VALENCIA, Spain. Tramways in Porta de Serrans. Postcard (1930s)

VALENCIA
Tramways in Porta de Serrans.

Postcard published by JDP, Valencia (1930s).

On 23 June 1876, Valencia's first tram, powered by horses, linked the city with its Grau port. The construction work on the first tram infrastructure in Valencia was carried out between 1887 and 1888. The first line that was put into service, on 21 November  1891, connected the Empalme station in Burjassot with Bétera, with a length of 14.7 km. On 7 July1892, the second line was inaugurated, between the current Pont de Fusta and Grau stations, with a length of 5.8 km. The tram network was successively expanded. In 1917, the Compagnie Générale des Tramways de Valence (Spain) Société Lyonnaise, known as La Lionesa, and the Sociedad Valenciana de Tranvías, which had been established on 16 January 1885, merged and the Compañía de Tranvías y Ferrocarriles de Valencia (CTFV) was born. The rise of Valencian trams occurred in the 1940s and 1950s and their decline began in 1957 as a consequence of the great flood that affected the city, and from then on the progressive disappearance of the tram as a means of urban transport began. In 1986 FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana) began to operate the city's new trams.

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