page_title: Euskotren Tranbia
section_title: Introduction
hierarchical_section_title: Euskotren Tranbia / Services / Introduction
caption_attribution_description: English: Bilbao EuskoTren approaching San Mamés station
context_page_description: Euskotren Tranbia, formerly known as Euskotran is an Urban transit tramway system that operates lines in the cities of Vitoria-Gasteiz and Bilbao, plus one under construction in Leioa and another one, in the city of Barakaldo, all of them in the Basque Country. It began operations for the first time in Bilbao in 2002 and in Vitoria in 2008. It is one of the four commercial brands under which Basque Railways operates, as a public company managed by the Basque Government. The entire network, as the Euskotren Trena network, uses 1,000 mm narrow gauge rail tracks.
  Euskotren Tranbia operates the tram services, while Euskotren Trena operates the commuter rail networks, Euskotren Autobusa the bus services and Euskotren Kargo the freight rail services. Since 2006 Euskotren Tranbia, formerly known simply as "Euskotran", is the commercial brand for operator of the tram network, while the network itself is owned by the public entity Euskal Trenbide Sarea. In 2012 the commercial brand changed from Euskotran to Euskotren Tranbia with the word tranbia being Basque for "tram".
context_section_description: Euskotren Tranbia operates tram networks in Vitoria-Gasteiz (province of Álava) and Bilbao (province of Biscay), plus one being under construction in Leioa to connect in the future the campus of the University of the Basque Country with Leioa and then with the Urbinaga metro station, in Sestao. The first network, then named EuskoTran and later Euskotran started in Bilbao in 2002, after two years under construction, connecting the Bilbao-Atxuri Station with Uribitarte. The line was eventually expanded to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the hospital of Basurto and finally La Casilla. The tramway of Vitoria-Gasteiz opened in 2008 and has a Y-shaped network, with two different lines that cross the city from south to north.
  Euskotran Tranbia runs on a mixture of street track shared with other traffic, dedicated tracks and grass tracks. It also shares dedicated tracks with the local bus services, TUVISA in Vitoria and Bilbobus in Bilbao.
caption: Tram in Bilbao.
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