Berlin and Brandenburg
| Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Straßenbahn Berlin (Owned by BVG) |
Berlin | Horse | 22 June 1865 | 8 December 1907 | |
| Steam | 5 May 1886 | 1919 | |||
| Accumulator (storage battery) | 8 February 1895 | 1902 | |||
| Electric | 16 May 1881 | ||||
| ♦ Buchholz | Horse | 9 July 1904 | 8 December 1907 | ||
| Electric | 8 December 1907 | Separate undertaking to 22 July 1907. | |||
| ♦ Heiligensee an der Havel | Electric | 29 May 1913 | 1 June 1958 | Separate undertaking to 3 December 1920. | |
| ♦ Köpenick (Cöpenick) | Horse | 18 October 1882 | 11 August 1903 | ||
| Electric | 11 August 1903 | Separate undertaking to 1 October 1920. | |||
| ♦ Spandau | Horse | 5 June 1892 | 17 March 1896 | ||
| Electric | 18 March 1896 | 2 October 1967 | Separate undertaking to 1 August 1920. | ||
| ♦♦ Spandau - Nonnendamm | Electric | 30 September 1908 | 2 October 1967 | ||
| ♦♦ Spandau West - Hennigsdorf | Petrol (gasoline) | 1 August 1923 | 11 November 1929 | ||
| Electric | 11 November 1929 | April 1945 | |||
| Grunewaldbahn | ♦ Steglitz | Electric | 3 December 1905 | 2 May 1963 | |
| ♦ Teltow | Separate undertaking to 16 April 1921. | ||||
| ♦♦ Berlin-Lichterfelde - Steglitz - Südende-Mariendorf line | Electric | 16 May 1881 | 14 February 1930 | Incorporated segment of line opened 1881 by Siemens und Halske, world's first electric tramway. | |
| ♦♦ Berlin-Lichterfelde - Teltow - Stahnsdorf - Klein Machnow (Schleuse) | Steam | 1 July 1888 | 30 March 1907 | ||
| Electric | 30 March 1907 | 2 May 1966 | |||
| Straßenbahn Potsdam (Owned by ViP) |
♦♦ Potsdam | Horse | 11 May 1880 | 1 September 1907 | |
| Electric | 2 September 1907 | ||||
| ♦♦ Schöneiche (bei Berlin) | Petrol (gasoline) | 28 August 1910 | 30 May 1914 | ||
| Electric | 30 May 1914 | ||||
| Strausberger Eisenbahn | ♦♦ Strausberg | Steam | 17 August 1893 | 15 March 1921 | |
| Electric | 18 March 1921 | ||||
| ♦♦ Woltersdorf (bei Berlin) | Electric | 17 May 1913 |
| Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brandenburg (an der Havel) | Horse | 1 October 1897 | 20 April 1911 | ||
| Electric | 1 April 1911 | ||||
| ♦ Plaue (an der Havel) | Electric | 24 December 1912 | 28 September 2002 | Separate undertaking to 1 October 1952. | |
| Cottbus (Chóśebuz) | Electric | 8 July 1903 | |||
| Eberswalde | Electric | 1 September 1910 | 3 November 1940 | ||
| Frankfurt an der Oder | Electric | 23 January 1898 | see also Słubice, Poland. | ||
| Guben | Electric | 24 February 1904 | 8 June 1938 | see also Gubin, Poland. | |
| Jüterbog | Horse | 21 March 1897 | 29 July 1928 | ||
| Küstrin | Electric | 16 May 1927 | 30 January 1945 | see also Kostrzyn nad Odrą;, Poland. | |
| Werder (an der Havel) | Horse | 27 July 1895 | 7 August 1926 |
Note for Berlin: Tramway divided into East Berlin and West Berlin systems from 16 January 1953. West Berlin tramway lines replaced by motorbus from 1954, final closure on 2 October 1967. (See Berlin Straßenbahn; link to English-language page.)
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