The longest tram route in the world. Shore tram in Belgium

The route currently starts in Knokke, near the Dutch border, and ends in De Panne, near the French border.

Now there are about 70 stops on the line, located in 15 zones-cities. The fare is divided into “up to 2 zones” and “3 or more zones”. The numbers on the diagram indicate buses and trams to which you can transfer.

Ticket price is 1.2 euros for 2 zones or 2 euros for unlimited travel. If you are going to make several trips on the tram, it is beneficial to buy a day ticket. 5 euros - and ride the tram all day long in all the cities of the coast. That's what we did. True, our ticket was never checked :)

Tram station in Ostend. Cash desk inside and timetable board outside. Oostende station is a large stopping point in the middle of the route. Some trams can go to Ostend according to the schedule.
To service the 1000mm-gauge coastal tram route, cars specially made for it back in the 80s are used. In the 2000s, all cars were modernized. Front view of the tram car:

Rear view of the tram car:

Part of the route runs through city blocks.

Some are along the sea coast.

Here is a funny area, on one side there is a beach, on the other there are cannons and artillery pieces from World War 2 ( open museum"Atlantic Wall")

The tram moves quite quickly. At the intersection with roads there are automatic barriers that close when trams approach.

Part of the path looks like this:

Where trams share a lane with buses, the roadway looks like this:

Along the route there are a lot of jumpers between the tracks and backup rings, thanks to which it is possible to bypass broken trams or shorten the route.

Pedestrian and bicycle crossing over the tram track.

Tram tracks can be repaired and replaced all year round. One track changes, and trams are launched through the crossing points along the track of the opposite movement.

Trams run strictly on schedule. You can pick up the schedule at the tram station or read it at the stops. At each stop there is a board with the arrival times of the nearest trams and buses.

0 is a coastal tram. The interval of trams in autumn was 15 minutes. In summer, trams run every 10 minutes. The schedule contains the period of its validity and all the hours and minutes of departure at each stop by day of the week.
Tram stop in Nieuwpoort:

The benches at bus stops are not just boards.
They feature historical photographs of the shore tram. So you can while away the wait for the tram by looking at more than just advertisements.

This is what the tram looked like on this line in the middle of the last century.

There are special composters inside the trams. Their main difference is the buttons with the number of zones for which the ticket is issued.

The interior of the coastal tram cars is united. Part of the cabin is low-floor.

Coastal tram passengers.

Above the doors, like in the subway, hangs a diagram of the line.

The tram arrives at the stop in Koksijde.

There are on-demand stops right in the middle of the route between cities. To the beach:)

In the cabin:

From the window of what other tram route in the world can you see such a landscape?

Ostend. On the right is the yacht berth. On the left is the hotel.

If you're in Belgium, be sure to take a ride on the coastal tram!

Interesting facts about trams of the world.

WITH The oldest tram cars (1893) still in normal use are cars No. 1 and 2 of the Isle of Man Tramway. They operate on the 28.5 km long Douglas en Ramsey country line.

WITH The longest tram ride you can make in Germany is from Krefeld, or rather its suburb, to Witten. The length of the trip will be 105.5 km, covering this distance will take approximately five and a half hours, and will require transfers eight times.

WITH The longest non-stop tram route is the Coastal Tram in Belgium. There are 60 stops on this 67 km line. There is also a line from Freudenstadt to Ohringen via Karlsruhe and Heilbronn with a length of 185 km.

WITH The largest tram network in the world is located in Melbourne, Australia.

WITH The most northern tram system in the world is located in Trondheim.

WITH The southernmost tram system in the world is located in Christchurch (43° S).

WITH The world's most eastern tram system is located in Auckland

WITH The westernmost tram system in the world is located in Portland.

WITH The steepest gradients that tram cars can overcome independently, without outside help (classical adhesive system, steel wheel-steel rail coupling, the car moves only with the help of its own engines) are in Lisbon

WITH The steepest slope surmountable by a tram car with outside assistance in the form of a cable car is in Trieste. An 800-meter section of the line with a height difference of 158 meters. Tram cars for descent and ascent are docked to a special funicular car and lean on it while moving.

