Trams
There are trams operating on nine systems in seven Swiss cities. Street-running tramways are nearly all 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge. The Chemin de fer Bex–Villars–Bretaye (BVB) in Bex is more of a mixed interuban light rail line connected to a rack railway but it does have some street running portions, particularly in Bex where the BVB operates along the right of way of a tramway system originally built in the 1890s.
| City | System | Start of electric operations |
Gauge | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basel | Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB) | 6 May 1892 | 4 lines | |
| Baselland Transport (BLT) | 6 October 1902 | metre gauge | 8 lines, 65.2 km (40.5 mi), 100 trams, serves suburbs | |
| Bern | Stadtische Verkehrsbetriebe Bern | 1 July 1902 | ||
| Bex | Chemin de fer Bex–Villars–Bretaye (BVB) | 1890s | metre gauge | connects to rack railway in Villars-sur-Ollon |
| Geneva | Transports Publics Genevois | 22 September 1894 | ||
| Lausanne | Tramway du sud-ouest lausannois | 2 June 1991 | ||
| Neuchâtel | Tramways de Neuchâtel | 16 May 1897 | ||
| Zürich | Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ) | 8 March 1894 | ||
| Stadtbahn Glattal | 10 December 2006 |
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