with the passenger carrying capacity of trams. This makes the system between 30 and 50 percent cheaper than conventional railway systems. The AutoTram is a new streetcar concept from the ...

USA: Hitachi Rail has won a contract to modernise signalling on San Francisco's Muni light rail network using its SelTrac ...

Snaking and clattering their way across city streets like gaudy, metallic beetles, trams are a distinctive feature of many European cities. Overhead wires, hanging a few metres above the metropolis ...

BERLIN (JTA) – Abraham Schuster was 5 years old in the spring of 1942 when he and his family were rounded up from their Amsterdam home and shoved onto streetcars under Nazi guard. He remembers ...

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MTA says service will wrap up around Fleet Week. Pro tip: Check the live streetcar map to find the tram's location and the other historic streetcars in service on any given day, in real time!

N16' instead of '16'), it means it is a night tram and runs even when the U-Bahn is closed. Since the streetcar runs above ground, the lines in the city center are also suitable for sightseeing.