Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
icherisheher.tut.az
Transport
The Baku Tram
From the 1889 horse tram to the rails lifted in 2004 — the story of a network that vanished.
Go to the sitetramvay.tut.azA separate third-level domain with its own design
in progress
How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
Rail transport in Baku began with a horse tram in 1889. The electric tram opened on 8 February 1924; the first route ran from the railway station to Azneft Square.
By the late 1930s the network passed a hundred kilometres, then gave way to buses and the metro. The last routes closed in 2004, leaving photographs and rails under the asphalt.
On the site
- 01RoutesA map of the lines by year
- 02Rolling stockFrom horse cars to Soviet KTM trams
- 03The shutdownWhy the network was dismantled
- 04TracesWhat is still visible in the city
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