List of town tramway systems in Chile
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This is a list of town tramway systems in Chile by region. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Regions of Chile are arranged geographically, from north to south.
Contents
XV Arica-Parinacota
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arica | ? | ? | ? | see note. |
- Note for Arica: Morrison (1992) [1] states that old postcards show rails in the streets of this town, but no other evidence of a town tramway could be found.
I Tarapacá
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Iquique | Horse | 1885 | 192_ | [2] | |
Accumulator (storage battery) | 1916 (or 1917 | ? | [3] | ||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | 1930 | [4] Heritage tramway opened October 24, 2004. | ||
Pisagua | Horse | 1889 | 1917 | [5] |
II Antofagasta
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Antofagasta | Horse | 1893 | 1914 | [6] | |
Tocopilla | Horse | 1904 | 1909 (?) | [7] |
III Atacama
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Copiapó | Horse | 1890 | 1904 (?) | [8] |
IV Coquimbo
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coquimbo | Horse | 1895 | 1929 | [9] | |
La Serena | Horse | 1887 | 1922 | [10] |
V Valparaíso
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cartagena | Horse | 1909 | ca. 1935 | [11] | |
Los Andes | Horse | 1889 | ? | [12] | |
Limache | Horse | 1884 | 193_ | [13] | |
Quillota | Horse | 1884 (?) | 1923 (?) | [14] | |
San Antonio | Horse | 188_ | ? | [15] | |
Steam | ? | ? | [16] | ||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | 193_ | [17] | ||
San Felipe | Horse | 1886 | 1933 (?) | [18] | |
Valparaíso | Horse | Mar 4, 1863 | 1907 | [19] | |
Electric | Dec 26, 1904 | Dec 30, 1952 | [20]. See also Trolleybuses in Valparaíso. | ||
♦ Viña del Mar | Horse | 1888 | 1906 | [21] | |
Electric | see Valparaíso – Viña del Mar | [22] | |||
♦ Valparaíso – Viña del Mar | Electric | Jan 28, 1906 | 1947 | (Morrison (1992, page 33) [23] states that horse trams worked much of the service until full electric operation began on Nov 11, 1906). |
RM Región Metropolitana de Santiago
Neighboring and suburban tramway systems in the Santiago region, arranged anti- (counter-) clockwise, northwest to east.
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Santiago (de Chile) | Horse | Jun 10, 1858
1920 |
1912
1942 |
[24]. | |
Petrol (gasoline) | 1922 | 1940 | [25]. | ||
Electric | Sep 2, 1900 | Feb 21, 1959 | [26]. | ||
Electric | Jan 11, 1902 | Apr 30, 1910 | [27] Electric rack tramway, on Cerro Santa Lucía hill. | ||
Renca | Horse | ? | ? | [28]. | |
Batuco | Horse | 194_ | ca. 1975 | Horse tramway operation on branch of Santiago – Valparaíso railway (Morrison (1992, page 54)) [29]. | |
♦ Santiago – Pudahuel | Horse, Steam | 1903 | 192_ | ||
Petrol (gasoline) | 192_ | 1934 | [30] Part of line electrified in 1934; remainder of line to Pudahuel and branches to Cerro Navia and Resbalón. Electrified segment closed 1951 | ||
♦ Quinta Normal | Horse | 1904 | 1929 | [31]. | |
Electric | 1929 | after 1965 | [32]. | ||
♦ Maipú | Horse | 1910 (?) | 193_ | [33] | |
♦ Malloco – Peñaflor | Horse | 1915 (?) | after 1936 | [34]. | |
♦ Melipilla | Horse | 1915 | 1932 | [35]. | |
♦ Santiago – San Bernardo | Horse | 1901 | 1907 (?) | ||
Electric | Feb 9, 1907 | 1945 (?) | [36], [37]. | ||
♦ La Cisterna – La Granja | Horse | 1907 | 1942 | [38]. | |
