Swedish Trams- Gothenburg

Gothenburg is Sweden's second largest city and is situated in the west of the country in the Västra Götaland Region. It is a major port and has grand buildings. The city has the largest tram network in Northern Europe of which most of it has dedicated rights of way with street running in the city centre. Horse trams first ran in Gothenburg in 1879 and were operated by an English company with the electric trams beginning in 1902. The present day operating company is Göteborgs Spårvägar AB. Västtrafik is the transport authority, which has responsibility for both the buses and the trams in the city. Gothenburg's trams survived the change in the rule of the road in 1967 along with those in Norrköping. The trams are in a smart sky blue and white livery and the buses mostly wear an over-all mid blue scheme, with some of the older Volvo articulated buses in a similar livery to that of the trams.