List of premetro systems
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This is the list of cities which have premetro systems – i.e. tram or light rail systems which are, or were, intended to be converted to full rapid transit systems.
List
Location | Country | Relevant Wikipedia article | Year opened | Stations | System length |
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Buenos Aires | Argentina | PreMetro (Line E2) | 1987 | 17 | 7.4 km (4.6 mi) |
Vienna | Austria | Vienna Pre-metro | 1969 | 8 | 3.4 km (2.1 mi) |
Antwerp | Belgium | Antwerp Pre-metro[1] | 1975 | 11 (+8 not in use) |
8.1 km (5.0 mi) |
Brussels | Belgium | Trams in Brussels[2] | 1972 | 15 | |
Calgary | Canada | CTrain[3] | 1981 | 45 | 59.9 km (37.2 mi) |
Edmonton | Canada | Edmonton LRT[4] | 1978 | 18 | 24.3 km (15.1 mi) |
Charleroi | Belgium | Charleroi Metro[5] | 1976 | 48 | 33 km (21 mi) |
Frankfurt[dubious ] | Germany | Frankfurt U-Bahn | 1968 | 86 | 64.85 km (40.30 mi) |
Poznań | Poland | Poznań Fast Tram[6] | 1997 | 8 | 8.1 km (5.0 mi) |
Kraków | Poland | Kraków Fast Tram[7] | 2008 | 22 km (14 mi) | |
Szczecin | Poland | Szczecin Fast Tram | 2015 | ||
Volgograd | Russia | Volgograd Metrotram | 1984 | 22 | 17.3 km (10.7 mi) |
Kyiv[dubious ] | Ukraine | Kyiv Light Rail | 1978 | 19 | 21 km (13 mi) |
Kryvyi Rih | Ukraine | Kryvyi Rih Metrotram[8] | 1986 | 11 | 17.7 km (11.0 mi) |
See also
- Premetro
- Tram and light rail transit systems
- List of tram and light rail transit systems
- List of town tramway systems (all-time list)
- Medium-capacity rail transport system
- List of metro systems
- List of suburban and commuter rail systems
- List of trolleybus systems
References
- ^ "Antwerpen Tram & Premetro". UrbanRail.net. 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
Antwerpen rail network is a typical premetro network.
- ^ Geoffroy Fabre (19 March 2014). "Une station fantôme au secours du futur Métro Nord de la STIB". RTBF. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
- ^ "Calgary Light Rail". UrbanRail.net. 2016. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
- ^ "Edmonton Light Rail". UrbanRail.net. 2016. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
Edmonton has a population of 750,000 in the city and 1 million in the metropolitan area and was the first North American city with less than a million inhabitants to build a light rail system, which runs underground in central areas, just like a European Premetro or Stadtbahn system.
- ^ "Charleroi Premetro". UrbanRail.net. 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
The Charleroi Metro is a typical prémétro network, i.e. trams that run underground in the city centre and on viaducts or separate right-of-way through outer parts (similar to German Stadtbahn systems).
- ^ "Poznański Szybki Tramwaj". 2015.
- ^ "Krakowski Szybki Tramwaj". 2015.
- ^ "Kryvy Rih . Krovoy Rog Rapid Tram". UrbanRail.Net. Retrieved 29 January 2016.