Trams in Frankfurt (Oder)
The tram Frankfurt ( Oder) has been operating since 1896 as electric tram in the Brandenburg town of Frankfurt ( Oder). On a meter-gauge rail network of about 19.5 kilometers operate three main and two gain lines.
The tram is operated by the city traffic mbH Frankfurt ( Oder).
History
In 1894 we discussed in the city creating a horse rail network of four lines. This should connect the market with the station, the district Beresinchen, the clubhouse and the Küstriner road. The horse-drawn tram was at this time but already an outdated technology - elsewhere to electric trams tried and true, which is why you also in Frankfurt ( Oder), the construction of such decided. A contract with AEG was signed by the mayor Johann Adolph Paul Walther on 22 April 1896. Construction began in 1897 and on 22 January 1898, the official opening drive. One day it was opened on two lines of control mode:
- Buschmühlenweg - Wilhelm Platz - magazine location
- New Cemetery - William Square - Protect house.
By the end of 1899 the tracks to the station and Paulinenhof and the route extension went to the slaughterhouse in operation. It now drove four distinct color lines. In 1908 it came to the next line extension, this time from Paulinenhof to Hellweg. In 1924 was built with the reconstruction of the Frankfurt train station and the station forecourt, the new terminus at the station. 1925, the tram service was reformed, there were numbers introduced as a line marking and bars compacted. Line 2 was extended in 1927 to the stadium in the Dammvorstadt from the clubhouse, two years later, the first two buses were to complement the tram network is established. The tram network was 1936 again, this time from Hellweg to West Cross. In the same year, two more bus routes. On 22 April 1945, the tram traffic ended as a result of the fighting of World War II.
After the war, took the road gradually from July 1945 on. The track in the Dammvorstadt was no longer in operation, because the Oder river, east of the district now belonged to Poland was called the Słubice. The mid-1950s came the first new vehicles and downtown routes have been adapted to the 1957 road gradients newly created. On the west cross the first turning loop in the former network was established in 1966, which was followed by further grinding. Since the trams should be the medium replaced by buses, one set from 1970 the first services on the route in the Buschmühlenweg one. Due to the oil crisis, these plans were abandoned and re- performed track extensions. The first was commissioned in 1976 the extension from the main cemetery for Suedring in operation. Four years later the track in the Leipziger Straße ( Wilhelm-Pieck- Straße) was replaced by a new route over the station. A year later, the first section followed by Neuberesinchen and 1982 the remainder of this line was completed. From the mid- 1980s drove six tram lines through the city.
- Line 1: Neuberesinchen - Station - Republic Square ( center today ) - Lebuser suburb
- Line 2: West Cross (now Exhibition Center) - Republic Square - Stadium
- Line 3: Kopernikusstr. - Station - Republic Square - Lebuser suburb
- Line 4: Kopernikusstr. - Station - Republic Square - Large Oderstraße (now European University )
- Line 5: Neuberesinchen - Station - West Cross
- Line 6: Neuberesinchen - Station - Republic Square - Large Oderstraße
Starting in 1987, then began a new era at the Frankfurt tram. A total of 22 new vehicles of the type KT4D came from Czechoslovakia. A year later, the largest at 5.6 km long network expansion took place in the history of the Frankfurt tram. Up to the semiconductor plant in Markendorf the route was extended from Kopernikusstraße. Together with the extended lines 3 and 4 ran a new line of 7 Markendorf after Neuberesinchen. Another new line to the Hansa district was already in conversation. However, these plans could not be realized by the turn and the economic collapse of the region. However, the existing network was modernized. New low-floor trams of type GT6M replaced from 1993, the last - up to 40 years old - two-axle vehicles of GDR production. In addition, we modernized the Tatra articulated cars. The 100 year old depot in the creek lane was finally replaced by a new building in Neuberesinchen 1998.
The City Council decided on 3 February 2005 by a narrow margin the continued construction of the tram over the border river or across to Słubice. The construction of the line was rejected by a non-binding referendum in early 2006 with a large majority. Then, the expansion plans were dropped first. In December 2012, but at least the long-planned bus route 983 was opened from Frankfurt Train Station to Słubice.
2010, the town had a tram line network of 43 km with 73 stops, 29 of which were accessible. In 8 of the 27 trams, travel the approximately 45,000 km per year, respectively, are low-floor trams. Public transport in the city in 2010 carried approximately 10.9 million passengers.
Operation in 2013
The three main lines 1, 2, 4 tram operates daily 4:00 to 23:30 in the
- 20 -minute intervals: Monday to Friday from 6.00 bis 19.00 clock, Saturday from 8.30 bis 15.00 clock,
- 30 -minute intervals: Sundays and public holidays all day ( from 6.00 ), Monday - Saturday before and after the 20 -minute intervals.
Line 1 runs from the development area Neuberesinchen over the center of Frankfurt in the north, the Lebuser suburb. Every other vehicle is a low-floor vehicles. Discussed is currently recruiting the northern portion between a newly constructed turnaround loop at the Berliner Straße and the Lebuser suburb.
Line 2 connects the university sites, ie, the main building, lecture hall and Marion Dönhoff - building with the speech center in the Witzlebenstraße up to the fairgrounds. Weekdays is driven with solo vehicles by type KT4Dm and Niederflurwagen type GT6M. On weekends, only low-floor GT6M used.
Line 3 is considered as an amplifier line to line 4 runs from Monday to Friday from the European University on the south ring Kopernikusstraße and in the HVZ more about the Technology Park and the University Hospital in the suburb Markendorf ( place ) in 20 min intervals. Is operated with this GT6M and KT4Dm.
Line 4, a main line runs from the stadium via the railway station and the south ring, past the new solar factories, brand town ( place ). There are, as in the line 3 KT4Dm and GT6M used on weekends but mainly the low-floor vehicles.
Line 5 is a tangent line - it moves to the center " over", from the development area Neuberesinchen over the station to the fairgrounds. However, there are connections at the Dresden court or train station or in the center. Every 20 minutes you meet there on business days KT4Dm Tatra car or GT6M low-floor vehicles.