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In the following year of 1897, the Oldham, Ashton and Hyde and District Tramway Company was established to facilitate electric trams across these regions. In 1899, the first electric tram service was operational from the Oldham, Ashton and Hyde and District Tramway Company. One of the routes, operated between Ashton-Under-Lyne - Hyde - Denton ...
VIA's original logo, used until 2014. VIA was created in 1977 when the citizens of Bexar County voted in favor of a one-half cent sales tax to fund the service. Subsequently, VIA purchased transit assets from the City of San Antonio and began operations in March 1978, taking its name from the Latin word for "road".
When Ashton Corporation decided to replace the trams on its share of this tramway with trolleybuses, it asked Oldham Corporation to do the same. Oldham Corporation agreed, and acquired two trolleybuses, being Oldham's share of a combined order for ten. [2]
see also Key System, San Francisco. Oakland, San Leandro and Hayward Electric Railway: ♦ Oakland – Hayward Electric May 1892: March 10, 1935: Later part of the Key System: Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company: ♦ Ontario – Upland: Horse 1887: 1895 Pacific Electric: Electric Interurban 1895: October 6, 1928 Oxnard: Petrol ...
From 1928 shortened to a loop of 12.7 km (7.9 mi) from Old San Juan to Santurce. "Caguas Tramway" - Porto Rico Railways Company San Juan - Rio Piedras - Caguas: Steam 1908 1928 First intended as electric tramway, finally operated as steam railroad of 28 km (17 mi) long and a track gauge of 1000 mm (39 inches). Destroyed by Hurricane San Felipe. [1]
The Ashton-under-Lyne trolleybus system once served the market town of Ashton-under-Lyne, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, north west England. Opened on 26 February 1925 ( 1925-02-26 ) , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the Ashton system gradually replaced the Ashton-under-Lyne tramway network .
San Antonio, Texas: VIA Primo Route 100 BRT: VIA Metropolitan Transit, Fredericksburg Road corridor BRT, connecting downtown with the South Texas Medical Center San Diego, California: SuperLoop: San Diego MTS: Rapid (San Diego) Escondido, California: Breeze Rapid: North County Transit District: San Francisco, California: Van Ness BRT: Muni ...
The museum was founded on its present site at Carlton Colville in 1965, following the rescue in 1962 by four enthusiasts of the body of an old Lowestoft tram (number 14), [2] which had been used for a number of years as a summerhouse. The site was formerly a meadow, donated by the founder and first chairman of the Museum Society, Albert Bird.