page_title: Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen
section_title: Tram system used until December 2007
hierarchical_section_title: Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen / Tram system used until December 2007
caption_attribution_description: Zahnradbahn Stuttgart Deutsch: Zahnradbahn Stuttgart, Station Marienplatz
context_page_description: Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG is the principal public transport operating company in the German city of Stuttgart. The SSB is a member of the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart, and operates the Stuttgart Stadtbahn, bus lines, a rack railway, and a funicular railway.
context_section_description: The last remaining tram line (15) ceased to operate on December, 8th, 2007 and was replaced by the Stadtbahn line U15 on the same day. The old tram system was operated by 38 cars of type GT4. Unlike the city's light rail system, the tram system operated on 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) metre gauge track. The conversion of tram lines to light rail lines was thus a complex procedure, and necessitates dual gauge track where both systems operated over the same track.
  There are also two heritage tram lines, which are operated on the second Sunday of each month and on the last Saturday of each month by the Stuttgarter Historische Straßenbahnen society with trams from the Tram Museum of Stuttgart.
caption: The rack railway
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