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Nostalgic Tramway
The world has seen the first tramcar operating in New York, USA in 1842, then
in Europe (Paris in 1854 and London in1860); whereas those vehicles have started
wandering the streets of Istanbul on the 3rd of September, 1869, operating in
Tophane-Ortaköy line.
Bound by a contract concluded regarding the "Construction of the Tramway in Dersaadet
and Its Facilities", dated 30th of August, 1869; the management of vehicles that
were driven by animals and that comprised of the construction of railroads for
the transportation of passengers and goods along the streets of Istanbul was allocated
to the company named 'Dersaadet Tramway Establishment', established by Krepano
Efendi, being valid for 40 years.
The first horse-driven tramcar started servicing in 4 lines; namely Azapkapý-
Galata, Aksaray - Yedikule, Aksaray - Topkapi and Eminönü- Aksaray in 1871,and
an income of totaling 53,000 TL was gained against 4,5 million passengers by the
use of 430 horses during its first year of operation.
Afterwards more lines were added to the system such as Kabristan Street-Tepebaþý-
Taksim-Pangaltý-Þiþli from Voyvoda, Beyazýt-Þehzadebaþý, Fatih- Edirnekapý-Galatasaray-Tünel
and Eminönü-Bahçekapý.
The horse driven tramcars that had been operating within the Ottoman Empire boundaries,
then were established in the main cities of the empire and started operating firstly
in Thessalonica, then in Damascus, Baghdad, Izmir and Konya. The Ministry of Defense
took over the horses of the tramcars during the Balkan War that commenced in 1912
for 30.000 gold pieces; hence Istanbul remained without tram for more than a year.
The Tramway Enterprise that had been turned over to the Government on the12th
of June, 1939 by the law numbered 3642, then turned over to Municipality of Istanbul
and then to on the16th of June, 1939 by the law numbered 3645, in turn.
The Tramway Management has reached to an end with the removal of tramcars from
operation on the 12th of August 1961 on the European side, and from the Anatolian
side on the 14th of November, 1966.
By the end of year 1990,the historical tramline of Tünel-Taksim has recommenced
to service and it keeps on operating on a line of 1640 meters with 3 motrises
and 2 wagons, making 14.600 trips, totaling 23.944 kilometers per year and carrying
6,000 passengers a day on average; as well as serving for touristy purposes.
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