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Milan Trams
ATM - Azienda Trasporti Milanesi

Page 1: Overview



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This page gives an overview of tram designs which have run in Milan/Milano. More detailed pages on recent tram designs are linked below.

Founded in 1931, Azienda Trasporti Milanesi is a Public Limited Company owned by the Milan Municipality which manages public transport in the Lombard capital and in 46 provincial towns, serving an area with a population of 2.4 million people. It operates 18 tram lines, run with Peter Witt streetcars from the 1920s, Stanga trams from the 1950s and more modern classes. There are also 72 urban Bus lines, 4 Trolleybus lines, 35 interurban Bus lines, 4 Metro lines (Metropolitana di Milano) and one surviving interurban tramway, carrying over 734 million passengers in 2010.



 

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   Official Milan ATM website:- http://www.atm.it/
   The Development of the Modern Tram by Brian Patton (Adam Gordon 2006):-


Milan Trams

ATM - Azienda Trasporti Milanesi


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Peter Witt/Ventotto Trams - Built 1928-1930

In the 1920s, the increasing traffic on the Milan urban tramway network made pressing the substitution of the old tramcars ″type Edison″. The municipal tram office decided to project a new type of tramcars, built on two bogies, taking as model the Peter Witt streetcars built in Cleveland and in other cities of the United States.

The Milan streetcar was projected by the municipal engineers in 1927, and two prototypes, built by Carminati & Toselli and numbered 1501 and 1502, came into service at the end of the same year.

After a few tests, the construction of a 500 units stock (numbered 1503 to 2002) began, divided between several manufacturers:-
1503 to 1612 - Società Italiana Carminati & Toselli built 110 units
1613 to 1722 - Società Italiana Ernesto Breda built 110 units
1723 to 1772 - Officine Meccaniche di Reggio Emilia built 50 unit
1773 to 1882 - Officine Meccaniche built 110 units
1883 to 1992 - Officine Elettroferroviarie Tallero built 110 units
1993 to 2002 - Officine Meccaniche Lodigiane built 10 units

The electrical equipment was built by Ansaldo and TIBB, the bogies by Fiat under Commonwealth-license.

The cars were delivered in 1929–1930 and immediately put into service. The Peter Witt system involved entrance at the front with a conductor sat just ahead of central exit doors. They could take 33 seated passengers and 125 in total. Seats were longitudinal in the forward section and transverse behind the exit. In 1932–1935 some cars were equipped with an experimental half door at the tail, and from 1938 to 1940 with full-sized doors. The rear transverse seating was changed to longitudinal to assist flow to the rear exit. The Peter Witt system was therefore abandoned after a few years of service. The trams were known locally as 'Ventottos' ('twenty-eights' after their year of introduction).

During the Second World War many cars were seriously damaged, but only one unit had to be demolished, the others being repaired or reconstructed from 1945 to 1949.

From 1970 on, the traditional green livery (introduced in 1930) was abandoned, and a new orange one introduced; from 1972 the traditional trolley pole was substituted by a pantograph. Since 1976 some cars were put aside and later demolished. Nowadays circa 100 units are still in service, repainted in the last years in a white and yellow livery already used on the prototypes. (ref: The Development of the Modern Tram by Brian Patton & Wikipedia)

 More images of Peter Witt Trams - 1501-2000 series


A selection of Ventotto/Peter Witt tram images
Photos: ©2015 Ian Boyle

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4600/4700 Series (Stanga/TIBB) - Built 1928-1930


The 4600/4700 series trams were projected in the 1950s as an articulated version of the series 5300. Originally a fleet of 15 cars (to be numbered from 4601 to 4615) was foreseen, but the two last units were delivered in an experimental 'all electric' version, and because of that they were numbered in the 4700 series. Some years later a second stock of 'all electric' cars was built, numbered from 4716 to 4733.

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A selection of Stanga images on route 2
Photos: ©2015 Ian Boyle

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4900 Series 'Jumbo' Articulated Trams - Built 1976-1978


The 4900 series 'Jumbo' trams were built in the 1970s by Fiat Ferroviaria (4900-4949) and Stanga 4950-4999, respectively, and were intended to be used on future light rail lines, such as the proposed circular line that should substitute the existing circular trolleybus line. However such lines were never built, and the 4900 were used on the existing network. The trams have an offset cab for clearance reasons. Some of the Jumbo trams have been rebuilt in more modern style.




A selection of 'Jumbo' images on various routes
Photos: ©2015 Ian Boyle

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Milan Interurban Tram Routes - 2015

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