Trams in Norrköping

An M97 tram at Söder Tull, as it leaves the city centre on a line 3 service

The Norrköping tramway network is a system of trams forming a principal part of the public transport services in Norrköping, Sweden. It has been in service since 1904, and is, along with the larger Göteborg Tramway, one of only two city-centre tramways in Sweden that survived the switch to right-hand traffic in 1967, which led to the replacement of most Swedish tramways with buses to reduce the cost of replacing their now-unusable fleets.

Routes

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The current system has two routes. Line 2 runs from Fridvalla in the north to Hageby in the south, following Östra Promenaden through the city centre. Line 3 runs between Vidablick in the north and Klockaretorpet in the west, passing through the city centre on Drottninggatan. Both lines interchange with the national railway network at the Resecentrum (Travelcentre) by Norrköping Central Station. Line 1 is missing due to historical reasons, as there was until 1958 a Line 1 trafficking the city centre as a circular line, including the 1961 abolished stretch in Kungsgatan. There is a concurrent Line 1 trafficked with trams from the tram museum in Norrköping as a somewhat historically preserved old tram environment.

Line 2 used to end in Klingsberg. In early 21st century works started to extend the system to Ringdansen some 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) south of Klingsberg. A first part, to Ljura, opened in 2006. This track leaves the Klingsberg track at the Albrektsvägen stop, which means that Klingsberg lost its trams. This stage was only some 350 meters long. Work with the second stage started in 2009, and in October 2010 some 2 km of new tramway opened, from Ljura to Trumpetaregatan in Hageby. Work with the third stage will begin in 2010 and the stage is planned to be opened in the autumn of 2011.

Operations

Flexity Classic at Vidablick, the northern terminus of line 3

The Norrköping tramway is a standard-gauge electrically powered system, operated by Veolia Transport on behalf of the regional transport authority ÖstgötaTrafiken. The infrastructure and the tramcars are, however, property of Norrköping Municipality. It has track loops at the end of the lines and at various other points to allow turnbacks, as most of the trams are unidirectional. The tram depot is located off Östra Promenaden, between the Djäkneparksskolan and Centralbadet stops.

Norrköping’s fleet includes ten Düwag M97 trams, and four ADtranz low-floor trams (designated M98), built originally for Bremen and Munich. The most recent addition, introduced in 2007, is the Bombardier Flexity Classic (designated M06), a modern low-floor, bidirectional tram used in a number of cities around the world. Ten M67K trams (originally built in 1967 and since modernised) were taken out of regular use in 2008, but remain available as a reserve fleet.

The M67K are now constantly in traffic because of that Östgötatrafiken borrowed all except two of the M06 to Stockholm.

See also

	Trains portal
	Sweden portal

• List of town tramway systems in Europe

External links

• Norrköping commune's official tramway web site (Swedish)
• ÖstgötaTrafiken
• Tram Travels/Sporvognsrejser: ÖstgötaTrafiken