Riga tram
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| Basic information | |
| Country | Latvia |
| city | Riga |
| opening | August 23, 1882 |
| electrification | July 23, 1900 |
| operator | Rīgas satiksme |
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| Route length | 182 km |
| Gauge | 1524 mm |
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| Lines | 8th |
| vehicles | Tatra T3A, T3MR, Škoda 15T |
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The Riga Tram ( Tramvaju Rīgā ) is one of three tram networks in Latvia and opened on August 23, 1882. It has nine lines that travel the network over a total length of 54.7 kilometers. The 252 cars in the fleet are housed in three depots.
history
On August 23, 1882, the first horse-drawn tram line was opened in Riga . The operation was carried out with 95 horses. From 1900 the network was electrified by the Rigaer Tram Aktien-Gesellschaft. After Liepāja (Libau), Riga now has the second oldest electric tram network in the Baltic States . The first electrically operated line ran from July 23, 1900 on Alexanderstrasse. From 1901 to 1914 nine new lines with a total length of around 50 kilometers were opened. In 1914 the tram had 16 lines. In the previous year around 52.1 million passengers were carried.
Before and after the First World War , rail transport services fell. In 1928 there were nine lines that carried 48.2 million passengers. After the Second World War , the status quo was largely retained for the time being.
In the 1950s and 1960s the tram has been increasingly buses and O buses displaced and set a plurality of lines. The decline dragged on into the 1980s and ended with the opening of a line to Imanta in 1984.
Lines
The following lines have been operating since August 23, 2018:
| line | from, to |
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| 1 | Imanta - Jugla |
| 2 | Tapešu iela - Centrāltirgus |
| 3 | Jugla - Eglaines iela / Dole |
| 5 | Iļģuciems - Mīlgrāvis |
| 7th | Ausekļa iela - Eglaines iela / Dole |
| 9 | Aldaris - Eglaines iela / Dole |
| 10 | Centrāltirgus - Bišumuiža |
| 11 | Ezermalas iela - Ausekļa iela |
Vehicle fleet
The operation is carried out with two regular vehicle types from the Czech manufacturer ČKD Tatra . The 190 type T3 cars delivered from 1974 onwards have been renovated and run as the T3A. 30 of the 62 T6B5 cars delivered from 1988 onwards were renovated. These continue to operate under the name T3MR. The remaining cars were parked. The first 15T test vehicle from Škoda has been in service since June 1, 2010 . By 2012, a total of 26 low-floor wagons had been delivered, so that Line 6 can be fully served outside of rush hour and Line 11 can be served partially with the low-floor wagons.
| Manufacturer | Type | delivery | number | Remarks |
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| ČKD Tatra Mountains | T3SU | 1974-1987 | 190 | After modernization, continued as T3A |
| ČKD Tatra Mountains | T6B5SU | 1988-1990 |
62 (32 parked) |
After modernization, continued as T3MR |
| Škoda | 15T Riga (ForCity) | 2010-2011 | 20th | 3-part low-floor articulated multiple units, floor height 320 mm above sea level. SO |
| Škoda | 15T1 Riga (ForCity) | since 2012 | 6 (as of November 2012) |
4-part version of the Škoda 15T Riga |
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