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The first tram line in Shanghai (China’s first tram appeared in Beijing in 1899), Yingshang No. 1, opened on January 21, 1908, and operated between Jing'an Temple and The Bund. The line was 6.04 kilometers long and operated by British commercial interests.
Two horsecar companies operated in Englewood: the Cherrelyn Gravity & Bronco Railroad and the Loretto Heights Railway. [38]: 219–224 Florence: Electric N/A N/A Tramway line built and two cars purchased, but public service was not started. [37]: 58 Fort Collins Municipal Railway: Fort Collins: Electric December 29, 1907. December 29, 1984
The Chicago Surface Lines was primarily a trolley operation, with approximately 3100 streetcars on the roster at the time of the CTA takeover. [16] It purchased small lots of motor buses, [17] totaling 693 at the time of the CTA takeover, mostly consisting of smaller buses used on extension routes or to replace two-man streetcars on routes such as Hegewisch and 111th Street, because conductors ...
The Shanghai Metro is both the world's longest metro network at 896 kilometres (557 mi) and the busiest with the highest annual ridership reaching approximately 2.83 billion passenger trips. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Beijing Subway has the greatest number of stations, with 424.
Shanghai Songjiang Modern Tram: Shanghai: 2019-08-10 Line T2 Shanghai Songjiang Modern Tram: Shanghai: 13.9 km (8.6 mi) 20 2018-12-26 Line 1 Shenyang Hunnan Modern Tram: Shenyang: 12.2 km (7.6 mi) 27 (17 shared) 2013-08-31 Line 2 Shenyang Hunnan Modern Tram: Shenyang: 14.8 km (9.2 mi) 18 (12 shared) 2013-08-31 Line 3 Shenyang Hunnan Modern Tram ...
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway – 1969–1971 1925–1930s 1922–1925 1947–1969 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: PRR: 1917–1921 New York Central Railroad: PC: 1914–1968 1930–1968 Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad – 1910–1963 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway of Indiana: C&O: 1910 1910–1922 Baltimore and Ohio ...
In Australia: the Melbourne cable tramway system operated from 1885 to 1940 and was one of the most extensive in the world with 1200 trams and trailers operating over 15 routes with 103 km (64 miles) of track; while Sydney had two cable tram routes - Milsons Point to North Sydney (1886-1905) and King Street Wharf to Edgecliff (1894-1905). [9]
Tram service returned to Shanghai with the opening of a rubber tired Translohr line in the suburban Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in 2010. It is the second rubber-tired tram system in both China and Asia, the first being TEDA tram in Tianjin. Zhangjiang Tram started construction on December 23, 2007. [2]