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1863 in South Africa

1 — The Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company commences with the first horse-drawn trams in Cape Town from the foot of Adderley Street and out along Somerset Road to Green Point.

Arkhangelsk tramway

After it was shut down, this distinction went to the tramway in Trondheim, Norway

Aurel Vlaicu International Airport

The airport is situated 8 km north of Bucharest city centre and is accessible by RATB buses 131, 335 and Airport Express 783, RATB tramway 5 and taxi.

Beaudesert Shire Tramway

Much of the Tramway reservation is now on private property, although substantial portions are visible from public roads such as the Mount Lindesay Highway.

Bellavista railway station

Bellavista is the principle intermediate station on the line, and at one time the junction point for the Tramway Bellavista.

Belleville funicular tramway

The infrastructure of the funicular tramway was demolished, the cars were sold for scrap, and for many months were held somewhere in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Brest Tramway

The Brest tramway located in Brest (Brittany), France consists of a 28 stop, 14.3 km line connecting Porte de Plouzané in the west with Porte de Gouesnou and Porte de Guipavas northeast of the city centre.

Brill railway station

In 1885 the Duke of Buckingham opened a modern brickworks near Brill station, with a dedicated siding, and in 1895 his heir William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, expanded the brickworks, which became the Brill Brick & Tile Works, using the Brill Tramway to deliver bricks to the mainline at Quainton Road.

Bungalow railway station

The station is a popular viewpoint to watch the world-famous T.T. motorbike races and the Manx Grand Prix races and as the tramway crosses the course, tramcars terminate on either side of the road during race periods, with cars being moved to the upper part of the line prior to road closure.

Bungalow, Isle of Man

The Bungalow tramway-crossing was part of the Highland Course and Four Inch Course used for the Gordon Bennett Trial and Tourist Trophy automobile car races held in the Isle of Man between 1904 and 1922.

Carl Berners plass

Carl Berners plass is an underground rapid transit station located on the Grorud Line of the Oslo Metro, and a tram stop on the Sinsen Line of the Oslo Tramway.

Catlins River Branch

Ratanui (36.65 km), also known as Catlins River and junction with bush tramway to sawmill owned by Goss & Co.

Clifton Robinson

Sir (James) Clifton Robinson (1849-1910) was known as the "Tramway King", having involvement in the building and operating of street tramways in New York, London, Liverpool, Dublin, Cork, Bristol, Edinburgh and Los Angeles.

Cronulla railway line

The tramway closed to passengers in 1931 due to a competing bus service, which provided a faster service and through service to Hurstville.

Cruden Bay railway station

From 1899 to 1932, a passenger tramway service from the station to the Cruden Bay Hotel was provided by the Cruden Bay Hotel Tramway.

Douglas Southern Electric Tramway

Douglas Southern Electric Tramway was a standard gauge tramway between the top of Douglas Head on the Isle of Man and the nearby resort of Port Soderick.

Drouin, Victoria

Throughout the 1880s, a number of small sawmills operated in the Drouin district, many transporting their timber by tramway to the railway station.

Gale B. Aydelott

Director: First Security Corporation; Denver Tramway Corporation; trustee, University of Denver.

Gare d'Enghien-les-Bains

Until 1935, it was the terminus for tramway lines to Montmorency and to la Trinité in Paris, 9th arr..

Gmunden Tramway

The tramway route runs entirely in the town, from the railway station to the central Franz-Josef-Platz on the Traunsee lake.

History of Bournemouth

Between July 1902 and April 1936, Bournemouth Corporation operated a tramway between Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and Winton.

History of rail transport in Great Britain to 1830

In 1821 an Act of Parliament was approved for a tramway between Stockton and Darlington.

Île-de-France tramway Line 1

Île-de-France tramway Line 1 (usually called simply T1) is a tramway operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports; RATP) just outside the city limits of Paris, connecting Les Courtilles with Noisy-le-Sec, parallel to the Paris northern city limit.

Kington Tramway

The Kington Tramway was an early narrow gauge horse tramway that linked limestone quarries at Burlinjob in Radnorshire to Eardisley in Herefordshire.

Leiper Canal

The horse-drawn tramway, the Leiper Railroad, carried stone from the quarry for 18 years before the opening of the canal.

