Tramway routes in Turin                
Events and curiosities of Turin tramway network

• On December 18th 1883 a storage battery tram ran, for the first time, along Turin routes.

• The first electrified route was the "Linea dei Viali"
  Tram 209 with the indicator of the Boulevards Line
  (Boulevards circle line), ancestor of present route number 16.

• Between last years of XIX century and first years of XX century Turin tram lines created a very close net: trams ran even along the paths inside Valentino Park
  Line I of Stt along Valentino Park in the first years of XX century
  .

• In those years, when illiteracy was very widespread, colors and ideographs
  Ideographs used by Saeai lines in the first years of XX century
  were used in order to identify the different routes.

• First regular stops were set up in March 1901. Until then it was possible to request a stop in every point of the route.

• During World War I special tram lines were set up to carry munitions
  A map of Atm network during World War I with special tram routes for carrying munitions
  from the factories to the barracks and to take the wounded soldiers
  A map of Atm network during World War I with special tram routes for wounded soldiers
  from the stations to the hospitals.

• During first years of XX century the trams ran also along minor roads: some streets, as via Porta Palatina
  Notice of suppression of tram service along via Porta Palatina
  or via Palazzo di Città were so narrow that trams ran close to the buildings and in some points tram lines merged.

• During the Thirties the one-way tram cars began to replace the old bidirectional two-axles trams. So a new kind of terminus began to be used, the so-called “priest hat terminus”
  Priest-hat terminus of route 9 in Borgata Vittoria
  ,  that allowed an U-turn in a small space at the cost of a short reverse way.

• The only narrow gauge interurban tramway was the Torino-Saluzzo route. The gauge was 1.10 m, so this line shared with urban route number 7, in the common ride, only the right track of the rails.

• When, in 1934, the new wholesale market was opened in the south part of the city, goods tram service was set up; it consisted of tram cars with trailers, that carried fruits and vegetables to the local markets.

• The 27 route was the most short-lived line: it ran for 102 days only, some months after the end of World War II.

• In the same period the circle lines number 16 (clockwise and anticlockwise) were named for a short time "red circle line" and "blue circle line".