List of tram and light rail transit systems

The Melbourne tram network is the longest tram system by route length.
The New Orleans streetcar system was one of the first in the world and it is the oldest system still in operation.

The following is a list of cities that have current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems.[1] In other words, this list only includes systems which operate year-round and provide actual transit service, not ones that are primarily tourist services, are seasonal-only, or are excursion-type tram operations.

Some transit systems branded as "light rail" such as the Docklands Light Railway in London, Ampang Line and Kelana Jaya Line of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia qualify as metro systems (see medium-capacity rail system) and thus are not listed here – see List of metro systems.

Only currently operational tram and LRT systems are included in this listing – tram and LRT systems that have "suspended operation" or are presently under construction are excluded.

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Location
Primary city served by the tram/streetcar or light rail system.
Country
Sovereign state in which the tram/streetcar or light rail system is located.
System
The English name of the tram system or overview article for city.
Year opened
The year the system opened for passenger service. For older systems, this may refer to horsecar service for those systems continuously in operation since their horsecar era.
Stations
The number of stations in the network, as quoted by the system's operator.
System length
The system length of a tram/streetcar or light rail network is the sum of the lengths of all routes in the rail network in kilometers (or miles). Each section of track is counted only once, regardless of how many lines pass over it, and regardless of whether it is single-track or multi-track, single carriageway or dual carriageway.
Type
Defines whether the system in question is a tram/streetcar system or a light rail transit system (or, in a few cases, whether the system is a heritage streetcar system).

Africa

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Asia

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All systems in Russia, including those in Asia, are listed together, for convenience, in the Europe section of this article, similarly all systems in Egypt are listed in the Africa section.

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Europe

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All systems in Kazakhstan and Turkey, including those in Europe, are listed together, for convenience, in the Asia section of this article. All systems in Russia, including those in Asia, are listed together, for convenience, in this section.

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North America

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The following systems provide regular transit service daily and year-round in North America, including those systems or lines using vintage or faux-vintage streetcars. For other heritage streetcar lines, ones with more limited service, see Streetcars in North America. North America, specifically more so the United States, once had extensive tram networks in almost all cities, but nearly all were removed for bus operations between the 1940s and the 1960s. These systems are listed at List of streetcar systems in the United States.

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Oceania

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South America

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Notes

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  2. ^ The same system also include metro lines.
  3. ^ See Trams in Shanghai for former Shanghai tram network.
  4. ^ See Trams in Shenyang for former Shenyang tram network.
  5. ^ Start of tramway operations.
  6. ^ Only Danhai LRT and Ankeng LRT is counted
  7. ^ The Istanbul modern tramways (T1, T4 & T5) run only on the European side of Istanbul.
  8. ^ See Trams in Istanbul for former Istanbul tram network.
  9. ^ The Nostalgic tramways of Istanbul consists of two completely separate heritage tram lines, one on the European side (T2, opened in 1990), and the other on the Asian side (T3, opened in 2003).
  10. ^ Converted from a street running Tram
  11. ^ Tallinn had another, disconnected tram network from 1915 to 1953, when the two networks were connected.
  12. ^ 2004–2007 passenger service suspended due to upgrade and expansion works; line 68, last surviving portion of the original network, reopened afterwards as part of the current line T1.
  13. ^ This system also includes two separate lines connecting the towns of Schöneiche bei Berlin (1910) and Woltersdorf (1913), in Brandenburg, east of Berlin.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Converted from a street running Straßenbahn
  15. ^ a b c d e f g This system is part of the larger Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) transport network which was founded in 1980 and operates the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn system. The VRR transport network is composed of transit systems in the following cities: Bochum, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Hattingen, Herne, Krefeld, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen and Witten.
  16. ^ This system also serves the neighbouring city of Herne.
  17. ^ This system also serves the neighbouring cities of Hattingen and Witten.
  18. ^ This system also serves the neighbouring city of Mülheim.
  19. ^ This system also serves the neighbouring city of Heilbronn.
  20. ^ This system also includes two interurban routes connecting the cities of Heidelberg, Weinheim, Heddesheim and Bad Dürkheim, in Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region, via the Upper Rhine Railway (OEG) and the Rhein-Haardt Railway (RHB) [de].
  21. ^ Vogtlandbahn trains share a section, about 1.1 km, of this system (see also: Zwickau Model).
  22. ^ Purportedly the smallest town (pop. approx. 10,000) in the world with its own stand-alone tram system.
  23. ^ a b This system is operated under the common brand "Euskotren Tranbia", which groups tramways in the cities of Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz, by the public controlled railway company Euskotren. Euskotren transport network is composed by transit systems of the whole Basque Country.
  24. ^ A two-year free trial service started in 2007 on an "experimental section" (2.2 km – 4 stops).
  25. ^ Stations for the tram line(s) only.
  26. ^ Stations for the heritage tramway line(s) only.
  27. ^ Total length for both tram and heritage tramway portions combined.
  28. ^ A small portion of Basel's tram network serves stops within France or Germany.
  29. ^ a b c The Lausanne Metro has two lines: Line M1 is light rail; Line M2 is a rapid transit/metro system. Statistics shown are for the M1 line only.
  30. ^ See Trams in Lausanne for former Lausanne tram network.
  31. ^ While the MBTA Green Line is light rail, the MBTA Blue, Orange, and Red lines of the system are rapid transit/subways.
  32. ^ While the Blue and Green Lines are light rail, Cleveland's other rail transit line, the Red Line, is rapid transit.
  33. ^ The light rail portion of L.A. Metro consists of A, C, E and K lines only. The B and D lines of L.A. Metro are rapid transit/subway lines.
  34. ^ The light rail portion of SEPTA Metro consists of the T, G, and D only. The L, B, and M are rapid transit lines.
  35. ^ The San Francisco Bay Area is also served by the rapid transit BART system.
  36. ^ Rebuilt as light rail from the streetcar system that originated in 1860; opened 1980–1982.
  37. ^ Previous system (Trams in Sydney) operated of 1879 until 1961.
  38. ^ See Trams in Medellin for former Medellin tram network.

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