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Tram Salzburg

Tram Salzburg, Electric tram network in Salzburg, Austria.

Tram Salzburg, known as the Gelbe Elektrische, was a standard-gauge tram that ran from 1887 to 1940. Its 2.95 km route linked the Lokalbahnhof with the Riedenburg district via the Staatsbrücke and Alter Markt, with a branch to the Festungsbahn. The yellow cars were stored in the Lokalbahn depot in Itzling.

Salzburg's tram began as a horse-drawn line on 15 October 1887, running 1.5 km from the Lokalbahnhof to the Bazar. Electric operation started on 4 May 1909, and the network was extended into the Riedenburg district between 1915 and 1916. The line closed in 1940 and was replaced by the Salzburg trolleybus.

Locals nicknamed the yellow-liveried cars the "Gelbe Elektrische", to distinguish them from the red local railway, and also called them the "rasende Eierspeis" (racing scrambled eggs). The line never carried a route number. Its terminus by the Café Tomaselli on the Alten Markt was later turned into a passing loop.

The line ran on 800-volt direct current, the same voltage as the local railway electrified two months later. In summer, trams between Lokalbahnhof and Sigmundsplatz came every 4.5 minutes, while the branch into Riedenburg ran every nine minutes; outside summer the interval was 7.5 minutes. The full 2.95-kilometre route took 15 minutes, and the cars were stabled in the Lokalbahn depot in Itzling.

The trams were painted yellow, so Salzburgers called them the "Gelbe Elektrische" (Yellow Electric), to distinguish them from the red vehicles of the Lokalbahn, the "Rote Elektrische". Locals also nicknamed the line "rasende Eierspeis" (racing scrambled eggs). It never carried a line number.

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