SCHWEIZ / SUISSE / SVIZZERA / SVIZRA - SWITZERLAND
BASEL
BERN / BERNE
FRIBOURG / FREIBURG
GENÈVE / GENEVA
LAUSANNE
LUZERN / LUCERNE
NEUCHÂTEL
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INSET: CENTRE OF GENEVA
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ROUTES
TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Transports publics genevois (TPG)
| 12 |
Palettes - Bachet-de-Pesay -
Carouge - Augustins - Plainpalais - Place-Neuve - Rive - Chêne-Bourg - Moillesullaz (some trams have their terminus at Chêne-Bourg) |
| 14 |
CERN - Hôpital la Tour - Meyrin - Avanchet -
Gare Cornavin - Coutance - Bel Air - Stand - Rue du Stand - Route de Chancy - Bernex |
| 14A |
Meyrin Gravière - Meyrin - Avanchet - Gare Cornavin - Coutance [back: Stand] - Bel Air |
| 15 |
Palettes - Lancy-Pont Rouge
- Acacias - Plainpalais - Stand - Gare Cornavin - Place des Nations |
Note: The tram line designation 14A is for the convenience of users of this site. The operator simply uses 14 for this line.
LRT ROUTE
Operator: Chemins
de fer fédéraux suisses (CFF)
| Gare Cornavin - Satigny - Russin - La Plaine |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Trams - 35 km.
- LRT - 15 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-drawn tramways: 1862 - 1903.
- Steam tramways: 1877 - 1902.
- Electric tramways: 1894 - today.
- LRT (RER): 1994 - today.
GAUGE
TRAMS
- 1862 - 1902 :1435 mm.
- 1889 - today: 1000 mm.
LRT
- (mainline rail track): 1435 mm.
SOURCES
PRINT
- Boegl, W., Dietschy, M., Kallmann, R., Lacreuse, J.-M., Longet, R. & Rahm, E. Le tram à Genève: histoire imagée de la Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Electriques
et de ses précurseurs. Genève: Ed. de Tricorne, 1976.
- Buckley, R.J. Tramways and Light Railways of Switzerland and Austria. Milton Keynes (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 1st ed., 1984.
- Buckley, R.J. Tramways and Light Railways of Switzerland and Austria. Milton Keynes (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 2nd ed., 2000.
- Choisy, M.E.G. "Modernization in Geneva" (translation), The Modern Tramway, Nov. 1950 (13:155), p.237-241.
- Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz / Railatlas Suisse. Köln (Germany): Schweers + Wall, 2004.
- Kellett, N. "Genève: Where to go, anmd what you'll see", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2004 (67:801), p.336-338.
- Primatesta, A. Les tramways genevois - L'histoire continue demain. Genève: Mythraz, 2005.
- "Systems Fact file No.237: Geneva, Switzerland", Tramways & Urban Transit, Aug. 2009 (72 :860), p.308-310.
- Wansbeek, C.J. "Geneva: The city that puts quality first", Light Rail & Modern Tramway, July 1997 (60:715), p.250-252.
- Wansbeek, C.J. "Geneva: Ten years of solid expansion", Tramways and Urban Transit, Aug. 2002 (65:776), p.297-299.
- Wansbeek, C.J. "Geneva: International tramway?", Tramways and Urban Transit, Dec. 2007 (70:840), p.458-461.
- Wiseman, R.J.S. & Wyse, W.J. "The Swiss vicinal [Part 1]", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Review, Feb. 1969 (32:374), p.53-59.
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WEB SITES
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