Dubrovnik tram

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Historical photo of the railcar 5 of the Dubrovnik tram, on the right edge of the picture a so-called Otto Wagner railing
Car 10 at Pile terminus (1952)
Preserved railcar 7 of the Dubrovnik tram in the Technical Museum in Zagreb

The Dubrovnik tram was a narrow-gauge tram company in the Dalmatian city ​​of Dubrovnik .

history

In Old Austria , the railway was legally defined by means of the “concession document for the local railway from Gruž (Gravosa) to Dubrovnik (Ragusa)” in the Reich Law Gazette No. 228/1910 of December 21, 1910. Although the concession holder, the city of Dubrovnik, was required to open within a year, the opening did not take place until December 10, 1912. The main reason for the construction of the railway was the great distance from the city center to the station in Gruž, one of the endpoints of the Dalmatian Railway . The track width of 760 millimeters , which is rare for trams , was chosen because, as with the Sarajevo tram , the transition from freight wagons from the narrow-gauge railway network to the tram should be made possible. In Dubrovnik, however, this option was not used. The line 1 led from the station to the city center, she had her last stop before the Pile Gate of the Old City . Line 2 connected Pile to Uvala.

With the enormous increase in road traffic in the 1960s, also as a result of increasing summer tourism, it was increasingly difficult to maintain scheduled operations. The tram itself was also seen as a "traffic obstacle", so that it was decided to discontinue the route to Lapad in February 1970 and the remaining route a year later. However, as a result of a serious accident caused by a brake defect, the tram was shut down on March 20, 1970 .

vehicles

The vehicles were supplied by the Graz wagon factory (mechanical part) and the Prague company Křižík (electrical equipment). Later vehicles, the last of which were delivered in 1963, came from the Slavonski Brod , Ganz and Đuro Đakovic wagon factories .

Some wagons have been preserved in the region, among other things as an attraction of an inn. Others are kept in the Technical Museum in Zagreb , in the Tramway Museum in Graz and in the Historama Ferlach .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Keith Chester, Bosnia-Hercegovina: Narrow Gauge Album . Stenvalls, 2010, pp. 225-227.

Web links

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