List of largest tram and light rail transit systems ever

This is a list of the largest town tramway systems that have ever operated. Town tramway systems include all light rail, tram, interurban, streetcar, or other comparable modes of public transport which uses rails while mainly traveling among other traffic. All figures reflect the system at its height. To keep the list manageable, only systems with over 90km of track are included.

List

System	Country	Length (km)	Notes	Closed
Vicinal tramway	Belgium	4,095[1]	Networks between towns ceased in the 1970s, but one line (the Coast Tram) remains in operation.
Streetcars in Los Angeles	USA	1,770+[2]	Composed of Los Angeles Railway and Pacific Electric.	1963[2]
Chicago Surface Lines		1,600+[3]		1958[3]
Trams in Paris	France	1,111[4]	Original network stopped service in 1938. Since then, a new 196.6 km network has been built.[5]
Trams in Buenos Aires	Argentina	875[6][7]	Still operating some lines.
Trams in Saint Petersburg	Russia	700+[8]	205 km of lines remain.
Detroit United Railway	USA	640		1956
Trams in Berlin	Germany	624[9]	194 km of lines remain.
Tram in Moscow	Russia	560[10]	208[Note 1]
Trams in London	UK	523[11]	All trams removed by 1952, but a much smaller modern tramway network, London Tram, reintroduced in 2000.	1952
SFMTA	USA	489[12]	Length in 1921.
Manchester Corporation Tramways	UK	470[13]	Length could relate to all track in current Greater Manchester including neighbouring operators (but with much inter-running/shared routes).[14] Others suggest about 470 km.[15] All trams removed by 1950s, but modern light rail, Manchester Metrolink introduced 1992.	1949
Market Street Railway	USA	457[16]		1944
Trams in Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	433[17]
Streetcars in Washington, D.C.	USA	320[18]		1962[18]
Trams in Vienna	Austria	318[19]	Today 172 km remain.[20]
Sacramento Northern	USA	295		1941
Trams in Sydney	Australia	291[21]		1961[21]
San Diego Electric Railway	USA	266		1949
Trams in Melbourne	Australia	256	Current largest tram system by route length.
Glasgow Corporation Tramways	UK	227.51		1962
Trams in oslo	Norway	200+	Today 94 km remain, several lines have been ripped out and high frequency buses are run on the lines instead and five lines have had their rights of way used for the current metrosystem.
Trams in Brisbane	Australia	199		1969
Cologne Stadtbahn	Germany	194.8
Trams in Milan	Italy	181.8[22]	Data as of 2017. The network was longer in the past.
Silesian Tramways	Poland	178
Tidewater Southern Railway	USA	137
Trams in Geneva	Switzerland	170[23]	The network was reduced to only one surviving line in the 1960s. It has been re-expanding since then, back to over 40 km.
Trams in Budapest	Hungary	158
Trams in Sofia	Bulgaria	154
Trams in Leipzig	Germany	148
Peninsular Railway	USA	146.6
Trams in Prague	Czech Rep.	145,7	As of 2019, the Prague tram network operates 882 tram vehicles.
Trams in Bucharest	Romania	144
Liverpool Corporation Tramways	UK	140		1957
Trams in Kyiv	Ukraine	139.9
Trams in Brussels	Belgium	139
Trams in Dresden	Germany	134.3
Trams in Munich	Germany	134
Trams in Warsaw	Poland	132
Trams in Stuttgart	Germany	131
Trams in Hanover		127
Birmingham Corporation Tramways	UK	129.6[24]		1953
Central California Traction Company	USA	126[25]
Trams in Lodz	Poland	124.1
Tram in Zürich	Switzerland	122
Trams in Greater Cairo	Egypt	120[26]		2019[27]
Trams in Zagreb	Croatia	116
Trams in Adelaide	Australia	113[28]	As of 2024, only 15 km remain.
Visalia Electric Railroad	USA	109
Key System		106		1959
Dublin tramways	Ireland	97	No original tramways still exist, but modern light rail, the Luas, was introduced in 2004 and operates 42 km of track.	1959
Trams in Gothenburg	Sweden	95
Trams in Kraków	Poland	97
Trams in Christchurch	New Zealand	86.1	A new heritage loop was built totalling 3.9 km.	1954

1. This reference ("Евгений Михайлов: Обособление трамвайных путей положительно сказывается на регулярности движения наземного городского транспорта" [Yevgeny Mikhailov: The separation of tramways' positive impact on the reliability of urban transport traffic] (in Russian). Мосгортранс [Mosgortrans]. 17 March 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2015.) quotes the 2014 single track length of Moscow's tram network to be 416 kilometres (258 mi) – for the purposes of this table, the double track system length of Moscow's tram network is assumed to be roughly half that figure, or approximately 208 kilometres (129 mi).

See also

• List of town tramway systems
• List of tram and light rail transit systems
• List of largest currently operating tram and light rail transit systems
• History of tram and light rail transit systems by country