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Tramway Live Cams
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Spain 
From the traffic cameras in the city of Barcelona, Spain, we can see the new tramway which opened in April 2004. The first page shows a map. Positioning the cursor over the little cameras gives the location name and clicking shows the picture. Those at Diagonal - Ciutat de Granada and Diagonal - Maria Cristina (both on the road that runs diagonally from top left to bottom right of the map), show the tramway. The images automatically update every 3 minutes, but we have noted that these cameras are sometimes off-line.
Here is Plaza Arriaga in the El Arinal district of Bilbao in the Basque country of northern Spain. Tramcars of the new tramway pass by on this single track section. The image automatically updates every couple of minutes, but from time to time the software will try to close the window.
Sweden 
This site gives a series of traffic cameras Sweden and of particular use to us in Gothenburg (Göteborg). The cameras of interest to us are at Götaälvbron, Ullevi Skanegaten, Korsevägan/Mölndalsvägan, Korsevägan/Skanegatan and Korsevägan/Örgrytevägen, but others may also have trams. The link below each view gives a map of the camera location.
This view is of Carl Johans Park, Drottninggatan in Norrköping, Sweeden. Trams cross the bridge in the centre of the scene. The image is updated every hour. Below the picture is the options "Störst bild" which gives a larger picture and "Historik - 24h" which gives the archive.
Switzerland 
This camera gives a view in Arlesheim, a small town near Basle (Basel, Bâle), Switzerland, looking in the direction of nearby Dornach. Tram route 10 (Baselland Transport) from Basle to the Dornach passes in the background of the picture. Provided that you have the correct Axis ActiveX camera control software, which will automatically download, you will get a "moving" picture.
This is the Barfüsserplatz in Basle (Basel, Bâle), Switzerland, one of the busiest tram stops in the city. The image automatically updates about every 15 seconds. Trams on routes 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16 and 17 use this square.
This camera looks east at the tram stop in Claraplatz in the centre of Basle (Basel, Bâle), Switzerland. Trams on routes 6, 14, and 15 pass here. A second camera looks in the opposite direction down onto Greifengasse. There are options for display using Javascript or a Java applet.
A snapshot of Jacob Burckhardt Haus in the centre of Basle (Basel, Bâle), Switzerland. Baselland-Transport trams on routes 10 and 11 use this new alignment near the main railway station, serving a stop between Peter Merian Haus and Jacob Burckhardt Haus. The image updates once per hour. Use refresh on your browser.
From Basle (Basel, Bâle), Switzerland, we have a set of three cameras in the Voltaplatz area. Green town trams on route 1 and yellow Baselland trams on route 11 cross here. Position your pointer over the thumbnails from the cameras and the clever map below indicates the field of view. Click on the thumbnail and a larger view of that camera will be given, updating automatically every 30 seconds.
A view of Wettsteinbrücke in Basle (Basel, Bâle), Switzerland. Trams on routes 2 and 15 cross the bridge. The image updates about every 5 minutes, but you need to use refresh on your browser to see it.
Here is trolleybus route 12 of the system of Bern, Switzerland, which as well as 5 trolleybus routes also has a tramway. The camera shows Gerichtigkeitsgasse looking east with the Nydegg Kirche in the distance. The image automatically updates every 30 seconds but you may need to help it with refresh (or even Ctrl + F5) on your browser.
This camera is in Bern, Switzerland with the same location and source as the previous one, but looking in the opposite direction. It is a westerly view along Kramgasse (the continuation of Gerichtigkeitsgasse) towards the 15th century 'Zytglogge'.
In Bern, Switzerland, the old Bärengraben (bear pit) is being rebuilt into a Bear Park. This camera shows the building works. The image automatically updates every 60 seconds, each time showing a different view, several of which have the Nydeggbrücke, which carries trolleybus route 12, in the background.
Unlike most of the Rhätische Bahn (RhB), the Berninabahn section, which runs over the Bernina Pass in Switzerland, is a 1000 volt DC metre gauge line which can be classed as a light railway. This camera shows the circular viaduct at Brusio. Sadly the image is not updated very frequently but there is an archive of earlier shots. Our shot shows one of the original 1908-11 vintage Berninabahn cars.
