Tram Magdeburg

Tram Magdeburg
Tram at the Neustädter Friedhof
Basic information
Country	Germany
city	Magdeburg
opening	1877
operator	MVB
Transport network	marego
Infrastructure
Route length	64.1 km
Track length	132.9 km
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system	600 volt DC overhead line
Stops	131
Depots	2
business
Lines	9
Line length	106.0 km
vehicles	100 Total 4 Tatra T6A2 2 Tatra B6A2 11 Tatra B6A2M 83  NGT8D 8 Tatra KT4DM
statistics
Reference year	2014
Residents in the catchment area	230 thousand
Mileage	5.53 million km per year
Network plan as of April 20, 2016

The Magdeburg tram runs on an approximately 64-kilometer route network in the Saxony-Anhalt state capital Magdeburg . In mid-2014, 100 trams (including 13 sidecars) were running on nine lines . The Magdeburg tram has been operated by Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH since 1999 .

History until 1989

Tram traffic was started in 1877 with a horse-drawn tram from the Magdeburg Horse Railway Company . In 1886 the first steam line of the Magdeburg Trambahn-Actien-Gesellschaft followed . The two companies merged in 1887 under the name Magdeburger Straßen-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft MSEG . In the following years the route network was further expanded. On July 18, 1899, electrical operation began on the Olvenstedter Strasse - Alter Markt - Großer Werder route. Just a year and a half later, the entire network of horse-drawn trams was electrified. During this period, the network was also expanded by building a ring line around the old town.

At the end of the Second World War , the main workshop was destroyed by bombing in 1945 and the network and vehicles were badly damaged. The first new vehicles went into operation from 1949/51. Conductorless operation was introduced in the 1960s. Until the introduction of punching machines in 1976, tickets were obtained from payment boxes . In 1969 the first Tatra trams were presented. In addition, some new lines were put into operation. In 1975 to the new building area Neustädter See, 1979 to the industrial area Rothensee and 1984 to the new building area Neu-Olvenstedt.

Development since 1990

The tram routes to Lerchenwuhne (now IKEA) were opened in 1991, between Südring and Westring in 1992 and in 2004 on Europaring and Listemannstrasse. The renovation of the route on the North Bridge in 1998 was like rebuilding. This contrasts with the discontinuation of the route to Hermann-Gieseler-Halle due to the opening of the Westring route and in Walter-Rathenau-Strasse due to the opening of the route in Listemannstrasse.

By December 2012 Leipziger Strasse was expanded and the Leipziger Chaussee - Reform route via the Bördepark shopping center was reopened.

In August 2018, the route through Wiener Straße was released for use.

Line network restructuring 2015

On May 28, 2015, the Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe announced that there will be a major restructuring of the route network on July 13, 2015. This became necessary due to the construction of the city tunnel at Damaschkeplatz, as a result of which this section of the route can only be used as a single track in both directions.

The nocturnal tram service, however, will be discontinued, instead there is a new night bus network NACHTAKTIV , consisting of the bus lines N1 to N8 and the dial-a-ride bus line N9, whereby it should be noted that the daytime traffic has been extended until 23:00.

Line network

Track plan 2013

There are currently 9 daily lines in operation.

Daytime traffic

The following route network has been in effect since August 27, 2020:

line	Line route (with important stops)
1	IKEA - Alter Markt - City Carré - Central Station - Olvenstedter Platz - Westring - Südring - Sudenburg
2	Westerhüsen - Buckau (waterworks) - Hasselbachplatz - Domplatz / Volksbank - Alter Markt - Opera House -  Alte Neustadt (Lostauer Strasse)
3	Klinikum Olvenstedt - Olvenstedter Platz - Central Station - Hasselbachplatz - Südring - Wiener Straße - Leipziger Chaussee
4th	Klinikum Olvenstedt - Olvenstedter Platz - Central Station - Allee Center - Cracau
5	Klinikum Olvenstedt - Westring - Südring - Hasselbachplatz - Broad Way South - Alter Markt - North Bridges - Exhibition Grounds
6th	Diesdorf - Westring - Olvenstedter Platz - Central Station - Allee Center - Arenas - Herrenkrug
8th	Westerhüsen - Buckau (waterworks) - Hasselbachplatz - City Carré - Alter Markt - Opera House -  Neustädter See only single trips in school traffic
9	Reform - Leipziger Chaussee - Hasselbachplatz - Domplatz / Volksbank - Old Market - Opera House -  Neustädter See
10	Sudenburg - Hasselbachplatz - City Carré - Alter Markt - Opera House - Pettenkoferstraße ( - Rothensee ) -  Barleber See from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. every 20 minutes only to Rothensee

Cycles and operating times

All lines (except for lines 3 5 8 ) operate at the following rate:

