Transport in South Korea#Trams

A tram there was in Seoul by 1897 until 1968.

History

The history of the tram began in Hanseong (the name of Seoul at that time) in 1897 with the award of a concession by the Korean King Gojong to American businessmen Henry Collbran and Harry Bostwick. The company " American - Korean Electric Co. " was awarded the contract to provide in addition to the electric tram, even for the electric street lighting and to plan a waterworks.

In May 1899, the first line was opened with a track width of 1067 mm ( Cape gauge ). A few days later, the operation was terminated since the Japanese driver on the driver left the country because of the subsequent assault of the population after the accident. The operation was only reopened a few months later. As a driver, this time American drivers were used.

In 1909 the tram at the " Nikkan Gas & Electric Co. " was sold.

After the Second World War, the tram service was operated by the Kyǒngsǒng Electric Company. On November 29, 1968, the electric streetcar in Seoul has been set.

Resources

In the beginning, 9 tram railcars were used from an American production, with a particular car was reserved for the King Gojong. A wagon (length about 8.7 m) could carry 40 passengers in two classes, and had for the first class in the middle of a closed compartment. The speed of the car was in the first years of operation, about 5 km / h

During the time when Korea was a part of the Japanese Empire ( 1910 to 1945 /48), the vehicles came from Japan. One of these cars, specifically the tramcar 381, which went into operation in 1930 in Keijo and was retired until the setting of the street railway operation, can be visited on the Historical Museum in Seoul since 2007.

After the Korean War used American streetcars were introduced from about 1952. among other things, 20 cars from Nashville (Tennessee ), 20 cars from Atlanta and 15 cars from Los Angeles.

Route network

The operating length was in 1914 about 26 km. The maximum network size was achieved in 1941. Approx. In 1960, the operating length of about 50 km.

The following table shows the course of the route network is listed in the state in 1945. The routes of today's Metro Seoul follow in part the course of the former tram. Therefore, the names are in the table marked accordingly ( street names (S ), station of the subway line with specification (Ux ), U -Bahn (Lx ) ).