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1 hour agoit’s honestly kinda strange that cargo trams aren’t used more, i obsess over gothenburg’s tram network and the suburban lines definitely seem like they should make sense to run some cargo on.
Especially this line should be perfect for cargo trams, you can set up a siding just north of Gamlestaden station and transfer goods to a tram there, then take the conveniently already existing traingle track to turn onto the line to bergsjön, and then you can just use the existing stops to unload stuff early in the morning and take it to the shops with those electric mini-forklifts since a lot of shops are right next to the stations (sensibly!).
but you don’t need cargo all day, stores generally restock in the off hours or maybe just straight up at night. Certainly grocery stores restock the actual shelves from their internal storage every morning.
So you’d do a cargo tram run every night when there’s plenty of time to do things slow and not have to worry about passenger services.
As for switches, that’s the thing! you wouldn’t need extra switches since you can operate outside of passenger hours and just use the existing platforms most of the time, maybe building a little extra platform where needed.
The only really new part of this is using trams, it’s already perfectly normal for most deliveries to be made in the off hours in places where there’s a lot of pedestrianization.