page_title: Rosario Tramway
section_title: Previous tramway network
hierarchical_section_title: Rosario Tramway / Previous tramway network
caption_attribution_description: Español: Horario pico de comercio en una de las zonas más activas del centro de la ciudad. Hacia el fondo se puede apreciar la esquina de Córdoba y San martín, con el frente del edificio de Gath &amp; Chavez, actualmente el paseo Victoria Mall. La identificación de esta imagen fue realizada por el Sr. Facundo Fernández
context_page_description: The Rosario Tramway is a planned mass transit tramway network in Rosario, Argentina, currently in the bidding process stages. The project was assessed by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana and is largely inspired by the network the company runs in Valencia, though at one point a metro system was envisioned. The municipal and provincial governments have already undertaken discussions with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for financing the project, as well as Siemens to provide the rolling stock. Once the project is complete, it will be the first time trams have run in the city on a mass scale since the closure of the city's tramway network in 1963, which had reached a maximum extension of 192 km.
context_section_description: The city was the third in Argentina to receive an electrified tramway network, after La Plata and Buenos Aires. The first horse-drawn trams appeared in the city in 1872 and two lines were built in the city with Argentine capital. The network began growing at a faster pace when the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company (AATC) which owned one of the most expansive tramway networks in the world in Buenos Aires, and later built Line A of the Buenos Aires Underground, began investing heavily in the city. Argentine companies also continued investing in the network and by 1890 it was 77km long and was transporting 7 million passengers annually.
  In 1897 the Buenos Aires tramway network was electrified and the same was proposed for Rosario in 1899, however it would not be undertaken until 1905. In 1906 the first electric trams began operating in the city and were colloquially known as "The Belgians" since the Belgian company Sofina had bought the CTAA by this point. A total of 14 electric lines were built in the city as the network expanded.
  At its peak, the network had 300 vehicles on its 192 km network, but by 1920, competition from bus transport began to take its toll and by 1927 the company was losing money. The situation continued to worsen and hit crisis point in 1932 when services were suspended. In the same year, the municipality decided to nationalise all bus and tram transport in the city in order to continue operating the trams and more effectively manage transport in the city. However, by the early 1950s the municipality was unable to keep up with the costs of running the network so it was transferred to the provincial government.
  In the early 1960s it was decided to abandon tramways nationwide by the National Government of the time and privatise lines. Soon after, the private companies abandoned the tramways in favour of bus and trolleybus transport and trams were scrapped. The last tram in Rosario operated on 11 February 1963.
caption: The city had a tramway network until 1963.
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