Interesting facts about trams former USSR and Russia.

WITH The longest tram network is located in St. Petersburg. Her total length is 440 km, there are 42 routes. The longest route is route 36, about 25 km. Previously, Vienna held the record for the longest tram network. The tram network of St. Petersburg ranks 4th in the world in terms of the length of tram tracks.

WITH The smallest tram system in the territory of the former USSR is the Molochnoe village tram.

WITH the most Small town Russia, in which there is tram service, is Volchansk, Sverdlovsk region of Russia.

WITH The most northern tram in the world was Arkhangelsk (until its closure in 2004).

WITH The longest routes in Russia (and the longest intracity routes in the world) are the oncoming ring routes in Kazan, with a length of 32 km, 46 stops, travel time 2 hours 10 minutes.

WITH the most big cities Russia and Europe, where there are no tram systems - Voronezh, Togliatti and Tyumen, and in the territory of the former USSR - Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan.

WITH The steepest grade on a tram line in Russia is in Ust-Katav. All tram cars produced by the Ust-Katavsky plant travel along this slope during testing.

WITH The oldest trams in regular passenger operation throughout the entire territory of the former USSR were the Evpatoria Gotha T57 and Gotha B57 cars (1957).

WITH The oldest linear tram car in Russia operates in Izhevsk - this is Tatra 3SU No. 2213, produced in 1968.

WITH The most complex tram intersections in the world for all 6 (more precisely, 12) directions were located in St. Petersburg on Vasilyevsky Island(dismantled in the early 2000s) and in Kazan on the corner of Tatarstan/Tukaya streets (partially dismantled in 2011).

WITH The newest tram systems in Russia and the CIS are Cheryomushkinsky (1991) and Molochnensky (1989) trams, Starooskolsky (1981), Mozyr (1988) and Ust-Ilimsky (1988) high-speed trams.

WITH The network of the Zhytomyr tram has been constantly shrinking throughout the 20th century and has been operating for more than 40 years as the only surviving line that does not have a route number.

Did you know that...

A Strahansky tram was opened on June 24, 1900, before the railway came to Astrakhan.

B The tram line in Ust-Ilimsk with a length of 16 kilometers is closest to the North Pole. Since 1991, the world's northernmost tram has been running along it. A tram line connects the city with the forest complex.

IN In 1872, the first horse-drawn line was built in Moscow.

IN In Europe, the prototype of the first tram was a car that was created by the German engineer Ernst Werner von Siemens. In 1879, the machine was used at the German Industrial Exhibition, which took place in Berlin.

IN The Russian horse-drawn railway appeared in St. Petersburg in 1860, first as a freight train, connecting the 17th line of Vasilyevskaya: the islands with the stock exchange warehouses.

IN In 1866, three passenger lines began operating - Nevskaya, Admiralteyskaya and Sadovaya.

IN In the early 1880s, horse trams were in Odessa, Kharkov, Tiflis, Riga and Rostov-on-Don.

IN In 1883, for the first time, a tram was powered through an overhead contact wire, like modern trams.

IN In 1892, tram traffic began in Kyiv. It was built by engineer A.E. Struve.

IN In St. Petersburg (1894), an ice tram ran because the sleepers and rails for it were laid directly on the frozen Neva.

IN 1896 between English cities Brighton and Rottingdean start to run unusual vehicle called Daddy Long Legs - a cross between a tram and a ferry.

IN The first trams appeared in Moscow in 1899.

IN The first trams appeared in St. Petersburg only in 1907.

In Frankfurt am Main A children's tram has been operating since 1960.

D This means of transportation became truly convenient only in 1852. It was at this time that the French inventor Alphonse Loubat created special rails that were recessed into the road surface.

TO The common expression “meter with a cap” also originates from trams. Travel on the tram used to be free for children, but free travel for children was based not on age, but on height. Children whose height was less than 1 meter could ride for free. Due to controversy regarding which children should be considered small, it was decided to draw horizontal lines at the entrance to the carriages at a height of one meter. Children who were below this height were considered small; if the height is above this line, the fare was already paid. Parents who did not want to pay the fare told the conductor that their child was less than a meter tall, but visually appeared large due to the headdress. This is where the expression “meter with a cap” comes from.

