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| Above: YouTubeCA video - A 314-es nosztalgiavillamos Szegeden {Nostalgia tram in Szeged] - Length: 4:07 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Oldies ride in Szeged (Nosztalgia villamos Szegeden) - Length: 0:22 min. |
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MAP
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TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Szegedi Villamos Vasút Vállalat
| 1 | Személy pu. [Main Railway Station] - Rókus pu. [Rókus Station] |
| 2 | Vágóhíd [Slaughterhouse] - Petőfitelep |
| 3 | Somogyi u. - Textilművek [Textile works] |
| 4 | Széchenyi tér - Fodortelep |
| 5 | Széchenyi tér - Újszegedi vá. [New Szeged Station] |
| 6 | Marx tér (Mars tér) - Átrakó pu. [Cargo transfer terminal] |
| 7 | Marx tér (Mars tér) - Kiskundorozsma |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- ca. 30 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-drawn trams: 1 July 1884 - 1908.
- Electric trams: 1 Oct. 1908 - today.
- Tram-train (Diesel traction on the mainline train track section): 29 Nov. 2021 - today.
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.110: Szeged, Hungary", Tramways & Urban Transit, Dec. 2016 (79: 948), p.487-492.
- Taplin, M.R. "Tramways of provincial Hungary (Part 1)", Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review, Nov. 1973 (36:431), p.382, 384-389.
- Varga, Á. "Szeged: Trams in the city of sunshine", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 2005 (68: 813), p.360-361.
WIKI
- Public transport in Szeged
- Szeged–Hódmezővásárhely tram-train
- Szeged villamosvonal-hálózata [Szeged's tram network]
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