Tramway Links from Tramway Information

Here are a selection of links to other tramway websites, which readers may find of interest.

General Tramway Links

• Bahn TV Online, the German Railways TV website, includes a number of films on tramway subjects from around the world.
• Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur. The German photo archive of art and architecture includes historic street scenes with trams. The example here shows the Lindentunnel on tram route 35 in Berlin in 1934. Go to "Orte" and you get an alphabetical index of place names.
  
• British Pathe website allows the download of sample film clips from their news archive. Use their search to find trams and model trams.
• Electric Transport in Latin America is a website from Allen Morrison.
• Light Rail Atlas (LRA) is based in Netherlands. LRA provides maps of Light Rail systems around the world.
• Metro Planet is a site by Robert Schwandl covering most of the metro systems of the world.
• RailFind The UK railway website directory.
• SugerHouse Trolley in the US have a useful page of links to museum and heritage tramway websites.
• Tramways of Asia is a site which contains information on many Asian countries.
• The 30937 Photographic Group has tram photos. Select "item" and key "tram" on their search page.
• Trainnet.org although mainly railway, has a massive directory of links.
• The Tram section of opzijnbest.nl is an index of tramway links (in Dutch)
• Trams & Urban Transit magazine's news website.
• Tra.ms is the front page for several tramway websites.

UK Tramway Links

• Beamish Museum Tramway by Andrew Burchell.
• A clickable map of Beamish museum site.
• Blackburn tramways history and details.
• The Fylde Tramway Society has details of Blackpool.
• Blackpool in 1962 photos from David Bradley.
• British Horse Tram Enthusiasts
• Modern British trams on TheTrams.co.uk website.
• British Trams Online has news of current systems.
• British Tramway Buttons from Ashley Birch covers this feature of tramway uniforms.
• Industrial archaeology of Coventry Trams by Ken Crawley.
• Edinburgh Tram Project
• Guernsey tram preservation project.
• Isle of Man Tramways on Tramway.com site.
• Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Tramway Society
• Martin Dolby's Great Orme Tramway website contains photos of the line.
• The Lancastrian Transport Trust own several Blackpool trams.
• The Lincolnshire & East Yorkshire Transport Review site has a tramway section.
• Ron Smith's Liverpool tram site.
• London :
  • The main London Transport site gives details of all public transport in the capital as a whole.
  • London Transport Museum includes access to their photo collection.
  • Trams on the Transport for London website.
  • The Docklands Light Railway
  • www.londontramways.net from John Wills has a database of London photographs by his late father, A.J.Wills
  • The London County Council Tramways Trust supports London tram preservation.
  • The Last Tram (From Clapham) - the script of the famous Goon Show.
  • Disused Stations on London's Underground has a section on the Kingsway Tram Subway (shown as Kingsway Underpass).
  • Subterranea Brittanica also has a page on the Subway.
  • Shepherd's Bush to Uxbridge - A history of public transport.
  • London's Transport History from Toby and John King has some interesting tramway items.
  • David Bradley's www.trolleybus.net site also has some London tramway views and an interesting Vitual Trolleybus Layout.
  • Dewi Williams has photos of London and a few other tram systems.
  • The Pumphouse Museum in Walthamstow has tramway items.
• Merseytram gives details of the Liverpool tram project.
• Northampton Corporation Tramways on Malcolm Linfield's site called the Tramshed.
• National Tramway Museum has access to its photo collections.
• Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum.
• Sheffield Library has a fine range of over 400 Sheffield tram pictures which can also be purchased. Type 'tram' into their Advanced Search.
• Details of the history of Teesside trams from the 500 Group.
• Trams and Tram Depots covers British trams and where they were kept.
• West of England tramways from the South Western Electricity Historical Society.
• Trams in Wolverhampton is a good history by Ned Williams.
• A short history of Wolverhampton Corporation Transport covers the buses and trolleybuses as well.

UK Society Addresses

These are mailing addresses for UK Societies that have no on-line link.

• Electric Railway Society, 65 Hansom Place, York, YO31 8FQ.
• Leeds Transport Historical Society, 4 Maplewood Paddock, York, YO24 3LB
• Scottish Tramway and Transport Society, P.O. Box 78, Glasgow, Scotland.

Overseas Tramway Links by Country

Argentina

• Buenos Aires, the heritage line of Asociación Amigos del Tranvía.
• Córdoba, the Asociación Amigos del Tranvía de Córdoba.

Australia

Australia (general):

• Trams of Australia; for general Australian tramway info, a good site with some pictures, including Loftus Museum.

Ballarat:

• Ballarat Vintage Tramway for details of this tourist tramway and museum.

Bendigo:

• Bendigo Tramways for details of this museum and heritage line.

Melbourne:

• Yarra Trams.

Austria

• The Sankt Florian museum tramway. This site also has a good links page.
• The Vienna Metro system including the tramway pre-metro (in English).

Belgium

Belgium (general):

• The Belgian tram magazine TRAM 2000 has a Website in French and updated monthly.
• FACS Fédération des Amis des Chemins de Fer Secondaires has a Website in French on 40 years of Belgian tramways from 1957-1997 by Raymond Duquenne.
• Vicinal information from Philippe Dussart.

Antwerp and Ghent:

• Trams of Antwerp and Ghent, an English website with photos of these systems.

