Roma Tramvia ~ Rome Trams, June 2011

Mussolini pulled up the tram tracks in the centre of Rome in 1930. (He built an inner circle line and introduced through-ticketing). There were further extensive closures in the 1960's & 70's because trams did not mix well with Roman driving habits.
Recent environmental concerns (and EU money) have seen trams make a modest comeback. A "modern tramway", line 2, opened in 1990. Line 8 has been extended. In July 2009 re-routing and a new turning circle at Termini for lines 5 and 14 saw trams return to the top of the via Cavour.
There are some modern low floor trams by Fiat (1998 & 2002) and Socimi (1990) but the backbone of the fleet is a batch of 58 articulated cars dating from 1949 --54, re-built and still giving good service. Socimi went broke and its supply contract was only half completed, possibly causing the 1949-54 cars to stay in service longer than expected. The old trams are now increasingly popular with tourists.

[@bramber69]

Interesting video with a nice mix of old and modern trams, nice filming also, seems to be a fair size network in Rome, I will be visiting there in 2 weeks and look forward to seeing all this.

[@WoelkerVideo]

Excellent video.

[@tramvinicyus2]

@michaelinlondon
Thanks to you, it's very nice to find someone interested id Rome's tram history. You should see the Melbourne's tram network, in my opinion the best in the world. Chow!!!

[@Senna-78]

Excellent video.
Unfortunately in that period the rail service on Line n.3 was replaced by bus. Tram service was restored on 27th August 2012

[@timosha21]

beautiful and amazing video! luv it

[@Senna-78]

All'epoca però da Porta Maggiore passavano solo le linee 5, 14 e 19. La 3 purtroppo era ancora gestita con bus :(

[@michaelinlondon]

Thanks. Unfortunately the captions are on the video itself so I cannot correct the spelling mistake.

[@michaelinlondon]

@tramvinicyus2 Thanks for the correction. Best regards.