Gent is a big city in the north western part of Belgium. It is the capitel of the province of Oost-Vlaanderen. Todays the city has about 260.000 inhabitants. Around 1880 there were onlys 130.000 inhabitants (although the area of the city was smaller than today).

In Gent the first horse tram was opened in 1874, a line from the station to the center of the city at the Korenmarkt. Later on some more horse trams were opend. The lines were laid with track width 1000 mm, like many other tramways in Belgium. The lines were operated by the "Tramways de ville de Gand", a local company.

On 1897-08-13 the concession for the tram lines was given to two companies linked to the RELSE (company in Liège). They created a new company, the ETG (Elektrische Tramwegen van Gent). That company started replacing the horse tram lines to electric trams (accu trams).

To read more about the electric trams in Gent, visit my page about the city tram in Gent.

On the lines of the Gent horse tramway there were 43 carriages of which 14 open and 29 closed.

More information can be found:

• on the page of the Antwerpse tramways on Wikipedia.nl.