Days of the week	4:30 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.	6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.	7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.	8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	10:00 am - 11:00 am	11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.	6:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday	20 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	10 min	20 min
Saturday	30 min	30 min	30 min	20 min	20 min	15 minutes	20 min
Sunday & public holidays	no operation	no operation	30 min	30 min	20 min	20 min	20 min

Lines 3 5 run at the following rate:

Days of the week	4:30 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.	7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.	8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.	11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.	6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.	9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday	20 min	20 min	20 min	20 min	20 min	3 no operation 5 20 min
Saturday	3 no operation 5 30 min	3 no operation 5 30 min	3 no operation 5 20 min	3 no operation 5 15 min	3 no operation 5 20 min	3 no operation 5 20 min
Sunday & public holidays	no operation	3 no operation 5 30 min	3 no operation 5 30 min	3 no operation 5 20 min	3 no operation 5 20 min	3 no operation 5 20 min

Night traffic

In the course of the reorganization of the line network on July 13, 2015, the nightly line offer was completely converted to bus transport. The lines 91-96, which covered the routes of the daily lines, were run up to there in the evening connecting traffic.

Other traffic

At major sporting events, the amplifier line 15 is used, which usually runs between the Alter Markt and the arenas. Line 15 also travels to the most populous parts of the city, for example Olvenstedt, Sudenburg, Reform.

On special occasions, the historic tram lines 77 run between the museum depot Sudenburg and the Herrenkrug or the main workshop, as well as line 99 between Sudenburg and Neustadt station. Occasionally, historic vehicles are also signposted as line 22.

vehicles

NGT8D low-floor car on Westring

Tatrazug on line 2

Vehicles in regular service

The articulated multiple unit ( NGT8D ) carries the main load of the tram traffic . Since the last delivery at the end of 2012, there are 83 of these with the company numbers 1301 to 1383. The vehicles 1301 to 1325 were manufactured by Waggonbau Dessau . The vehicles from road number 1326 were built by Waggonbau Bautzen and subsequently by ALSTOM LHB GmbH . In 2011 the train combination of NGT8D and modernized Tatra sidecar B6A2 began, of which 11 trains are now in use. The Tatra sidecars were acquired, repainted and modernized by the Berlin transport company. They mainly run on line 9 and replace the large Tatra trains.

Although the Tatra Farewell was officially celebrated on January 27, 2013 , partially modernized vehicles of the type T6A2 and B6A2 are still in use , mainly on lines 2, 6, 9 and 10. For this purpose, four motor coaches and two trailer cars are available as operating reserves which were coupled to form three two-car trains. All other vehicles of this type were scrapped by spring 2014 due to flood damage.

Until 2012, Tatra T4 DM trams and the associated B4DM sidecar were still in service on working days . The Tatra vehicles had been in operation in Magdeburg since 1969 and have been modernized and reconstructed several times since then. The model numbers of modernized vehicles by an additional M supplemented. 19 T4D railcars and 8 B4D sidecars were transferred to the Romanian city of Oradea in August 2013 .

In 2020 the Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe bought 8 Tatra cars of the type KT4DM from Berlin to ease the vehicle bottleneck and to be able to set up a 10-minute cycle on line 10 to Rothensee again.

Work car

Four type T4DM railcars (728, 729, 1254, 1274II) have remained in Magdeburg as winter service railcars and complement the fleet of work cars. The railcars 728 and 729 each have a sliding plate to clear the tracks from snow. In 2018 the two railcars 1244 and 1245 were scrapped because they were superfluous and in poor condition.

In 2017, MVB put a new driving school car (701) and a rail grinding train (703 + 704) into operation. These vehicles are modernized T6A2s, which were originally used by passengers in Berlin and were rebuilt for use in Magdeburg. The driving school vehicle was converted by MVB itself in just under two years. The car received a new driver's workstation, which is modeled on those of the NGTs. The rail grinding train consists of two wagons that are coupled rear-to-rear for use in order to be more effective. The train also has a rail head lubrication system designed to minimize the squeaking between the wheel and the rail. The 703 car also has a catenary observation station equipped with a camera, with which the overhead line can be checked. The conversion was carried out by the Fahrzeugwerke Miraustraße GmbH in Hennigsdorf from March 2015 to January 2017. The old driving school car of the type T4D (774) and the rail grinding car of the type T4D (708) will initially remain in the MVB's portfolio.

In addition, MVB owns a type T57 work car from Waggonbau Gotha from 1960 with the company number 702, which is located in the main workshop, and three auxiliary equipment wagons of the type T4D with the company numbers 706, 713 and 756.

A self-made goods transport truck is available for internal transport between the workshops. It bears the road number 765.

Historic wagons

In addition, there are some historic tram cars in the Sudenburg museum depot.

