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Straßenbahn Braunschweig
An Alstom NGT8D tram in the Bohlweg, 2009.
Operation
Locale
Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany
Horsecar era: 1879 (1879)–ca. 1897 (1897)
Status
Converted to electricity
Track gauge
1,100 mm (3 ft 7+5⁄16 in)
Propulsion system(s)
Horses
Electric tram era: since 1897 (1897)
Status
Open
Lines
6
Operator(s)
Braunschweiger Verkehrs-AG
Track gauge
1,100 mm (3 ft 7+5⁄16 in)
Propulsion system(s)
Electricity
Electrification
600 V DC wire
Route length
39.62 km (24.62 mi)
Website
Braunschweiger Verkehrs-AG (in German)
The Braunschweig tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Braunschweig) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Braunschweig, a city in the federal state of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Opened in 1879, the network has been operated since its inception by the company now known as Braunschweiger Verkehrs-AG, and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Region Braunschweig [de] (VRB).
Line
Termini
Route
Notes
1
Stöckheim [de] – Wenden [de]
Stöckheim – Melverode – (Heidberg) – Hauptbahnhof – Rathaus – Hamburger Straße – Stadion – Rühme - Wenden
2
Heidberg [de] – Siegfriedviertel
Heidberg – Hauptbahnhof/Leisewitzstraße – Rathaus – Hamburger Straße – Siegfriedviertel
During rush hour via Leisewitzstraße; in the evenings and on Sundays and holidays via Hauptbahnhof.
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current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems. In other words...
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of metro-grade tunnels in the central city area. In the first years after the opening of the tunnel sections, often regular trams vehicles (but adapted...
locomotives, and the first underground railway in continental Europe (in Budapest), set the path from trams and subways to today's high-speed trains. Siemens...
is the largest in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region. Before it became the capital of Lower Saxony in 1946, Hannover was...
minutes as an "ordeal". Braunschweig's medical community later commissioned him to set up and supervise a central X-ray facility. In 1898, the year radium...
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