Kiev tram

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Pesa Twist (2015)
T3SU - double traction on the Kontraktowa Ploschtscha (2003)
Map of the Kiev tram (1918).

The Kiev tram ( ukr . : Київський Трамвай) is a tram company in the Ukrainian capital Kiev . It goes back to a horse-drawn tram that was founded on August 11, 1891 .

history

In 1886, the Kiev city council held a competition for the best project to build a light rail, which was won by the military engineer and entrepreneur Amand Yegorowitsch Struwe , who had been involved in building the water supply and the railway bridge in the decades before. On July 7, 1889, a contract to build the tram was signed with him.

The first steam tram ran on February 19, 1892, and the first electric tram followed on June 13, not even four months later. In the following years different railways with different gauges were built by different companies in the city. Between 1894 and 1901 all horse-drawn tram lines were converted to electrical operation. In 1912 a benzene tram was opened, which was also electrified by 1934. By 1925, all lines were switched to the Russian broad gauge .

In the years after the Second World War , the network grew more and more into the surrounding area. At the same time it was gradually thinned out in the city and lines on O bus converted. The operator of the tram is the Kiev municipal passenger transport company Kyivpastrans ( Київпастранс ).

Current condition

Currently (2018) the following lines operate on two subnetworks to the right and left of the Dnepr after tram traffic over the Paton Bridge was discontinued in 2004:

  • Lines 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 operate on the right bank of the Dnieper in the area around the city center.
  • Lines 4, 5, 8, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 33 and 35 operate on the left bank of the Dnieper.

The newest vehicles are the Elektron T5B64 and Pesa Twist .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography Amand Jegorowitsch Struwe in the Kiev encyclopedia ; accessed on September 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Kiev Tram in the Kiev Encyclopedia ; accessed on September 5, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Kyivpastrans website , accessed June 19, 2014
  4. ↑ Aтлac Kиїб 2010. Mіcький Tрaнcпopт. Geosvit publishing house, o. O. 2010, p. 28f.
  5. ↑ Overview of the T5B64 on transphoto.ru

Web links

Commons : Tram Kiev  - album with pictures, videos and audio files