Dnipro tram is the system of electric
tram
A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...
s including 14 tram routes (with 163 stops) within the city of
Dnipro.
[Dnipro Tramway]
Railway Gazette International It has been operating since 1897.
History
The Yekaterinoslav tram was opened on 27 June 1897 (according to the modern
Gregorian calendar
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and 14 June according to the
Julian calendar
The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr ...
).
At the time of opening it was is the third tram system operating in the
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
(its predecessors were
Kyiv Tram
The Kyiv Tram is a tram network which serves the Ukraine, Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The system was the first electric tramway in the former Russian Empire and the fourth one in Europe after the Berlin Straßenbahn, Berlin and the Trams in Budap ...
and
Nizhny Novgorod Tram).
[Memorial sign "Retro tram" opened in Dnipro]
Ukrinform
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(15 December 2017) The construction and operation was provided by the Belgian company ''Tramways électriques d'Ekaterinoslaw''. By the end of 1897, two million people had been transported.
The initial tram system was based on and included 3
tram lines starting from the Catherine the Great Avenue (modern name is Dmytro Yavornytskyi Avenue). The routes were:
* Steamboat hithe – Proviant str. (Paster Street) – Catherine the Great ave. (Dmytro Yavornytskyi ave.);
* Jordan str (Kotsyubynskyi str.) – Karaimska str (Shyrshov str);
* Catherine the Great ave. (Dmytro Yavornytskyi ave.) – Alexander str (Sichovykh striltsiv str) – Big Market str.
On 21 April 1906, an alternative tram network was opened in Yekaterinoslav.
[HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT]
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council It was also based on . In 1918, the operating companies merged, as well as the tram networks. In 1931, the tram depot included 177 trams, and the network length reached . On 6 November 1932, the tracks were converted from narrow gauge to Russian gauge. The conversion was completed by 1948.
In the years between 1970 and 1990, the rolling stock was changed for cars from
ČKD
ČKD (Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk) () was one of the largest engineering companies in the former Czechoslovakia and today's Czech Republic. It is famous for the Tatra T3, a tramcar that sold 13,991 units worldwide.
History
ČKD was formed i ...
Tatra. Later, the tramcars were also produced on the premises of Pivdenmash. By 1996, the rolling stock included about 400 trams, the overall ridership was 115 million passenger per year. By that time 19 tram lines existed.
Rolling stock
As of 1 January 2014, the rolling stock consists of 33 maintenance carriages and 275 passenger carriages including types 71-605 – 9 carriages, 71-608K – 5, 71-608 km – 23, Tatra T3D – 26, Tatra T3SU – 122, Tatra T6B5 – 12, Tatra T4D – 48, Tatra T6A2M – 30.
In August 2021, the
Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration
The Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is the head of executive branch for the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prim ...
announced a tender in the
Prozorro system for the purchase of three-section
low-floor tram
A low-floor tram is a tram that has no stairsteps between one or more entrances and part or all of the passenger cabin. The low-floor design improves the accessibility of the tram for the public, and also may provide larger windows and more airspac ...
s for the cities of Dnipro and
Kryvyi Rih
Kryvyi Rih ( uk, Криви́й Ріг , lit. "Curved Bend" or "Crooked Horn"), also known as Krivoy Rog (Russian: Кривой Рог) is the largest city in central Ukraine, the 7th most populous city in Ukraine and the 2nd largest by area. K ...
.
Late August 2021 Ukraine and Switzerland signed a memorandum of understanding, according to whom Dnipro would receive 15 new
Stadler Rail rolling stock.
[Swiss-based Stadler to build two factories in Kharkiv - acting mayor]
Interfax-Ukraine (24 September 2021) In 2019 Dnipro's rolling stock was expanded with 20 used
Tatra T4D trams from Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
.
[All purchased trams arrived in Dnipro from Leipzig (photo)]
(17 August 2019)
References
External links
{{Urban public transport networks and systems in Ukraine
Tram transport in Ukraine
Rail transport in Dnipro
Dnipro