Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 10, 2007

The Trondheim Tramway located in Trondheim, Norway, consists presently of one 8.8 km tramway line, Gråkallbanen, from St. Olav's Gate in the city centre through Byåsen to Lian Station in Bymarka. The line, Line 1, is operated by Gråkallbanen AS and is often simply called Gråkallbanen. Gråkallbanen operates six tram cars, in addition to heritage cars run by Trondheim Tramway Museum. Previously there were three lines in Trondheim, including Ladelinjen to Lade and Singsakerlinjen to Singsaker in addition to tracks to Ila, Elgeseter, Trondheim Central Station and Lademoen. The line to Singsaker was closed in 1968 while the rest of the network was closed in 1983 and 1988, though the line to Lian was reopened in 1990. The tramway is the most northerly line in the world, after the Arkhangelsk tram was closed on July 24, 2004. Trondheim is also unique in that it is one of two railways in Norway using metre gauge track (the other is the heritage railway Thamshavnbanen) and that the tramway is one of two systems in the world to use 2.6 m wide cars on metre gauge track.