View from inside the Blue tram on the route down from Tibidabo amusement Park onTibidabo hill, Barcelona
Tramvia Blau. Blue tram Barcelona. The blue tram was part of the original Barcelona tram system and celebrated 100 years of service in 2011. All the other Barcelona tram lines closed in 1971, except the Tramvia Blau route, which was kept open as a tourist attraction to showcase transport in the early twentieth century in Barcelona and also to provide a nice way to get to the Tibidabo amusement Park onTibidabo hill. The Tramvia Blau tram line takes you from Plaça de John F. Kennedy up the lovely Avinguda de Tibidabo, which is lined with wonderful old mansions. The blue tram does not take you all the way to Tibidabo. It ends at Plaça del Doctor Andreu, (also called Pl. Funicular) where it connects with the Tibidabo funicular railway. The Tramvia Blau (Catalan for "blue tramway") is one of Barcelona's three tram systems. It is a kilometres ( mi) long heritage streetcar line serving a hilly area of the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district between the terminus of FGC Barcelona Metro L7 and the Funicular del Tibidabo. The Tramvia Blau is operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) but it is not part of Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM) integrated fare network. Tickets must be purchased from the tram conductor. The Tramvia Blau is one of only two first generation tramways to survive in Spain, along with the Tranvía de Sóller on the island of Majorca. The Tramvia Blau is kilometres ( mi) long, climbing a vertical distance of 93 metres (305 ft) at a maximum gradient of 8%. It is constructed to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) gauge and is double track, apart from single track stub terminals at each terminus. It runs in the Avinguda Tibidabo throughout, and is not segregated from other traffic. The line's depot is accessed by some 100 metres (330 ft) of single track, which is not used in passenger service. The depot branch joins the main line near its midpoint, adjacent to the bridge carrying the Avinguda Tibidabo over the Ronda de Dalt.[
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Location: Avinguda de Tibidabo, Barcelona, Spain.
Photo credit: © John Gaffen / Alamy / Afripics
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