The electric tram in Istanbul

The adventure of the electric tram in Istanbul: Electric trams in Istanbul first started operating in 1913. In 1961, it was removed due to inefficiency. Before the electric trams, “horse trams” were used for approximately 42 years.

The first trams to Istanbul started operating in 1871, 18 years after Europe. After approximately 42 years of adventure, "horse-drawn trams" were replaced by "electric trams". Electric trams, which started operating in 1913, were completely removed in 1961 on the grounds that they were not efficient.

The tram construction in Istanbul took place as a result of the concession to Kostantin Karapano Efendi, and the first line was put into service on July 31, 1871, between Azapkapı and Beşiktaş, in a ceremony held in Tophane. With the “Contract for the Construction of Tramways and Facilities in Dersaadet” on August 30, 1869, the railway operation for passenger and goods transportation in Istanbul streets was given to the “Istanbul Tram Company” founded by Karapano Efendi for 40 years. The company, whose field of activity expanded in the following years, started to be known as 'Dersaadet Tramway Company' from 1881.

One of the first horse-drawn tramways was established between Azapkapı-Beşiktaş and this line was later extended to Ortaköy. Then, Eminönü-Aksaray, Aksaray-Yedikule and Aksaray-Topkapı lines were opened and 430 was used for 4,5 million passengers in the first year of operation and 53 thousand pounds revenue was obtained. Later, the lines of Kabristan Street-Tepebaşı-Taksim-Pangaltı-Şişli, Bayezid-Şehzadebaşı, Fatih-Edirnekapı-Galatasaray-Tünel and Eminönü-Bahçekapı were opened from Vojvoda.

The horse-drawn trams, which started to work within the borders of the Ottoman Empire, were established in the big cities of the empire and opened for operation first in Thessaloniki and then in Damascus, Baghdad, Izmir and Konya. In 1880, stop application was started on trams. He was standing where the passenger wanted, which slowed his speed. In 1883, Galata, Tepebaşı and Cadde-i Kebir (A tram line was laid on Istiklal Avenue. In 1911, Beşiktaş and Şişli tram warehouses were opened. In 1912, upon the start of the Balkan War, all horses belonging to the Istanbul Tram Company ( 1912), Istanbul was left without a tram for a year when it was bought for 430 thousand liras.After two years after the First World War started, transportation in Istanbul stopped for eight months.

1914 was terminated in XNUMX, which is considered as the turning point of public transportation in Istanbul, and the famous trams running in front of the horses running in front of the horses to warn the pedestrians with the trumpet (nefir) varda (step aside) to warn the pedestrians.

Independence

Turkey's first power plant in February 1913 11 1914 established in Silahtarağa on the tram network by giving the first draft was passed to the electric trolley business.

Laleli

In 1933, the tram and bus fleet (320 trams + 4 buses) were fully expedited in Istanbul. Anatolian Side Üsküdar and Airport Tramway Management in 1955 (Üsküdar - Kadıköy People's Tramways Company) was transferred to IETT with all its facilities.

Military academy

Electric trams serving on both sides of the city for fifty years, on the grounds that they could not keep up with the ever-increasing speed of the city on the 12 August 1961 on the European side, 14 November 1966'da on the Anatolian side of the last expedition sadly farewell to passengers. Trolleybuses were activated instead.

In 1989, the restoration of the old wagons in the museum brought the electric tram back into service for a symbolic line and for nostalgic purposes.

Istiklal Street, which is the most suitable place for this, was found suitable for pedestrianization. Thus, today's nostalgic tram began to operate on the Taksim-Tunel line.