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Cape Town tramway networks
Double-deck trams, cnr Adderley Street
and Darling Street, Cape Town, ca. 1900.
Operation
LocaleCape Town, South Africa
Urban horsecar era: 1863 (1863)–ca. 1896 (ca. 1896)
Status Closed
Track gauge 4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm)[1][2]
Propulsion system(s) Horses
Urban electric tram era: 1896 (1896)–1939 (1939)
Status Closed
Track gauge 4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm)[1][2]
Propulsion system(s) Electricity
Camps Bay tramway era: 1901 (1901)–1930 (1930)
Status Closed
Operator(s) Camps Bay Tramways Company Ltd
Track gauge 4 ft 9 in (1,448 mm)[1][2]
Propulsion system(s) Electricity
Tramways in and around Cape Town, ca. 1906.

Cape Town, South Africa, has had two tramway networks forming part of its public transport arrangements. Both networks are now long closed.

  1. ^ a b c Coates, Peter Ralph (1976). Track and trackless: Omnibuses and trams in the Western Cape (1st ed.). Struik. p. 194. ISBN 0869770632.
  2. ^ a b c Patton, Brian (13 May 2002). Double Deck Trams of the World Beyond the British Isles. Adam Gordon. p. 59. ISBN 1874422397.

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