really appreciated was the M1/M2 line to Anderlues, which has kept some of the features of the Vicinal tramways, such as the bi-directional single track running in semi-rural areas. This is surely the only section left in Belgium that feels like the true rural Vicinals. Obviously there is the Kusttram but I’m not sure that has many of the rural features as the Anderlues branch.

I also discovered that the trams stop running around 7pm! That seems exceptionally early for a European tramway. It is replaced by buses in the evenings, up until about 10.30pm. Presumably this is a cost-cutting exercise.

I suspect those ''characters'' may be the reason for no evening service.

 

[croydontangle]

Tramlink, Metrolink, NET, WMM, Edinburgh Trams, DLR, Berlin Metrotram and Tramway Du Mans so far.

If the DLR semi-counts does the T&WM semi-count too?

 

[Barry169]

UK
Edinburgh *
Birmingham *
Croydon *
Manchester

Austria
Gmunden *
Graz*
Innsbruck *
Linz *
Vienna

Belgium
Antwerp
Brussels
Coast *

Bosnia
Sarajevo *

Bulgaria
Sofia

Croatia
Osijek *
Zagreb *

Czech R
Brno *
Ostrava *
Pilzen
Prague

Estonia
Talinn *

Finland
Helsinki *

Germany
Augsburg *
Bremen *
Düsseldorf *
Munich

Hungary
Budapest *

Italy
Trieste *
Turin

Latvia
Riga *

Netherlands
Amsterdam

Poland
Katowice *
Krakow *
Wroclaw*

Portugal
Lisbon *
Porto *

Romania
Bucharest *
Ploesti *

Serbia
Belgrade *

Slovakia
Bratislava *

Spain
Allicante *
Barcelona
Bilbao

Switzerland
Basel *
Zurich

Australia
Melbourne

USA
Atlanta *
El Paso *
Houston *
Los Angeles *
New Orleans *
San Diego *
Tucson *

China
Hong Kong

* whole network

I like trams.

Some of my favorites El Paso, Talinn, Katowice, Budapest, Osijek, Graz, Innsbruck, Gmunden, Lisbon.

I like trams, so quite a lot of systems

Not counting museum lines:

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

France:
Paris, Strasbourg

UK:
London, Manchester, Blackpool, Edinburgh

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

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

Does Dortmund count?
I'm having that if it does.

 

[U-Bahnfreund]

Does Dortmund count?
I'm having that if it does.

Thanks for reminding me to update
Why wouldn't Dortmund count?

 

[Barry169]

Thanks for reminding me to update
Why wouldn't Dortmund count?

I thought Dortmund counted as light rail

The Dortmund Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Dortmund and is integrated in the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn network

Dortmund Stadtbahn - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[m79900]

Nottingham
Manchester
Crich
Blackpool
Edinburgh
Beamish
Great Orme

 

[DiscoSteve]

Manchester, Blackpool, Great Orme, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Milan, Bern, Lisbon

 

[MetrolinkInsYT]

I know quite a bit about Manchester Metrolink, NET, Sheffield Supertram, West Midlands Metro, DLR etc. but only actually used Manchester and Nottingham systems.

 

[PlatformEdgeVT]

Manchester Metrolink, DLR, NET, Great Orme, Blackpool in the UK. Alicante and Malaga in Spain.