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We meet each 2nd and 4th Monday-evening (7 pm. - 11 pm.)  in the restaurant "Schwabinger Stub'n", located at Ursulastrasse 3, in the famous quarter of Schwabing, near the U-Bahn-station Münchner Freiheit. At each meeting slides with trams of the whole world will be shown.

Tram-Party We arrange your tram birthday- or wedding party or incentive. We take care of decoration, catering and music.  So you and your guests only hav to get on board and enjoy the party. For more pictures of our tram parties, please click here. photo albums   picture galleries     Reviews of previous years: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005   About us (Imprint) Links   For questions and comments please email to us (in English)   Info@strassenbahnfreunde.de

Link-list:   Find lots of tram-clubs, tram-museums, public-transport-companies and private tram-fan-pages assorted by countries and cities:  Tramlinks   New Year's Eve Party in the tram   Same procedure as last year, same procedure as every year. For more than 20 years, we travel from the old year to the new year in a tram. photo-album New Year's Eve   About our history: The Straßenbahnfreunde were founded in the year 1984, because at  this time the complete abolishment of the Munich tram-system was discussed. Many citizens' initiatives and of course our  association campaigned  for the preservation of the trams in München. In 1991 the city council finaly made a decision to keep the tram system. So in he 90ties the fleet of tramcars was replaced by new cars. The old cars were given to Romania and ran in Bucharest until 2006 and do still run at Timisoara and Craiova. The system was modernized with  priority for trams at traffic-lights and even new routes were planned. In 1996 the part of route 17 between Hauptbahnhof and Romanplatz, which was abandoned in 1983 was reopened. Since then the patronage increased so much there, that two routes (16 and 17) are needed to serve this part. In 1997 the section between Ostfriedhof and Max-Weber-Platz, which was abandoned in 1968, was built new.    But unfortunately since then, all the  plans for new tracks are moulding in the drawers of the city-administration. Another problem is the opposition of residents agaist new tram routes: "Yes, I like trams, but not in front of my house." . The conservative party (CSU) in the Munich city-hall unfortonately  does not like new tram projects either. If one only thinks, where new tram-tracks could be built, they immediately start arguing that new tram routes are from the devil! For decades people have been told, that trams are old fashioned and so this old prejudice is engraved to their brains forever. Town councillor Robert Brannekämper from the CSU is especially anti tram.  But the social-democarat party SPD who has the mayority, is in favour of trams. Just these days mayor Christian Ude opened an exhibition with pictures of modern trams in Europe and he said that some new tram-routes schold now be built, finally. So today our club is campaigning that the planned new routes finally should be built.   Munich Public-Transport-Museum opened in October 2007 More about the museum   Excoursion to Augsburg       poto-album of our excoursion on 29.Oct..2005     30 years ago: Farwell to the famous route 8   photo-album Linie 8     London: Save the Routemaster!    For mor information please click here   London lost its face!  On December 9th  2005 on route 159 the last Routemasters were changed to bendibusse.In the year 2000 still 500 of the traditional double-deckers operated in the city of London.   London without Routemasters means the same as San Francisco without cable-cars!   3 more new tram-cars ordered    Click to enlarge newspaper article   As the previous type of trams is no longer offered by the industry, three new cars of a different type (Variobahn) have been ordered from Stadler Pankow. They are to be delivered later in 2008.   20 years ago: Nürnberg trams on test-run in München   photo-album: Nurenberg trams in Munich               main-page (german)