{"id":17957,"date":"2021-04-20T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=17957"},"modified":"2021-03-24T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T09:19:02","slug":"vienna-transport-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/austria\/vienna\/vienna-transport-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"remise – Transport Museum of the Vienna Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Sometimes chance finds are simply some of the most beautiful discoveries. We actually wanted to go for a walk when we discovered the Vienna Transport Museum (remise – Transport Museum of the Vienna Lines). And then we were lucky, the museum was open and we could go on an exciting discovery tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The history of the Vienna tramway is over 150 years old. Today, Vienna has the fifth largest tramway network in the world.
It all began with a horse-drawn tramway that made its first journey in 1865. Horses pulled carriages standing on rails through the city. Regular service was first started from Schottentor to Dornbach. Vienna thus had the first tramway in the Austrian Empire.
The working conditions of the tramway drivers were very bad at that time. They had to sit on the driver’s bench for up to 19 hours with a break of just 30 minutes. In addition, they had to be liable for any damage to the streetcars themselves. If their train was more than a minute late, the drivers were assigned to punitive duties on their day off. In 1889, the employees finally went on strike and were able to achieve a significant improvement in working conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n