Depots

The vehicles are parked and serviced in two depots. The north depot is on the route to Lake Barleber and was opened in 1974. The last Tatra cars and around 50 NGT8Ds are maintained here. During the floods in 2013 , the northern depot was completely flooded and has only been operated provisionally since then. A thorough renovation including elevation of the site is planned by 2020.

The depot southeast in Westerhüsen was put into operation in 1921 by the Magdeburg suburban railway company. Several modernizations and expansions were carried out, most recently in 2001. About 35 NGT are based here.

There is also a main tram workshop in Brückfeld (opened in 1899). With the expansion or new construction of the northern depot, the main workshop at the current location is to be given up.

With the conversion to electrical operation in 1899/1900, the yards of the steam train opposite the main workshop and the horse-drawn tram in the old new town disappeared. The former horse tram depots in Buckau and the New Neustadt remained in operation until the 1970s. The courtyard on Westring was closed in 2001.

Museum depot Sudenburg

Museum depot Sudenburg

The depot in Sudenburg is now used for the historic trams, their regular exhibitions and trips. It was in operation from 1877 to 1991. On August 29, 2016, a short-term line operation was started again. After a water pipeline accident in Halberstädter Strasse, just before Leipziger Strasse, the tram network was divided and the historic trams and buses took over an emergency service for some western parts of the city.

The association for historical local transport and trams at MVB e. V. (IGNah) looks after the historical vehicle collection in the Sudenburg museum depot on behalf of the Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe . The depot is located directly at the Ambrosiusplatz stop .

Future network development: Line network 2020+

Work is currently underway to expand the tram network until 2021. It is planned to use a second north-south connection to reach almost all of the larger parts of the city by train. In addition, the redesign of Damaschkeplatz and Kölner Platz directly at the main station is planned. A completely new pedestrian / tram situation is to be created here, with motorized individual traffic going into a tunnel structure directly under the tram and long-distance and local trains going directly above it.

According to the Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, the expansion plan is as follows:

Construction phase	Surname	Route	new stops	status
1	European ring	New building: Hst. Westring - Europaring - Gleisdreieck Europaring / Albert-Vater-Straße	2	Start of operation: 2004
2	Wiener Straße	New building: Main street Südring - Wiener Strasse - Main street Raiffeisenstrasse	1	Completion: 11/2017 Start of operation: 2018
2a	Leipziger Street	Expansion: Main street Raiffeisenstraße - Leipziger Straße - Leipziger Chaussee - Main street Leipziger Chaussee	2	Start of operation: 2012
3	reform	New building: Hst. Leipziger Chaussee - Leipziger Chaussee - Milky Way - Pallasweg - Zum Bördepark - Neptunweg - Juri-Gagarin-Straße	7th	Start of operation: 2012
4th	Neustädter Feld	New construction: Gleisviereck Damaschkeplatz - Editharing - Magdeburger Ring - crossing Albert-Vater-Straße - crossing Lorenzweg - crossing Am Neustädter Feld - Kritzmannstraße - Hermann-Bruse-Platz	7th	Start of construction: 2018 Start of operation: 2021
5	Ebendorfer Chaussee	New building: Hermann-Bruse-Platz - Kritzmannstraße - Burgstaller Weg - Milchweg - Hst. Milchweg	2	Planning approval process is ongoing
6th	Kannenstieg	New building: Hst. Milchweg - Johannes-R.-Becher-Straße - junction Johannes-R.-Becher-Straße / Helene-Weigel-Straße	3	Start of construction: 2018 Start of operation: 2020
7th	Raiffeisen Strasse and Warschauer Strasse	New building: Main street Raiffeisenstrasse - Raiffeisenstrasse - Warschauer Strasse - intersection Warschauer Strasse / Schönebecker Strasse Expansion: Intersection Schönbecker Strasse / Benediktinerstrasse - Schönebecker Strasse - intersection Schönebecker Strasse / Budenbergstrasse	4th	Start of construction: 2018 Start of operation: 2020
	Central Station	Expansion: square track Damaschkeplatz - Ernst-Reuter-Allee - main street City Carré / main station	1	Start of construction: April 2017 Start of operation: 2020

