The 10 Largest Tram Networks in the World
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- Although tram systems date to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many old systems were closed during the mid-20th century because of the advent of automobile (including bus) travel. This was especially the case in North America, but postwar reductions and shutdowns also occurred on British, French and other Western European urban rail networks. However, traditional tramway systems survived, and eventually even began to thrive from the late 20th century onward, some eventually operating as much as when they were first built over a century ago. Their numbers have been augmented by modern tramway or light rail systems in cities which had discarded this form of transport. ~Wikipedia
Size comes from Wikipedia, although even Wikipedia is vague about true size of tram networks - some cities may seem like they have bigger ones than others but it may include single tracking or light rail or even commuter rail routes (for this reason LA is excluded since they don't run tram).
What would appear to be a topic that has concrete data about size becomes subjective as one needs to classify what is considered part of the network and what is considered tram (although the systems at the Top are definitively at the top)
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In 2019, the Prague public city transport company (DPP) operated 805 tram vehicles, the third largest tram fleet in the world after Moscow and Budapest. Tram transport in Prague has been operating since 1875, when the first horse-drawn tram line began operating. In 2018, 142.7 km of lines were in operation, on which DPP operated 25 day and 9 night lines with a total length of 558 km.
the largest tram network is Melbourne Australia
Fact: The whole western Berliner one was closed during the wall. Only the Eastern side kept them running. Now imagine how massive would be altogether nowadays if those parts remained fully opened!
The network is gradually being extended back into the Western part of the city.
@@FERNAMTBERLIN I think there is a plan for a inner ring tram line. That would be great
For distances above 20km, with stops every 500m, it's just too slow and the wrong transportation mode.
Well,yep a bit aloe while having stopa more or lesa every 500m..metro is faster,but does not connect everything and even this slow tram is still better than bus,or trolley bus...when public transport counting..or local railway could be okay...
@@FERNAMTBERLIN der ausbau is so am stocken
Melbourne trams are amazing, I went for a few months to study there and I was amazed of how easy was to move anywhere in the city with public transportation. I was living in Gladstone Park, which is really far away from the CBD and never had to use a car. Even biking from there was amazing. My favourite line was of course Flinders to St. Kilda, so many great memories.
As a Melbournite, we are proud of our trams, glad we kept them when most other cities dismantled their systems. Back in the 50s and 60s, there were great attempts to get rid of them, but a determined effort swayed the government ensured they would not go. Recent years have seen the system expand into the largest network in the world, as seen in this video.
Are there any other networks, like Metro in parallel, or is it the only system ?
@@sancheeez OK, thanks. But considering the size of Melbourne, having a 250km network is just appropriate, compared to 10 times smaller Leipzig with 150km.
@@holger_p Melbourne has a large suburban electric rail network as well.
It is a huge shame that American cities removed all their tram systems.
Not true, many American cities still have streetcar and light rail systems, they are not as expansive as those found in Europe though
@@jsea1967 Come on you know what I meant.
@@jsea1967 Nearly every decently-sized city, in the U.S., had a streetcar network prior to WWII. Almost all of them are gone. Blame Ford and GM, significantly.
@@jsea1967 very few US cities have preserved their 1st generation tram systems: Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco.
JUst imagine the old LA network. It might have competed on this list, had it not been dismantled!
Melbourne should be renamed to Trambourne
Prague has a longer tram network than Brussels. Only by a few kilometres, but it does.
I am from Melbourne Australia and it blows my mind that we have the biggest tram network in the world!!!!but trams have always been an integral part of Melbourne's identity and there would be an uprising if there was any attempt to get rid of them other capital cities here in Australia got rid of their trams and are regretting it now and starting to rebuild theirs with mixed levels of success it was interesting to see the other nine were all in Europe none in Asia, North America, South America or Africa anyway thanks for the interesting video and Melbourne rocks tramwise at least!!🚋🇦🇺
There is also an intercity tram in Vienna linking it to Baden (called Wiener Lokalbahn) and there are 12 depots (10 tram and 2 Wiener Lokalbahn) and a maintenance facility. And the Network length is in total 176,9 km (tram) + 27,2 km (intercity tram) = 204,1 km. I would include the tramtrain to Baden because it's functioning as a tram in Vienna and Baden.
