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Tram and Light Rail in Karlsruhe Germany
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Today we are in Karlsruhe in south-west Germany not far from France. • Karlsruhe is a midsize city with approximately 300,000 people; it is the second-largest city (after Stuttgart) in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. In Germany it is known for its excellent technical university, its Baroque palace as well as hosting Germany’s two highest courts: the Federal Constitutional Court and the German Supreme Court. It is also known for its expansive tram and light rail system, which achieved international recognition and gets copied around the world as the “Karlsruhe Model”. • The city has 71 km of tram lines, which serve the city proper. This tram system is shared with a light rail system called “Stadtbahn Karlsruhe”, which has a system length of 262 km and reaches far beyond Karlsruhe itself. Many of the light rail lines actually use mainline railway tracks outside of the city. This gives smaller towns around Karlsruhe a direct rail access into the city centre and its high street. • This film shows tram and light rail traffic at various stations around the city centre. European cities often have a pedestrian-only city core, which in Karlsruhe is directly served by the tram network. Since several years there is ongoing construction works to build a tram and light rail tunnel under the city centre. • The tram and light rail stocks used in Karlsruhe are quite diverse with models from several eras. At the time of filming the following stocks were in use: GT6-70D/N, GT8-70D/N, NET-2012 (tram) and GT6-80C, GT8-80C, GT8-100C/2S, GT8-100D/2S-M, and ET-2010 (light rail). • More information on the tram system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_i... • More information on the light rail system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsru... • Enjoy! • Filmed on Januar 2, 2017
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