Editing Tram (section)

====Historical====
[[File:Cormault 136 - PARIS - Panorama du Carrefour du Chatelet et la Seine.JPG|thumb|At its peak, the [[Tramways in Île-de-France|Paris tram system]] was the world's largest, with over {{convert|1111|km|mi}} of track in 1925.]] 
Historically, the [[Tramways in Île-de-France|Paris Tram System]] was, at its peak, the world's largest system, with {{convert|1111|km|mi|abbr=on}} of track in 1925{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} (according to other sources, ca. {{convert|640|km|abbr=on}} of route length in 1930). However it was completely closed in 1938.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tundria.com/trams/FRA/Paris-1930.shtml|title=Paris 1930|first=Gabor|last=Sandi|access-date=12 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806062045/http://www.tundria.com/trams/FRA/Paris-1930.shtml|archive-date=6 August 2017}}</ref> The next largest system appears to have been {{convert|857|km|abbr=on}}, in [[#South America|Buenos Aires]] before 19 February 1963. The third largest was Chicago, with over {{convert|850|km|abbr=on}} of track,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shore-line.org/CSL.html|title=Welcome to the Shore Line Interurban Historical Society &#124; Chicago Surface Lines|publisher=Shore-line.org|access-date=8 March 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402094714/http://www.shore-line.org/CSL.html|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref> but it was all converted to [[trolleybus]] and bus services by 21 June 1958. Before its decline, the [[Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe|BVG]] in Berlin operated a very large network with {{convert|634|km|abbr=on}} of route. Before its system was converted to trolleybus (and later bus) services in the 1930s (last tramway closed 6 July 1952), the first-generation London network had {{convert|555|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} of route in 1931.<ref>{{Cite report |publisher=London Passenger Transport Board |title=Annual Report |date=1938}}</ref> In 1958 trams in Rio de Jainero were employed on ({{convert|433|km|mi|abbr=on|disp=semicolon}}) of track. The final line, the [[Santa Teresa Tram|Santa Teresa route]] was closed in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tundria.com/trams/BRA/Rio-1958.shtml|title=Rio de Janeiro 1958|first=Gabor|last=Sandi|access-date=12 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806064020/http://www.tundria.com/trams/BRA/Rio-1958.shtml|archive-date=6 August 2017}}</ref> During a period in the 1980s, the world's largest tram system was in [[Trams in Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] (St. Petersburg) with {{convert|350|km|mi|abbr=on}}, USSR, and was included as such in the [[Guinness World Records]];{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} however Saint Petersburg's tram system has declined in size since the fall of the Soviet Union. [[Vienna]] in 1960 had {{convert|340|km|mi|0|abbr=on}}, before the expansion of bus services and the opening of a subway (1976). Substituting subway services for tram routes continues. {{convert|320|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} was in [[Minneapolis–Saint Paul]] in 1947: There streetcars ended 31 October 1953 in Minneapolis and 19 June 1954 in St. Paul.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tundria.com/trams/USA/Minneapolis-St.Paul-1947.shtml|title=Minneapolis – St. Paul 1947|first=Gabor|last=Sandi|access-date=12 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319062538/http://www.tundria.com/trams/USA/Minneapolis-St.Paul-1947.shtml|archive-date=19 March 2017}}</ref> The [[Trams in Sydney|Sydney tram network]], before it was closed on 25 February 1961, had {{convert|291|km|abbr=on}} of route, and was thus the largest in Australia. Since 1961, the Melbourne system (recognised as the world's largest) has assumed Sydney's title as the largest network in Australia.