Some other cameras on the RhB are as follows:-
This camera looks down across the Place du Marché in Bex, Switzerland. The live view is continuously updated using Java. Passing by are cars of the Bex-Villars-Bretaye light railway which runs like a tramway through the streets of Bex. To the left of the camera is the road to the railway station. On leaving the town in the direction to the right, the cars are rack assisted. It is an hourly service but there are sometimes "extras".
The upper section of the Swiss Bex-Villars-Bretaye line above Villars is a rack railway. This camera is at Chamossaire, just below the summit at Col-de-Bretaye. The line of the railway crosses the centre of the picture, which updates every minute. The trains are fairly infrequent so you will need luck to see one. The option for Bretaye on the menu at the top gives a view from the opposite direction.
This camera shows trolleybuses of the system of Biel (Bienne), Switzerland. It is located in the tower of the castle at Nidau, a town to the south of Biel and the terminus of trolleybus route 1. The system has four routes and operates around 25 trolleybuses on 23 km of route. The image automatically updates every 60 seconds and clicking on it will give an enlargement.
This camera is mounted on the roof of one of the trains of the Brienz Rothorn Bahn (BRB) in Switzerland, a steam operated 800 mm gauge Abt rack mountain railway. From June to October the train runs from Brienz station by the lakeside to the summit at Rothorn Kulm. Views are taken every few minutes and an archive is held where they can be replayed at variable speed to give a high speed run. When the train is not in service it stands on a siding at Brienz station and other trains are seen passing by.
This camera is in the town of La-Chaux-de-Fond, in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is based at the Epacité Tower and looks down onto Avenue Léopold Robert. There is a fleet of around fifteen trolleybuses that pass by. The image is updated regularly (use refresh on your browser) and there is an archive of earlier shots.
This camera shows the airport area in Geneva (Genève, Genf), Switzerland. No trams, but trolleybuses on route 10 cross the bridge over the railway and motorway in the centre of the view. Provided that you have the correct Axis ActiveX camera control software, which will automatically download, you will get a "moving" picture.
From a cigar company's 5th floor premises in Rue du Marché, Geneva (Genève, Genf), Switzerland, we look eastwards down onto the Molard tram stop. Trams on routes 12, 16 and 17 pass here, as do trolleybuses going in an eastbound direction on routes 2 and 7. Axis ActiveX camera control software, which will automatically download, gives you a "moving" picture. For a snapshot, click here.
This camera is at Kleine Scheidegg, the lower station of the Swiss Jungfraubahn. It gives a splendid view of the north face of the Eiger, with metre gauge Strub rack-railway tracks crossing the scene, and vehicles of the line standing in the foreground. The railway runs hourly or half-hourly according to season and time of day, with "extras" during the skiing period. The elderly loco in our view is pushing a snowplough. The image automatically updates every 60 seconds.
From the same camera as the previous view, this option gives the identical picture but with a less frequent update. However, there is a useful archive of earlier shots which can be played as a slide show. Our view shows vintage locomotive 11 with a "special" train.
No trams, but from Lausanne, Switzerland, we get a view along Rue du Grand-Chêne towards Place Saint-François, where trolleybuses on no less than eight routes can just be seen turning the corner. The image automatically updates every 60 seconds but is sometimes off-line. Lausanne is Switzerland's largest trolleybus system with over 100 vehicles running on 12 routes, i.e. nearly 80 km of route.
On arriving on the site, select the "webcam" button on the left hand menu. This gives a view of the southern terminus of trolleybus route 7 at Biregghof in Lucerne (Luzern), Switzerland, where it meets the eastern end of Grüneggstraße. Lucerne has a trolleybus system of 8 routes with over 60 vehicles. The picture updates every minute but you need to use refresh on your browser. If the camera is not pointing at the bus stop, it can be moved by clicking on "Webcam Steuern" and following the instructions.
