VIDEOS
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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Algiers (1955) - Length: 7:40 mins. |
PHOTOS
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MAPS
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TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Tramways Algériens (TA)
| 1 | Bd. de Provence - Grande Poste - Parc de Galland |
| 2 | Grande Poste - Galliéni |
| 3 | Hôpital du Dey - Bd. de Provence - Grande Poste - Yusuf |
Operator: Chemins de Fer sur Routes d'Algérie (CFRA)
| 1 | Place du Gouvernement - Champ de Manœuvre - Hussein Dey - Caroubier - Maison-Carrée |
| 2 | Place du Gouvernement - Champ de Manœuvre - Ruisseau |
| 4 | Place du Gouvernement - Nelson - St. Eugène |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tramways: ? km.
HISTORY
- City trams (first-generation): (steam:) 21 Sept. 1894 - 1935; (electric): 14 Apr. 1898 - 12 Sept. 1959.
- City trams (second-generation): 8 May 2011 - today.
- Métro: 1 Nov. 2011 - today.
GAUGE
- Trams (first-generation): 1055 mm.
- Trams (second-generation): 1435 mm.
- Metro: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- "Algeria's tramway revolution - Part One", Tramways & Urban Transit, Nov. 2019 (82: 983), p.415-420.
- Attal, P.-E. "Tramways et métros d'Alger, d'hier à aujourd'hui", Historail, July 2015, No.34, p.54-69.
- "Black gold pays for Algerian LRT development", Tramways & Urban Transit, Apr. 2014 (77: 916), p.152-155.
WIKIS
- Chemins de fer sur routes d'Algérie (CFRA)
- Métro d'Alger
- Société des tramways algériens
- Tramway d'Alger
- Tramways et Messageries du Sahel
WEB SITES
- Algiers - Al Jaza'ir (on UrbanRail.Net)
- Entreprise Métro d'Alger
- Histoire des Tramways - Alger (by Hocine Bouzerara)
- SETRAM - Tramway d'Alger
- Les transports à, autour et pour Alger et l'Algérie (by Bernard Venis)
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