Since 1993, a heritage tram is operated in Møhlenpris by the Bergen's Electric Tramway association.
[2] The construction of a tramway was decided in 1894, and started one year later, with the German company Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG, later AEG) as the major shareholder.
The tramway opened on 29 June 1897, and was operated by the newly established Bergens Elektriske Sporvei.
There were plans to create an interchange between the tramway and the Fløibanen funicular with a tram stop, but this did not happen.
Large areas of the city centre burned to ashes and made space for additional lines, double track and more spacious tram stops.
[2] In 1916, shipowner Håkon J. Wallem purchased AEG's share of the tram company.
[2] In the 1930s many tram lines were replaced and supplemented with bus routes run by Bergens Sporvei.
[11][12] In 1974, The "Association for the Technical Museum in Bergen" was established, aiming at running a heritage tram on the tracks of the former tramway.
[13] The line is now served with five trams; the one not scrapped in 1965, one from the Oslo Tramway painted yellow (pictured),[14] and three from Berlin, built in 1969.
[15] In 1995, it was decided that a light rail line from the city centre to Bergen Airport, Flesland would be constructed.
[24] In 1947, in association with the introduction of one-way trams, turning loops were built in Sandviken.
In the south, the line was extended in 1919 over the Nygård Bridge to the former railway station in Solheimsviken, in 1924 to Inndalen and in 1928 to the balloon loop at Minde.
The line between Småstrandgaten and Kalfaret opened on 3 July 1897,[25] in 1898 extended to Olav Kyrres gate, and to Sukkerhusbryggen in 1900.
Since the Sandviken Line's tracks were in Øvregaten, it often took more time to take the tram from Torget [no] to Bradbenken than to walk.
[24] Bergen's Electric Tramway (Norwegian: Bergens Elektriske Sporvei) has, since the 1990s, maintained the remaining overhead wires and tracks, bought and laid new rails from the Trondheim Tramway,[30] and new trams from East Berlin.
[31] These trams travel on Sunday afternoons, mainly as a nostalgic tourist attraction, from Møhlenpris towards Engen – stopping currently at the start of Olaf Ryes vei.
[32] This museum tram has served since 1994,[33] and branches towards Damsgård, Nordnes and Bryggen are being planned.