This is a fully controllable camera in Lucerne (Luzern), Switzerland, giving a semi-moving picture from the Hotel Montana. A pre-set for "Lake Promenade" shows a trolleybus stop, and that for "Luzern, Chapel Bridge" gives the Kapellbrücke and the Seebrücke road bridge where trolleybuses on several routes pass by. This camera is sometimes off-line.
At the stop at the Hotel Hof + Post in Innertkirchen, Switzerland, this south looking view shows the Meiringen - Innertkirchen Bahn. This 5 km light railway, partly in tunnel, joins the towns of Meiringen and Innertkirchen and is operated by two tram-like vehicles. It runs two return trips per hour (at some times only one). The image updates every 2 minutes, but you need to use refresh on your browser.
This unusual camera is mounted in the cab of one of the trains of the Montreux Oberland Bernoise railway (MOB) in Switzerland, an 850 volt DC metre gauge line with some light rail features. The train runs from Montreux station through Gstaad to Zweisimmen, and then on to Lenk. Views are taken every few minutes and an archive is held where they can be replayed at variable speed to give a high speed run. Our shot shows Montreux station with an MOB train on the right and a car of the MOB operated 800mm gauge Abt rack line to Rochers-de-Naye on the left.
Use the MOB camera above and watch out as you pass through Montbovon station, where the MOB meets the metre gauge Gruyère - Fribourg - Morat light railway (GFM), as seen here in our shot. The GFM track is to the north of that of the MOB, on the left of the view. Montbovon is about 40 minutes from Montreux and an hour from Zweisimmen.
Again use the MOB camera above and note that on this same interesting camera on summer weekends you may also get a glimpse of the Blonay-Chamby museum line on the left as you go through Chamby station, about 15 minutes from Montreux. Our view shows water car number 1 of the Biel tramway, built 1915.
From Montreux in Switzerland an 800mm gauge Abt rack line runs to Rochers-de-Naye. Here we have a view looking down onto the station and the curve of track at the summit level. The image updates every minute but you have to use refresh on your browser. For an archive of earlier shots, click here
Here is a series of views from the Hotel Eiger in Mürren, Switzerland. Click on "Live-Cam" and you will see eight small images and a main view. Each updates every 8 minutes during daylight hours, and the main view automatically displays each in sequence. Clicking on the small images changes the main to that scene. At the bottom of the page the option "Animation" rapidly steps through the views taken that day. Cameras 5 and 6 cover the station of the Mürrenbahn, with 5 showing the tracks including the scissors junction just outside.
Here is a view of the railway station in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Trolleybuses cross the foreground very close to the camera which is at trolley wire height. The page automatically updates every 2 minutes, but refresh on your browser will get you a more frequent update.
This is the summit station of the Rigibahnen (RB) at Rigi Kulm, Switzerland, with a small depot in the background. The RB operates two standard gauge light railways to this summit from Arth-Goldau and from Vitznau. They use the Riggenbach rack system. The service is usually 1500 volt D.C. electric but there are sometimes steam specials. The image is updated every 5 minutes, but you will need to use refresh on your browser.
From the same camera as the previous view, this option gives the identical picture but with a less frequent update. However, there is a useful archive of earlier shots which can be played as a slide show. Our view shows vertical boilered steam loco 7 with a "special" train.
Here is a second camera near the summit at Rigi Kulm, Switzerland. The Rigibahnen tracks are visible crossing the foreground of this tourist view. You will need to use refresh on your browser to update this image.
This camera is located at the Hotel Astra in Place de la Gare, Vevey, Switzerland. Passing is the 12.8 km trolleybus route, with around 16 vehicles, which runs along the edge of Lac Lèman (Lake Geneva) connecting Vevey, Montreux, Chillon and Villeneuve. It gives a moving picture, but sometimes for brief periods does not point towards the street.
From Switzerland, we get a camera showing Zermatt's Gornergratbahn metre gauge mountain railway, with the Matterhorn in the background. This railway, built using the Abt rack system in 1898, runs on a 725 volt three phase AC power supply. The image is updated every thirty minutes and there is a useful archive of earlier shots which can be played as a slide show. The view is close to the summit station, and sometimes includes passing vehicles.