Similar to US interurbans.
In the past there was also inter-city tram between Vienna and Bratislava. Still there are some infrastructure in Bratislava and on Austrian side it has been rebuild for S8 Line
@@istvanhorvath686 *S7
@@erwintoth-isaszegi6602 correct 😊
Forgot about Prague, Silezian trams...
Prague has a very good tram network, but not very big. It's not in the top 10 positions of the world ranking.
@@fotoelba, there are 142,7 km of tram network in Prague against 141,1 km in Brussels, but Brussels has a position in this top. "Silezian trams" system in Poland has 178,35 km length.
@@user-vv5gt6lf3d but the silezian tram is a "multi-city tram system" and only individual cities are listed in the video, but the tram network in Prague i agree with you 😉
I knew my old city would come out on top. As an ex Melburnian Melbourne was made for trams and trams was made for Melbourne. I can't imagine what Melbourne would be like without trams. A lot of Australian cities are now building or extending their tram network.
except for Brisbane
It is easy to image, just go to Sydney.
no such thing as an Exmelbournian!!! LOL.. You take the person out of Melbourne, but you can't take Melbourne out of the person!!... I tried, but it kept drawing me back... it the end I gave up and moved back. I love it, and the trams are a major reason!
Amsterdam and The Hague have both a tram system longer than 200 km each so they certainly belong on the top of this list.
London used to have Europe’s largest tram network but it was removed after the Second World War.
Yes it closed down completely in 1952 after many lines were converted to Trolleybus starting in the 1930s, then the 1940s until it was decided that all tram lines left would be converted into bus lines and then in the 1960s all trolleybus lines were converted to motorbus use with the same thing taken place all over the UK & Ireland leaving only the Manx Electric Railway, Isle of Man and the Blackpool Tramway, Lancashire, England left as non-tourist tramways in the British Isles.
London now has it's tramway back since 2000 but only between Wimbledon, Croydon, New Addington (near Croydon), Elmers End and Beckenham Junction (both fairly near Bromley) across 3 branch lines (4 numbers, timetabled but not publicly shown)
@@wclifton968gameplaystutorials destroying the trolleybus network was a big mistake, sad that many cities repeat it even now
@@warmike see Moskow now . Moscow is a city With the largest electric bus system in the world in 2014. and in 2020 trolleybuses are removed from the streets and replaced by diesel buses
@@warmike well it depends... in many ways trolley busses combine the drawbacks of trams (bound to specific routes) and busses (small capacity). I'm not saying that they don't have their applications, but if you already operate a tram and bus network it usually doesn't really make sense to also maintain a third, incompatible system. It only means more cost and hassle.
@@stephanweinberger Trolleybuses probably make the most sense for areas with steep slopes e.g. San Francisco
Prague with 142.4 km: am I a joke for you? Yeah, f* me
10:12 you were lucky to get those Tatra cars on film in their last days, they were retired a few months ago.
13:30 Saint-Petersburg has at least 7 independent depots (1, 3, 5, 7, 8 (ex-9), Combined tram-trolleybus (#10 for trams, #5 for trolleybuses), "Transport Concession Company" (ex-11) ), the last one belongs to a private company (shame you didn't catch those, they are really modern), others to the city. There is also a separate service depot (ex-8) and 2 that are branches of others: ex-2 is a branch of 3 and "Rybatskoe service centre" is a branch of 7.
Really? Again no Silesian Interurbans...literally larger than any of the systems shown in this video
You know that the Rhein-Neckar-Tram (rnv) has a Network with 301km length?
It includes the cities of Mannheim Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen, which is why Wikipedia only lists the length of the network of the individual cities.
Some routes are also operated as railways, but with the same gauge and the same vehicles.
The entire network is interconnected, there are many lines that run between the cities and it can theoretically be used by all vehicles.
I had read of this, and made a point of devoting a day to it. It is not one system; it is about eight systems (the Wuppertal monorail is one of the members), but they share a common ticket. I rode on one route on each component.
Nice video but shouldn’t Prague and thr Upper Silesia systems be in there somewhere?
