>>875278I won't say about Scandinavia.
>FinlandThree systems, Vyborg was lost to Soviets, closed down by them. Turku closed, Helsinki contracted a bit in the 50s but remained intact.
>Sweden:About ten systems (depends what you want to count), two survive in full extent. Gothenburg has steadily grown, some closures, but real upgrades too. (New lines, not just 300 meters redirections.) Norrköping is very small, two lines. They used to have three but the two have extended way more than the closed circle-line had track.
Stockholm, Helsingborg and Malmö closed in 1967, when sweden switched to right-hand traffic. Rest were small and closed in the fifties, Uppsala was bigger but suffered a fire in the carbarn and lost most of its rolling stock.
>DenmarkTwo systems, Århus and Copenhagen, Århus was single line, Copenhagen bigger but was gradually reduced. Both closed in the 70s.
Norway:
Oslo, still here, mostly intact. Bergen, smallish system closed, but they now have a modern light rail. Trondheim, four line system reduced to single line.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that even germans closed a great majority of their tramways. They just had so many of them in the begin with. Some notable small systems survived the danger years with second hand equipment bouth from the cities that had closed hastily with the trend even if they had new rolling stock.
