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The Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the venue for the world's first passenger horsecar railway service, located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Originally...
list of the remaining systems can be found at List of modern tramway andlight rail systems in the United Kingdom. At the peak of Britain’s first-generation...
This is a list of extant tramway andlight rail systems in the United Kingdom. For a full historical list of all tramway systems that have existed in...
Chatham and District LightRailwaysCompany was the originator and first operator of the electric tramway system that served Chatham and Gillingham, and was...
The Manx Electric Railway (Manx: Raad Yiarn Lectragh Vannin) is an electric interurban tramway connecting Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey in the Isle of Man...
The Snaefell Mountain Railway (Manx: Raad Yiarn Sniaull) is an electric mountain railway on the Isle of Man in Europe. It joins the village of Laxey with...
Road from the town centre to the boundary with Colne (to connect with the ColneandTrawdenLightRailway. It also connected with the Burnley Corporation...
& District LightRailways was an electric tramway network operating in Mansfield from 16 July 1905 to 9 October 1932. The tramway company was a subsidiary...
United Kingdom, the first being Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, which opened two years earlier and similarly runs on a reserved track along the seafront...
Kinver LightRailway was a subsidiary of British Electric Traction. They acquired the Dudley and Stourbridge Steam Tramways Company in April 1898 and applied...
1912 and 1940. The Coventry and District Tramways Company successfully promoted a bill in 1881 to construct tramways between Coventry station and Bedworth...
the 1896 LightRailway Commission under the LightRailway Act, the Portsdown and Horndean LightRailway opened on 3 March 1903. The company was a wholly...
The Burton and Ashby LightRailway was a tramway system operating between Burton upon Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch between 1906 and 1927. The tramway opened...
serious accident and consequent financial difficulties in the 1930s, resulting in its sale in 1935 to the Great Orme Railwaycompany. In 1949, Llandudno...
Electric Tramways Company. The first service ran on 24 December 1880. The initial 4 ft (1,219 mm) line was from the Bath Spa railway station via Southgate...
total of five cliff railways, or funiculars, two of which are presently operational. The town is home to the first funicular railway in the United Kingdom...
by Electric Railwayand Tramway Carriage Works, a company that they had set up. Ten were open toastracks with seating for 50 passengers, and five were combination...
used by the Surrey Iron Railway, the world's first public railway, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1803. New tram systems and extensions to existing...
Bank Hall Colliery, the area's largest and deepest pit. Coal was exploited in the 13th century at Trawden near Colne where receipts are mentioned in a rent...
Fund grant, and its previous history became apparent as the paintwork was stripped away. Gauge Change Train Variable gauge LightRailways Act (PDF). 14...
The Perth and District Tramways Company was a tramway in Perth, Scotland, from 1895 to 1903. The tramway built a line from Perth to Scone, having bought...
Toronto and Montreal Street Railway Co. of Canada) and Sir William Mackenzie to take over the business of the Birmingham Central Tramways Company Ltd. The...
and paved the way for the passing of the LightRailways Act 1896. The Great Eastern Railway (GER) promoted the idea of a tramway between Wisbech and Upwell...
Neath and District Tramways Company operated a tramway service in Neath between 1875 and 1897. Neath and District Tramways Company began operating horse-drawn...