ABBREVIATIONS USED ON THE MAP
NLŠ | Nám. L'. Štúra | ŠN | Šafárikovo Námestie |
SM | Starý Most | Tu | Tunel |
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TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Dopravný podnik Bratislava (DPB)
1 | Hlavná Stanica (Main Station) - Vysoká - Centrum - Starý Most - Petržalka |
2 | Hlavná Stanica (Main Station) - Blumentál - Trnavská - Nové Mesto |
3 | Petržalka - Starý Most - Americké nám. - Blumentál - Stanica Vinohrady - Rača - Komisárky |
4 | Dúbravka - Karlova Ves - Nám. L'. Štúra - Americké nám. - Trnavská - Jurajov dvor - Zlaté Piesky |
5 | Dúbravka - Karlova Ves - Tunel - Vysoká - Blumentál - Stanica Vinohrady - Rača - Komisárky |
6 | Karlova Ves - Nám. L'. Štúra - Šafárikovo Námestie |
8 | Nám. L'. Štúra - Centrum - Vysoká - Blumentál - Trnavská - Ružinov |
9 | Karlova Ves - Tunel - Centrum - Americké nám. - Trnavská - Ružinov |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tramway: 42 km.
HISTORY
- Urban electric trams: 27 Aug. 1895 - today.
- Interurban electric trams (Bratislava [until 1918, Pozsony, Hungary] - Vienna): 1 Feb. 1914 - 1935; (Bratislava - Austrian border): 1936 - 1939; (Bratislava - Danube bridge): 1945 - 1961.
GAUGE
- Urban trams: 1000 mm.
- Interurban trams: 1435 mm.; (from 1935): 1000 mm.
SOURCES
- Lehnhart, H. & Jeanmaire, C. Tramway systems of Eastern Europe II. Villigen AG (Switzerland): Verlag Eisenbahn, 1977.
- Linek, J. "Tramways of Czechoslovakia [Bratislava]", Light Rail and Modern Tramway.Oct. 1992 (55: 658), p.264-268.
- Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.42 - Bratislava, Slovakia", Tramways and Urban Transit. March 2011 (74: 879), p.99-101.
- Pulling, N. "Systems Factfile No.123 - Bratislava, Slovak Republic", Tramways and Urban Transit. Jan. 2018 (81: 961), p.24-29.
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