Brussels:

• STIB current rolling stock, an illustrated survey compiled as a students' project co-ordinated by Philippe Langanaken.

Museums:

• The Association pour la Sauvegarde du Vicinal covers the museum line based at Thuin.
• The Tramway Touristique de l'Aisne in the Ardennes area is the association to preserve an old piece of the very important Vicinal tramway.

Brazil

• Bondes no Brasil from Carlos Pimentel Mendes gives details of Brazilian tramways (in Portuguese).

Canada

• A Canadian tramways web page by David A. Wyatt.
• The Halton County Radial Railway , the Ontario's Operating Streetcar Museum web page. The Halton County Radial Railway is owned and operated by the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association.
• A Southern Ontario traction web page.

Czech Republic

• Zlín and Otrokovice The story of public transport there.

Denmark

• Skjoldenaesholm is Denmark's tram museum. The website has an English language section.
• Trams and Tramways from Arne Melby Pedersen covers Denmark and elsewhere and has an English section.

France

• Musée des Transports urbains, interurbains & ruraux
  The AMTUIR website contains full description of all the trams in the Paris museum collection.
• Versailles
• Vichy-Cusset

Germany

Germany (general):

• Trampicturebook is a general site on trams in the German language.
• Cologne from Roland Frisch.
• Wuppertal Schwebebahn has information on this unusual transport method together with the local transport, the BMB museum and a model tram section.

Hungary

• Trams of Hungary ...and much more has a good section on Budapast and is in English.

Italy

Italy (general):

• Italian Electric Cities lists all Italian cities with trams, trolleybuses, etc. with links to the transport companies.
• Trams in Rome
• Trieste ACT
• Vesuvius - the funicular, railway and chairlift.

Netherlands

Netherlands (general):

• Tramweg Stichting. The unofficial website for Tramweg Stichting (TS), the Dutch tramway preservation society.

Amsterdam:

• Amsterdam Hotels & Travel Information is a website for the city of Amsterdam giving good details of the tram system.

Rotterdam:

• Rotterdam Photos from Aad van der Struijs includes a large number of historic views of the trams.

Museums:

• Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum The Hague Public Transport Museum shows the history of the public transport in the Hague and its surroundings.
• The Netherlands Open Air Museum near Arnhem, which has a working tramway.
• Netherlands Railway Museums website lists all the tramway museums.

Norway

Trondheim:

• Graakallbanen tramway

Poland

Wrocslaw:

• The Polish company ANKOR Ltd modernises 105N trams or similar, supplies old, renovated museum trams and manufactures components for trams.

Portugal

Lisbon:

• LUSO page on Carris, the Lisbon public transport operator, in English.
• LUSO page on Lisbon trams in English.

Sintra:

• LUSO page on Sintra-Atlântico Tramway in English.

Russia

• Moscow

South Africa

• The South Africa Transport website has a section on trams and trolleybuses

Spain

• Bilbao : Some details of the new tramway.
• Catalonia : The Assotram website describes the tramways and trolleybuses of Catalonia plus a full list of Spanish systems.

Sweden

• Stockholm : The SweTramway website describes the Swedish Tramway Society and the Stockholm Tramway.

Switzerland

• Bern : Details of the Bern Steam Tram and timetable of its outings.
• Basel : Trams of Basel has the history of Basel tramways including pages in English.
• Basel : Tram Oldtimer Basel from Thomas Meyer gives a good overview of the system.
• Neuchâtel : ANAT. The website of the Association Neuchâteloise des Amis de Tramways, who are the museum group for Neuchâtel
• Stadtarchiv Schaffhausen contains some tram photos. Go to "Bilder zur Geschichte" to get an index of street names such as "Bahnhofstrasse" as shown here.
  
• Zug : New Stadtbahn project information.

Thailand

• Bangkok Tramways (1894-1968)
• Trams in Thailand at Bangkok, Lop Buri.

United States of America

Boston:

• Boston MBTA on the New England Transportation site.

Cincinnati:

• Cincinnati's never-completed subway/rapid transit system and its inclined railways.

Philadelphia:

• Philadelphia's SEPTA transit system: - trolleys, subways, elevated railways, trackless trolleys and heavy-rail commuter trains.
• Philadelphia Traction page portrays an afternoon visit.

Portland:

• Portland Streetcar city centre tramway.

San Francisco:

• San Francisco muni for a clickable version of their transit map.
• San Francisco's muni F line
• San Francisco Market Street Railway

Museums:

• Baltimore Trolley Museum
• The East Troy Electric Railroad Museum, a working trolley line in Wisconsin, USA,
  
• Fort Collins
• Illinois Railway Museum
• Orange Empire Railway Museum
• Seashore Trolley Museum
• Trolley museum in Shelburne Falls, MA with a beautifully restored and operating turn of the century trolley. Some more photos and a feature story .
• SugerHouse Trolley are planning a heritage tramway for Salt Lake City and also have a page of links to other museum websites.

US (general)

• The American Public Transportation Association has a Heritage Trolley website.
• The website for the book, "Streetcar Days In Honolulu" has some good pictures of this system in Hawaii.
• Dave Mewhinney runs the Traction Photo website.

Thanks to Bob Appleton and Brian Robinson for their contributions to this page.

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