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Chemnitz

1880 22.3 km

Photo courtesy Mark Kavanaugh

Dortmund  - 6.5 mile LRT subway

Photo courtesy of Mark Kavanagh

Duisburg - 7.2 mile LRT/subway

Essen

Type	LRT
Stations
Lines	1
Length In Subway	12
Length Topside
Total Length	34.8 miles
Year Built	1967 (first tunnel section)
Address	Essener Verkehrs AGZeigerstrasse 34 (Erzhof), Postfach 47043 Essen, Germany
Links	EVAG Essen Railfan Home Page
Comments

Frankfurt

Type	Full Metro
Stations
Lines	7
Length In Subway
Length Topside
Total Length
Year Built	1968
Address	Stadtwerke Frankfurt-am-MainBorneplatz 36000  Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
Links	Trampage Frankfurt Tramways in Frankfurt am Main The Frankfurt U-Bahn site (added 4/4/99) Die Frankfurter Strassenbahnseite Another Frankfurt streetcar fan page (in German) VGF Official Home Page Wolfgang Heinze's Frankfurt Straßenbahn Stadtbahn and page has some great subway images
Comments

Photos courtesy Mark Kavanagh

Hamburg

Type	Full Metro
Stations
Lines	3
Length In Subway	40 km
Length Topside
Total Length	101 km
Year Built	1912
Address	Hamburger Hoehbahn Aktiegesellschaft  Steinstrasse 20, Postfach 6146  200 Hamburg 1  Germany
Links	Hamburger Hochbahn AG FAST e.V. - How to visit us News von der Hamburger U-Bahn Hamburg Vehkersbund (really cool site) U-Bahn Hamburg by Jan Bartelsen
Comments	Hamburg' subway, known as the Hochbahn, is mostly elevated outside the downtown area. The commuter S-Bahn is very much like a subway in it's operation and design, including many underground sections.

Hannover

Type	LRT metro and tramway
Stations	185 (19 underground)
Lines	4 routes, 9 lines
Length In Subway	17 km
Length Topside	93 km
Total Length	110 km
Year Built
Address	Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG  Hannover AM Hohen Ufer 6, Germany
Links	Hannover Uestra VRB Home Page Digitalmen's Strassenbahn site Professional Graffiti in the Hannover subway
Comments	Lines 1 through 9 are light metro, line 10 is tramway

   Photos courtesy of Tobias Hartmann
Leipzig

Photo courtesy Dieter Hackenthal

Mainz

Mullheim

Type	LRT
Stations
Lines
Length In Subway
Length Topside
Total Length
Year Built
Address	Mullheim/RJHR  Betriebe Der Stadt Mullheim A.D. Ruhr  Duisberger Strase 78  D-4330 Mullheim  Ruhr, Germany
Links
Comments

  Munich Tramcar
Munich

Type	Full Metro
Stations
Lines	3
Length In Subway
Length Topside
Total Length	48 miles
Year Built
Address	Stadtweke Munchen-Verkehrsbetriebe  Einsteinstrasse 28  8 Munchen 80, Postfach 801860, Germany
Links	FMTM // GTG - Munich tram page u-bahn munchen A fine Munich U-Bahn site by Thomas Oswald with a really cool menu on the left side of your screen der Münchner U-Bahn - great new private site (in German)
Comments

Nodhausen
LRT
 

Nurnberg

Oberhausen
LRT
 

Plauen

Pottsdam

Wuppertal monorail

Miscellaneous German Traction Links
U-Bahnbau in Fürth geht weiter
Underground Stations In Germany (in German)
Rhineland Transit
Rhineland VRN
Das Straßen-Bahn-ArchiveTramway Info, Streetcar, Trolleys by Ditmar Pauke
Die Straßenbahn-Seite info on German tramways
Micharl Knorr' S-Bahn Page
Willkommen bei der SSB
Public Transport in Germany System Reviews
Die IFB-Homepage Berlin institute for railway engineering
Local Transit 1 Dürener Kreisbahn about deisel lrt and RegioSprinter in Germany
Verlag Schweers + Wall - Bücher für Eisenbahnfreunde all in german, railfan site includes trams
FUNET German tram photos, includes Hannover, Munich, Augsberg, Zwickau and Rostock
Strassenbahn Photo Archive, featuring Bielefeld and Kassel
EMU images (many traction) from the ERS. Includes various S-Bahns Many of Germany's private railways can be considered interurbans and are traction related. This S-Bahn could easily be mistaken for a subway.
Busse und Bahnen - updated news and links (German only)
Das Straßen-Bahn - streetcar and light rail links with photos, mainly Vienna and Germany. Comprehensive.
The Vogtlandbahn is a RegioSprinter system that serves Zwickau, Plauen and dozens of other towns in Germany.
tramline.de
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~mlknorr/gto1.html