♦ Nos – Santa Inés | Horse | 1890 | 1940 | [39]. | |
♦ Santiago – Puente Alto | Electric | 1925 | 195_ (by 1963) | [40]. | |
♦ Buin – Santa Rita | Horse | ? | 1938 (?) | [41]. | |
♦ Buin – Maipo | Horse | 1918 (?) | ? | [42]. | |
♦ Puente Alto | Electric | 1925 | 195_ (by 1963) | [43]. | |
♦ Chacarilla | Horse | ? | 1923 (?) | [44]. |
VI O'Higgins
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Graneros | Horse | 1920 | after 1934 (?) | [45] | |
Rancagua | Horse | Jul 1905 | 1918 | [46] | |
Electric | Jul 8, 1918 | 1930 | Morrison [47] describes unsuccessful efforts to find photographs of the Rancagua tramway. | ||
Rengo | Horse | 1872 | 1918 (?) | [48] | |
Electric | Mar 14, 1918 | 1923 | [49] | ||
Petrol (gasoline) | 1923 | ca. 1927 | Morrison [50] states that no photographs of the Rengo tramway could be found. |
VII Maule
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cauquenes | Horse | 1900 | 1915 (?) | [51] | |
Constitución | Horse | ca. 1915 | 1934 | [52] | |
Molina | Horse | by 1915 | 1927 | [53] | |
Parral | Horse | ca. 1911 | 1928 | [54] | |
San Javier | Horse | 1906 | 1927 | [55] | |
Talca | Horse | ca. 1884 | 1916 | [56] | |
Electric | 1916 | 1933 | [57] Operation suspended Dec 1, 1928 because of damage caused by earthquake. Part of system restored Dec 25, 1928. | ||
Villa Alegre | Electric | Aug 29, 1915 | Nov 26, 1926 | [58] Closed Oct 1923, reopened Sep 1925 by a new undertaking. | |
Petrol (gasoline) | 1926 | 1931 | [59] Horse traction also used during 1926 – 1931. |
- Curicó Morrison [60] states that Chilean government statistics reported an animal-powered tramway in Curicó Province, but that histories of Curicó town state that no tramway was built.
VIII Bío-Bío
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chillán | Horse | 1877 (or 1884) | 194_ | [61] | |
Electric | 1921 | 1936 | [62] | ||
Concepción | Horse | 1886 | 1910 | [63] | |
Electric | Jul 4, 1908 | Nov 21, 1941 | [64] See note. | ||
♦ Concepción – Talcahuano | Electric | Jul 4, 1908 | Nov 21, 1941 | [65] See note. | |
♦ Talcahuano | Horse | 1898 | 1928 | [66] Connected Talcahuano and San Vicente. | |
Electric | 1908 | Nov 21, 1941 | [67] See note. | ||
Pemuco | Horse | 1909 | 192_ | [68] | |
San Carlos | Horse | 1894 | 1928 | [69] |
Non-public tramway:
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lebu | Electric | 1914 | ? | [70] |
- Note for Concepción, Concepción – Talcahuano and Talcahuano: Operation suspended Jan 24, 1939 – Feb 1939 because of damage caused by earthquake.
IX Araucanía
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Curacautín | Horse (?) | 192_ (?) | 192_ (?) | [71] | |
Temuco | Horse | 1881 | 1920 | [72] | |
Electric | Mar 1919 | 1936 | [73] Southernmost electric tramway system in South America. | ||
Traiguén | Electric | 1903 | 1929 | Passenger service on electric goods (freight) railway (Morrison [74]). |
- Collipulli: Morrison [75] states that the tramway listed here in Chilean government statistics was in fact a goods (freight) railway, worked by electric traction.
X Los Lagos
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Puerto Montt | Horse | 1927 | 1931 | [76] |
XII Magallanes y Antártica Chilena
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ferrocarril Mina Loreto | Punta Arenas | Horse | Jan 29, 1902 | 1950 | [77] Passenger service on railway, connecting docks to coal mine, with part of line built in streets. |