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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Mikulás villamos Debrecenben / Santa Claus tram in Debrecen - Length: 5:36 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - 1993.06.10. Debrecen villamosok (itt még csak Bengáli volt) [Old-style "Bengali" trams in Debrecen] - Length: 2:55 mins. |
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MAP
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TRAM ROUTE
Operator: Debreceni Közlekedési Vállalat (DKV)
| 1 | Pályaudvar [Railway Station] - Egyetem [University] |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- 4 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-powered trams: 6 Oct. 1888 - 15 March 1911.
- Steam-powered trams: 2 Oct. 1884 - 1911 (?)
- Electric trams: 16 March 1911 - today.
- Interurban trams: (steam-powered) 29 July 1906 - ?; (gasoline-engined): 1926 - 1950 [transformed into regular rail service].
GAUGE
- 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- Kubinszky, M., Lovász, I. & Villányi, Gy. Régi magyar villamosok: A történelmi Magyarország közúti vasutai a kezdettől a II. világháború végéig [Old Hungarian trams: Street railways of historic Hungary from the beginning to the end of World War II]. Budapest: Budapesti Városvédő Egyesület, (1999?).
- Lehnhart, H. and Jeanmaire, C. Tramway systems of Eastern Europe II. Villigen AG (Switzerland): Verlag Eisenbahn, 1977.
- Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.108: Debrecen, Hungary" Tramways & Urban Transit, Oct. 2016 (79: 946), p.391-395.
- Taplin, M.R. "Tramways of provincial Hungary (Parts 1 and 2)", Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review, Nov.-Dec. 1973 (36: 431-432), p.382, 402-404.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
- Debreceni Közlekedési Vállalat (DKV)
- Harminc éve szűnt meg az utolsó debreceni villamos mellékvonal [The last brach line of the Debrecen tramways ceased operations thirty years ago]
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