These are the Coolest Trams in Europe (Top 10)
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2021
- These are the top 10 most interesting and tram systems in Europe
Please note that this is all my footage and therefore you can find the full length videos on my channel :D
What are some of the most interesting transit systems to you? Do you agree with the list? Is there something I left out? What is a place that is a must visit? Where in the Europe have you been that has an interesting trams and why?
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Please comment if you have opinions or facts to share about the video or transit in general! Its a learning process for all of us and I enjoy being educated on what in the end we all love: transportation 
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I found your list extremely interesting, and certainly! included a wide variety of systems. I expected Lisbon to be your number one. But note that Gmunden (Austria - population 13,000) has modern low-floor trams on a 10% (1 in 10) gradient running through narrow streets up to the town's main station
Definitely, also a very interesting tram. Beside the new stock which is very functional and quiet and fast (all what you expect from a modern system), they also have old vehicles running sometimes on the track in the city and they have other "trams" for the countryside part which are lovely too painted in ocker and red.
Milan trams are my favourite...hours and hours riding on them when i visit milan
I'm glad you placed the Prague this high on your list, not only Its a really cool network with beautiful rolling stock but also Its my country's capital. Thank you 👍👍😎
In Bytom, there's a coolest tram line in Poland. 38, that's the number of line, is a shortest regular tram line in the country. It runs along Piekarska Street and it has 5 stops. It was also cool in the mean of rolling stock (it was served by trams of N type, which took back to the turn of 1940's and 1950's, in 2020, this tram line was closed due to pandemic and, when they introduced Moderus Gamma-like Betas, this line was reopened and now is served by two bidirectional versions of them).
An interesting tram line with a lot of small-city love for it is Jena in eastern Germany, near Berlin. They are very proud of their 5-line system and even sell merchandise.
Budapest has the most beautiful line in the world (line 2) along the Danube riverside, the world's longest tram (CAF snake line 1) and the world's busiest tram line (line 4-6 with Siemens combino snakes) to be mentioned.
In additional to 5 routes running the heritage trams, Lisbon has 1 line (15E) using modern Siemens low-floor trams. There are also 3 "funicular" lines climbing some especially steep gradients, not to mention an actual elevator/lift that is a mode of transport.
Speaking of the tramways in Nice, I want to add that there are now two more lines. They both run on batteries charging at the stations and the line 2 has an underground section with overhead wires. Together with the line 1 they make a pretty diverse and interesting system!
Strassbourg being one of the rebirths of the 90s and one of the few spanning more than one country, extending across the Rhine to Germany, gives it a top spot.
Lyon also has very beautiful trams.
Awesome list. Loved the fun.
Thank you Tim for an interesting video.
I couldn't honestly name the coolest system.
I like Your tramway videos. My choice of coolest trams would be Sarajevo. It suffered a lot in war and tram system was very devastated so that's way so many old and second hand trams in that city.
De Belgische Kusttram wordt sinds juni 2021 officieel ‘Zeelijner’ genoemd.
As from June 2021, the Belgian coastal tram is officially called the Zeelijner.
In the city of Antwerp there are three different trams. The oldest ones are the PCC carriages, 60 years old. The ‘De Lijn’ company still has 120 units in service, used daily.
Very nice video. Thank you, I would add the tranvia de Soller in Mallorca and the very nice trams of Marseille (France)
In addition to the 3 fully grade-separated rapid tram lines to Zoetermeer, Den Haag also has a very large conventional tram system, including a downtown tunnel and a couple other tunnels and viaducts along various lines
The tram of Lisbon is very nice. For me is the best. Greetings from Spain.
I love trams
I would've expected the Blackpool Tramway or the Seaton Tramway to appear on this list...
I have never visited Blackpool so I did not include it but I really want to go!!
@@timosha21 ah okay... I've also never been there myself but all I know is that there are only 2 notable things to do there; goto the theme parl (Pleasure Beach) & ride the DD Trams...
Excelente variedad de tranvías, Gracias
Very beautiful. Especially Lisbon portugal single car trams.
Your list is pretty good but I would include the Upper Silesia inter urban system for variety of stock and environment together with Krakow, again for stock variety and density of service. Wien ought to be in there somewhere, too. Problem is what to leave out.
I use the tramways a lot in Basel and Zürich. But for me on the line 28 in Lisbon run the coolest trams in Europe with nicest rolling stock.
