Opened in 1994, the Sheffield Supertram serves the South Yorkshire city and surrounding area with its distinctive bright red, orange and blue Siemens-Duewag trams.
Pride + Transit. If you fall into this specific venn diagram of things to celebrate, well here's the design for you, as the colourful subway/metro lines come together to form a rainbow.
(it's based loosely – loosely – on the very centre of Manchester's tram map)
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underground map, gay, gay pride, metro, pride
One of the iconic symbols of Manchester -- the M5000 grey and yellow tram, introduced in 2009 to replace the original blue and white T68s (also available).
The T68, first introduced onto the streets of Manchester on the opening of the Metrolink tram system in 1992. Replaced in 2009 by the yellow M5000s, also available.
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england, greater manchester, lancashire, north, north west
The West Midlands Metro, formerly just the Midland Metro, is a tram line running between Birmingham (England's second most populous city) and the nearby town of Wolverhampton. Opened in 1999, these CAF Urbos 3 trams began running on the system in 2014, and started receiving a striking blue colour scheme in 2018. The system currently has a number of expansions underway.
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caf, england, europe, grand central, streetcar
The modern tramway in France's beautiful second city, Lyon, has some of the most distinctive-looking tram vehicles in the world. Apparently, the hooded design was inspired by silkworms.
On top of its metro system, Brussels boasts a large and efficient tram network. This design is based on the newer Bombarider T3000 tram model, introduced to the streets of the Belgian capital from 2005 onwards.
The West Midlands Metro, formerly just the Midland Metro, is a tram line running between Birmingham (England's second most populous city) and the nearby town of Wolverhampton. Opened in 1999, these CAF Urbos 3 trams began running on the system in 2014 in their bright magenta livery. The system currently has a number of expansions underway.
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caf, england, europe, grand central, streetcar
The Barcelona Metro system, first opened underground in the 1920s, now consists of a sprawling network of lines criss-crossing the great city and providing transit to more than 400 million passengers every year, making it the second busiest metro system in Spain behind Madrid. This design is inspired by the 9000 Series train manufactured by Alstom, which run on lines 2, 4, 9 and 10.
Opened in 2004, Nottingham Express Transit provides light rail transit connections to the historic city of Nottingham and surrounds. These Alstom Citadis trams arrived on the network in 2014, to serve an extension which more than doubled the system's length. Nowadays the trams carry almost 18 million passengers a year.
Trams are a mainstay of the streets of Amsterdam. This design is based on the 12G unidirectional vehicles which are the oldest on the network, and will soon be phased out entirely.
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bombardier, europe, holland, streetcar, the netherlands
Once the scourge of Princes St and the new Shame of Edinburgh, these modern CAF trams have now become an icon of Scotland's glorious capital. Edinburgh's tram line is the most recent light rail system to open in the UK, carrying passengers from 2014.