Tram lines

On the top left of the page, we see a drawing of the tram network in the city of Luxembourg. It showes us the situation back in the heyday, say but just before 1940.

With normal lines on the map the network of the TVL is shown. Two lines side by side means that the lin there was double track. As you can see was the network with few exceptions, almost entirely single track.

Two times we see a dotted line; that shows the country tramline to Echternach and to Remich.

• The tram coming from Echternach had a connection to the line of the TVL in Eich. Some (steam) trams were riding on to the railway station (Gare) of Luxemburg on the tracks of line 12 via Mühlenbach and Rollingergrund. Whatever also occurred, was pulling of goods vans by a motor coach of the electric tram of the TVL via Rollingergrund and/or through the city to the station.

• From the south there was a line coming from Remich. This line had a connection to the tram network at the railway station (Gare). But normally there were no carriages going on from one to the other line.

As we can see in the picture, in the network of the TVL there was a strong focus on the connection between the station (Gare) and the Centre. Line 6 came near the station, and for the rest all lines did so, with an exception of line 9 and 10. And all lines just were somewhere near the vicinity of the town centre, either near Parc, either on the Place Guilaume II.

In the picture above there is a map of the center of the city. Almost all lines passed somewhere the city center. All lines were single track with some passing tracks on some places in the network. Only some piece of the network in the city center you can imagine that as double track; one way it was by the Rue de l'Eau, and the other way it was by the Rue de la Reine and the Rue du Fossé.

Horse tram : Gare - Parc - Centre - Porte Neuve

Traject : Gare - Avenue de la Liberté - Grand Rue - Rue de la Reine - Passerelle - Gare

21.01.1874	Opening (until Grand Rue)
24.08.1874	Prolongation until Porte Neuve
27.06.1908	Exploitation via new line over the Pont Adolphe
01.08.1908	closure

Line 2 : Gare - centre - Parc - Gare

(until 1925: red line)

Traject : Gare - Passerelle - Palais - Grand-Rue - Avenue de la Porte Neuve - Rond-Point - Boulevard de la Foire - Rue Joseph II - Avenue Montery - Avenue de la Liberté - Gare

01.08.1908	Opening
01.01.1925	Renumbered in line 2
1931	Change route Boul.Joseph II to Boul.Exterieur
07.07.1957	Closure

Line 4 : Gare - Centre - Limpertsberg

(until 1925: white line)

Traject : Gare - Avenue de la Gare - Passerelle - Palais - Grand-Rue - Rue Aldringen - Avenue Monterey - Rue Joseph II - Chapelle - Avenue de la Faïencerie - Boulevard de la Foire - Avenue de la Porte Neuve - Grand-Rue - Rue de la Reine - passerelle - Gare (tot 1.1.1925)

Traject : Gare - Avenue de la Gare - Passerelle - Palais - Grand-Rue - Avenue de la Porte-Neuve - Rond-Point - Dépot - Avenue de la Faïencerie - Boulevard de la Foire - Avenue de la Porte-Neuve - Grand-Rue - Avenue de la Gare - Gare (vanaf 1.1.1925)

01.08.1908	Opening
01.01.1925	Renumbered in line 4 (and change of route)
09.1928	Replace route Aldringen to Boul.Royal
1931	Change route Boul.Joseph II to Boul.Exterieur
09.07.1960	Closure

Line 6 : Gare - Hollerich - Parc - Centre - Bonnevoie

(tot 1925: Line Hollerich)

Traject : Gare - Hollerich Ets.Paul Wurth - Hollerich Eglise - Route d'Esch - Avenue Monterey - Poste - Grand-Rue - Rue de la Reine - Avenue de la Gare - Gare (until 1927)

Traject : Gare - Hollerich Ets.Paul Wurth - Hollerich Eglise - Route d'Esch - Avneue Monterey - Poste - Grand-Rue - Rue de la Reine - Avenue de la Gare - Route de Bonnevoie - Bonnevoie (from 1927)

02.09.1923	Opening tot Av.Monterey
01.01.1925	Renumbered in line 6
?	Opening from Av.Monterey to Gare
01.04.1927	combined with route line 7 and 8
26.07.1931	Opening Paul Wurth - Gare
11.04.1938	Prolongation Bonnevoie (Cimetière - Rue de Wiltz, 85 meter)
1942	Closure Paul Wurth - Gare (rails taken away in 1948)
01.09.1955	Closure (Hollerich - Av.Monterey)
07.09.1959	Closure (Av.Monterey - Bonnevoie)

Line 8 : Gare - Centre - Bonnevoie

Traject : Bonnevoie - Rue de Bonnevoie - Rue Sigefroid - Avenue de la Liberté - Grand-Rue - Rue de la Reine - Passerelle - Avenue de la Gare - Rue de Bonnevoie - Bonnevoie

(same route as line 7, but the other way round)

10.05.1925	Opening
01.04.1927	Closure (combined with route of line 6)

Line 10 : Centre - Eich - Dommeldange - Heisdorf

(tot 1925: Line Beggen)

Traject : Place du Théatre - Eich - Dommeldange - Beggen - Bereldange - Walferdange - Heisdorf

26.12.1913	Opening part until Dommeldange
1920	Prolongation in direction of Beggen (1500 meter)
01.05.1922	Opening part from Dommeldange until Beggen
01.01.1925	Renumbered in line 10
1928	Opening connection Rue Willy Goergen (for connection with depot)
04.10.1930	Opening part from Beggen until Heisdorf
05.09.1964	Closure

Remark.: The part of the line from Beggen until Heisdorf was ready in 1922, but because of quarrels with the community of Walferdange it was only opened in 1930.

Remark.: This was the last tramline riding in the city of Luxemburg.

Line 12 : Gare - Parc - Rollingergrund - Eich

Traject : Avenue de l'Arsenal - Rollingergrund - Eich

19.04.1904	Opening (line Vicinal)
17.09.1928	Opening (route Av.de l'Arsenal - Eich) (only some trams on a day)
14.01.1929	Opening (route Av.de l'Arsenal - Eich) (regular tram traffic)
11.09.1931	Opening (route Gare - Av.de l'Arsenal)
12.06.1954	Closure Vicinal Dommeldange-Echternach (passengers)
12.1954	Closure Vicinal Dommeldange-Echternach (goods)
09.05.1955	Closure