GENÈVE - GENEVA

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ROUTES

TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Transports publics genevois (TPG)

12	Bachet-de-Pesay - Moillesullaz
13	Place des Nations - Lancy Les Palettes
15	Place des Nations - Lancy-Pont Rouge
16	Cornavin Gare CFF - Moillesullaz
17	Gare des Eaux-Vives - Lancy-Pont Rouge

LRT ROUTE

Operator: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses (CFF)

Cornavin Gare CFF - La Plaine

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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Trams - 16 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.

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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

• Transports publics genevois [Fr/En]

WEB SITES

• Tram Way [Fr]
• Site Non Officiel des Transports Publics Genevois [Fr]
• Transports publics genevois (TPG) [Fr/En]
• UNIRESO [Fr]

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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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