Trams in Görlitz

Görlitz tramway network
Görlitz tramway network
	Tatra KT4D no. 318 in June 2010
Operation
Locale	Görlitz, Saxony, Germany
Horsecar era: 1882–1897
Status	Converted to electricity
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Propulsion system(s)	Horses
Electric tram era: since 1897
Status	Operational
Operator(s)	Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe (GVB); (since 2019);
Track gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Propulsion system(s)	Electricity
Electrification	600 V DC
Stock	14 KT4D-C
Route length	11.8 km (7.3 mi)
	Görlitz tramway network, November 2012.
Website	Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe (in German)

The Görlitz tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Görlitz) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Görlitz, a city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

Opened in 1882, the network has been operated since 1996 by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz (VGG), since 2019 by the Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe, and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien (ZVON).

Lines

As of 2019^[update], the network had the following lines:^[2]

Line	Route	Stops	Journey time	Headway (rush hour)	Headway (evenings)
1	Weinhübel – Bahnhof – Demianiplatz – Alexander-Bolze-Hof – Königshufen Am Marktkauf / (– Königshufen Am Wiesengrund) (the Königshufen termini alternate in the evenings)	17	24/25 min	20 min	30 min
2	Biesnitz/Landeskrone – Bahnhof – Demianiplatz – Alexander-Bolze-Hof – Königshufen Am Wiesengrund	17	24/25 min	20 min	-

On weekdays line 1 is served by coupled pairs of trams.^[1]

Rolling stock

The current fleet consists of 14 KT4D trams built between 1979 and 1990. The trams were modernised during the 1990s with a chopper control system and received the designation KT4D-C.^[1]

In 2019 a procurement project for new trams was launched jointly with tram operators in Leipzig and Zwickau. A contract was signed in December 2021 with LEIWAG (a consortium of HeiterBlick [de] and Kiepe Electric) and Görlitz will receive eight new 30 m long trams.^[3]

Set 312 in May 2015

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Kochems, Michael (May 2021). "Wo die Kurzgelenker noch surren". Straßenbahn Magazin (in German). GeraMond. pp. 32–42.
^ "Tram im Takt". GVB website (in German). Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
^ "Zwickau, Görlitz and Leipzig jointly order new tram fleet from Heiterblick/Kiepe". Urban Transport Magazine. 2021-12-16. Retrieved 2024-09-22.

Bibliography

Bauer, Gerhard; Kuschinski, Norbert (1993). Die Straßenbahnen in Ostdeutschland [The Tramways in East Germany]. Vol. Band 1: Sachsen [Volume 1: Saxony]. Aachen, Germany: Schweers + Wall. ISBN 3921679796. (in German)
Schwandl, Robert (2012). Schwandl's Tram Atlas Deutschland (in German and English) (3rd ed.). Berlin: Robert Schwandl Verlag. p. 66. ISBN 9783936573336.