European Railroad Discussion > Fall Euro Trip Part 2 - Surprise Tram System in Vitoria-Gasteiz

One of the pleasant surprises of this European trip was discovering the Basque city of Vitoria-Gasteiz.  Not only is it a really nice, lively city - it has a 2-line tram system that I did not even know existed!  The system was opened in 2008 and is a metre-gauge system, like the Bilbao system, which  opened in 2002.  Both the Vitoria-Gasteiz and the Bilbao systems are operated under the Euskotren Tranbia brand of the Basque region.  

1)  A 500-series CAF Urbos-2 series tram on the central corridor.  
2)  A 500-series tram meets a 600-series tram.  
3)  600-series tram on the main pedestrian area in the center.  

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4)  Another 600-series tram.
5) Night-time shot of a 600.  
6)  Onboard a 600 at night.  
 

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Nice photos!  I've never been to Portugal or Spain.  I appreciae your photos.  

If you want to see all the tram systems in the world, you can poke around on openrailmap.org  they jump out, since they are in pink.  That's not to say that you *should* -- making random discoveries in the world is fun, too!  

https://openrailwaymap.org/?style=standard&lat=42.843562530031726&lon=-2.6695919036865234&zoom=13
https://opentopomap.org/#map=14/42.84558/-2.65646

They also reallh jump out in "pocket earth" an iPhone app that uses openstreetmap data.  It highlights rail lines much better than opentopomap itelf.  

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/42.84740/-2.67929&layers=C
Openstreetmap itself is a little disappointing in it ability to show tram lines... 

Ted in Provo



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/09/25 21:30 by gobbl3gook.