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A horse-drawn tram. Until 2012, around 100 trams and city railway cars spanning the entire history of Viennese urban transit were exhibited within an area of 7,700 square meters and on 1,810 meters of platform. The oldest exhibition piece is a horse-drawn tram from 1868.
The Swansea and Mumbles Railway ran the world's first passenger tram service in 1807. The horse-drawn tram (horsecar) was an early form of public rail transport, which developed out of industrial haulage routes that had long been in existence, and from the omnibus routes that first ran on public streets in the 1820s [citation needed], using the newly improved iron or steel rail or 'tramway'.
The museum houses the first horse-drawn tram which was in use in Johannesburg from 1891 to 1902. It had maximum speed of 11 kilometres per hour (6.8 mph), drawn by two horses on a track laid in the middle of the road. The museum also has the last tram ever ran from 1906 to 18 March 1961, and double-decker electric trams on display. [11]
The van now lies at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. Horse-drawn trams still operate on the 1876-built Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man, and on the 1894-built Victor Harbor Horse Drawn Tram, in Adelaide, South Australia. New horse-drawn systems have been established at the HokkaidÅ Museum in Japan and in Disneyland.
The Douglas Bay Horse Tramway on the Isle of Man runs along the seafront promenades of Douglas for approximately 1 mile (1.6 km), from the southern terminus at the Villa Marina, to Derby Castle station, the southern terminus of the Manx Electric Railway, where the workshops and sheds are located. It is a distinctive tourist attraction.
Exhibits and displays in the main museuological nucleus Examples of the horse-drawn trams used at the turn-of-the-century A 1901 tram in the museum collection A 20th century double-decker bus used by CARRIS Night view of the museum exterior, as seen from the street. Example of the 1970s bus operated by CARRIS
These horse drawn trams were converted to cable-drawn cars in some larger cities, as still exist in San Francisco, the underground cable being driven by stationary steam engines. At around 1890, electric propulsion became practical and replaced both the horse and the cable and the number of tram lines expanded exponentially.
Wagonways (also spelt Waggonways), also known as horse-drawn railways and horse-drawn railroad consisted of the horses, equipment and tracks used for hauling wagons, which preceded steam-powered railways. The terms plateway, tramway, dramway, were used. The advantage of wagonways was that far bigger loads could be transported with the same power.