Trieste tram

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disused tram
Trieste tram
image
Tram on the Giuseppe-Verdi-Platz
Basic information
Country Italy
city Trieste
opening 1876
electrification October 2, 1900
Shutdown March 31, 1970
Infrastructure
Formerly the largest
route
16 km
Gauge 1445 mm
Power system 600 V =
business
Lines 10 (1925)
Network plan
Trieste tram network before 1935

The Trieste tram was a rail-bound local transport system in Trieste , normal-gauge operation existed between 1876 and 1970.

Horse tramway on the Piazza Giuseppina, 19th century.

history

Società Triestina Tramway shares with a nominal value of 100 guilders

The Trieste tram existed from 1876 to 1970 as an inner-city local means of transport. The meter-gauge mountain railway from Trieste to Opicina still exists today, but has always been operated independently of the actual Trieste tram.

Before the First World War

Tram around 1905.

In 1875 the Società Triestina Tramway was founded as a public limited company. The company's headquarters were in Trieste. The share capital was six million crowns . Since March 30, 1876, the company offered a horse-drawn tram service on standard gauge tracks . On March 31, 1899, the company received an operating license, which was published in the Reichsgesetzblatt . The first electrified line was opened on October 2, 1900.

Street scene, shot between 1900 and 1909

The contact wire voltage was 600 volts. In 1921 the tram was transferred to a municipal operation ( l'Azienda Comunale Tranvie Municipali ). The company was not only active on the tram network in Trieste, but also operated the Lviv tram network in Galicia . This part of the business was sold to the state capital Lviv around 1906.

After the First World War

On July 16, 1934, the city of Trieste transferred its business operations to the company ACEGAT (l'Azienda Comunale dei servizi Elettricità, Gas, Acqua e Tranvie, German: municipal service company for electricity, gas, water and trams). In the heyday of the company, the Trieste tram network was 16 kilometers long. The last section with line 9 was shut down on March 31, 1970.

vehicles

The first electric vehicles came from the Vienna branch of the Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft . Later deliveries came from the Grazer Waggonfabrik as well as from Officine Meccaniche della Stanga and other Italian manufacturers.

After the shutdown, vehicles came to various Italian tram companies, including a. to Rome . Some trams from Trieste are preserved in the Trieste Railway Museum. Another tram is in the care of the tram fans of Turin .

Route network

In the concession according to the Reichsgesetzblatt, the following lines are given:

  • 1, Boschetto - San Andrea with the Bagno Fontana junction
  • 2, Piazza dei Negozianti - Barcola with the Punto franco junction
  • 3, Piazza della Stazione - Via del Torrente
  • 4, Via San Antonio - Piazza della Caserma
  • 5, Piazza delle Legna - Barriera vecchia
  • 6, San Andrea - Servola
  • 7, Piazza della Caserma - Via di Rojano
  • 8, Ponte della Fabbra - Via Conti

An Italian travel guide from 1925 lists as lines:

  • Line 1: S.Sabba - Piazza della Libertà
  • Line 2: Boschetto - Servola e viceversa
  • Line 3: Boschetto - Campo Marzio (S.Andrea)
  • Line 4: Piazza Garibaldi - Campo Marzio (S.Andrea)
  • Line 5: Piazza del Perugino - Roiano
  • Line 6: Portici di Chiozza - Barcola
  • Line 7: Boschetto - Stazione Centrale
  • Line 8: Interstazionale tra Campo Marzio e Centrale
  • Line 9: Piazza della Borsa - via F.Severo (n.25-Casa degli Sposi)
  • Linea 10: Boschetto - Broletto (S.Andrea)

Web links

Commons : Tram Trieste  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Guida illustrata descrittiva della città di Trieste principali località e grotte della Venezia Giulia, ed. "Precisa" Trieste