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Boston-area streetcar lines remaining in 1940 (in green), plotted against a map of the BERy's subway and elevated lines (in purple). The shade of green for each line denotes how long the line lasted after this; the lightest-green lines were abandoned in 1945 or earlier, the second-lightest lines were abandoned from 1946 to 1950, the second-darkest lines were abandoned from 1951 to 1969, and ...
Boston: Horse 1856 ? Electric Portion (MBTA Green Line) upgraded to light rail in the 1970s January 1, 1889 [94] See Boston-area streetcar lines. The surviving portions are the Mattapan Line and the MBTA Green Line. See also: Category:Streetcars in the Boston area. Brockton: Horse July 26, 1881 ? Electric September 5, 1890 July 11, 1937
Beach tramway, "King of Serbia" hotel – Novi Sad municipal beach Petrol (gasoline) 1926 1937 Operation forbidden by court order, 1937. However, operations continued, though with only summer service, to 1941 (or 1944). Trams in Subotica : Subotica (Суботица) Electric 7 Sep 1897 2 Apr 1974 Trams in Kragujevac: Kragujevac ...
These lines had many "tramway" characteristics as built but few today. Some town tramway systems had lines or groups of lines that were geographically isolated from the "main" system. Long-lived examples (i.e. excepting those during formative or closing years) are tabulated if known. Examples include Volgograd, Russia and New York City, US.
Horse-drawn streetcars in New York City in 1895. The first streetcar lines in North America were opened in New York City in 1832. From the 1820s to the 1880s urban transit in North America began when horse-drawn omnibus lines started to operate along city streets. Examples included Gilbert Vanderwerken's 1826 omnibus service in Newark, New ...
An 1807 grid plan of Manhattan. The history of New York City's transportation system began with the Dutch port of New Amsterdam.The port had maintained several roads; some were built atop former Lenape trails, others as "commuter" links to surrounding cities, and one was even paved by 1658 from orders of Petrus Stuyvesant, according to Burrow, et al. [1] The 19th century brought changes to the ...
A transit map is a topological map in the form of a schematic diagram used to illustrate the routes and stations within a public transport system—whether this be bus, tram, rapid transit, commuter rail or ferry routes. Metro maps, subway maps, or tube maps of metropolitan railways are some common examples.
The original purpose of the West End was to provide service to a speculative land venture in western Boston and Brookline.In the mid-1880s a syndicate of investors led by Henry Melville Whitney chartered the West End Land Company and purchased some five million square feet of land in Brookline along the line of a proposed boulevard, with the intent of developing the tracts into a high-grade ...