Believe it or not I thought The 'Irish' system the most pleasing to the eye, to my mind the designers had put an awful lot of thought into matching the trams with it's surroundings and built it accordingly. My only moan about these 'modern trams' is the propensity to go for Solid Plastic Seats or with the minimum of fabric on them. I thought Lisbons 'little ones' were kept as a 'Tourist Draw'.
Nice informative video
7:24 Unusual gauge ? Is that 4'8 1/2" + 3/8" extra for tight corners ?
Awesome!!
Hello there, the info about the tram in The Hague is wrong. Randstadrail is part of the tram system of The Hague and the metr system of Rotterdam, hence the low platforms for the tram and the high for the metro. There is no heavy rail traffick on the lines. Also there only 2 lines running between The Hague and Zoetermeer. The third line, which is metro line E, runs between The Hague and Rotterdam. The tram lines of Randstadrail are run as regular tramlines within The Hague. The tram company has actually three types of trams running, i.e. the GTL8, oldest model, the RegioCitadis, for Randstadrail, and the newest, the Avenio. Both GTL8 and Avenio operate only in The Hague and near suburbs.
very nice
Good ... I also like Naumburg Germany and Arad Romania . Arad having so many older German and Czech Trams .
Missing city of Porto, Portugal, at least good for a place in the top 3
Glad you did not show our ugly trams (Amsterdam)
Istanbul's nostalgic trams are also really nice
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I do think Gothenburg, Sweden should be on this list
Interesting collection, but how about the systems that integrated with other forms if transport to form a complete system. Think about your next video, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Poznan, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, Melbourne, Vienna (somebody else mentioned that) Berlin, Wurzburg ( the architecture). Like what you showed, have been at many of them. I have visited all the ones I have mentioned except Melbourne, so I have first hand knowledge of them. Next video soon please.
Please be aware that Randstadrail is a coöperation-project between 2 public transport company's: RET (Rotterdam) and HTM (The Hague). The project consists of 2 tramlines (line 3 & 4 by HTM, part of The Hague tramsystem), 1 subwayline (Line E by RET, part of Rotterdam Subway system) and 2 buslines (170 & 173 by RET, part of Rotterdam bussnetwork)
Lisbon and Wolterdorf..the pure trams
Very interesting. A tram I loved and was not on this list: Budapest
8:00 Many of these trains appear to have the headroom for an 'upstairs' - like trams used to have !
Oh wow
The Hague video is wrong. The tram is a tram-train type. They can go at 100km/h etc. They are also used in Kassel, Germany too. There you also find Diesel versions of the same tram-trains. The heavy rail that the Line 3 and Line 4 share tracks with is Metro line that connects Rotterdam and The Hague.
I like your video. However, how about the Nice tunnel for L2? It runs beneath L1 and the final stop is just beside the boats in the town. Very interesting design. Gmunden must not be forgotten. Neither Porto in Portugal. Here you can take both modern and old tram-trains/trams. Karlsruhe in Germany shouldn't be forgotten too. Here you also have trams and tram-trains. Aarhus in Denmark also got a nice new tram-train/tram network too.
To me, tram/rail is rather blurred but to me a tramway carriage is a rigid-bodied vehicle and not a train as many of the systems shown are. So for the tram, I will allow one articulation for towing a trailer but two or more articulations are definitely trains in my book.
@@millomweb Running in the streets? And how about the single articulated trams in Amsterdam, which at some point were given an extra car? Did they magically transform from trams into trains?
Anyway, if there is one differentiating factor, it would be rail geometry. That's the one thing that really distinguishes trams from trains. But even there, the lines are blurred.
@@SeverityOne Of course they'd become trains. In fact, one vehicle towing one trailer is a train. In road transport terminology, we have 'train weight' for that purpose - the weight of the vehicle and the trailer combined.
No blurred lines - even if said as a pun ;)
Train: articulated vehicle
Tram: a surface upon which items move along. Commonly used in pairs for wheeled vehicles where wheel pairs are separated by axles.
@@millomweb Yeah, well, no. It's pretty obvious that what runs through the streets of Europe aren't trains. Your definition isn't shared by many people.
But as I said, even with rail geometry -which IS a very obvious difference between trains and trams- you have situations where the metro maintenance yard in Diemen (near Amsterdam) is connected to the railway line. But it's also connected to the tram network.
So, theoretically speaking, you could move from the national rail network to the tram network. But that can never work, because the rail geometry is different, and a rail vehicle on the wrong kind of track would derail.
@@SeverityOne "Yeah, well, no. It's pretty obvious that what runs through the streets of Europe aren't trains. Your definition isn't shared by many people."
It's not my definition, it's down to the definition of 'train' and 'tram'.