Wikipedia says Upper Silesia has 40km more network length than Melbourne…
A great top 10 video! How interesting that all of the top 10 except for Melbourne are in Europe. As a Melbourne native it was good to see our trams! Melbourne loves its trams and kept them when other Australian cities dismantled their systems. They are however making a comeback in cities like Sydney.
I love Melbourne trams! I think that its trams are the main reason why Melbourne has a much better public transport than Sydney.
Also noticed that the world's longest tram network has relatively short rolling stock e.g. the Combino here has 3 instead of 5 cars/trainset
@@lzh4950 Yes - Melbourne does not run long lines of multiple cars like some other cities.
@@lzh4950 They do operate the 5 car sets, they just weren't shown in this video. Main reason for such short stock is due to limited Depot space
Warsaw has 150 kilometres of lines (Wikipedia: Trams of Warsaw). More than Brussels and Leipzig.
356 km is now in Warsaw
Tramway network in Paris is very fastly expanding. Currently standing at 137 km, it should reach 230 km by 2025!
In 2010, the Paris network was only of 40 km.
The Trams in Paris I would not call a network. There are 5 or more different lines. Even one with rubber tires.
@@ottilieblanco8116 Paris will inaugurate its 14th tramway line on December 9th, 2023. Tramway in Paris is indeed not a "network" by itself, but is fully integrated to the larger public rail network together with 16 metro lines, 5 RER lines, 7 suburban rail lines and 3 airport metro shuttles.
With an odd gauge of 1458 mm, the Leipzig Tram is definitely the largest broad gauge network in Central Europe - between the Bug and the Pyrinees.
Milan is my home city and yes, its network os public transportation is amazing
I like the way, how suburban and regional trains are connected to the subway system in Milan. I used to travel betwen Milan and Pavia quite often and it was like taking a metro.
I love the Melbourne tram network. It's extensive and trams in the city centre are free.
As a Melburnian trams are a great way to get around though on some roads they share with cars they can get held up but when separate they can really travel.
Good video with great information :D
From this video I put on my list following cities to visit:
Leipzig and Sofia. I never thought they hav so long tram system.
a fascinating video, many thanks for posting.
being an ex melburnian but now living in cairns,
i just knew melbourne would come out on top.
it is a fantastic system to marry in with the
train and bus networks.
PRAGUE ?????? WHY IS MISSING PRAGUE????
Because have only 147 km….😀
@@PS-ek7kz BY 11/2023 Prague tram double track network reached the lenght over 150 Km (3 extentions ) and will continue to grow in next years!!! The othe think that should be mentioned is That Prague has the most frequent tram system in the world!! And the next mentioning is - that double bigger/populated cities like Vienna or Budapest has only 180/170 km long system and 3,5 bigger Berlin has only 190 km .. so if you divide population to track lenght - Prafgue has the most dense tram network in the world!!!
Excellent video!! Shows how many European cities had the foresight to built these systems. And give local citizens a means of travel. They also promote tourisn and commerce.
Thanks Tim for sharing this information.😀♥️♥️
It's not so much the foresight of building, but more the foresight of not shutting them down in the 50s and 60s when the car was seen as the future of transportation. Albeit very much was destroyed during that time in Europe, it was nowhere near the complete devastation that happened in the US. Many US cities used to have extensive tram and interurban networks, often covering dozens if not hundreds of miles.
@@stephanweinberger Absolutely. The US was raped of its trolley/tram/ interurban lines due to the auto.
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Excellent video as usual! But what about Prague, doesn't it have a slightly larger network than Brussels?
Not according to Wikipedia- it’s like #11 or 12
@@timosha21 Praha, Prag, 142,7km tratí, 34 lines/558km
@@timosha21 it has 142km-track lenght and 518km total lenght thats what wikipedia is saying🙂 so it should be on the 9th place ig u were looking wrong lmao
@@petr2135 trať = line, linka = route
@@timosha21 you are very outdated my friend. Amsterdam is the longest system and it's not even on the list.
Excellent and p to date.Very good explanations....Thank you!
