Singsakerlinjen

Singsakerlinjen
Info
Type	Tramway
System	Trondheim Tramway
Status	Abandoned
Start station	Studentersamfundet
End station	Rosenborg
Operation
Opened	1927
Closed	1968
Owner	City of Trondheim
Operator(s)	Trondheim Sporvei
Technical
No. of tracks	2
Gauge	1 m (3 ft 33⁄8 in)

Singsakerlinjen or Singsaker Line was a tramway line in the Trondheim Tramway between Elgeseter via Singsaker to Rosenborg in Trondheim, Norway. The tram line was built in 1927, with expansions in 1935 and 1955 and abandoned in 1968. It was used by Line 3 operatd by Trondheim Sporvei.

History

The first tramway in Trondheim opened in 1893, and by 1913 an electrified tramway was built to Elgeseter, Elgeseterlinjen. In 1922 a new line to Singsaker was proposed, which opened on September 27 1927. The line originally went from Studentersamfundet to Ankers Street, a 1.5 km distance, but on September 29 1935 the line was extended 400 meters to Asbjørnsens Street and in 1955 the line was extended from Asbjørnsens Steet in a loop down to Rosenborg and along Statsingeniørs Dahl's Street past Kristiansten Fortress to Ankers Street. The trams went counter-clockwise through the loop, which was single tracked, in contrary to the rest of the line, that was double tracked. At Elgeseter the trams followed the same line as Line 2 on Elgeseter Line, via the city center to Trondheim Central Station. Singsakerlinjen was the steepest of the streetcar lines in Trondheim, at 45 promille.

In 1958 when Ladelinjen was completed to Lade, Line 2 moved its terminus to Lade, leaving Line 3 as the only line to the railway station. But in 1960 the sale of automobiles were deregulated in Norway and the trams had a massive fall in passengers. In 1968 Line 3 was closed and replaced by buses, including both the line to Singsaker and the line to the railway station. But the result of the closing was dramatic for public transport in Trondheim; The last year the tram went 2.5 million passengers took it, but when the bus was introduced, the passenger numbers dropped with 30% in the first year, and with a steady fall in the number of passengers the buses went less and less often; the headway being reduced from 6 minutes to 45 minutes at the worst. Bus line 63 still follows the same route as the tram did.