Trams in Odesa

Last updated February 09, 2024

As of the middle 2011, trams are one of the basic types of public transportation in the city of Odesa, Ukraine. Odesa is served by 13 regular, and 1 rush hour, tram routes. Electric trams have been operating in Odesa since 1910.^[1]

As of early 2011, Odesa has 210 Tatra T3 tramcars, 106 of them having been modernized.
In 2006, К-1 tramcars started to be delivered. They are manufactured on Yuzhmash plant in Dnipro. There are also Tatra-Yug trams, manufactured there.
For heritage purposes, there is one pseudo-Nivelles retro tram, which was made out of MTV-82 tram.
The Odesa Tram Network is served by two depots. One is located near the railway station, the other is located in Slobodka (in the western part of the city). A service tram depot (located near "Tovarnaja" station) used to house some of the passenger service routes 1996, but it now houses only service trams.
As of November 2016, the lines in vul Preobrazhenska, vul Tyraspilska, and vul Nizhynska were out of service. A new roundabout at the junction of these lines was being constructed, with excavation to a depth of 1 metre for two blocks either side in vul Preobrazhenska. At the bottom of the trench was being poured slab concrete. Track for the roundabout was being fabricated in situ from straight rails. It is estimated that the work would take several more months.
As of November 2016, the track in vul Novoshepnoy Ryad was in poor condition, the asphalt road surface having disappeared where it flanked the Privoz market, pointwork at vul Preobazhenska was in poor condition. Speed of trams in this street was low on account of the exposed rails, and cars and trucks travelling at walking pace over the rough surface.
As of October 2018, the roundabout in vul Preobrazhenska was in operation, allowing trams to enter and leave in any direction along the streets mentioned previously.
Operational difficulties plague the system. The track and pointwork in vul Noveshepnoy and vicinity are unchanged from 2016. Services along two routes ceased for long periods on the same day in 2018. This is the result of three factors: One is the removal of turn-back facilities that enabled trams to service part of the route when there is a breakdown or accident (example, lines 12 and 3 near Fine Arts Museum). Another is the removal of cross links that would enable a tram to reach a destination via another route when a breakdown occurs (example, vul Stelova). The third is attributable to the continued used of single-ended trams. With a double-ended tram, a turn-back is possible wherever there is a shunt. Single-ended trams need a loop or a turnout to a cusp, to enable the tram to travel in the opposite direction on the other track.
On 21 December 2023, the city received the first of 13 Tatra-Yug K1T306 trams that were ordered in December 2022. The three-section trams are 26 m long and 100% low floor.^[2]

Route network

No.	Terminals	Remarks^[3]
1	Peresyp Bridge — "Centrolit" Plant	Served by 7 trams. By 1997 operated as #9.
5	Central Bus Station — Arcadia	One of major routes. Served by 9 trams
6	Peresyp Bridge — Luzanivka	Shortcut version of route # 7 (rush hour time only). In run, starting with 9 AM, also used for "yard moves", when route number 1 comes in service out of Depot #2 (Slobidka Tram Depot)
7	Paustovskogo Street (Tavriya V) - Lustdorf	One of major routes. Served by 28 -40 trams. Route " North - South".
10	Isaac Rabin Street — Starosinna Square (Railway station)	Served by 5-9 trams. By 2000 operated as #14.
11	Starosinna Square (Railway station) — Alexeyevskaya Plaza	In 2008 it was severely trimmed. Served by 1-2 trams.
12	Peresyp Bridge — Slobodka Market	Initially this route terminated at Peresyb Bridge, starting with June 1, 2011 was extended, following route cancelled 22.
13	Shkolny housing estate — Starosinna Square (Railway station)	One of major routes. Served by 3 trams
15	Slobodka Market — Alexeyevskaya Plaza	Remains unchanged since the moment of first run. Served by 5-6 trams
17	Kulikovo Field — 11th station of Fountain Road	Short version of route #18. Served by 6 trams
20	Peresyp Bridge — Khadzhibay Firth	This line is served by 2 trams.
21	Zastava 2 railway station — Tiraspolskaya Square	Served by 2-3 trams
27	Fishing Port — Lustdorf	Served by 2 trams.
28	Shevchenko Park — Paster's Street	Passed along original Port Franko line. Served by 4-6 trams

Additional routes

3а 2nd station of Lustdorf Road- Tiraspolska Square.

3к 2nd station of Lustdorf Road — Railway station

Temporary not in service

4 Arcadia — Peresyp Bridge. Closed in 2017.

18 Kulikovo Field — 16th station of Fountain Road. One of major routes. The route is temporarily closed due to repair on 16th station of Fountain Road

19 16th station of Fountain Road — Memorial of 411 Battery. Has a single track line. The route is temporarily closed due to repair on 16th station of Fountain Road

Closed routes and phantom routes (after 1990)

2 Peresyp Bridge — Railway Station

3 Peresyp Bridge — Lustdorf. Cancelled due to route 7 extension to Lustdorf.

Used in evening to supplement shortcut runs of route 3. Present of official maps

4 Zastava 2 — Shevchenko Park

cancelled in 2005, tracks are demolished, and trolleybus # 2 runs on its way along Uspenskaya Street.

8 Luzanovka — Paustovskogo Street (Tavriya V)

9 "Centrolit" plant — Peresyp Bridge

cancelled in 1997, was included in routes № 1, 6, 7, 8.

14 Isaac Rabin Street — Railway Station

Operated as rush hour service in addition to route 10 by 2000. Technically back in service since 2023, but operates under #10.

16 Kulikovo field - 6th station of Fountain Road

22 Slobodka market — Peresyp bridge

26 Starosinna Square (Railway station) — 11th station of Lustdorf Road. Operates occasionally as rush hour service.

29 Lustdorf — 11th station of Lustdorf Road For a long time, used to be what's now known as route 31.

30 Ivanovskiy Viaduct — Peresyp Bridge

Closed in 2008 due to construction of the North-South auto mainline, which implied the roadway expansion. The construction of the Auto mainline was not completed due toa couple of reasons. Tram route 30 was replaced by 30A bus route. Since this route is served by 2 buses only, almost no one uses it.

31 Lustdorf — Railway Station. Used to be route 29. Since 2015 replaced by route 3. Cancelled.

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References

↑ История Одесского трамвая. Odesskiy Listok.
↑ "Odesa tram deliveries begin". Railway Gazette International. 4 January 2024.
↑ "Routes". OMF World (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-18.

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[1] История Одесского трамвая. Odesskiy Listok.

[2] "Odesa tram deliveries begin". Railway Gazette International. 4 January 2024.

[3] "Routes". OMF World (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-18.

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