The Turku tramway network was the first tram system to be operated in Finland, and was the second-to-last first generation tram system in Finland. It...

most concrete such plans are in Turku. In Helsinki, horse trams operated between 1890 and 1901. Since 1900, electric trams have operated there. For part...

transportation. Many early trams were horse-drawn, but electric trams followed. By the mid-1910s, the urban population were fully accustomed to trams as a fashionable...

until trams in Turku were discontinued in 1972. For a long time, Turku was an important traffic hub for commuter traffic, as trains went from the Turku Central...

system (1949-74 and 1979-85) in addition to trams. Trams in Finland List of town tramway systems in Europe List of tram and light rail transit systems...

The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge, electrification...

Turku (/ˈtʊərkuː/ TOOR-koo; Finnish: [ˈturku] ; Swedish: Åbo, Finland Swedish: [ˈoːbu] ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland...

had tram systems. Vyborg abandoned its trams in 1957 after it was ceded to the Soviet Union after the end of World War II. Turku withdrew its trams in 1972...

the last trams acquired for the Turku tram network prior to its closure in 1972, built by the Finnish metal industry corporation Valmet in 1956. Although...

the fourth city in Finland to have a tram system but one of only two to still have trams in service, as Turku discontinued tram service in 1972 and Vyborg...

Karlsruhe Kassel: Kassel RegioTram (2006) Nordhausen: Trams in Nordhausen Saarbrücken: Saarbahn Szeged-Hódmezővásárhely tram-train (2021) Bergamo: Bergamo–Albino...

finished in 2021. Tampere trams are already operating but the official opening date is 9 August 2021. Turku also has preliminary plans for new tram system...

of the Turku barracks Henrikin esplanadi changed into Turuntie which, true to its name, was the start of a country road leading to Turku. In the 1850s...

Turku (Swedish: Åbo) is Finland's oldest city, having been founded in 1229. The city has a history as part of Sweden, Russia, and finally as an important...

producing trams and the first three units were handed over to the city of Turku in the same year. This was followed by seven trams delivered in 1938. According...

The 2017 Turku attack occurred on 18 August 2017 at around 16:02–16:05 (UTC+3) when 10 people were stabbed in central Turku, Southwest Finland. Two women...

influences and characteristics, and is the only breed developed fully in Finland. In English it is sometimes called the Finnish Universal, as the Finns consider...

of Vyborg, in which the Soviet Union took back control of the city. Tram traffic started again in 1946, but was stopped in 1957 and the trams were moved...

1944 two trams collided in Madrid injuring 40. In September 1946, a tram accident at Santander killed three people. On 9 March 1947 two trams covering...

only for Turku - Turku Port section (from 1524mm gauge, including electrification conversion from 25kV 50Hz AC to 1500V DC) and Helsinki tram network (from...

Katajanokka Terminal. Served by Helsinki tram lines 4 and 5. Turku: Linnansatama. Served by the Port of Turku railway station and bus line 1. Mariehamn:...

HST) on the Helsinki tram network. All trams of this type were built by the Finnish tram manufacturer Karia in 1959. The first trams of this type were withdrawn...

city to have a tram system. The city of Turku dismantled its tram system in 1972, and Finland lost the city of Vyborg to the USSR in World War II and...

quasi-state. ISIL occupied significant territory in Iraq and Syria in 2013, but lost most of it in 2017 and 2019. In 2014, the group proclaimed itself to be a...

bought the parent company Kone ja Silta in the 1930s; it included also the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku. In 1965 the yard was renamed Wärtsilä Helsingin...

university in Helsinki, Finland. The university was founded in Turku in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo under the Swedish Empire, and moved to Helsinki in 1828...

Helsinki and Turku in Finland (commonly called "Finlandsfärjan"); Mariehamn, Åland; Tallinn, Estonia; Riga, Latvia, and to Saint Petersburg in Russia. The...

transport system consists of trams, commuter rail, the metro, bus lines, two ferry lines and a public bike system. Helsinki's tram system dates back to 1891...

its elite guests in small porcelain bowls. According to one source, the first U.S. ice cream parlor opened in New York City in 1790. In the early 1800s...

in Vantaa. Trams in Helsinki are operated by HKL. Helsinki was the only Finnish city with tram service in use from 1972, when tram services in Turku ended...