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Sandston, Virginia

The community was named Sandston after Oliver Sands, the president of the Richmond and Fairfield Railway, the electric street railway line which ran through Highland Springs and Fair Oaks to the National Cemetery at Seven Pines.


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Davenport Road

The Davenport Street Railway Company was purchased by the Toronto Suburban Street Railway Company 1894, which as in turn acquired by the owners of the Canadian Northern Railway.

Gloucester Street railway station

Rather than going to the expense of rebuilding the bridge or the tunnel, and due to the proximity of Vulture Street, Gloucester Street railway station closed in 1978 with the opening of the Merivale Bridge.

Kansas City Power and Light Company

An electric war ensued when in 1883 J. Ogden Armour, heir to the Armour Packing Company purchased the company on May 14, 1900, to power the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and Kansas City Electric Light Company.

Leicester Campbell Street railway station

Leicester Campbell Street railway station was the first proper railway station in Leicester, opened in 1840 by the Midland Counties Railway.

Nottingham Carrington Street railway station

Nottingham Carrington Street railway station was the first railway station in Nottingham, opened in 1840 by the Midland Counties Railway.

Staines High Street railway station

Staines High Street railway station formerly served the town of Staines-upon-Thames, on the Windsor & Eton line of the London and South Western Railway.

Thomas Healey

Thomas G. Healey (1818–1897), Atlanta real estate developer, politician, street railway entrepreneur and banker

William Mahon

William D. Mahon (1861–1949), former coal miner who became president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America

Winnipeg Transit

The WSR experimented with electric cars in 1891, but the city gave the electric rights in 1892 to the competing Winnipeg Electric Street Railway Company (WESR), headed by William Mackenzie and James Ross of Montreal.