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The Maidstone trolleybus system once served Maidstone, the county town of Kent, England. Opened on 1 May 1928 ( 1928-05-01 ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it gradually replaced the Maidstone tramway network . By the standards of the various now defunct trolleybus systems in the United Kingdom , the Maidstone system was a small one, with just two routes, and a ...
Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Akron: 12 December 1941 6 June 1959 Cincinnati: 1 December 1936 18 June 1965 Cleveland Transit System: Cleveland: 1 March 1936 14 June 1963 Columbus: 3 December 1933 3 May 1965 Dayton Street Railway Company (Dayton Street Transit Company) Dayton [f] 23 April 1933 (28 April 1941) [g] Sold to CRC.
List of rail transit systems in the United States, which also includes subway/metro and commuter rail systems. In the state-by-state tables below: A diamond (♦) symbol denotes a system that operates or operated in the same area as another independent system. Names and cities of currently operating systems appear in bold on blue backgrounds.
The M-Line Trolley (previously McKinney Avenue Trolley) is a heritage streetcar line in the Uptown neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. The trolley line, which has been in service since 1989, is notable for its use of restored historic streetcar vehicles, as opposed to modern replicas. The M-Line Trolley operates 7 days per week, 365 days per year. [6]
Cart from 16th century, found in Transylvania A dumper minecart used in the Basque Country, currently at the Minery Museum.. A minecart, mine cart, or mine car (or more rarely mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for transporting ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.
A trolleybus of the Oakwood Street Railway, one of multiple companies that once operated trolleybuses in Dayton, passing the Montgomery County Courthouse in 1937. The first electric trolley bus (ETB) service in Ohio began operation in Dayton, on April 23, 1933, when the Salem Avenue-Lorain Avenue line was converted from streetcars to trolley coaches — or trolley buses, as they are most ...
The Main Street Line is a line of the Memphis Area Transit Authority trolley system. It began operations in 1993, becoming the first streetcar line to operate in Memphis since 1947. [3] It runs for about 2 mi (3.2 km) along Main Street, with 14 stops in Downtown Memphis.
Atlanta trolleybus 1732, built by the St. Louis Car Company, is preserved at the Southeastern Railway Museum.. In Atlanta, Georgia, trolleybuses, generally called trackless trolleys there, were a major component of the public transportation system in the middle decades of the 20th century, carrying some 80 percent of all transit riders [1] during the period when the system was at its maximum size.