MISKOLC

TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Miskolc Városi Közlekedési Rt. (MVKRT)

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• 8 km.

HISTORY

• Electric trams: 10 July 1897 - today.
• Forest (later tourist) rail: 14 Nov. 1920 - today (passenger service started in 1923)

GAUGE

• Tramway: 1435 mm.
• Tourist rail: 760 mm.

SOURCES

PRINT

• 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.105: Miskolc, Hungary", Tramways & Urban Transit, July 2016 (79: 943), p.264-268.
• 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.

WIKI

• Lillafüredi Állami Erdei Vasút (Lillafüred Forest Train)
• MVK ZRt.
• Trams in Miskolc

WEB SITES

• Miskolc Városi Közlekedési Rt. (MVK) Menetrend [Timetable]
• A miskolci villamos honlapja [Home page of Miskolc tramways]

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