older trams are still owned by the MVG. Some are exhibited in the MVG Museum, and may occasionally be seen on special services. Other Munich trams are displayed...
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the Munich tramways in order to show how "insufficient" the tram system was. At that time, trams were the primary means of public transportation in Munich...
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people, Munich and its closest suburbs have a comprehensive network of public transport incorporating the Munich U-Bahn, the Munich S-Bahn, trams and buses...
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begin considering such schemes again in the 1960s and 1970s. Munich and Nuremberg decided to fully abolish their trams and started constructing full-scale...
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low-floor trams have a total length of 33.94 metres (111 ft 4 in). The first delivered S-car, number 2301, was used for the first time in Munich on 19 March...
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prototype "Bremen" (tram 3801) and three units from Munich. On 20 October 1992, the framework conditions for the procurement of 120 trams were adopted. The...
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current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems. In other words...
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people and the trams in Munich. The Weiß-Ferdl-Mittelschule, a secondary school in Altötting, has a retired blue Munich Tram carriage in the southeast...
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systems—electricity in city streets and diesel in more rural environments. Occasionally, trams also carry freight. Some trams, known as tram-trains, may have...
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open. Population: 169,693. 1875 - Munich Opera Festival begins. 1876 - Trams in Munich runs by horsecar. 1878 - Munich Pasing station relocated. 1879 Bavarian...
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transport in Munich Airports in Munich Munich Airport Munich S-Bahn Munich U-Bahn List of Munich U-Bahn stations München Hauptbahnhof Trams in Munich Bus transport...
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The history of trams, streetcars, or trolleys began in the early nineteenth century. It can be divided up into several discrete periods defined by the...
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tram structures, electricity, risks, and specific rescue and firefighting tactics concerning trams. Rescue organizations may also train with trams in...
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Ungererstraße (category Streets in Munich)
1900, the tram line in the Ungererstraße was the last Munich horse-drawn railway line to be converted to electric operation. In 1917, the tram was extended...
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Stadtbahn (category Tram transport in Germany)
of metro-grade tunnels in the central city area. In the first years after the opening of the tunnel sections, often regular trams vehicles (but adapted...
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turnbacks, as older trams were uni-directional. Today most trams are bi-directional but they are operated as uni-directional. The tram depot is located off...
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low-floor trams to the city of Munich embroiled in fierce debate about whether or not the Munich tramway was to have a future and if so in which form...
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Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (redirect from Munich Public Transportation Company)
Munich Transport Company) is a municipally owned company responsible for operating public transport in Munich, Germany. It operates buses, the Munich...
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Trams have been used since the 19th century, and since then, there have been various uses and designs for trams around the world. This article covers...
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Munich Airport (German: Flughafen München „Franz Josef Strauß“) (IATA: MUC, ICAO: EDDM) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. To...
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München Hauptbahnhof (redirect from Munich Main Station)
of the Munich tram system. By 1966, Hauptbahnhof was served by ten tram routes. In the years following, the number of trams and routes in Munich declined...
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Flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off at Munich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. The aircraft was carrying the Manchester United football...
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The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge, electrification...
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trams are 300 to 350 mm (11.8 to 13.8 in), and the Ultra Low Floor tram has a floor height of only 180 mm (7.1 in). For comparison high-floor trams are...
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[update] the fleet of the Augsburg tram network consists of three high-floor MAN M8C trams, 11 ADtranz GT6M trams, 41 Siemens Combino type NF8, and 27...
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Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Carol Reed and starring Margaret Lockwood and Rex Harrison. Written by Sidney Gilliat...
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to build tunnels for their existing trams, rebuilding tram lines underground. Those systems of tram in tunnels in city centre areas do not meet the criteria...
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July 2016, a mass shooting occurred in the vicinity of the Olympia shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany. An 18-year-old Iranian-German...
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Maximilianstraße was constructed in Perpendicular style. The railways reached Munich in 1839, followed by trams in 1876 and electric lighting in 1882. The Technical...
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the Munich S-Bahn network. It is operated by DB Regio Bayern. It runs from Herrsching via Weßling, Pasing, central Munich and Munich East to Munich Airport...
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