After the plans for an original route through the street Am Krökentor and the associated route were rejected, the MVB presented the following possible route network in 2017, but further modifications are possible:

line	Route (with important stops)	Travel time	Stops	Deviation from the current network
1	IKEA or Kannenstieg - Milchweg - Kastanienstraße - Opera House - Alter Markt - Breiter Weg - Hasselbachplatz - Leipziger Chaussee			No change in the route between IKEA and Alter Markt , from Alter Markt a new tram route. From Milchweg , the routes to Kannenstieg or to IKEA are alternately served.
2	Sudenburg - Halberstädter Strasse - Südring - Westring - Damaschkeplatz / ZOB - Alter Markt - Opera House - Alte Neustadt (Lostauer Strasse)			No change in the relation Alte Neustadt - Alter Markt , from Alter Markt a new tram route
3	Klinikum Olvenstedt - Olvenstedter Platz - Hauptbahnhof / Kölner Platz - Otto-von-Guericke-Strasse - Hasselbachplatz - Warschauer Str. - Wiener Str. - Südring - Sudenburg			No change in the relation between Klinikum Olvenstedt and the main train station , from the main train station a new tram route to Sudenburg
4th	Klinikum Olvenstedt - Olvenstedter Platz - Central Station / Kölner Platz - City Carré - Allee-Center - Heumarkt - Cracau (Pechauer Platz)	approx. 27 min	22nd	no change in the route to the route network before 2015
5	Exhibition grounds - Nordbrückenzug - Alter Markt - Central Station / Kölner Platz - Olvenstedter Platz - Europaring - Südring - Wiener Straße - Warschauer Straße - Buckau - Salbker Platz			No change in the relation (Herrenkrug) exhibition center - Alter Markt , from Alter Markt to the main station , from there a new tram route
6th	Diesdorf - Westring - Central Station / Kölner Platz - Allee Center - Arenas - Exhibition grounds - Herrenkrug	approx. 29 min	21st	The route from the time before construction began on the new railway overpass in Ernst-Reuter-Allee will be resumed.
8th	IKEA or Kannenstieg - Milchweg - Neustädter Feld (Hermann-Bruse-Pl.) - Central Station / Kölner Platz - City Carré - Hasselbachplatz - Buckau - Salbker Platz - Westerhüsen			New tram route. From Milchweg , the routes to Kannenstieg or to IKEA are alternately served.
9	Neustädter See - Kastanienstraße - Old Market - Central Station / Willy-Brandt-Platz - Otto-von-Guericke-Straße - Hasselbachplatz - Leipziger Chaussee - Reform			Between Alter Markt and Hasselbachplatz, the tram route to connect the main train station differs from the previous route.
10	Sudenburg - Südring - Hasselbachplatz - Domplatz - Alter Markt - Opera House - Kastanienstraße - Rothensee - Barleber See	38 min / 41 min	30/33	no change in the route

The tram lines 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10 should run every 10 minutes during rush hour. The trams for lines 3 and 5 then run every 20 minutes. To be able to cover the trips, six new trams are to be purchased.

literature

• Christoph Rudhard, Heiko Kiep, Interest Group Historical Local Transport & Trams at MVB e. V .: Three thirds of a hundred - 100 years of electrical power in Magdeburg . Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (Ed.), Magdeburg 1999, without ISBN.

See also

Commons : Trams in Magdeburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• S-Bahn Mittelelbe

Web links

• Official website of the operator MVB
• MVB rail and bus network
• The tram in Magdeburg
• Magdeburg Tram Friends e. V.
• Interest group for historical local transport and trams at MVB e. V.
• Magdeburg local transport site
• Local transport interest group

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MVB facts and figures, vehicle fleet
2. ^ VEB (K) Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe (Hrsg.): 100 years of Magdeburg trams. Magdeburg 1977, p. 15
3. ↑ Article from Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe from December 8, 2010 on the new construction of the tram route Leipziger Chaussee - Bördepark - Reform
4. ↑ Article from the Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe from November 29, 2011 on the new construction of the tram route Leipziger Chaussee - Bördepark - Reform
5. ↑ New route network: We will be expanding our range from mid-July. In: mvbnet.de. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe , May 28, 2015, accessed on May 28, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Night traffic from July 13, 2015. In: mvbnet.de. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe , May 28, 2015, accessed on May 28, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Tunnel free: The new tram network in Magdeburg ›MVB› Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe. Retrieved August 26, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Extensive timetable change on July 13th. on mvbnet.de, published on July 10, 2015
9. ↑ MVB presents new driving school car and rail grinding train. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, accessed on March 19, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Work car. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, accessed on March 19, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Trams run normally again on Tuesday ( memento from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 29, 2016
12. ↑ 2. North-South connection for the tram: New schedule for the major project. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, accessed on May 25, 2018 . 
13. ↑ Rail grinding train passes through Wiener Straße. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, November 9, 2017, accessed on December 10, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Construction section 2a is part of the south branch of the second north-south connection. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, accessed on December 10, 2017 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} Construction section 7 is part of the new south-west crossing. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, accessed on December 10, 2017 . 
16. ↑ http://www.mvbnet.de/wp-content/gallery/news_2011/2nsv-zielnetz.jpg
17. ↑ Line network 2020+. Magdeburger Verkehrsbetriebe, April 19, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2017 . 
18. ^ Rainer Schweingel: Line network from 2020. In: Volksstimme. April 20, 2014, accessed April 22, 2017 .