Trams in Asia
In 2011, Shenyang city decided to reintroduce the trams to complement its new metro network, then under construction.
After that new tram systems opened in Qingdao, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Zhuhai, Wuhan, and Huai'an.
As of 2017, Beijing, Chengdu, Sanya, Wuyishan, Honghe and Haikou have new tram systems under construction.
While Ningbo, Quanzhou, Zhengzhou, Baotou and Kunshan are planning tram networks for the future.
[4] Mumbai, Nashik, Chennai, Kanpur, Kochi, Patna and Bhavnagar formerly had tram networks, but all of these were dismantled between the 1930s and 1960s.
In Batavia (now Jakarta), the capital of the former Dutch colony of the Netherlands East Indies, a horse tram service started in 1869.
[12][needs update] In 2018, Gamplong Natural Studio was inaugurated in Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, and was built for movie purposes.
The Jerusalem Light Rail system began operation in August 2011 with one 13-kilometre-long line, and is undergoing extension and expansion.
A light rail system for Beersheba is also currently planned, as well as a tram-train that will connect between Haifa and Nazareth.
Similar to North America at the time many of these local tram networks had through service with interurban lines.
Many Japanese cities had extensive tram systems until the 1960s, when increased motorization started to make some lines disappear.
Current tram systems include the Sapporo Street Car (Sapporo) and Hakodate City Tram (Hakodate) in Hokkaidō; Tokyo Toden and Tokyu Setagaya Line in (Tokyo), Enoden (Kamakura), Toyohashi Railroad (Toyohashi), Toyama Chihō Railway (Toyama), Man'yōsen (Takaoka), Randen (Kyoto), Hankai Tramway (Osaka), Okaden (Okayama), and Hiroden (Hiroshima) on Honshū; Iyotetsu (Matsuyama) and Tosaden (Kōchi) on Shikoku; and Nagasaki Electric Tramway (Nagasaki), Kumamoto City Tram (Kumamoto), and Kagoshima City Tram (Kagoshima) on Kyūshū.
[13] After almost 90 years, the network was closed in 1975 as trams were involved in many accidents and there was an attempt to decongest the city's traffic.
The tranvía network ran throughout the city of Manila and its outskirts, Pasay, Makati, and Pasig.
Both lines use tram/light rail rolling stock, but these operate as fully grade-separated light rapid transit systems.
Singapore has historically operated two tram services, the first a steam tramway existing between 1886 and 1894, and the second an electric-powered system between 1905 and 1927.
The Danhai LRT began operations in December 2018 with a fleet of locally-built light rail vehicles.
It serviced Lopburi that was expanding rapidly into a military city at that time with 6.5 km of track.
[27] The Tashkent electrical tramway system was introduced in 1912 as a replacement of the horse-driven trams that were running since 1901.
The Tashkent tram system is the oldest in Central Asia and was one of the biggest in the former Soviet Union.
In the beginning of the 21st century, the system lost many of its routes due to removal of track from the city center.
In Vietnam, tram networks once ran in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).
The Compagnie française des tramways de l’Indochine (CFTI) began tram services in Saigon in 1881, using cars towed by a steam locomotive designed by Deauville on a 0.5m gauge line.
