Trams in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen

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Mannheim/Ludwigshafen tramway network

Operation

Locale

Open

1878

Status

Operational

Lines

10 (total line length 97 km (60 mi))

Operator(s)

Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (RNV)

Infrastructure

Track gauge

1,000 mm (3 ft 33⁄8 in) metre gauge

Propulsion system(s)

Electricity

Electrification

750 V DC overhead lines

Statistics

Route length

61 km (38 mi)

Overview
The network in 2016.

Website

https://www.rnv-online.de/english/ Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr (RNV) (in English)

The Mannheim/Ludwigshafen tramway network (Template:Lang-de) is a metre-gauge transport network of tramways focused on the cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen am Rhein, and connected to Heidelberg and Weinheim via the Upper Rhine Railway Company (OEG), in the Rhine Neckar Area of Germany.

History

Opened in 1878, the network has been operated since 2005 by Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH (RNV), and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN).

References

Höltge, Dieter (1999). Straßen- und Stadtbahnen in Deutschland [Tramways and Stadtbahnen in Germany] (in German). Vol. Band 6: Baden [Volume 6: Baden]. Freiburg i. B., Germany: EK-Verlag. ISBN 3882553375.
Kochems, Michael; Höltge, Dieter (2011). Straßen- und Stadtbahnen in Deutschland [Tramways and Stadtbahnen in Germany] (in German). Vol. Band 12: Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland [Volume 2: Rhineland-Palatinate/Saarland]. Freiburg i. B., Germany: EK-Verlag. ISBN 9783882553932.
Schwandl, Robert (2012). Schwandl's Tram Atlas Deutschland (in German and English) (3rd ed.). Berlin: Robert Schwandl Verlag. p. 118. ISBN 9783936573336.

External links

Media related to Trams in Mannheim at Wikimedia Commons
Media related to Trams in Ludwigshafen at Wikimedia Commons

Rhein/Neckar database / photo gallery and Rhein/Neckar tram list at Urban Electric Transit – in various languages, including English.

v t e Stadtbahn and town tramway systems in Germany by Land and city
Baden-Württemberg	Freiburg im Breisgau Heidelberg Heilbronn Karlsruhe Stadtbahn Trams Kehl¹ Mannheim Stuttgart Ulm Weil am Rhein²
Bavaria	Augsburg Munich Nuremberg Würzburg
Berlin	Berlin
Brandenburg	Brandenburg an der Havel Cottbus Frankfurt (Oder) Potsdam Schöneiche and Rüdersdorf³ Strausberg Woltersdorf³
Bremen	Bremen
Hesse	Darmstadt Frankfurt am Main Stadtbahn Trams Kassel RegioTram Trams
Lower Saxony	Braunschweig Hanover
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Rostock Schwerin
North Rhine-Westphalia	Bielefeld Bochum Stadtbahn Trams Bonn Stadtbahn Trams Cologne Dortmund Duisburg Stadtbahn Trams Düsseldorf Stadtbahn Trams Essen Stadtbahn Trams Gelsenkirchen Krefeld Mülheim/Oberhausen Rhine-Ruhr
Rhineland-Palatinate	Ludwigshafen am Rhein Mainz
Saarland	Saarbrücken
Saxony	Bad Schandau-Kirnitzschtal Chemnitz Trams City-Bahn Dresden Görlitz Leipzig Plauen Zwickau
Saxony-Anhalt	Dessau Halberstadt Halle Magdeburg Naumburg
Thuringia	Erfurt Gera Gotha Jena Nordhausen
¹ Part of Strasbourg tramway network — ² Part of Basel tramway network — ³ Partly in Berlin

v t e Urban public transport networks and systems in Germany
S-Bahn	Berlin Bremen Cologne Dresden Erfurt¹ Freiburg Hamburg Hanover Karlsruhe Magdeburg Mitteldeutschland Munich Neu-Ulm Nuremberg Offenburg Rhine-Main Rhine-Neckar Rhine-Ruhr Rostock Stuttgart Ulm
U-Bahn	Berlin Hamburg Munich Nuremberg
Stadtbahn	Bielefeld Bochum-Gelsenkirchen Bonn Chemnitz Cologne Dortmund Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen-Mülheim Frankfurt Hanover Heilbronn Karlsruhe Kassel Saarbrücken Stuttgart
Trams	Aachen² Augsburg Bad Schandau-Kirnitzschtal Berlin (Suburban: Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf · Woltersdorf) Bochum Bonn Brandenburg an der Havel Braunschweig Bremen Chemnitz Cologne Cottbus Darmstadt Dessau Döbeln Dresden Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt (Oder) Freiburg Gelsenkirchen Gera Görlitz Gotha Halberstadt Halle Hamburg² Hanover Heidelberg Jena Karlsruhe Kassel Kehl Kiel² Krefeld Leipzig (History) Lößnitz Ludwigshafen Magdeburg Mannheim Merseburg Mülheim Munich Mainz Münster² Naumburg Nuremberg Nordhausen Oberhausen Plauen Potsdam Regensburg² Rostock Saarbrücken Schwerin Strausberg Stuttgart Ulm Weil am Rhein Wuppertal² Würzburg Zwickau
Trolleybuses	Eberswalde Esslingen am Neckar Solingen
Suspension monorails	Dortmund H-Bahn Dresden Suspension Railway Düsseldorf SkyTrain Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Other	Bad Schandau Elevator Drachenfels Railway Stuttgart Rack Railway
¹ Former S-Bahn network ² Former tramway network

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