Sopot tram

Tramwaj Sopot
Basic information
Country	Poland
city	Sopot
opening	1884
Shutdown	1961

The Sopot tram was a horse-drawn tram from 1884 to 1906 , and an electric tram from 1946 to 1961 in the Polish city ​​of Sopot, which is part of the Tricity .

Horse tram

Sopot horse tram
Basic information
opening	1884
Shutdown	1906
Infrastructure
Route length	2 km
Gauge	800 mm
business
Lines	1

Sopot's first tram was a horse-drawn tram that started operating on May 1, 1884. The two-kilometer route with a gauge of 800 mm began at the intersection of today's 23 Marca street with Aleja Niepodległości. She followed ul. 23 Marca towards Wielka Gwiazda, where there was a restaurant. The main task of the tram was to bring guests to the restaurant. Because the stop in the city was about half a kilometer from the train station, there were no passengers and the operation was not cost-covering. Karpinski, the owner of the tram, asked the municipal administration to set up his own company and to extend the route to today's ul. 1 Maja. The administration rejected the proposal on the grounds that the operation would not cover costs even with the extension of the route. After Sopot was granted city rights at the turn of the century, various companies became interested in expanding and electrifying the tram. A specific proposal was submitted by the electricity company Reitz & Co. from Leipzig . After carefully weighing the costs against possible profits, the project was canceled and the horse-drawn tram stopped.

Electric tram

Sopot electric tram
Basic information
opening	1946
Shutdown	1961
Infrastructure
Route length	0.85 km
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
business
Lines	1

After the First World War , the Danzig tram pursued a project to extend its network via Oliwa to Sopot. This is why today's Danzig-Wrzeszcz depot was built. The project did not materialize because of the negative attitude of the Sopot city administration.

After the Second World War , large parts of Gdansk were destroyed, so that many people and authorities were temporarily housed in Sopot. A tram was chosen to better connect the cities with traffic. The double-track line branched off at ul. Pomorska from the Oliwa – Jelitków line and followed the road to Sopot, where it ended in a loop at Mikołaja Reja. The line went into operation as line 7 on November 10, 1946. After the reconstruction of Gdansk and the commissioning of the S-Bahn, the importance of the tram disappeared, so that line 7 no longer went to Gdansk, but only to Oliwa. In 1960 the operation was completely stopped because the tram tracks had to give way to a road widening.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Sopot - loop ul.Reja - OP5EA4. In: opencaching.pl.