Glasgow had a very large network and was the last in the UK to close in 1962 ( other than Blackpool) until the more recent systems. They also had arguably the finest tram in the Coronation Tram. The city is crying out for a new system.
Bigger system than in Vienna is in Poland in Silesian Industrial Area
Melbourneeeee
Yay, home sweet home Leipzig!! 😊
I grew up right in the city center and used to take the tram pretty much every day.
In Germany its worth noting that due to the seperation of the country after ww2 the situation in east and west is very different. In the west many smaller tram systems shared the fate of their american brothers and were replaced by buses in a more car centric post war world while larger ones were partly or fully transformed to a more subway/lightrail type of system. In the east many small tram sustem survive until today and the larger ones are still purely tram because the east did not become as car centric as the west.
Brilliant tram video, nice captures! Kind Regards Railherbie
Tatra T3 (Czechoslovakia;nowdays Czechia) the most widely used trams in the world👍
Czech tram named after the Slovakian mountains. :-)
@@breznik1197Nope...
@@MartinProavis The factory in Kopřivnice chose the name Tatra after they successfully tested their cars on the route Štrba - Tatranská Lomnica in 1919 and local Slovak residents praised them. In 1923, the Kopřivnice automaker was incorporated into the Prague Ringhoffer concern, which entire took the Tatra brand. After all, Czech Tatra tram-looked electric trains (420.95) also ran on the Tatra Electric Railways for a long time.
Next - Top 10 Trolleybus Network
Thanks for this video, stay a small comment from me regarding the Berlin tram network. In October 2021, the line extension from Adlershof to Schöneweide station was put into operation. The new line is 2.6 km long. Next year, the line extension of the M-10 will go from the main station to the Turmstraße underground station into Oparation. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
And that about Cologne Stadtbahn? Fast trams in the Cologne runs on the 12 lines and 198.5 km of length. That is largest light rail/fast tram/Stadtbahn system in the world.
Beautiful TRAM COMPILATION👍👍♥️♥️
Milan is neat because they are running three generations of cars. I only passed through there in 1960 and did not see the network. San Francisco has three or four of Milan's Peter Witts. They are wonderfully noisy.
I was about to ride Brussels' tram lines 1964-66, just before the big rebuild. They were running the "new" PCC type cars and the prewar double and single truck cars. They had rebuild some of the single truck cars with an exterior that matched the PCC cars, but the controls were still hand operated, not foot pedal. San Francisco has one Brussels PCC painted for Hanover(?) Germany.
And Thank you for the video. 👍
No : Brussels PCC 7037 has been repainted in Zürich colours and numbered 737. That's because Zürich is 1000 mm gauge and so couldn't send one of their trams.
@@bouli3576 Thank you; confusing Zurich and Hanover, sigh.
Antwerp, Be also had meter gauge PCC cars
"about" should be "able" above. 😒
Excellent video. These systems promote commerce and tourism thereby benefiting every city in they operate. The USA needs to utilize these types of systems for those purposes.
Just embrace monorail
Excellent capture my friend like and Greetings 😃👍
Cool video 👍.. after metro/subway/underground-tramways are the best public transport solutions
Εκπληκτικό βίντεο, παίρνεις βαθμό "άριστα"! Θα ξεχωρίσω το tram του Μιλάνο διότι έχει διατηρήσει όλα τα οχήματα από κατασκευής. Θα ξεχωρίσω το tram της Βιέννης για την "αριστοκρατικότητά" του. Θα ξεχωρίσω τα tram του Βερολίνου και της Λειψίας για την τάξη τους. Θα ξεχωρίσω το tram των Βρυξελλών για την αρτιμέλειά του. Θα ξεχωρίσω τα tram της Μόσχας και της Αγίας Πετρούπολης για τις πολλαπλές επιλογές και τους κλάδους τους. Θα ξεχωρίσω το tram της Βουδαπέστης για την ευφυΐα του και τέλος ανακηρύσσω νικητή το tram της Σόφιας διότι είναι στενού πλάτους (96cm) και καταλαμβάνει μικρό πλάτος ζώνης, διατηρεί ατόφια τα παλιά οχήματα και αναλογικά με το Ακαθάριστο Εθνικό Προϊόν της Βουλγαρίας αναλογικά με τα οικονομικά της χώρας έχει το μακρύτερο και πληρέστερο tram στην Ευρώπη! Μπράβο Σόφια!
