France: Strasbourg Line A & D trams at Gare Centrale station (underground)

France: Strasbourg Line A & D trams at Gare Centrale tram station on the stretch of the network that passes under the main SNCF station. The line D tram (a Socimi Eurotram) is en route to Aristide Briand and the line A tram (an Alsthom Citadis) is en route to Parc des Sports. Recorded 26th September 2014.
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The Strasbourg tramway (French: Tramway de Strasbourg), run by the CTS, consists of six lines, A, B, C, D, E and F that operate in the city of Strasbourg in Alsace, France. Lines A and D were opened in 1994, lines B and C were opened in 2000, line E was opened in 2007 and line F was opened in 2010. It is regarded as a remarkable example of the tramway's rebirth in the 1990s. Together with the success seen in Nantes since 1985, the Strasbourg experiment resulted in the construction of tramways in other French urban areas, such as Montpellier and Nice.

The first tram line in Strasbourg, which was originally horse-drawn, opened in 1878. After 1894, when an electric powered tram system was introduced, a widespread network of tramways was built in the largest city of Alsace, including also several longer distance lines on both sides of the Rhine. The decline of the tramways system began in the 1930s, and ended with the retirement of the service in 1960. After a long drawn out communal political decision process, the tram was reintroduced in 1994. As part of the redevelopment of the city, a track of a total 33 km distance was built, on which 5 tram line services have been developed.

As of November 2013, the current network has 6 lines and a total length of 57.5 kilometres (35.7 mi). However, due to the fact that many lines overlap with each other, the length of physical track is only 40.7 km (25.3 miles). The system's hub is Homme de Fer, a station in the city centre where 5 of the 6 lines intersect. In the pedestrianized city centre, the tram shares space with pedestrians and bicycles. The six lines are:

Line A: Parc des Sports in the northeast to Illkirch Lixenbuhl in the south (13.5 km).
Line B: Hoenheim Gare in the north to Lingolsheim in the southwest (14.7 km).
Line C: Gare centrale to Neuhof in the south-east (8.1 km).
Line D: Poteries in the northwest to Aristide Briand in the east (8.7 km).
Line E: Robertsau Boecklin in the north and Baggersee in the south (10.6 km).
Line F: Elsau in the south to Place d'Islande in the East (5.62 km).
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Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. In 2006, the city proper had 272,975 inhabitants and its urban community 467,375 inhabitants. With 759,868 inhabitants in 2010, Strasbourg's metropolitan area is the ninth largest in France.

Strasbourg is the seat of several European institutions, such as the Council of Europe (with its European Court of Human Rights, its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and its European Audiovisual Observatory) and the Eurocorps, as well as the European Parliament and the European Ombudsman of the European Union. The city is also the seat of the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine and the International Institute of Human Rights.

Strasbourg's historic city centre, the Grande Île (Grand Island), was classified a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1988, the first time such an honour was placed on an entire city centre. Strasbourg is immersed in the Franco-German culture and although violently disputed throughout history, has been a bridge of unity between France and Germany for centuries, especially through the University of Strasbourg, currently the second largest in France, and the coexistence of Catholic and Protestant culture. The largest Islamic place of worship in France, the Strasbourg Grand Mosque, was inaugurated by French Interior Minister Manuel Valls on 27 September 2012.

Economically, Strasbourg is an important centre of manufacturing and engineering, as well as a hub of road, rail, and river transportation. The port of Strasbourg is the second largest on the Rhine after Duisburg, Germany. In terms of city ranking for innovation, Strasbourg has been ranked the third city in France and 18th globally.
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Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France.

Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of the upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland.
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