R The Yazan tram is the only tram system in the former USSR, opened in the city 14 years later than the trolleybus.

P The first inventor of the electric tram was Fyodor Pirotsky. It was Pirotsky who, in 1880, managed to successfully demonstrate the first electric horse-drawn carriage in Russia.

P The first prototype of the tram was the so-called horse-drawn tram. It was a closed or open carriage, which was pulled along by a special railway a pair of horses. The very first horse-drawn horses appeared back in 1828 in America.

R Iga and Daugavpils, the only cities the former USSR, where the tram has a rod current collector.

T The Rostov-on-Don tramway is the only one in the CIS that has the European Stephenson gauge (1435 mm), and the trams of Kaliningrad, Pyatigorsk, Lvov, Vinnitsa, Yevpatoriya, Zhitomir and Molochny have a narrow gauge (1000 mm).

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Since 2013, a special excursion retro tram has been running around St. Petersburg. Hundreds of St. Petersburg residents and curious guests of the city have already managed to take advantage of this fascinating and unusual type of transport. This carriage, modest in size, but incredibly cute in appearance, has been delighting the townspeople for many seasons in a row. It is likely that such a good undertaking will become a good tradition in the city on the Neva.

The carriage itself was made in pre-war times, and when it moves around the city, it invariably attracts the eyes of passers-by, causing smiles on their faces and a natural desire to photograph it. As a rule, daily trips on such a tram begin on April 18 and end on November 2. To preserve such ancient equipment, the tram depot decided to abandon winter trips. In addition, tourists do not come from St. Petersburg so often in winter.

It must be said that the route of such a tram is aimed mainly at city guests, so they take great pleasure in admiring the city’s sights through the windows of the retro tram. And along the way, the guides enthusiastically talk about the history of the development of transport in St. Petersburg. The route of this tram runs from Vasilyevsky Island, then it goes to Tuchkov Bridge, then along Petrogradsky Island and to Trinity Bridge, and then moves along Sadovaya Street up to Turgenev Square, where it turns around and goes back.

The tram sets off from Sredny Prospekt on Vasilievsky Island, stopping near the Museum of City Electric Transport. By the way, those interested can also visit this museum. The tram runs to Turgenev Square with all stops, so you can get on it anywhere along the route.

Literally until recently, St. Petersburg was considered almost the most tram capital of the world, but in Lately gave his palm to Melbourne. But still before today there are several in the city the most interesting routes, upon which you can ride for a nominal fee to get acquainted with wonderful places northern capital.

Route No. 36. The only city tram today that goes to the suburbs of St. Petersburg. Any St. Petersburg resident or guest of the city can take this tram on Oboronnaya Street and, after traveling almost 20 kilometers, passing many stops along the way, get off at the final stop in Strelna itself. And then you can go and visit the Russian Versailles. By the way, the route of tram No. 36 runs along the 66-kilometer Oranienburg power line, which is rightfully considered the very first commuter line in the city.

Routes No. 5 and No. 6. One of them goes from Goloday Island to the Volkovskoye Cemetery, and the second from the same island to the Krasnenskoye Cemetery. The fact is that thanks to these long-standing routes in besieged Leningrad there was even such a phrase - “I’ll go hungry and go to the cemetery.” Such is the black siege humor. Although, you are now unlikely to find Goloday Island on the city map, since this island, located in the Neva delta and part of Vasileostrovsky district, is called the Decembrist Island. However, starting from 1775 it had a different name - Galladay, and only later and until 1926 local residents They simply called it Goloday.

Route No. 77. It is considered the longest route in the city. It runs from Solidarity Avenue all the way to its ring on Kommuny Street. The length of its route is as much as 23 kilometers. Along the route you will pass two bridges – the Alexander Nevsky Bridge and the Volodarsky Bridge. So there are plenty of beautiful buildings and historical sites to see along the way.

Route No. 3. It is considered the shortest route in the city, its length is only 2.5 kilometers, and it makes only 7 stops along the way. But on its route from Repin Square to Sennaya Square, it carries passengers through a very interesting historical part of the city.