Cuba
| Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havana Electric Railway, División de Camagüey | Camagüey | Horse | 8 Dec 1894 | Mar (?) 1900 | |
| Electric | 1 May 1908 | 23 Feb, 1952 | |||
| Tranvía Eléctrico de Cárdenas, S.A. | Cárdenas (de Cuba) | Accumulator (storage battery) | 20 May 1915 | Jun (?) 1929 | |
| Cienfuegos, Palmira and Cruces Electric Railway and Power Company | Cienfuegos | Accumulator (storage battery) | 13 Feb 1913 | 1926 | |
| Electric | 1926 | 1928 (or 1935) | |||
| Petrol (gasoline) | 1928 | 1954 | |||
| ♦ Cienfuegos - Hormiguero | Accumulator (storage battery) | 1917 | 1926 (?) | ||
| Havana Electric Railway Company | (San Cristóbal de) La Habana /Havana | Horse | 20 Sep 1859 | 1902 (?) | |
| Electric | 21 Mar 1901 | 29 Apr, 1952 | , | ||
| ♦ La Habana (calle Zanja / calle Galiano) - Ciénaga (de Zapata) | Accumulator (storage battery) | 8 Jan 1913 | 1913 | ||
| Electric | by 1915 | 1940 | Extended to Marianao. | ||
| ♦ La Habana - Marianao - Guanajay | Electric | 12 Nov 1906 | 1939 | ||
| Steam | 1939 | ? | |||
| ♦♦ Marianao | Electric | by 1915 | by 1940 | ||
| ♦ La Habana - Rincón | Steam | 1861
1940 |
1914
? |
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| Electric | Jun 1914 | 1940 | Line continues in operation, worked by diesel railcars. | ||
| ♦♦ Rincón - San Antonio de los Baños | Accumulator (storage battery) | Oct 1914 | ? | ||
| ♦ La Habana - Güines | Electric | 16 Mar 1907 | 1939 | ||
| Steam | 1939 | ? | Line continues in operation, worked by diesel railcars. | ||
| ♦ La Habana (Regla) - Guanabacoa | Mule | 184_ | 1884 | ||
| Steam | 1884 | 1900 | |||
| Electric | 7 Mar 1900 | 15 Jun, 1931 | |||
| ♦ La Habana (Casablanca) - Hershey - Matanzas | Electric | 1 Jan 1922 | |||
| ♦ Matanzas | Accumulator (storage battery) | 17 Dec 1916 | 1920 (?) | ||
| Electric | 1920 (?) | 29 Oct 1954 | |||
| Holguín | Mule | ? | ? | ||
| Mallarquin | Mule | ? | ? | ||
| Pedro Betancourt | ? | 1907 (?) | ? | ||
| Santiago (de Cuba) | Electric | 12 Jan (or 8 Feb) 1908 | 26 Jan 1952 |
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