Trams in Kiel

Kiel tramway network

DÜWAG tram no. 241 in Kiel, March 1974.

Operation

Locale

Horsecar era: 1881 (1881)–1896 (1896)
Status	Closed
Operator(s)	Allgemeine Lokalbahn- und Kraftwerke AG (ALOKA)
Track gauge	1,100 mm (3 ft 7 ⁵⁄₁₆ in)
Propulsion system(s)	horses

Electric tram era: 1896 (1896)–1985 (1985)
Status	Closed
Operator(s)	Allgemeine Lokalbahn- und Kraftwerke AG (ALOKA) (1896–1942) Kieler Verkehrs-AG (KVAG) (1942–1985)
Track gauge	1,100 mm (3 ft 7 ⁵⁄₁₆ in)
Propulsion system(s)	Electricity
Electrification	*** V DC wire

The Kiel tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Kiel) once formed part of the public transport system in Kiel, now in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Opened in 1881, the network lasted until 1985. Kiel tramway was last tram system in Schleswig-Holstein.

References

Bock, Bruno (1985). Geliebte, ungeliebte Kieler Straßenbahn [Beloved, Unloved Kiel Tramway] (in German). Herford: Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft. ISBN 3-7822-0366-6.
Mausolf, Andreas (1990). Die Straßenbahn in Kiel [The Tramway in Kiel] (in German). Aachen: Schweers + Wall. ISBN 3-921679-49-4.

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Media related to Trams in Kiel at Wikimedia Commons

Urban public transport networks and systems in Germany

S-Bahn	Berlin Bremen Cologne Dresden Erfurt¹ Freiburg Hamburg Hanover Karlsruhe Magdeburg Mitteldeutschland Munich Nuremberg Offenburg Rhine-Main Rhine-Neckar Rhine-Ruhr Rostock Stuttgart

U-Bahn	Berlin Hamburg Munich Nuremberg

Stadtbahn	Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Chemnitz Cologne Dortmund Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen Frankfurt Gelsenkirchen Hanover Karlsruhe Kassel Saarbrücken Mülheim Stuttgart

Trams	Aachen² Augsburg Bad Schandau-Kirnitzschtal Berlin (Suburban: Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf · Woltersdorf) Bochum Bonn Brandenburg an der Havel Braunschweig Bremen Chemnitz Cologne Cottbus Darmstadt Dessau Döbeln Dresden Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt (Oder) Freiburg Gelsenkirchen Gera Görlitz Gotha Halberstadt Halle Hamburg² Hanover Heidelberg Heilbronn Jena Karlsruhe Kassel Kiel² Krefeld Leipzig (History) Lößnitz Ludwigshafen Magdeburg Mannheim Merseburg Mülheim Munich Mainz Münster² Naumburg Nuremberg Nordhausen Oberhausen Plauen Potsdam Regensburg² Rostock Saarbrücken Schwerin Strausberg Stuttgart Ulm Weil am Rhein Wuppertal² Würzburg Zwickau

Trolleybuses	Eberswalde Esslingen am Neckar Solingen

Suspension monorails	Dortmund H-Bahn Schwebebahn Dresden Düsseldorf SkyTrain Wuppertal Schwebebahn

Other	Bad Schandau Elevator

¹ Former S-Bahn network ² Former tramway network

Coordinates: 54°19′31″N 10°08′26″E / 54.32528°N 10.14056°E / 54.32528; 10.14056

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Trams in Kiel

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