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Merano Tramway

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railway. After crossing the Post Bridge the line inclined sharply, and after eight kilometres it terminated at the Fountain Square in the Obermais quarter. The Tram Depot was at the rear of the cemetery, and is used today by the city's bus company. The profit of the company was not very high during
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Apart from the garage behind the cemetery, all traces of the line have been erased. In political campaigns by local politicians, there has been sometimes talk of reactivating the tram to reduce air pollution in the town, which today has a lot of traffic.
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company. In the 1950s, like many other railway lines in the region, the tram was substituted by a bus line.
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station, it went on to Mazzini Square and Theatre Square, where there was a junction with the
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the years the tram line operated. So after some time some of the cars were sold to the
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railway. The new tram line was to cross the town at right angles to the existing line.
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was built and opened in 1908 to satisfy the urban transport requirement in the town of
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Tram passing underneath the Vinschgauer Tor (c. 1925)
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Index

Meran Tramway

Track gauge
Electrification
Merano
Austrian monarchy
Lana-Merano

Vinschger Bahn
Lana-Merano
Bolzano Tramway

Meran Tramway
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Railway
Funicular
Rack railway
Innsbruck-Verona
Bolzano-Mals
Toblach-Calalzo
Auer-Predazzo
Klausen-Plan de Gralba
Lana-Meran
Franzensfeste-Innichen
Rittnerbahn
Bolzano Tramway
Meran Tramway
Bruneck-Taufers

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