Gothenburg tram network

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Gothenburg tram network
A tram running at Brunnsparken in central Gothenburg.
Overview
Owner	Gothenburg Municipality
Locale	Gothenburg Mölndal, Sweden
Transit type	Tram
Number of lines	12
Number of stations	132[citation needed]
Annual ridership	145,000,000[1]
Operation
Began operation	24 September 1879
Operator(s)	Göteborgs Spårvägar
Infrastructure manager(s)	Västtrafik
Number of vehicles	263
Technical
System length	80 km (49.7 mi) of double track[2]
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) (standard gauge)
Average speed	22.7 km/h (14.1 mph)
Top speed	60 km/h (37 mph) allowed (max 80 km/h (50 mph))
System map

The Gothenburg tramway network (Swedish: Göteborgs spårvägar) is part of the public transport system organised by Göteborgs Spårvägar, controlled by Västtrafik in the Swedish city of Gothenburg.^[3] The system's approximately 160 kilometres (100 mi) of single track — making it the largest tram network in Northern Europe^[4] — is used by around 200 trams as of 2006^[update], which serve twelve day-time and five night-time lines with a combined line length of 190 km. These figures are expected to increase when the second stage of Kringen (short for Kollektivringen, the public transport ring) is finished. The trams perform about 2,000 trips and cover 30,000 km per day. In 2018, 131 million journeys were made (with changes counting as a new journey).^[1]