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Jena, Germany: Streetcars (Trams)

Description

Jena is a city of about 100,000 in the German state of Thuringia (Thüringen). Its meter-gauge streetcar system has four basic routes and a total length of about 14.5 miles (23.4 km), including a new section under construction. Most of the cars are six-axle articulated units built by Adtranz and Bombardier in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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These pictures were taken on 2 July 2009.

[Picture #1] | [Picture #2] Route 5 terminates in a dead-end at Ernst-Abbe-Platz in central Jena. This car has an advertising wrap for the local symphony orchestra.

[Picture] On leaving Ernst-Abbe-Platz, the line runs in a single track through a portal in a building, emerging into the intersection of Leutragraben and Schillerstraße.

[Picture] A route 4 car passes through Löbdergraben with an advertising wrap promoting Jena as the "City of Science 2008".

[Picture] Routes 1 and 3 terminate at Winzerla in the south end of Jena.

[Picture #1] | [Picture #2] On 20 May, just a few weeks before my visit, the other end of route 3 was extended from Lobeda-West to the railroad station at Göschwitz. For now, only a single track is used; note the stuff piled on the other track in the first picture. In December 2009 the line is supposed to be extended further to meet itself at Burgau, forming a loop around this area of south Jena.

This page was last updated on 4 August 2009.

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