Models 13:17 71-623 (Russia) are so native! There are a lot of them in my Khabarovsk. We have only three routes left and one depot, we still have trams of the Riga Carriage Works, such trams are already used everywhere as museum exhibits)
For those interested in the Melbourne Tramway system (these days operated under the name "Yarra Trams") you might like to see some of the videos I've made over the years on Melbourne trams, in this playlist: ruclips.net/video/JgRHj98SyQE/видео.html (There are 38 videos in that list with more being produced periodically)
Your chapters section was helpful in understanding your selection. Which definition have you used? Many large systems lost length when metros were built, and tram lines were closed (St Petersburg was a big loser, also Wien). A lot of European measurement is overstated: track shared by two routes is counted twice, as routes are totalled. I try to use street length, with double and single scoring the same, and with outbound/inbound in parallel streets scoring only once, not twice.
Interesting, but how was the total length calculated? Is it the length of the rails or the sum of the lengths of the lines?
2018 I took several rides on Vienna tram, great experience
Awesome, greetings from TrainSpotter TV India
Timosha, I love your videos. But, please, next time you do a service like this one, when you say "In operation since...", do insert a picture of a decent tram from those times (or maybe a little bit later) instead of just these modern abominations! The presentations of Budapest and Milan were great.
Nice video with nice recordings and good illustration (Map, etc.) I just wonder where the rnv tram network in Germany went, it has a total system lenght of 301km according to Wikipedia and has 19 tram lines. I think it's also the biggest in Germany.
Probably it's missing, because the system serves 3 different cities and the lines on the countryside are operated by railway standard.
The biggest network in Germany is Rhein-Ruhr reaching from Witten to St.Tönis.
@@futurerails8421 We are talking about trams, not trains. On Google I can also see that from witten to st. Tönis there aren't 301km
@@outdoorolli5754 Probably because of the railway standard part.
melbourne do be chillin
Ámsterdam? is the longest system and it's not even on the list?
In Sofia there are a lot of rebuilding works being done to the trams so the system is much smaller.
Yes, for example south part of the route 6 is dismantled and turned to a trolleybus-only way
It's kinda sad that Silesian Interurban system wasn't included, since it has around 178 km of length.
I already knew Melbourne Australia would be number 1 💡
We had a tram network in Buenos Aires, Argentina before 1963. This year the tram service was totally suspend. It was 900 km long. We the " porteños" are still crying by the missed trams. I have born im 1967. My fathers tolds me some beatiful histories about them. We only have a tourist tram with 4-5 cars, 1-2 km long.
You can add about 2 km ,new part built in southern Berlin near Adlershof.
I'm very confused, warsaw has a 150km long network and it didn't make the list...
Superb.
Melbourne,Australia. By far the largest ,and being extended yl.250km as of 2013.
Дуже цікаве відео та чудова ідея з такого ракурсу! Багато привітів зі Швейцарії.
Corrections: Your video mostly provides system length numbers (also with errors), which is not route length.
Brussels: 144,9 km
Sofia: 97,7 km
Budapest: 158,4 km
Moscow: 208.5 km
Berlin: 196,4 km
St. Peterburg: 231,4 km
I would create this ranking by not counting length, but rather how many tram kilometers (miles) are traveled on average per day.
I find it interesting to put the Budapest tram system here when the bucharest one is bigger, has a MUCH higher ridership over double, and that dosent even include the trolley system, or the fact that bucharest also has a much better metro system. I genuinely will never understand why people praise Budapest for this kinda stuff when it just dosent do very well at all, thoes tram ridership numbers are north America level.
Prag V roce 2018 bylo v provozu 142,7 km Wikipedia !!! 10. Brussel?
Did I miss Toronto trams.
Prague have 142.7km of tram track.
Why Prague tram wasnt in this video?
Kolkata has vast network of tram
In relation to the size of the city, the largest network is in Arad, Romania.
Is there an official definition of what is a tram and what is light rail? It all seems the same to me.
