The tram is the oldest transport in Tashkent. The first line of the tram, which ran from the railway station to the old city bazaar, was laid by the Belgian joint stock company "Tashkent Tram" and was opened on March 30, 1901. The first test car of the electric tram passed on October 8, 1912, and already in 1913 all lines of the tram railway were switched to electric traction. Until the forties of the twentieth century trams were practically the only mass type of urban transport. The tram system of the capital city was closed on May 2, 2016.