Sentence examples for tramways from inspiring English sources

Liverpool, for its part, shifted 140,000 people into 33,355 suburban homes during the interwar years.The suburbanites took to city-centre shopping in a big way because the improvers' investment in tramways made it cheap and easy for them to travel into town.

London would still be champion if its Overground (a revamped network of surface-rail lines, completed in December), Docklands Light Railway and tramways were included in the total.

Decaying buildings are being resuscitated, museums renovated, parks restored, roads and tramways rebuilt.

Trench tramways and light railways were built for the maintenance of forward troops.

The system was called tramways in Britain and was established at Salford in 1862 and Liverpool in 1865.

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.

A magnificent stadium and its accompanying public park in Athens, plus various other venues in the city or nearby; four big provincial stadiums; some cheap housing in the capital; better roads there, a bigger and better metro system, a new suburban rail line and a new tramway to the southern beaches.

A proposed tramway has still not been agreed by the greater Paris region.

In one particularly Machiavellian move, described by Sidney Roberts, a historian, Yerkes constructed a tram line in the dead of night and in four hours—so that fractious Chicago property-owners wouldn't be able to stop him.Eventually he controlled hundreds of miles of tramway and railway.

Tying the Jewish settlements and Palestinian suburbs of the Israeli-occupied East to the city's Jewish west, the sleek, 14km long tramway mixed populations in ways unseen since the end of the British mandate in 1948.

This increased the cost of building a 2km stretch of tramway in Bordeaux by about €8m.