List of town tramway systems in Switzerland

This is a list of town tramway systems in Switzerland. It includes all tram systems, past and present.

Tramways

Location	System	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)
Basel Basel Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany... *	Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe Basler Verkehrsbetriebe is an electric tramway in Basel, Switzerland and has been open from May 6, 1892...	Electric	6 May 1892
	Baselland Transport Baselland Transport Baselland Transport is a public transport company in Basel, Switzerland. It operates the more suburban routes and its vehicles wear a yellow-and-red colour scheme...	Steam	4 October 1887	2 June 1905
		Electric	6 October 1902
Bern*	Bernmobil (Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Bern)	Compressed Air	1 October 1890	15 November 1901
		Steam	17 May 1894	6 February 1902
		Electric	1 July 1902
Bex Bex Bex is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle. It is a few miles south of its sister town municipality of Aigle.-The Bex Salt Mine:Bex is the site of a famous salt mine.... *	Bex–Bévieux	Electric	10 September 1898	14 June 2002
	Bex–Villars–Bretaye-Railway	Electric
Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne is a city in the district of the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.It is located on the language boundary and is throughout bilingual. Biel is the German name for the town, Bienne its French counterpart. The town is often referred to in both...	Tramway de Bienne	Horse	18 August 1877	30 December 1902
	Tramway de Bienne	Electric	31 December 1902	9 December 1948
Clarens Clarens, Switzerland Clarens is a small village in the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.Whilst in Clarens, the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky wrote his ballets The Rite of Spring and Pulcinella and in March 1878, Tchaikovsky wrote his Violin Concerto.Paul Kruger, hero of South African...	Clarens–Chailly–Blonay	Electric	23 November 1911	31 December 1955
La Chaux de Fonds	Tramway de La Chaux de Fonds	Electric	1 January 1897	15 June 1950
Fribourg Fribourg Fribourg is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and the district of Sarine. It is located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss plateau, and is an important economic, administrative and educational center on the cultural border between German and French Switzerland...	Tramways de Fribourg	Electric	28 July 1897	31 March 1965
Geneva Geneva Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland... *	Transports Publics Genevois Transports Publics Genevois Geneva Public Transport operates most of the public transportation system in Geneva Canton, Switzerland, including the city of Geneva. The agency's head office is in Grand-Lancy, Lancy....	Horse	19 June 1862	21 February 1902
		Steam	20 July 1877	2 January 1902
		Electric	22 September 1894
Lausanne Lausanne Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west... *	Tramways Lausannois	Electric	1 September 1896	6 January 1964
	Tramway du sud-ouest lausannois	Electric	2 June 1991
Locarno Locarno Locarno is the capital of the Locarno district, located on the northern tip of Lake Maggiore in the Swiss canton of Ticino, close to Ascona at the foot of the Alps. It has a population of about 15,000...	Tramvie di Locarno	Electric	3 July 1908	30 April 1960
Lugano Lugano Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...	Azienda comunale del traffico Lugano	Electric	1 June 1896	17 December 1959
	Lugano-Cadro-Dino (part)	Electric	27 June 1911	31 December 1964
Luzern	Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern is the main provider of public transport in the Swiss city of Luzern. It operates some 92 buses and 74 trolleybuses on 25 daytime routes, as well as 5 during the night .-History:...	Electric	8 December 1899	11 November 1961
Martigny	Tramway Martigny-Bourg	Electric	24 October 1906	31 December 1956
Meiringen Meiringen -References:...	Meiringen-Reichenbach-Aareschlucht	Electric	24 August 1912	16 September 1956
Mendrisio Mendrisio Mendrisio is a municipality in the district of Mendrisio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.Mendrisio is the seat of the Accademia di Architettura of the university of Italian speaking Switzerland ....	Tram Elettrici Mendrisiensi	Electric	19 May 1910	31 December 1950
Montreux Montreux Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...	Vevey-Montreux-Chillon-Villeneuve	Electric	6 June 1888	19 January 1958
Mürren Mürren Mürren is a traditional Walser mountain village in Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, at an elevation of 1,650 m above sea level and unreachable by public road....	Rollbahn Mürren	Horse	10 July 1894	31 December 1945
Neuchâtel*	Tramways de Neuchâtel	Steam	16 December 1892	24 December 1902
		Horse	22 December 1894	15 July 1897
		Electric	16 May 1897
St Gallen	Verkehrsbetriebe St Gallen	Electric	20 May 1897	1 October 1957
St Moritz	Strassenbahn St Moritz	Electric	5 July 1896	18 September 1932
Schaffhausen Schaffhausen Schaffhausen is a city in northern Switzerland and the capital of the canton of the same name; it has an estimated population of 34,587 ....	Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Schaffhausen	Electric	11 May 1901	23 September 1966
Schwyz Schwyz The town of is the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland.The Federal Charter of 1291 or Bundesbrief, the charter that eventually led to the foundation of Switzerland, can be seen at the Bundesbriefmuseum.-History of the toponym:...	Schwyzer Strassenbahn	Electric	6 October 1900	15 December 1963
Spiez Spiez Spiez is a city in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-Geography:Spiez has an area of . Of this area, 38.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 29.1% is forested...	Spiezer Verbindungsbahn	Electric	2 August 1905	25 September 1960
Stans Stans Stans is the capital of the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.-History:Stans is one of the oldest settlements in the entire Nidwalden valley. The first traces of human settlement date to the 2nd Century BC...	Strassenbahn Stanstad-Stans	Electric	28 August 1893	30 September 1903
Winterthur Winterthur Winterthur is a city in the canton of Zurich in northern Switzerland. It has the country's sixth largest population with an estimate of more than 100,000 people. In the local dialect and by its inhabitants, it is usually abbreviated to Winti...	Verkehrsbetriebe Winterthur	Electric	30 July 1898	2 November 1951
Zug Zug Zug , is a German-speaking city in Switzerland. The name ‘Zug’ originates from fishing vocabulary; in the Middle Ages it referred to the right to ‘pull up’ fishing nets and hence to the right to fish.The city of Zug is located in the Canton of Zug and is its capital...	Zuger Berg und Strassenbahn	Electric	20 March 1907	11 May 1959
Zürich Zürich Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich... *	Dolder Waldhaus-Hotel	Electric	5 July 1899	31 December 1930
	Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich is a public transport operator in the Swiss city of Zurich, and is wholly owned by the city. Previously known as the Städtische Strassenbahn Zürich , the organisation was founded in 1896 and adopted its current name in 1950...	Horse	5 September 1882	4 October 1900
		Electric	8 March 1894
	Stadtbahn Glattal Stadtbahn Glattal Stadtbahn Glattal is a project to introduce a modern rapid-transit system to the Glattal area to the North of the city of Zürich in Switzerland. Stadtbahn Glattal is being developed as a metre gauge tram system with through running to that of neighbouring Zürich...	Electric	10 December 2006

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