Tramremise Lekstraat
Tramremise Lekstraat is a historic tram depot in Amsterdam, built by the city’s Public Works Department between 1927 and 1929. You can picture trams entering from the Amsteldijk side and leaving towards Lekstraat, where departing tracks merge at a T-junction before continuing along a single street track.
The first section opened in August 1927, while the completed second section followed in 1930 after a temporary wooden depot was removed. At completion, the complex was Europe’s largest tram depot, with room for 320 cars, and lines 3, 4, 12, 14 and 19 operated from here over the years. Today, the national monument mainly stores trams, while daily maintenance takes place at Havenstraat.
A lighter biobased roof now supports 1,400 solar panels, producing around 650,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year. That output roughly matches the annual consumption of 260 households and supports Amsterdam’s public transport.
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