(مدينة) الجزائر - ALGER - ALGIERS

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TRAM ROUTES

Operator: Tramways Algériens (TA)

1	Bd. de Provence - Grande Poste - Parc de Galland
2	Grande Poste - Galliéni
3	Hôpital du Dey - Bd. de Provence - Grande Poste - Yusuf

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Operator: Chemins de Fer sur Routes d'Algérie (CFRA)

1	Place du Gouvernement - Champ de Manœuvre - Hussein Dey - Caroubier - Maison-Carrée
2	Place du Gouvernement - Champ de Manœuvre - Ruisseau
4	Place du Gouvernement - Nelson - St. Eugène

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM

NETWORK LENGTH

• Tramways: ? km.



HISTORY

• City trams (first-generation): (steam:) 21 Sept. 1894 - 1935; (electric): 14 Apr. 1898 - 12 Sept. 1959.
• City trams (second-generation): 8 May 2011 - today.
• Métro: 1 Nov. 2011 - today.

GAUGE

• Trams (first-generation): 1055 mm.
• Trams (second-generation): 1435 mm.
• Metro: 1435 mm.

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SOURCES

PRINT

• Attal, P.-E. "Tramways et métros d'Alger, d'hier à aujourd'hui", Historail, July 2015, No.34, p.54-69.
• "Black gold pays for Algerian LRT development", Tramways & Urban Transit, Apr. 2014 (77: 916), p.152-155.

WIKIS

• Chemins de fer sur routes d'Algérie (CFRA)
• Métro d'Alger
• Société des tramways algériens
• Tramway d'Alger
• Tramways et Messageries du Sahel

WEB SITES

• Alger - Tramways (on the site of AMTUIR (Musée des Transports Urbains).
• Algiers - Al Jaza'ir (on UrbanRail.Net)
• Entreprise Métro d'Alger
• Histoire des Tramways - Alger (by Hocine Bouzerara)
• SETRAM - Tramway d'Alger
• Les transports à, autour et pour Alger et l'Algérie (by Bernard Venis)