Lviv tram

Lviv tram
The five-part low-floor car No. 1179 of the Electron T5L64 type built in Lemberg on its first day of operation in August 2013
Basic information
Country	Ukraine
city	Lviv
opening	May 5, 1880
Infrastructure
Gauge	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
business
Lines	11 (end of 2016)
vehicles	93 ( KT4 SU) 26 ( KT4 D) 1 Electron T5L64 8 Electron T3L44
statistics
Passengers	49.2 million per year (2010)
still without line 8, which opened in November 2016

The Lviv tram is the tram system of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv , formerly Lviv . It comprises eleven lines (as of April 2017) with a length of 36.5 kilometers and almost 120 vehicles (as of 2012).

Passenger numbers and finances from 1991

In 1991 almost 140,000,000 passengers took the tram, in 2002 it was only 60,000,000. In addition, a large proportion of passengers, around 65 percent, can use the railways free of charge due to the law. The company's debts are borne by the state. The fares are currently:

One way: 5.00 UAH
Reduced ticket: 1.00 UAH
Luggage (20 × 40 × 60 cm): 1.50 UAH
Increased fare: 30 UAH

Route network

Construction and electrification (1880 to 1910)

The meter-gauge network goes back to a horse-drawn tram that was opened on May 5, 1880 . This was owned by the Società Triestina Tramway , the operating company of the Trieste tram . In 1906 the company was taken over by the city and electrified in 1908.

At the same time, on May 31, 1894, Siemens & Halske opened another tram. This was communicated as early as 1896.

Conversion to right-hand traffic (1922)

From October 1, 1922, the lines were switched from left-hand traffic to right-hand traffic.

History from 1945 to 1990

After the end of the Second World War , the expansion of the network began. From November 27, 1952, lines were also switched to trolleybuses . However, these were exclusively poorly used routes. From the 1970s, lines in the city center were also shut down. In 1972 only six lines were used, later the number increased again. In 1988 the first express tram line was inaugurated.

Current route network since 2016

Line 8, which opens up the prefabricated residential district Sychiw, was opened on November 17, 2016 . The line starts together with lines 3 and 11 at Soborna-Platz and runs along the inner-city route to Franka-Platz. It shares the next section up to the Academy of Arts with line 4, on this section the tracks have been re-laid. Then the new line begins, which reaches the densely populated new construction area on its own track in the middle of the street.

Currently (2019) the lines to the north are being expanded, so that currently only lines 6 and 7 are running there. Work is also underway at the main train station, a completely new turning loop is being created with better options for changing from train to tram, so that this branch of the route is currently not used. However, the station can be easily reached via the large and nearby junction of the trams.

The urgently needed renovation of the tracks on Bandera-Straße is currently on hold, so that it has to be driven very slowly there.

line	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	total
Rounds	6th	10	8th	2	6th	11	9	15th	6th	5	3	75

On a normal working day, 75 circuits are in use.

vehicles

Gotha type

After the Second World War, the vehicles were very outdated. From 1955 to 1967, numerous cars from the GDR production of the Gothaer Waggonfabrik were purchased. Other cars produced during this period came from 1969 to 1972 from Odessa and Dnepropetrovsk and from the dissolved tram companies in Chișinău (1961) and Simferopol (1971) (railcar No. 401–474 and 481–490, sidecar No. 501–574 and 581-588)

Overall, these were

11 trains LOWA ET54 + EB54 (predecessor of the Gothawagen, see LOWA ET50 )
27 Gotha cars T57 + 25 sidecars Gotha B57
5 trains Gothawagen T59E + B59E
42 trains Gothawagen T2-62 + B2-62
50 Gothawagen G4-61 were newly acquired in 1966 and 1967 and were the first articulated wagons in Lviv (double no. 601 / 701–650 / 750)

Type Tatra T4SU

T4SU (No. 831) on line 9 (2004)

From 1972 wagons from the ČSSR were procured for the first time in Lviv. The version T4SU (SU for the Soviet Union) emerged from the type T4D (D for GDR), whereby the equipment for the sidecar operation was omitted and closed driver's cabs were installed. Between 1972 and 1979, 73 cars were delivered with the road numbers 801 to 873. In a photo from 2008, a car bears the number 878. The last time this type was used was in 2011. Today (as of 2017) there are still five of these cars in Lviv.

Type Tatra KT4SU

In 1976 two vehicles of the pilot series of this new type of car, which had a joint, were delivered to Lviv. They were built together with the pilot series intended for the GDR, but differ from it in some details (e.g. marker lights). The production cars arrived from 1980 to 1988. Lviv received a total of 145 KT4SU cars (No. 1001–1145). In 2012, two more cars from Vinnytsia were added (No. 1172 and 1173). Today (as of 2017) only 93 of the 147 cars are left. Of these, 52 are still in use, and 41 more are stored in the depot as a reserve that is currently inoperable, as there are no longer as many vehicles required for daily use. The remaining 54 wagons have already been scrapped.

Type Tatra KT4D

Former Erfurt carriage (No. 1152) on line 1

Former Geraer Wagen (No. 1160) (with GVB logo on the front)

In the years from 2007 to 2013, a total of 27 used Tatra KT4D cars were purchased from Erfurt and Gera:

2007/2008 11 carriages from the Erfurt tram (No. 1150–1159 and 1171, No. 1159 was scrapped after a fire in 2010)
2008 from the Gera tram 11 carriages (No. 1160–1170)
In July 2013 another 5 cars from the Erfurt tram (No. 1174–1178), so the stock of this type has since then comprised 26 cars.

Type electron

Elektron T3L44 (No. 1185) at the opening of line 8

From September 2012, the Lwiwer company Elektrotrans, a joint venture between Electron and TransTec Vetschau, was awarded the contract to build low-floor trams with a 100% low-floor share. These are in use

as a five-part type Electron T5L64 since August 2013 (No. 1179)
as a three-part type Electron T3L44 since 2014 (No. 1180) and since 2016 (No. 1181–1187).