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| Above: YouTubeCA video - Hamburger Straßenbahn | 1977 | RetroCut - Length: 3:53 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - Hamburg 1948 - Rare Footage in color and HD (includes trams) - Length: 11:47 mins. | Above: YouTubeCA video - 100 Jahre Hamburger Hochbahn Fahrzeugparde am 03.10.2012 U-Bahn - Length: 19:39 mins. |
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MAPS
CENTRAL HAMBURG MAP
ABBREVIATIONS ON THE MAPS
| Ds | Diagonalstr. | Jfs | Jungfernstieg |
| Gm | Gänsemarkt | LS | Lübecker Straße |
| HBh | Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) | Rh | Rathaus (City Hall) |
I created the above maps by overlaying OpenStreetMap (OSM) maps with my own data. Copyright on the OSM maps is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under a CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence).
Please note that the OSM maps used as templates for these maps correspond to the situation at the time the maps were downloaded and may show features that did not exist at the time the GS Tram Site is supposed to show. In particular, they may show bridges and highways that were built later.
ROUTES
Operator: Hamburger Hochbahn AG
TRAM ROUTES
| 1 | Schenefeld - Lurup – Bahrenfeld Trabrennbahn (Bahrenfeld Racetracks) – Bahrenfeld – Ottensen - Bf. Altona (Altona Station) – Landungsbrücken – Rödingsmarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) - Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) - Berliner Tor – Hamm - Billstedt |
| 2 | Schnelsen – Niendorf – Hoheluftbrücke – Dammtor – Gänsemarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) - Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) - Berliner Tor – Horner Rennbahn (Horn Racetracks) |
| 3 | Langenfelde – Osterstraße – Dammtor – Gänsemarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) - Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) – St. Georg – Hofweg – Mühlenkamp – Winterhude - Lattenkamp |
| 4 | Niendorf – Hoheluftbrücke – Dammtor – Gänsemarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) - Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) - Berliner Tor – Horner Rennbahn (Horn Racetracks) [Rush hours only] |
| 7 | Othmarschen - Ottensen - Bf. Altona (Altona Station) – Reeperbahn – Rödingsmarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) - Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) - Berliner Tor – Hamm - Billstedt |
| 9 | Flughafen (Airport) – Alsterdorf – Lattenkamp - Winterhude – Maria-Louisen-Str. – Mittelweg – Dammtor – Gänsemarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) – Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) |
| 11 | Schenefeld - Lurup – Bahrenfeld Trabrennbahn (Bahrenfeld Racetracks) – Neuer Pferdemarkt - Feldstraße – Rödingsmarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) – Amsinckstraße – Veddel – Wilhelmsburg - Harburg – Rönneburg |
| 14 | Millemtor - Neuer Pferdemarkt - Gärtnerstr. – Martinistr. – Eppendorf - Winterhude - Mühlenkamp – Mundsburg - Berliner Tor – Heidenkampsweg - Veddel |
| 15 | Neues Rathaus (New Altona City Hall) – Bf. Altona (Altona Station) – Max-Brauer-Allee – Gärtnerstr. – Martinistr. – Eppendorf - Winterhude – Mühlenkamp – Mundsburg - Landwehr – Burgstraße - Hamm (Diagonalstr.) |
| 16 | Lutterothstraße – Osterstraße – Dammtor – Gänsemarkt – Rathaus (City Hall) - Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) – St. Georg – Hofweg – Mühlenkamp – Winterhude - Lattenkamp |
| 18 | Gr. Borstel – Eppendorf – Klosterstern - Rothenbaumchaussee – Dammtor – Gänsemarkt – Rathaus – Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) |
| 19 | [Rush hours only: Landwehr – Burgstraße - ] Berliner Tor – Heidenkampsweg – Großmannstr. – Billbrook |
U-BAHN (UNDERGROUND) LINES
| U1 | Ohlstedt / Großhansdorf - Volksdorf - Farmsen - Wandsbek Gartenstadt - Wandsbek - Lübecker Straße - Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) - Rathaus (City Hall) - Jungfernstieg - Dammtor - Klosterstern - Kellinghusenstraße – Alsterdorf - Ohlsdorf - Langenhorn - Ochsenzoll |
| U2 | Schlump – Lutterothstraße |
| U3 | Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) – Berliner Tor – Mundsburg - Bf. Barmbek – Kellinghusenstraße – Hoheluftbrücke - Schlump – Landungsbrücken – Rödingsmarkt - Rathaus – Hauptbahnhof (Main Station) [Ring line, both directions] |
| U3 | (Branch:) Bf. Barmbek - Wandsbek Gartenstadt |
Note: U-Bahn lines in 1965 did not as yet have numbers (line numbers U1/2/3 were introduced in 1966). For convenience, however, these numbers to come are indicated on the maps and in the line listings.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tramway: ? km.
- U-Bahn (underground): 74.9 km.
HISTORY
- City trams: (Horse tramway) 16 Aug. 1866 - 27 Dec. 1922; (Steam tramway) 13 May 1878 - 22 June 1897; (Electric tramway) 5 March 1894 - 30 Sept. 1978
- U-Bahn: 15 Feb. 1912 - today
GAUGE
- Tramways: 1435 mm.
- U-Bahn: 1435 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
There seems to be no museum devoted to the preservation of trams in Hamburg
SOURCES
- Pagel, M. and Taplin, M.R. Tramways of Western Germany. Hassocks (England): Light Rail Transit Association, 3rd ed., 1980.
- Schwandl, R. Schwandl's Tram Atlas Deutschland. Berlin: Author, 2009.
- Straßenbahnatlas 2005: Deutschland. Berlin: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Straßenbahn e.V., 2005.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
- frederiks.de (with a detailed history of tram lines in Hamburg)
- Hamburg (on UrbanRail.Net)
- Hochbahn
- Hochbahnbuch
- Straßenbahn Hamburg, Karten der Linienwege
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