Tramway Links from Tramway Information

Here are a selection of links to other tramway websites, which readers may find of interest.

General Tramway Links

Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur. The German photo archive of art and architecture includes historic street scenes with trams. The example here shows the Lindentunnel on tram route 35 in Berlin in 1934. Go to "Orte" and you get an alphabetical index of place names.
British Pathe website allows the download of sample film clips from their news archive. Use their search to find trams and model trams.
The Electric Railway Society has tramway connections.
Electric Transport in Latin America is a website from Allen Morrison.
gleisplanweb.de is a German language website with route maps of tramway systems, mostly in Germany but with a few others.
Light Rail Atlas (LRA) is based in Netherlands. LRA provides maps of Light Rail systems around the world.
Local Transport Histories from Peter Gould covers many British tramway systems.
railfocus.de from Wolfgang Wellige has a nice selection of tram pictures.
Tramways of Asia is a site which contains information on many Asian countries.
Colour-Rail has a number of tram photos.
Train Photos has a library of photographs of railways, but some trams are included..
Trainnet.org although mainly railway, has a massive directory of links.
Tra.ms is the front page for several tramway websites.
Transportation History: The Trolley, Tram and Streetcar. Contains useful onward links. (URL provided by Hannah Hayes)

UK Tramway Links

The Fylde Tramway Society has details of Blackpool.
Blackpool in 1962 photos from David Bradley.
Modern British trams on TheTrams.co.uk website.
British Trams Online has news of current systems.
British Tramway Buttons from Ashley Birch covers this feature of tramway uniforms.
Industrial archaeology of Coventry Trams by Ken Crawley.
Friends of Douglas Bay Horse Tramway is the campaign to retain the world's oldest horse tramway.
Edinburgh Tram Project
Glasgow Transport Tram 488. Now returned for preservation in the UK after being in the Paris Transport Museum since 1961.
The Lancastrian Transport Trust own several Blackpool trams.
The Leeds Transport Historical Society
London :
- The main London Transport site gives details of all public transport in the capital as a whole.
- London Transport Museum includes access to their photo collection.
- londontramways.co.uk from the late John Wills has a database of London photographs by his late father, A.J.Wills is now here on this website.
- The London County Council Tramways Trust supports London tram preservation.
- Subterranea Brittanica also has a page on the Subway.
- David Bradley's www.trolleybus.net site also has some London tramway views.
- Dewi Williams has photos of London and a few other tram systems.
- The Unofficial Croydon Tramlink website.
Manx Electric Railway Society for the Isle of Man's electric tramway
National Tramway Museum has access to its photo collections.
Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum.
Sheffield Library has a fine range of over 400 Sheffield tram pictures which can also be purchased. Type 'tram' into their Advanced Search.
West of England tramways from the South Western Electricity Historical Society.

Overseas Tramway Links by Country

Argentina

Buenos Aires, the heritage line of Asociación Amigos del Tranvía.
Córdoba, the Asociación Amigos del Tranvía de Córdoba.

Australia

Ballarat:

Ballarat Vintage Tramway for details of this tourist tramway and museum.

Bendigo:

Bendigo Tramways for details of this museum and heritage line.

Brisbane:

Brisbane Tramway Museum for details of this museum.

Hobart:

The Tasmanian Transport Museum has a tramway section with Hobart trams.

Melbourne:

Yarra Trams.

Launceston:

Launceston Tramway Museum. A small museum tramway in Tasmania. Tripadvisor review. Facebook page.

Rockhampton:

Archer Park Rail Museum operates a rebuilt Purrey steam tram.

Austria

The Sankt Florian museum tramway. This site also has a good links page.
The Vienna Metro system including the tramway pre-metro (in English).

Belgium

Belgium (general):

The Belgian tram magazine TRAM 2000 has a Website in French and updated monthly.
FACS Fédération des Amis des Chemins de Fer Secondaires has a Website in French on 40 years of Belgian tramways from 1957-1997 by Raymond Duquenne.

Museums:

The Association pour la Sauvegarde du Vicinal covers the museum line based at Thuin.
The Tramway Touristique de l'Aisne in the Ardennes area is the association to preserve an old piece of the very important Vicinal tramway.

Canada

A Canadian tramways web page by David A. Wyatt.
The Halton County Radial Railway , the Ontario's Operating Streetcar Museum web page. The Halton County Radial Railway is owned and operated by the Ontario Electric Railway Historical Association.
A Southern Ontario traction web page.

Denmark

Skjoldenaesholm is Denmark's tram museum. The website has an English language section.
Trams and Tramways from Arne Melby Pedersen covers Denmark and elsewhere and has an English section.

France

Trams in France is an overview of the modern French systems.
Musée des Transports urbains, interurbains & ruraux
The AMTUIR website contains full description of all the trams in the Paris museum collection.
Versailles

Germany

Germany (general):

Trampicturebook is a general site on trams in the German language.

Döbeln horse tram museum.
Wuppertal Schwebebahn has information on this unusual transport method together with the local transport, the BMB museum and a model tram section.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Photos. Joseph Tse's photostream on Flickr has an amazing number of views, including one of every tram in the current fleet.
Hong Kong Trams Culture. Facebook page on Hong Kong tramways by Joseph Tse.
Amazing Ding Ding. Facebook page on Hong Kong tramways history by Joseph Tse
Hong Kong Tram Archive. A large range of photos of Hong Kong Trams from Jack Ryan.
Tram Friends. The local Hong Kong Tram enthusiasts group.
TramriC Product & Design for a range of Hong Kong tram souvenirs.
80M Bus Model Shop supplies Hong Kong tram models in various scales.
Hong Kong Tramways. The official website of the tramway company.

Hungary

Trams of Hungary ...and much more has a good section on Budapast and is in English.
uhi.railpages have photos of a number of Hungarian (and other) tramways and a photo history of Pécs.

Italy

Italy (general):

Trieste ACT
Vesuvius - the funicular, railway and chairlift.

Netherlands

Netherlands (general):

De digitale tram. Views and videos of trams, mostly Dutch.
Tramweg Stichting. The unofficial website for Tramweg Stichting (TS), the Dutch tramway preservation society.

Museums:

Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum The Hague Public Transport Museum shows the history of the public transport in the Hague and its surroundings.
The Netherlands Open Air Museum near Arnhem, which has a working tramway.
Netherlands Railway Museums website lists all the tramway museums.

Norway

Trondheim:

Graakallbanen tramway

Peru

Lima:

Tramway accidents in the first decade of the 20th century (in Spanish).

Russia

Moscow

Spain

Bilbao : Some details of the new tramway.
Catalonia : The Assotram website describes the tramways and trolleybuses of Catalonia plus a full list of Spanish systems.

Sweden

Stockholm : The SweTramway website describes the Swedish Tramway Society and the Stockholm Tramway.

Switzerland

Bern : Details of the Bern Steam Tram and timetable of its outings.
Basel : Tram Oldtimer Basel from Thomas Meyer gives a good overview of the system.
Neuchâtel : ANAT. The website of the Association Neuchâteloise des Amis de Tramways, who are the museum group for Neuchâtel
Zug : Stadtbahn project information archive.
Stadtarchiv Schaffhausen contains some tram photos. Go to "Bilder zur Geschichte" to get an index of street names such as "Bahnhofstrasse" as shown here.