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Melbourne tram 648 on Market Street during the first San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival. Founded in 1976, Market Street Railway members created the successful San Francisco Historic Trolley Festivals of the 1980s that resulted in the permanent return of historic streetcars to Market Street in the form of the F Market & Wharves line — the most popular service of its kind in all of North ...
The franchise for what would become the Market Street Railway was granted in 1857 to Thomas Hayes. The line was the first railway to open in San Francisco, commencing service on July 4, 1860 as the Market Street Railroad Company. [2] [3] Traction was provided by steam power as steam dummy locomotives pulling a trailer car. [4]
Market Street is a street in the city centre of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. It runs from Sussex Street near Darling Harbour in the west, to Elizabeth Street at St James railway station in the east. Market Street is located in the heart of the Sydney central business district shopping precinct. The street gets its name due to the ...
The first railway in Sydney was opened in 1855 between Sydney and Granville, now a suburb of Sydney but then a major agricultural centre. The railway formed the basis of the New South Wales Government Railways. Passenger and freight services were operated from the beginning. [15] In 1886, the railway opened from Strathfield to Hornsby. [16]
Market Street Railway may refer to: Market Street Subway in San Francisco, California, USA; Market Street Railway (nonprofit), a nonprofit organization that supports the operation of the F Market historic streetcar line in San Francisco; Market Street Railway (transit operator), a former commercial streetcar operator in San Francisco
Market Street Metrolink station, a Manchester light-rail station; Market Street Railway (nonprofit), organization that supports the operation of the F Market streetcar line in San Francisco; Market Street Railway (transit operator), commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco; Market Street subway in San Francisco, California
Located inside the One Dixon Street shopping centre, opened in 2001 as Garden Plaza it closed on 26 July 2004, [22] and then reopened as Chinatown station on 18 December 2006 [23] By 2012 the station was unmanned and only open between 07:00 and 09:00 on weekdays only, [24] with the station entrance locked outside these hours [25] World Square
The Sydney Railway Company encountered many troubles: engineers came and went; real estate required became expensive and difficult to acquire; money, supplies and manpower ran short, partly because of a gold rush. Eventually the property of the Sydney Railway Company was transferred to the government of New South Wales on 3 September 1855.