English Webpages
Our most visited page "Trams of the World" (see "Trams der Welt" in the menu on the left) has returned after a long absence. Peter Sohns offers this list also in MS access format. His database is called "World 's Database" and includes opening dates, remarks and also lists all abandoned systems from around the world! He is also selling excellent trackmaps from systems around the world. You can contact him by email.
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World List Details
Trackmap Details
If you want to find out about tramway events visit the German "BS Terminkalender" (in the menu on the left), that column also includes links to German tramway museums (and there is even a list of museums around Germany).
Feel free to browse the other German language content. The content of this website now appears as articles (as in a blog).
In 2009 INTRA EXPRESS is again organising our tram tours. Hope to see you there!
May 5th-17th, 2009: Tramways in Northern Spain & Portugal.
This continuation of our great Spanish tramway tour in 2008 takes us to Bilbao, Gasteiz/Vitoria, and La Coruna, the last three tramways of Northern Spain not yet visited, and to all electric urban transport systems of Portugal. We offer a most varied programme again, including heritage trams as well as recently opened state-of-the-art light rail networks, underground and suburban railways, plus Portugal's only remaining trolleybus system. Additionally we tour a large part of Europe's longest narrow gauge railway serving nearly all of Spain's Atlantic coastline, and Portugal's scenic Douro valley, not only home of the famous Port, but also of some of the country's last remaining metre gauge railways.
Jun. 6th-13th, 2009: Tramway Tour of Belgium.
Belgium has never been the destination of an Intra Express tour before. Within one week we now give you a complete view of the country's electric city transport, including all of its five tramway systems, its only trolleybus route due to be abandoned soon, and its only underground railway network. We ride historic charter trams wherever available, and visit depots and workshops. Additionally there is a surprising variety of tramway museums, and preserved tramways on our itinerary in memory of the country's unique tramway history.
Oct. 8th-11th, 2009: Tramways of Western Poland.
Ten years have passed since we last visited the three Polish standard gauge tramway systems of Szczecin, Gorzow, and Poznan, and many things have changed there in the meantime. Not just the condition of the track has improved, modernisation of the fleets continues as well. So it seems just the right time to visit our neighbours once again, and to see old and new tramcars in service side by side: The standard bogie cars of communist times - type Konstal 105N - are still omnipresent with many of them showing several stages of modernisation, some even with new futurist bodies. Second-hand trams from several German cities and Amsterdam still help, but are quickly vanishing. And the age of the low-floor cars has begun at least in Poznan. The programme of this short, and budget-prized tour includes photo charters of historic, and of interesting contemporary trams, and visits to all depots. It is planned to be the starter of a series of tours re-visiting all Polish tramway systems over the next few years. Your BSwebmaster will be leading this tour!
Please note that we have taken all our English language pages offline. Some pages that should be of interest to an international audience will return at a later stage. If you want to surf the history of our website why not visit our previous pages on web.archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.blickpunktstrab.net

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