Trams in Wuhan may refer to any one of the

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systems currently operational in the city of

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. The first tram started revenue service in Wuhan is the Auto-city T1 Line, which began on July 28, 2017. Subsequently, Optics Valley tram started revenue service from April 1, 2018.

Systems

Auto-city trams

Auto-city T1 line () started revenue service on July 28, 2017, and is the first line of the Auto-city trams. It runs from Chelun Square to Deshenggang in

Hanyang District Hanyang District () forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. Currently, it is a district and stands between the Han River (right/southern bank) ...

for a length of with 22 stations. At Chelun Square it is transferable to Zhuanyang Boulevard Station on Line 3, Wuhan Metro. The planned Auto-city tram system consists of 14 lines, ranging and has some 277 stations. The line's 21 tramcars were built by

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. File:Outside of a Auto-city tram.jpg, Outside of an Auto-city tram File:A signboard for Auto-city trams in Interchange Cannel.jpg, A signboard for Auto-city trams in Interchange Channel File:Inside of the car of Auto-city trams.jpg, Inside of the car of Auto-city trams File:Passenger information system of Auto-city trams in car.jpg, Passenger information system of Auto-city trams in car File:Turnstile in car of Auto-city trams.jpg, Turnstile in car of Auto-city trams ;Tram stops

Optics Valley trams

Two LRT corridors, totaling , in Wuhan's

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area started construction since 2013. Although officially there are two lines, a total of six services are operated. After several months of testing, both lines opened for revenue service on April 1, 2018. The LRV cars are designed by Fordyno and built by

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.https://www.fordyno.com/wuhan-optics-valley File:Wuhan - Guanngu Streetcar - Wudayuan - P1520430.JPG, A tram in Wuhan University Science Park (Wudayuan) Station, one of the few elevated stations of the system File:A close-up of the control trailers of Optics Valley trams.jpg, A close-up of the control trailers of Optics Valley trams File:Wuhan - Guanngu Streetcar - Sanyuanlu - P1520437.JPG, Sanyuan Road (Sanyuanlu), a typical street-level station of the system with

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in the station File:Wuhan - Guanngu Streetcar - Tangsunhu - P1520440.JPG, Tangxunhu, the last station of one of the branches. The elevated tracks in the background are the Tangxunhu Station of the Wuhan–Xianning intercity railway File:Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) of Optics Valley trams.jpg, Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) of Optics Valley trams File:Single Journey ticket of Optics Valley trams.jpg, Single Journey ticket of Optics Valley trams ;Tram stops

Hankou downtown trams

Trams were planned since the

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when

Hankou Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers w ...

served as one of the major economic centers of China. New plans to bring the never built trams back to the streets of Hankou downtown emerged around 2014. No actual construction has taken place as of 2017 in spite of the plans of the trams were made.

References

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