Trams in Mülheim/Oberhausen

Mülheim/Oberhausen tramway network
An Oberhausen tram en route to the Mülheim depot.
Operation
Locale	Mülheim an der Ruhr / Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Open	9 July 1897 (1897-07-09) (Mülheim) 4 April 1897 (1897-04-04) (Oberhausen)
Status	Operational
Lines	3 + 1 (total line length 36.2 km (22.5 mi))
Operator(s)	Ruhrbahn Stadtwerke Oberhausen
Infrastructure
Track gauge	1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
Propulsion system(s)	Electricity
Electrification	750 V DC
Statistics
Route length	32 km (20 mi)
Overview The network in 2015 (dark blue: Stadtbahn).
Website	https://ruhrbahn.de/index.php?id=665 Ruhrbahn (in German)] STOAG

The Mülheim/Oberhausen tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system focused on Mülheim an der Ruhr and Oberhausen, two cities in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Opened in 1897, the network is operated by Ruhrbahn and Stadtwerke Oberhausen (STOAG), and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR).

Lines

As of 2015, the network had the following lines:

Line	Route	Headway (rush hour)	Notes
102	Uhlenhorst – Stadtmitte – Mülheim Hbf – Oberdümpten	10'	Metre gauge
104	MH Hauptfriedhof – Max-Planck-Institute – Stadtmitte – Rathausmarkt – Grenze Borbeck – E Abzweig Aktienstraße	20' Hauptfriedhof – Stadtmitte
		10' Stadtmitte – Grenze Borbeck
		20' Grenze Borbeck – E-Abzweig Aktienstr.
112/NE12	MH Hauptfriedhof – Kaiserplatz – Stadtmitte – Landwehr – Oberhausen Hbf – Feuerwache – Neue Mitte – Eisenheim – OB Neumarkt	10' 112 Hauptfriedhof – Landwehr
		20' 112 Landwehr – OLGA-Park (morning rush hour 10')
		20' 112 OLGA-Park - Neumarkt
		60' NE12 Kaiserplatz – OB-OLGA-Park
		Occasional trips NE12 OB-OLGA-Park – OB-Neumarkt
901	DU-Obermarxloh – Marxloh – Thyssen Verwaltung – Beeck – Neanderstr. – Laar – Thyssen Tor 30 – Ruhrort – Albertstr. – DU-Stadtmitte – Jakobstr. – Mülheim/Ruhr	15'	Standard gauge Duisburg tramway line

The former line 110 (Styrum, Friesenstr. – Hauptfriedhof) was replaced by bus line 128 on October 4, 2015.

See also

• List of town tramway systems in Germany
• Trams in Germany

References

• Höltge, Dieter (1994). Straßen- und Stadtbahnen in Deutschland [Tramways and Stadtbahnen in Germany] (in German). Vol. Band 4: Ruhrgebiet - Von Dortmund bis Duisburg [Volume 4: Ruhr - from Dortmund to Duisburg]. Freiburg i. B., Germany: EK-Verlag. ISBN 9783882553345.

External links

• Media related to Trams in Mülheim an der Ruhr at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Trams in Oberhausen at Wikimedia Commons
• Ruhrbahn – official site (in German)
• STOAG – official site (in German)
• Mülheim an der Ruhr database / photo gallery and Mülheim an der Ruhr tram list at Urban Electric Transit – in various languages, including English.
• Oberhausen database / photo gallery and Oberhausen tram list at Urban Electric Transit – in various languages, including English.
• Mülheim an der Ruhr database / photo gallery at Phototrans – in various languages, including English.
• Oberhausen database / photo gallery at Phototrans – in various languages, including English.