Between Stadhalle and Zwickau Zentrum stations, Die Länderbahn operates mainline diesel services alongside trams, sharing two intermediate stations. This concept has been dubbed the "Zwickau Model".
Lines
As of 2024[update], the network had the following two lines:
This network was implemented at the timetable change on 15 December 2019, when lines 5 and 7 were suspended.[2] The reason for this is the poor condition of the track on the tram line to the railway station, which is closed until further notice. This route is expected to be returned to operation in 2029 in connection with the planned tram route between Werdauer Straße and Bahnhofstraße.[3] The bus line 10 serves as a replacement, running every 10 minutes. [4]
Rolling stock
As of 2024, Zwickau operates a fleet of 19 KT4D and 12 low-floor GT6M trams.[1]
The KT4D trams were originally built from 1983 to 1990 and modernised in 1992-1996 and again from 2001, when they received new chopper control systems. They are used singly on line 4 and in sets of two coupled trams on line 3.[5]
In 2019 a procurement project for new trams was launched jointly with tram operators in Leipzig and Görlitz. A contract was signed in December 2021 with LEIWAG (a consortium of HeiterBlick [de] and Kiepe Electric) and Zwickau will receive six new 30 m long trams.[7]
Bauer, Gerhard; Kuschinski, Norbert (1993). Die Straßenbahnen in Ostdeutschland [The Tramways in East Germany]. Vol. Band 1: Sachsen [Volume 1: Saxony]. Aachen, Germany: Schweers + Wall. ISBN3921679796. (in German)
Schwandl, Robert (2012). Schwandl's Tram Atlas Deutschland (in German and English) (3rd ed.). Berlin: Robert Schwandl Verlag. p. 142. ISBN9783936573336.
