I’d like to say Luxembourg is the most recent European country to participate in the light rail revolution, but that only held true for a mere two weeks, as Denmark joined the club on December 21, 2017 with a new tramway in Aarhus. OK, at least I can say that Luxembourg is the smallest country in Europe with modern light rail.
On December 10, 2017, after a period of 53 years without urban rail transit, trams began running again in Luxembourg (City). A single line, receiving 750-volt DC power from a combination of electric overhead wire and batteries/stored current, is being opened in stages and will eventually be 10 miles long. The first segment, covering a distance of a little over 2 miles (with 8 stations), was inaugurated about six months before the mile-long wireless section (3 more stops) began operating on July 27, 2018–just before our Monday, August 20 visit (see map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Luxembourg#/media/File:Luxembourg_T1_map-fr.svg).
Luxembourg is probably one of the smallest countries in Europe that has had an independent government for at least two centuries. It existed as a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but was gi