I'm not convinced the rails/trams are significantly geometrically different - they all work on the same principle.
Trams were originally flat surfaces with an upstanding lip to guide the wheels. Rails offer a better guidance principle based on the conical shape of the wheels.
You should have took Copenhagen, Denmark into your video, cause there the Trams drive without a driver :-)
5:00 Foxtrot , MiG - 25
As always a very informative video. When covering Randstad Rail you called the trains on the E line to Rotterdam 'heavy trains'. Thet are the newest version of the Rotterdam metro stock. More light rail than heavy rail, I think.
Какое разнообразие трамваев. 👍
I doubt Moscow is in Europe. But y'know... good video! 😁😁
How come so many of these tram systems are 'step entrance' yet are still allowed to operate in normal service? I'm surprised the equivalent of DDA rules in the various counties haven't outlawed their normal day to day use!
I'm typing top of head, and not checking notes or resources.
I'm not sure what the 'top' ten were. I wouldn't try to rank them. I couldn't call any modern low-floor system 'cool'.
Alas, all of the quaint systems of my early Europe years have since modernised and standardised and lost all character.
Lisboa was fascinating, but has scaled back horribly. At least Graca is the survivor. Porto was also good, but has scaled back horribly. Did Sintra get in?
Soller in Spain. The tram from Hendaye to San Sebastian was upgraded to lose all character.
Trondheim in Norway. Also the Holmenkollen (sp) in Oslo, and Gulfisker trams.
Both isolated systems in Stockholm.
The coastal tram in Belgium.
The two Innsbruck lines (Igls and Fulmes)
A couple of great survivors in the Berlin area.
One across the border in Chechia, with the last Tatra T1 survivors.
Several in Switzerland.
St Petersburg beat Moskva, but was severely depleted by the time I go there.
There are lots of great and efficient systems, but not necessarily 'interesting'. Helsinki had trams which resembled a Melbourne B, particularly in the livery.
Sir, do a video on kolkata tram
My favourite is Cologne in germany as the trams run like trains and run super fast
"fast" *laughs in tunnel under the city centre* Cologne is anything but fast in the centre, you'll regularly need minutes for what should be a 45 second ride due to congestion.
@@chickenpommes19 No i mean the bit to Bonn
yay
In Prague is T3M, T3SU and T6A5 already history
It looks like a time machine
0:34 precisión milimétrica
Interesting.
But Moscow is neither the 4th biggest tram network, nor has it 418 km.
It's number 5, with 181 km length, after Melbourne, St. Petersburg, Sofia and Berlin.
Could you do a list of the longest possible tram rides?
Either with one line as Kusttram or with several lines, like from Krefeld St. Tönis to Bochum Witten in Rhine-Ruhr Region, or through the Polish industry region? Guess there must be more of these...
NR.11 -Vienna
These tiny trams can serve the streets of Dhaka which has many narrow roads, thus decongesting the wide roads with metros and the narrow roads with trams.
Yes. But this could be Bangladesh's first tram is it was put to fruition.
It would either work with itself (a domestic tram construction company or it would work with Portugal like how they got the tiny trams.
I Love the trams of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, back in the 1980s the current Mrs Trump's father was minister of Religious genocide and Concentration Camps in the Bosnian Civil War
The ads on RUclips are becoming a bit of a joke now, seriously.
what about the okc and kc streetcar
These are located in Europe?
@@timosha21 that is okc, ok and kc,mo
I ride daily with randstad rail
Just came from this video: ruclips.net/video/UOCeDVuA2HI/видео.html&ab_channel=RMTransit
Interesting to see that your top 10 list not even include Budapest :D While the other guy said Budapest is the "tokio of trams", and has the largest trams in the world :D
What about Blackpool
You beat me to it. The old Heritage trams are fantastic. Oldest electric system in the world?
1:07 Irish spellings are hilarious !
WUFF !
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Titania. because I created the system and system myself, its in Minecraft.
Canada had one of the small Lisbon trams which was phased out due to the Yukon Government being unable to pay for the heritage tramway.
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nothing in comparison with innsbruck
no Budapest or Vienna, so, a bit of meh :)
older trams are more beatiful
Lyon lyon lyon an amserdame
Sarajevo is coolest in Europe??? Realy???
really…
In austria are 2 tram systems Vienna and Graz
Not so good. Your so called best systems are museum pieces, mere tourist attractions and nothing else...
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In Moscow you only showed old trams and for some reason you didnt show any of new PKTS trams that are the most amount of trams nowadays
Sarajevo remind India ir Vietnam :D