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List of current systems for electric rail traction

This a list of the voltages, etc. that are used or have been used for railway electrification systems.

Key:

Volts Hz Conductors  
180 DC Siemens streetcar Berlin-Lichterfelde 1881-1891, current feed over the running rails!
500 DC   many streetcars
525 DC overhead Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren
600 DC overhead very common for older tram systems world wide
third rail was used for trams in central London - third rail accessed via a slot between the tracks
Metro-North Railroad (Hudson & Harlem lines, southern part of New Haven line), the USA
parts of British Rail Southern Region up to 1939
third and fourth rail London Underground
  Most older US subways, PATH
725 50 Hz
three-phase
overhead two wire Gornergratbahn
750 DC overhead most modern tram systems including, in Germany (Stuttgart, Cologne-Bonn, Frankfurt am Main, etc.)
Albtalbahn, railway of the Upper Rhine, Rhein-Haardtbahn
local lines of Stern & Hafferl in Austria
third rail Undergrounds in Russia, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Nuernberg, Hamburg, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest
Long Island Railroad (USA), most of Southern Railway, England - see also external link
bottom contact third rail Docklands Light Railway
  Washington, D.C. Metro
800 DC third rail Rapid-transit railway Berlin
850 DC   Local railway Vienna
860 DC   Switzerland (MOBILIZATION)
900 DC   Switzerland (GFM)
1000 DC   Switzerland (SZU)
1125 50 Hz
three-phase
overhead two wire Jungfraubahn
1200 DC overhead to 1985 KBE, Cuba (FdeC), Spain (Sóller Railway)
900 mm gauge Grubenbahnnen in the Niederlausitzer brown coal district
third rail Rapid-transit railway Hamburg
Manchester to Bury line - obsolete
1350 DC   Domodossola Locarno
1500 DC   rural lines in Australia, the Netherlands, France, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Denmark (rapid-transit railway Copenhagen), India, Ireland, Japan, Switzerland (BOB, SPB, WAB), Spain (Catalan Railways, Spanish national Railway, Euskotren, FEVE), the USA (Metra, lines around Chicago)
Manchester - Sheffield (via the Woodhead Tunnel) from 1954 to 1981
2400 DC   Work line of the Lausitzer brown coal AG
3000 DC   rural lines in Poland, Belgium, Italy (except Sardinia) (changing to 25 kV AC), former Soviet Union, Brazil, Chile, North Korea, Slovakia, Spain (changing to 25 kV AC), South Africa, Czech Republic
3600 16 2/3 Hz
three-phase
overhead two wire from 1912 to 1976 in upper Italy
6000 DC   attempts in Russia
6250 50 Hz   Factory railway of Rheinbraun AG
6300 25 Hz   Mariazeller Bahn
11000 16 2/3 Hz   Rhaetian Railway, Furka-Oberalp-Bahn
11000 25 Hz   Amtrak Northeast Corridor (NEC) (Washington, DC and Harrisburg, PA to New York City), SEPTA, New Jersey Transit, the USA
12500 60 Hz   Amtrak NEC and Metro-North Railroad (Queens, New York to New Haven), the USA
15000 50 Hz
three-phase
overhead three wire trial runs between Zossen and Marienfelde , 1901 to 1904
15000 16 2/3 Hz   since 1912 standard system in Austria, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
20000 50 Hz   Höllentalbahn from 1933 to 1960
Japan
20000 60 Hz   Japan
25000 50 Hz   Great Britain, Slovakia, former Soviet Union, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Sardinia, Denmark, Australia, China, Czech Republic, India, Iran, Italy (new installations), Malaysia (KTM Komuter Service) ,South Korea, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain (new installations), South Africa, Rübelandbahn Harz
25000 60 Hz   Amtrak NEC (New Haven to Boston), New Jersey Transit (newer lines), USA, Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen, Japan, South Korea
50000 50 Hz   Pit removal line South Africa, coal removal line at the Lake Powell, USA

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