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Trams in Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou

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700: 592: 529: 794: 1126: 1083: 29: 378:) single-track railway becoming operational on 1 January 1955. 6MT type trams were used on the line delivered from Česká Lípa. On 31 October 1960, the lines to Rochlice and Růžodol were decommissioned and within three years, all tracks on the lines disappeared. In the 70s, the intercity line to Jablonec was completely reconstructed. 485:
After the turn of the millennium, T2 and T3 trams were modernized. Most T2R cars were decommissioned before 2006. After 2006, only a couple of modernized T2R trams remained in operation. Deliveries of Tatra's T3 PLF low-floor variant followed between 2005 and 2007. In 2012, a prototype of the EVO2
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were in regular operation for the last time on the interurban line to Jablonec nad Nisou. The next day, construction work began on the regauging of the section U Lomu – Vratislavice. Operation on the normal gauge line to Vratislavice was resumed on 6 November 2021. Vratislavice - Jablonec section
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Meetings took place to introduce three new lines, but no new tracks were built in the end. On 13 December 1924, line numbering was also introduced for the first time. In 1929, the network transported 8 million passengers, however, during the economic crisis the number dropped to 5.4 million and
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Regular Liberec public transport tariffs apply both on Liberec and Jablonec services as all lines are part of the public transport network in Liberec. In the past, there was a zone tariff on the Liberec–Jablonec line and for this reason, conductors were still operating at a time when operation
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Separate proposals for a tram connection between Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou appeared, and the initiative was led mainly by the Jablonec Electric Railways, with the Ministry of Railways rejecting the proposals for many years due to the existence of a parallel railway line. The electric tram
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It was at a time when the only tram operation in the territory of today's Czech Republic was in Prague (Křižík's electric railway at Letná). Construction began in May 1897 and the line was completed three months later. On 25 August 1897, the first line in Liberec was inaugurated.
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income losses of 1 million crowns had to be solved by placing advertising boards on cars. In 1930s, the line ending in Růžodol was extended by about 700 metres to the Letka restaurant, and in 1934, a connecting line was created from the station to the viaduct.
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The reconstruction of track gauge did not take place until the 1990s. The reconstruction took place in several stages from 1990 to 1998. On 14 August 1998, the first trams on the 1435 mm gauge were put into operation in Liberec.
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tracks were used since inception of the system in 1898 and a part of the network was decommissioned in the 1960s. A gradual reconstruction of the city line took place in the 1990s, where tracks were reconstructed to
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The branch between Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou was out of service since July 2021 to May 2024 for upgrading and regauging to bring the network to an all standard-gauge track. It reopened on May 1 2024.
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quickly became the main mode of transport in Liberec, carrying 800,000 passengers in 1898. New lines to Rochlice (1899), to Růžodol I (1904) and Horní Hanychov (1912) were built.
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The track system is approximately 21.5 km (13.4 mi) long with the branch between Liberec and Jablonec nad Nisou measuring around 13 km (8 mi).
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track; line 11. The journey takes around 30 minutes. It was closed for regauging from metre to standard gauge in July 2021 and was reopened in May 2024.
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was the interconnection of the Jablonec and Liberec tram networks in 1955 according to plans that had been in existence since around 1900s.
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without conductors was already introduced in Liberec and other Czech cities. All tramcars are equipped with ticket vending machines.
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On 11 September 1894, the Liberec City Council approved a proposal for the construction of an electric tram line with a
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Construction on the Liberec–Jablonec tramway started in 1947 and the line was finished in 1954 as a
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where tram transport is present. The tram system is conjoined with an interurban tramway branch to
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began to appear increasingly important as it was present in all cities of the then
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tram was put into operation, which remains the only EVO2 in Liberec as of today.
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Liberec, Fügnerova ↔ Vratislavice nad Nisou ↔ Jablonec nad Nisou, Tyršovy Sady
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All Liberec services converge at the central tram point, Fügnerova station.
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Other similar interurban tramway lines in the Czech Republic include
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At the end of the 1980s, the need to adjust the track gauge from
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A set of T2R cars on former line P in front of the Nová Ruda stop
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Interurban tram system in Liberec nad Jablonec and Nisou, Czechia
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Lidové sady-ZOO ↔ Fügnerova ↔ Dolní Hanychov ↔ Horní Hanychov
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trams in the world, the T2R cars No. 18 and 19, were retired.
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Tatra T3R.PLF at Zelené Údolí on the Liberec–Jablonec tramway
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was incorporated as the operator connecting tram systems in
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Dopravní podnik měst Liberce a Jablonce nad Nisou, a.s.
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Dopravní podnik měst Liberce a Jablonce nad Nisou, a.s.
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Fügnerova Station in Liberec where all routes converge
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Liberec
Jablonec nad Nisou
Czech Republic
Track gauge
1,435 mm
Electrification
V
DC
Track length (single)
Route length
http://www.dpmlj.cz
Liberec
Czech Republic
Jablonec nad Nisou
Narrow-gauge
standard-gauge railway
metre gauge
World War I
Munich Agreement
Nazi Germany
Reichsgau Sudetenland
Liberec
Jablonec nad Nisou
World War II
1,000 mm
metre gauge
standard gauge
Czechoslovakia
Bratislava

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