Sachsen (Saxony)
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kirnitzschtalbahn | Bad Schandau | Electric | 28 May 1898 | Operation suspended from 21 July 1969 following an accident. Operation restored from 24 July 1972. | |
Chemnitz | Horse | 22 April 1880 | 5 February 1894 | ||
Electric | 19 December 1893 | First standard-gauge line opened 8 May 1960. Last 925-mm gauge line closed 6 November 1988. | |||
♦ Chemnitz - Altchemnitz - Stollberg | Electric | 15 December 2002 | Operates over DB railway line (Würschnitztalbahn) between Altchemnitz and Stollberg, | ||
Döbelner Straßenbahn | Döbeln | Horse | 10 July 1892 | Closed 20 December 1926; reopened 9 June 2007 | |
Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe | Dresden | Horse | 26 September 1872 | 25 August 1900 | |
Gas | 28 July 1894 | 31 December 1895 | |||
Electric | 6 July 1893 | 1,450-mm gauge | |||
♦ Dresden - Bühlau | Electric | 22 August 1899 | Separate undertaking to 1926. | ||
♦ Dresden-Cotta - Cossebaude | Electric | 27 September 1906 | 2 December 1990 | Separate undertaking to 1926. | |
Lößnitzbahn | ♦ Dresden-Mickten - Zitzschewig | Electric | 21 August 1899 | First electric narrow-gauge railway in Saxony, later regauged. Separate undertaking to 1926. Initial segment, Mickten - Weißes Roß. Weißes Roß - Radebeul - Coswig reopened in stages September 1929 – May 1930. Coswig - Weinböhla reopened 14 November 1931. | |
Lockwitztalbahn | ♦ Dresden-Niedersedlitz - Kreischa | Electric | 3 March 1906 | 18 October 1977 | |
Freiberg in Sachsen | Electric | 11 August 1902 | 31 December 1919 | ||
Görlitz | Horse | 25 May 1882 | 30 November 1897 | ||
Electric | 1 December 1897 | See also Zgorzelec, Poland. | |||
Hohenstein-Ernstthal - Oelsnitz (Erzgebirge) | Electric | 15 February 1913 | 26 March 1960 | ||
Klingenthal (Sachsen) | Electric | 27 May 1917 | 4 April 1964 | ||
Leipzig | Horse | 18 May 1872 | 16 April 1897 | ||
Electric | 17 April 1896 | See Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe, Leipzig Tramway Network History. | |||
Meißen | Electric | 13 December 1899 | 1 March 1936 | ||
Plauen (im Vogtland) | Electric | 17 November 1894 | |||
Zittau | Accumulator (storage battery) | 29 June | 22 September 1902 | ||
Electric | 14 December 1904 | 19 November 1919 | |||
Zwickau | Electric | 6 May 1894 |
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