Sentence examples for electric tramway from inspiring English sources

The improved roads, the introduction of an electric tramway, and a common concern for water supplies and sewers prompted proposals for amalgamation of the urban sprawl.

The relay then moved on to Cleveleys awhere it was carried on Britain's first electric tramway, from the Rossall School stop in Cleveleys to West Drive in Blackpool.

The demolition of most of the fort walls happened between 1923 and 1926, with the construction of an electric tramway.

To serve the growing population of the council estate, the Middleton Light Railway, an electric tramway, was built in 1925 by Leeds Corporation.

The scheme involved the purchase of major horse tramways, merging into an electric tramway company with twenty-one years of exclusive running rights.

The horsecar system was more expensive to operate than electric trams, and Christiania (later Kristiania) Elektriske Sporvei ("Kristiania Electric Tramway") was founded to establish an electric tram service.

Horse-drawn trams were introduced in 1866; and, after the first electric tramways were built in 1887, they soon expanded into a large network.

He championed V b', expanded electric tramways and recently extended M o hours to 2 a.m. on weekends to discourage car use.

Montreal had its first electric lighting in 1882, its first electric tramways in 1892, and the first automobiles along its streets and movie houses along its sidewalks in 1903.

PARIS — Half a million Parisians were deprived for nearly an hour either of electric light or travelling facilities by electric tramways and railroads by a fire which broke out at the big electric power station at Saint-Denis a few minutes before six o'clock yesterday [Dec. 7] evening.

Electric tramways to and from Middleton opened in 1902.