Other the the USA/Canada which is created the term 'Light Rail' in 1972, rest of the world still keeps using 'Tram'. A tram/streetcar is light rail.
In British English, light rail is know as light railway being a railway built at lower costs and to lower standards than typical "heavy rail": it uses lighter-weight track and has more steep gradients and tight curves to reduce civil engineering costs. These lighter standards allow lower costs of operation, at the price of slower operating speeds and lower vehicle capacity.
One of criteria (in "Europe meaning") is classyfying whether vehicles on the most of network follows regular traffic rules (including signal and (almost) all signs for cars) or has block signals, fully separated track, long tunnels etc.
The construction, equipment and traffic rules of trams in Europe are normally described in traffic codes.
@@jakubadamczyk1523 - Most countries, trams drivers have similar training in traffic code and other road regulations as bus drivers. Remember, a 'tram' is a series of buses connected together traveling on a 'steel' road instead of an asphalt road that buses do.
@@chrismckellar9350 Trams are literally (and technically) cars (like passenger cars, cargo cars) connected to train, but there are system and vehicles which fit to roads and traffic regulations and there are systems and vehicles which aren't (for example are heavier, longer, wider, but not enough to run on national rail network).
Of course, that's all local, because - for example - European light multiple units or independent motorcars are standard rail vehicles, but in US are too light and are standard light rail, so I thing definition about local regulations is the best.
What size are the systems in the Netherlands Amsterdam ++++
"WEST Berlin replaced all it trams with BUSES." I wonder how that happened?
like for Budapest
I wish our Moscow could rebuild that 15 km of tracks to gain on the former capital - Saint-Petersburg
Brussels network is in operation since 1869, not 1894. 1894 is the date of the first electrical tram. Not the same to me.
Great video ! (see our trams video in Taiwan too)
I am 100 % that Leipzig, Sofia and Milan are overrated. Prague, Upper Silesia and Bucharest should be in top 10 instead.
Didn't know that Leipzigs net was bigger then Dresden.
Like from Saint Petersburg 🇷🇺! 👍🙂
09:03 ''what was the reason my man,, poor dove
you totally skipped silesian interurban network, which is even bigger than budapest tram network
looks and sounds like d-class tram melbourne at 6:08
Wait until you hear about the Belgium coast tram
2nd longest line in the world!
In comment section, you can clearly see that people have 0 understanding the difference between what is network length and system length. Route length (line length) and track length. If a city has 1 route at it is 20 km long it means that the route length and system (network) length are the same 20 km. but the track length is 40 km (somewhere around without taking in part the depo). This video is about system length which means tracks alongside street geometry. And so on.
Would be nice if you explained the definition of system length.
@@koos48 I already explained. click show more.
What about Amsterdam and Den Haag? 🤔
Bug! Missing Prague.
Karlsruhe? Ever heard of Karlsruher Modell? 2-System Tram-Trains? Our System is over 3.500 km² long?
Kolkata tram system is one of the oldest
Unfortunately very weak research. Total tram lines in Warszawa (Warsaw) Poland is about 355 km. No trains of any kind operating on that network.
This video is not about line length, route length. it is about system length which is correct.
bro you forgot the world longest tram network its the belgium coastal tram network
that's only one line and isn't contained within one urban area like the ones in this video, it's an interurban tram
Go Melbourne
Prague with 142,7 km???
I don't agree with you!!!
Melbourne, Moscow and?
Amsterdam?den Haag?
Silesian Interurbans, Poland. 299km network, 340km tracks. Sounds like #1 to me.
This video is not about line length, route length. it is about system length which is correct.
@@siachoquero 15:09 mentions network length 250km as #1. 40km less than Upper Silesia. So whatever is system length I don’t know, but maybe you’ll explain?
@@koos48 Network and System length are the same. Melbourne is 250 km Silesia is nowhere near that number.
@@koos48 Network (system) length in Silesia is 171 km, which gives you the single track length of around 340-342 km.
@@koos48 299 km is the length of all the routes together in SIlesia. This number no one needs because you can have many routes even on a small network and very few routes on a very big network. This number does not play a role.
you are using very old footage for brussels