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The Madison Avenue Line is a line of the Memphis Area Transit Authority trolley system. The trolley line began operating in 2004, and cost $56 million to build. It consists of 2.2 mi (3.5 km) of double track along Madison Avenue with six stops stretching into Midtown Memphis. The line was built to connect the Main Street system to the Medical ...
The Bangor Railway & Electric Company, founded as the Bangor Street Railway and renamed in 1924 as Bangor Hydro-Electric, operated trolleys on an electric railway between Bangor and Charleston, Maine, from 1889 to 1930. It began operation the year after the world's first widely successful electric trolley system debuted in Richmond, Virginia. [1]
Name of system Location Date (from) Date (to) Notes Boston Elevated Railway (1936–1947); Metropolitan Transit Authority (1947–1964); Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (1964–2023) Greater Boston [b] 11 April 1936 30 June 2023 ♦ Cambridge - Watertown - Belmont: 11 April 1936 12 March 2022 ♦ Boston: Somerville - Medford - Arlington
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 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. Interurban and light rail systems are denoted in the Type column, which is left blank for the far-more-plentiful streetcar systems. (Some pre-1970s ...
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 ...
Gadsden Trolley System is the primary provider of mass transportation in Gadsden, Alabama, with four routes serving the region.It is a service of Gadsden Transit Services. As of 2019, the system provided 105,904 rides over 25,374 annual vehicle revenue hours with 5 buses and 8 paratransit vehicle
Trolley bus service continued until 1967, the last day of electric service being November 11, 1967. [3] The transit system then used only motor buses, but retained the name Johnstown Traction Company (in which "traction" is a reference to electric vehicle propulsion). In 1976, the private JTC would become the CamTran public transit system.