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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.
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 ...
Fushun, Liaoning had a tram system circa 1902, operated by the Manchurian Railway Company with 26 trams. Tianjin city, had a tram system that opened in 1906. By 1933 it had 9 miles of track and operated 116 tramcars. It was closed by 1972. The Changchun tramway system started operations in 1942. By the 1950s the system covered 28 km (17 mi ...
The Yingshang No. 1 tram route, a predecessor to Trolleybus Route 20, was opened by the British Shanghai Tramways on 21 January 1908 and ran between the Jing'an Temple and The Bund. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Trolleybus Route 20 opened on 27 September 1928, initially operating between Zhongshan Park and the Jing'an Temple.
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]
Old Pueblo Trolley: Electric April 17, 1993 ... Tramway line built and two cars purchased, but public service was not started. ... Chicago Transit Authority: Chicago ...
Map of all the world's metro systems The year the metro system was opened for commercial service at metro standards. In other words, parts of the system may be older, but as parts of a former light rail or commuter rail network, so the year that the system obtained metro standards (most notably electrification) is the one listed.
Old lines, considered archaic, were then gradually replaced by buses. Tram networks disappeared almost completely from France, the UK, and altogether from Ireland, Denmark, Spain, as well as being completely removed from cities such as Sydney, which had one of the largest networks in the world with route length 291 km (181 mi) and Brisbane.