Trams in Würzburg
# Trams in Würzburg

The Würzburg tramway network (German: Straßenbahnnetz Würzburg) is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Würzburg, a city in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany.

The network presently consists of five lines, with a total track length of 42 kilometres (26 mi) (yielding a one-way route length of approximately 21 kilometres (13 mi)). It is currently operated by Würzburger Straßenbahn GmbH, a subsidiary of Würzburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH [de] (WVV), and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Mainfranken [de] (VVM).

## History

The first horse-drawn tramway opened in Würzburg in 1892. The first electric trams went into operation in Würzburg in 1900.

Beginning in the 1990s, a concerted effort was made to move Würzburg's tramlines into their own rights-of-way and convert them more to a light rail (Stadtbahn) type of operation over the traditional tram system operating in regular road traffic. Currently, most of Würzburg tramlines, outside of sections downtown and in the Sanderau district, operate as light rail in their own rights-of-way. In addition, low-floor light rail vehicles were purchased.

## Lines

As of 2013, the network was made up of the following five lines:

| Line | Route | Travel time | Length* |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Grombühl Uni-Kliniken – Hauptbahnhof – Juliuspromenade – Stadtmitte – Sanderring – Sanderau | 20 min | 10.4 km |
| 2 | Hauptbahnhof – Juliuspromenade – Wörthstraße – Zellerau | 14 min | 8.0 km |
| 3 | Hauptbahnhof – Juliuspromenade – Stadtmitte – Sanderring – Steinbachtal – Reuterstraße – Heuchelhof | 27 min | 19.3 km |
| 4 | Sanderau – Sanderring – Stadtmitte – Wörthstraße – Zellerau | 23 min | 12.6 km |
| 5 | Grombühl Uni-Kliniken – Hauptbahnhof – Juliuspromenade – Stadtmitte – Sanderring – Steinbachtal – Reuterstraße – Heuchelhof – Rottenbauer | 39 min | 26.2 km |

* The figure refers to both directions, ie a complete round trip.

## Rolling stock

The Würzburg tram fleet consists of:

* GTW-D8 (6 trams, built by Düwag in 1968)
* GT-E (14 trams, built by LHB in 1989)
* GT-N (20 trams, built by Alstom LHB in 1995)

An Artic tram was tested on the network in October 2014. 18 new low-floor trams were ordered from HeiterBlick [de] in 2019, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2022.

* GTW-D8
* GT-E
* GT-N (left)
* Transtech Artic