In Zermatt, Switzerland, claiming to be the highest tramway in Europe, this 800 mm gauge tramway was re-opened in 2001 and connects the Gornergratbahn at Riffelalp with the nearby Riffelalp Resort Hotel. The panoramic camera automatically updates every two minutes (but is sometimes off-line), rotating to give a different view each time. When it faces the hotel it may be possible to see the trams when they are running during the summer season (June to October). Also from the same web site to get details of the tramway, click here.
From the roof of the offices of the newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Zürich, Switzerland, we get a panoramic view looking towards Bellvue and showing the building work of a new car park for the nearby opera house. Tram routes 2 and 4 pass here. The panoramic image slowly pans round, but speed, direction and zoom can be varied. The image updates every 15 minutes and there is an archive of earlier shots.
This is the tram stop and the main building of ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zürich, Switzerland. The live stream camera gives a moving picture. Trams on several routes pass here including those of route 10, the Glattalbahn. The camera is sometimes off-line.
No trams, but passing by to the north on the Hardbrücke in Zürich, Switzerland we can see trolleybuses on one of the city's most important services. This is route 33, which is an orbital line linking and feeding many of the Zürich tram routes. Hardbrücke is between Hardplatz, the terminus of tram route 8 and just beyond Escher-Wyss-Platz on tram routes 4 & 13. Use refresh on your browser to update the camera image.
From a location on the City Hall (Stadthaus), Zürich Tourism gives us this fine panoramic view of the river Limmat in Zürich, Switzerland, with a controllable streaming option. Select "Zürich live: to the remote control webcam" above the panorama and then "Start Control". Once you have control, by clicking on the image or on the panorama below it, the camera is repositioned. The zoom factor can also be adjusted. The pre-set selections for Central, Limmatquai and Quaibrücke all give many trams (Central also has trolleybuses), but by pointing the camera directly to the opposite side the river, you can follow the trams on routes 4 and 15 as they progress along the Limmatquai. In summertime, once per month on a weekend afternoon, museum trams on route 21 also pass this way. To check the dates and timetable for Museumslinie 21, click here.
From further north at the Marriott Hotel, Zürich Tourism gives us this second panoramic view of the river Limmat (and the Sihl) in Zürich, Switzerland. Controls are the same as the previous camera. Trams and trolleybuses are seen at many positions. The pre-set selection for Limmatquai this time has Bahnhofbrücke in the foreground. Moving the view down from here gives Walche-Brücke and to the right gives the tram stop at the east side of the Hauptbahnhof and further right the north side of the station, all tramway locations. As well as in the central districts, trolleybuses also can be seen crossing the river bridges at the far right of the panorama. Amazingly, from this camera trams on every Zürich route can be observed, together with views of all but one of the trolleybus routes and trams of the Glattalbahn.
Turkey 
Several traffic cameras in Istanbul, Turkey, now show the modern city tramway. By hovering your mouse over the camera icons, the locations are displayed (in Turkish) and by clicking on an icon the picture opens in a separate window. The 'Galata Bridge' view (near the centre of the map that appears) shows trams crossing this bascule bridge that sometimes opens at the centre for large ships. The view is looking north and trams started to use this bridge after the line was extended in March 2005 from the southern side. The water to the left is the Golden Horn, which is an inlet from the Bosporus (Bosphorus) on the right. Another camera shows the current northern terminus at Findikli (just above Galata Bridge on the map) but trams will continue past this stop later in 2005. A third view of the line, to the west of the bridge, is in the Topkapi district. The camera at Esenler Otogar shows the Istanbul Metro. The images can initially be slow to load but then have a rapid update.
The first page of this website in Konya, Turkey, gives a choice of tourist views. Click on the image of the one called "Municipality Intersection" and a new window will open giving a moving picture of Haciveyiszade Camii with trams passing. This camera uses Activex software which may not work with all browsers.
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