September 1911Tram Depot
Tramcars lined up at the new depot
Several of Újvidék's first electric tramcars stand on the yard tracks and inside the newly built tram depot at the beginning of the city's electric tram era. Cars 25 and 26 are visible in the foreground, with Hungarian destination boards for the hospital and railway station. They belonged to the original series of two-axle motor cars built by Ganz & Co. in Budapest for the Újvidék system and numbered 21–35. The first eight cars reached the city on 21 August 1911, trial running followed in September, and public electric tram service officially opened on 30 September. The depot stood immediately beside the city's new electric power station, linking the introduction of electric public transport directly with the electrification of Novi Sad.
About this place
The depot of the Novi Sad electric tramway housed the cars of a line powered by the town's first power station, which began supplying current in 1910. The line opened on 30 September 1911, run at first by a Budapest tramway company with motor cars built by Ganz, the first of which had arrived on 21 August, and this archive holds a photograph of the cars drawn up at the new depot that September. The bombing of 1944 badly damaged the power station and stopped the trams. They ran again from 25 May 1945, and in 1958 buses replaced them. The archive's photograph from the 1950s shows a car outside the long, low depot shed in those last years.
On the card
25 / KÓRHÁZ / 26 / PÁLYAUDVAR
25 / Hospital / 26 / Railway station
- Date
- September 1911
- Coordinates
- 45.24495, 19.84022
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1024 × 577 px
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