Dubrovnik tram

The tram Dubrovnik was a narrow-gauge tram service in the city of Dubrovnik.

History

Want to Austria - Hungarian period, the web was legally defined by " concession certificate for the local railway Gruž ( Gravosa ) to Dubrovnik (Ragusa )" in the Reich Law Gazette No. 228/10 of 21 December 1910. Although the concessionaire, the city of Dubrovnik, an opening was prescribed within a year, the opening took place only on 10 December 1912.

The reason for the establishment of the railway was primarily the great distance from the city center to the train station in Gruž, one of the endpoints of the Dalmatian narrow gauge railways. The rare for trams gauge of 760 mm was chosen because, should be allowed as the tram Sarajevo, the transition of freight cars from also narrow gauge railway network on the tram. In Dubrovnik, this possibility was then but not used. The line 1 resulted from the station to the city center, they had their last stop before the Pile Gate to the Old Town. A line 2 combined with Uvala Pile.

With the enormous growth of road traffic in the 1960s, partly as a result of the rising summer tourism, the scheduled time of operation was more difficult to maintain. The tram was even considered " obstruction ", so the setting of the route to Lapad since February 1970 and the remaining line was decided a year later. As a result of a serious accident due to a brake failure the tram but was decommissioned as early as March 20, 1970.

Rolling stock

The vehicles were delivered ( electrical equipment) from the Graz railway car factory ( mechanical part) and the Prague company Křižík. Later vehicles, the last were delivered in 1963, were from the Waggonfabriken Slavonski Brod, Full and Đuro Djaković.

Some cars have been preserved in the region, among other things, as an attraction from a tavern. More are kept in the Tramway Museum Graz and in Historama Ferlach in Zagreb Technical Museum.