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TRAM ROUTES
Operator: Dopravný podnik Kosice (DPB)
| 2 | Havlíčkova – Krajský súd – Staničné nám. (Railway Station) |
| 3 | Staničné nám. (Railway Station) – Ryba – VSS, križovatka – Važecká |
| 4 | Havlíčkova – Krajský súd – Ryba – VSS, križovatka – Barca |
| 5 | Staničné nám. (Railway Station) – Krajský súd - Idanská - OC Optima [Runs only on Sunday afternoons and evenings, connecting with specific trains at the Railway Station] |
| 6 | Múzeum - Amfiteáter - Idanská - Krajský súd – Staničné nám. (Railway Station) |
| 7 | Botanická záhrada - Krajský súd – Ryba – VSS, križovatka – Važecká |
| 9 | Havlíčkova – Amfiteáter - VSS, križovatka – Važecká |
| R1 | Staničné nám. (Railway Station) - Krajský súd – Idanská - OC Optima - U. S. Steel |
High-peak and other temporary routes run between the U.S. Steel plant and Važecká (R2), Havlíčkova (R3), Botanická záhrada (R4), Ryba (R5), Moldavská Depot (R6), Amfiteáter (R7) and Barca (R8), respectively. These routes are not shown on the map.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Tramway: 33.6 km.
HISTORY
- Horse trams: 14 Nov. 1891 - 1914.
- Steam trams: 1896 - 1913.
- Urban electric trams: 28 Feb. 1914 - today.
GAUGE
- Urban trams: 1435 mm.
SOURCES
- Lehnhart, H. & Jeanmaire, C. Tramway systems of Eastern Europe II. Villigen AG (Switzerland): Verlag Eisenbahn, 1977.
- Linek, J. "The tramways of Czechoslovakia [Košice]", Light Rail and Modern Tramway.Oct. 1993 (56: 670), p.255-257.
- Pulling, N. "Systems factfile No. 193: Košice, Slovakia", Tramways & Urban Transit, Nov. 2023 (86: 1031), p.433-437.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
- Dopravný podnik mesta Košice (DPMK)
- Kassa Autóbusz és Villamos Vonalhálózata [Bus and tram network of Košice, in Hungarian]
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