page_title: Trams in Bremen
section_title: Line closures
hierarchical_section_title: Trams in Bremen / History / Line closures
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Straßenbahn Bremen, Wagen Nr. 117 am Sonntag, den 18. Mai 1963 an der Endstelle Klöckner-Werke
context_page_description: The Bremen tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Bremen, Germany. The network is currently operated by Bremer Straßenbahn AG. As of 2014, the network had 7 lines, extending over 114.6 kilometres of route.
context_section_description: Bremen, like other cities in the world, had lines close in the 1950s and 1960s due to increased use of automobiles. On the following lines, service was abandoned:
  Line 8 1949 (Trolleybus at first, from 1961 diesel bus)
  Line 12 1952
  Line 10 in St.-Jürgen-Straße
  Line 5 1964
  Line 7 1965
  Line 6 1965/67. The rails in Pappelstraße were used until 2001.
  Line 11 1970
  Line 4 1972, the section Kirchbachstraße - Arsterdamm had been taken over in 1967 by the new Line 1. The line reopens in 1998.
  Lines 15 and 16 were renumbered to lines 5 and 6 in 1967.
caption: Line 11, closed 1970.
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