GENÈVE - GENEVA

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TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Electriques (CGTE)

1	Cornavin - Pont du Mont-Blanc - rue du Rhône - blvd. des Philosophes - Plainpalais - blvd. James Fazy - Cornavin (circular route, both directions)
2	Cimetière / Jonction - rue du Stand - Rive - rue des Eaux-Vives - Genève-Plage
5	Sécheron - rue de Lausanne - Cornavin - Pont du Mont-Blanc - Molard
6	Vernier - rte de Vernier - rue de Lyon - Cornavin - Pont du Mont-Blanc - rue du Rhône - rte. de Florissant - Conches - Veyrier
9	Rive - rue des Eaux-Vives - Genève-Plage - Vésenaz - Hermance
12	Croix-de-Crozon - Carouge - rue de Carouge - Rd-Pt. de Plainpalais - Place Neuve - rue du Marché - Rive - rue de la Terrassière - rte de Chêne - Chêne-Bougeries - Moillesullaz [Change of vehicle] - Annemasse (Gare)
15	Bernex - rte de Chancy - rue du Stand - rue du Marché - Rive

The date of the following route cessation is known between 1951 and 1998:

• 1A/B: 1 June 1969
• 2: 4 Dec. 1961

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• CGTE - 63 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.

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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.

WIKI

• Tramway de Genève
• Transports publics genevois

WEB SITES

• Tram Way
• Site Non Officiel des Transports Publics Genevois
• Transports publics genevois (TPG)
• UNIRESO

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PHOTOGRAPHS

No.13 tram at its new terminus on Place des Nations (Dec. 2003).	No.16 tram at its terminus near the Cornavin railway station (Jan. 2004).
Promenade of trams on rue de Lausanne during the opening of the extension of route No.13 (13 Dec. 2003).

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