Main Southern railway line, New South Wales

The Burrinjuck Tramway was a 610 mm gauge line was built in about 1907 from Goondah (between Bowning and Binalong) to Burrinjuck for the construction of the Burrinjuck Dam and closed in 1929, following the completion of construction.

Manchester Carriage and Tramways Company

When the Tramways Act 1870 became law, the neighbouring councils of Manchester and Salford entered into negotiations for the provision of a tramway connecting the two towns.

Nottingham and District Tramways Company Limited

Yesterday (Thursday) morning Major-General Hutchinson of the Board of Trade, made an official inspection of the second section of the Nottingham Tramway Company's line, which extends from the Market-place as far as Carrington and the end of Forest-Road, and which is now fully completed.

PCC streetcar

--This sounds uncertain and like speculation. If it is speculation it doesn't belong here. If the first European cars were from Fiat and have a source it needs to be here and the sentence rephrased.--> the ones developed in 1942 by Italian Fiat for the Madrid tramway system.

Pidcock's Canal

This became the Severn and Wye Railway and Canal in 1810, when a new Act of Parliament authorised the construction of a tramway and the canal to Lydney Harbour.

Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway

Authorised in 1899 by an Order of the 1896 Light Railway Commission under the Light Railway Act, it opened on 3 March 1903 and started from a junction with the Portsmouth Corporation Transport street tramway system on the Portsmouth Road, south of Cosham Station.

Queensland Softball Association

23 Clubs affiliated with the Brisbane Women's Softball Association for the 1965/66 season—Athletics, Brisbane Bears, Cannon Hill Stars, Hawks, Inala Carltons, Kedron Park Teachers College, Magpies, Mitchelton Missiles, Mt Gravatt Eagles, Oxley Rockets, Pandas, Panthers, Rebels, Saints, Spiro Tots, Southside Scamps, T-Jets, Tramway Terrors, University, Wildcats, Windsors, Wolves and WRAAC and 66 teams participated in the competition at Downey Park.

Rail transport in İzmir

The ORC also built a tramway from Alsancak station along the Kordon to district of Konak in İzmir.

Silverton Rail 48s class locomotive

All were delivered for use on Silverton Tramway's 56 kilometre narrow gauge line from Broken Hill to Cockburn.

Silverton Tramway

After the completion of the Trans-Australian Railway, the Silverton Tramway and the South Australian line to Port Pirie was a missing link in an unbroken Sydney to Perth rail journey (Perth to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia was the other).

Subotica tram system

John Hartley Williams wrote a poem about the line, the "Lament for the Subotica-Palić Tramway".

Tamagawa Line

Tōkyū Tamagawa Line (tramway) formerly operated by Tokyu Corporation, a surviving branch of which is the Tōkyū Setagaya Line

Tauhoa

A tramway operated during the 1880s to bring kauri logs down to Te Pahi Stream, where sailing ships could take them away.

Toulouse tramway

Toulouse Tramway (Line T1, previously known as Line E) is the single tram line in Toulouse, France, and operates from Toulouse to the suburb of Beauzelle passing through Blagnac.

Tram 2000

In 1987 and 1988, a fleet of nine Be4/8 double-ended double-articulated cars were built by SWP / SIG / ABB for Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn (RBS) for use on the RBS suburban tramway to Worb.

Trams in Kimberley, Northern Cape

The Kimberley tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, for roughly 60 years until the late 1940s.

Trams in Milan

178 Milan (Niguarda Parco Nord) ↔ Desio (Milan–Desio tramway) (from late 2011 discontinued)

Transports en Commun de l'Agglomération Rouennaise

This new tramway operates on one line with two southern branches to Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray and Le Grand-Quevilly.

Victorian Railways box vans

From 1900 and for about half a century after, explosives were also transported from Deer Park to Laverton; at Laverton the contents of the explosives vans were transferred by a 2 ft-gauge tramway over to Trugannina Reserve for storage, then transportation to ships via smaller vessels.

Warrington Corporation Tramways

Routes to Bewsey and Orford started in 1913, with a further route to Padgate in 1928 operating over part of an unbuilt tramway extension along Padgate Lane to Padgate Bridge.

Wellington tramway

Wellington Tramway Museum, established in 1965 after the closure of the Wellington tramway system

William Eppelsheimer

Eppelsheimer went on to design the Chicago City Railway, at one time the world's largest and most profitable cable car system, and London's Highgate Hill Cable Tramway, Europe's first cable tramway.


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