Satu Mare tram
| Satu Mare tram | |
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 One of the two two-axle vehicles on the Satu Mare tram
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| Route length: | 5 km |
| Gauge : | 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge ) |
| Power system : | 550 volts = |
The Satu Mare tram was the tram system of the city of Satu Mare , now part of Romania , which at that time still belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary under the name Szatmárnémeti . The 760 millimeter Bosnian track , five kilometers long and initially electrified with 550 volts direct current , operated from November 8, 1900 to 1920. It was operationally closely related to the steam-powered narrow - gauge railway of 28 kilometers that opened on June 14, 1900 Satu Mare connected to Ardud - Erdőd in Hungarian .
The tram started at the station and drove via Strada Griviţei, Bulevardul Traian, Strada Mihai Viteazul, Strada Horea, Bulevardul IC Brătianu, Strada Ştefan cel Mare, Piata Libertăţii, Strada Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Strada Mircea I of Wallachia, across the river Somes away by the Bulevardul Cloşca and the Strada Gara Ferăstrău to the south station (Gara de Sud, formerly Gara Ferăstrău), where the local steam sawmill was. At the Südbahnhof, the tram was linked to the local train to Ardud. The tram was powered by a steam power station on the right bank of Someș; the fleet consisted of two four-axle and four-engine and three two-axle and two-engine railcars from the Budapest manufacturer Ganz .
Initially, both trams and narrow-gauge railways were operated by the private railway company Szatmár – Erdődi Helyiérdekű Vasút - SzEHÉV . The tram presented here show the connection to the passenger trains of narrow gauge railway, while the freight trains with steam locomotives on the city route went over . On January 1, 1907, the Hungarian state railway Magyar Államvasutak (MÁV) finally took over the operation of both railways and shut down electric tram traffic because they did not want to take over the maintenance of the steam power station. From then on, three three-axle steam railcars were used as a replacement in urban traffic , which the SzEHÉV had procured for operation on the narrow-gauge railway as early as 1905. In 1920 the tram route was finally relocated from the city center to Bulevardul Vasile Lucaciu, whereupon passenger traffic in the urban area ceased entirely and was replaced by buses . Soon afterwards, freight traffic on the former tram line also ended and the tracks were finally dismantled between 1922 and 1925.
With the trolleybus there was another form of electric means of transport in the city between November 15, 1994 and March 9, 2005.
literature
- A. Günther, S. Tarkhov, C. Blank: Tram atlas Romania 2004 . Working group Blickpunkt Straßenbahn e. V., Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-926524-23-5 .
