Trams in Singapore

Singapore tramway networks

A Singapore electric tram, Upper Serangoon Road, 1900.
Operation
Locale	Singapore
Steam tramway era: 1886 (1886)–1894 (1894) Status Closed Operator(s) Singapore Tramways Company Tanjong Pagar Docks Company Track gauge 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge Propulsion system(s) Steam
Electric tram era: 1905 (1905)–1927 (1927) Status Closed Operator(s) Singapore Electric Tramways, Limited Track gauge 1,000 mm Propulsion system(s) Electricity

Singapore has had two tramway networks forming part of its public transport arrangements. Both networks were relatively unsuccessful and short lived.

See also

• History of Singapore
• List of town tramway systems in Asia
• Rail transport in Singapore
• Trolleybuses in Singapore

References

• York, F W; Phillips, A R (1996). Singapore: A History of its Trams, Trolleybuses & Buses, Volume One 1880's to 1960's. Croydon, Surrey, UK: DTS Publishing. ISBN 1-900515-00-8. 

External links

Media related to Trams in Singapore at Wikimedia Commons

• Singapore Pages: Trams – published by the National Library of Singapore
• Steam and Electric Trams in Malaya – including Singapore
• Singapore Straits Settlements (British) tram site – includes a map of the electric tramway network in 1926
• Land Transport Gallery – managed by the Land Transport Authority of Singapore

Coordinates: 1°17′43″N 103°51′11″E / 1.29528°N 103.85306°E / 1.29528; 103.85306