![]() The Ramleh tram is mainly operated by Kinki Sharyo multiple units including double-deck trams – a specialty which is only found elsewhere only in Hong Kong and Blackpool. A few years ago, some of the Düwag GT6 trams have been modernised and re-painted (in red and blue white) and are now in service on lines 5/6 on the Ramleh tram. For decades, the Düwag trams were only operated on the city lines. ![]() The rolling stock consists in 280 used Düwag, Kinki Sharyo and Ganz and Tatra trams of which 119 units remain in daily service on the “bumpy”, 32 km long track network which consists in the city centre “Al-Medina” tram with 16 lines and the so-called “Ramleh” tram network which is running in parallel to the Mediterranean coastline.Īlexandria purchased 99 used Düwag-built trams from the tram system in Copenhagen which closed in 1972. The tram is transporting some 80,000 passengers per day. Opened in 1863, electrified in 1902 and very popular with locals, the tram of the Egyptian city of Alexandria is in desolate conditions due to lack of maintenance. ![]() One of the first Tatra-Yug trams in service on the new lines 5/6 on the Ramleh fast tram at the terminus San Stefano I Photo: Karim Khalid
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