We rode buses, trolley cars, trains, trams, ferries and took a cab to make our way there and back. |
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Alex and Rhena were all revved up with horsey mania, so around the city we clippety went, with our womenfolk waving to the passing trams. |
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Zurich's trams also have priority over all forms of traffic at any time, even over pedestrians at crossings. |
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I used to get up early to watch the trams get steam up using coke from the old Christchurch gasworks. |
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The Bangkok authorities have drawn up plans to build trams, to run new express buses, and to extend the elevated train routes. |
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Finally, in the period of Spanish economic autarchy, trams went into steep decline. |
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Thousands of people will be able to travel on the trams for free until charging begins next week. |
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If you can't face the steep walk, three funicular trams ply the gruelling route. |
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Lockhead and First Group are believers in integrated transport links using trains, buses, trolleybuses and trams to increase passenger usage. |
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There have been calls for the operators to hire conductors because unreliable ticket machines have led to angry passengers missing trams. |
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At first trams and trolley buses coexisted in a certain harmony, because each of the lines used one system exclusively. |
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This is partly to cut out the noise and vibration from passing trams and traffic. |
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The trams are electric, but the hooter sounds like that of a steam engine. We wondered why. |
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The multi-unit Viennese trams, buses and subways operate on the honor system. |
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The separation of classes was underlined by the formation of middle-class suburbs, linked to the town centre by trams, omnibuses, or railways. |
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It operated horse trams, then electric trams, two different systems of tracklesses and finally motor omnibuses. |
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Not only are we not allowed to cycle any more, we are not allowed to ride the trams either. |
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There are people bustling on the market, horses and carts, trams and smokey factories to name but a few. |
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There, a vast fleet of brand new motor buses and taxis competed for trade with the brand new electrified trams. |
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I sincerely hope we don't get rid of our trams by then, or this dream will never become a reality. |
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No trams were running at the time, but it caused chaos in the morning rush hour. |
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They are believers in integrated transport links using trains, buses, trolleybuses and trams to increase passenger usage. |
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It uses one ticketing system transferable across all forms of metro trains, buses and trams. |
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The horse-drawn trams covered the distance in forty five minutes, and the faster steam trams took twenty five minutes. |
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Electric trams and buses and a new underground system would be the envy of many western cities. |
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Eight new trams are also to be brought onto the network as well as improvements for the disabled. |
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The first step will be the upgrade of the existing line and purchase of new trams. |
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She was born in 1899 when horse-drawn trams still trundled through the streets of Southampton. |
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Getting around Warsaw is relatively easy and the municipal transport system includes trams, buses and an underground metro. |
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Landmarks across the city were under threat from roads, trams and an over-zealous council. |
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Electric trams, taximeter cabs and motorised buses plied the streets of the capital looking for trade. |
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We had the fastest trains, a brand new underground network, the start of main-line electrification and free-flowing buses and trams. |
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Another unique transportation adventure awaits you on one of Hong Kong's buses or trams. |
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The only exception to the priority of trams is at the Red Cow roundabout where traffic lights will regulate all traffic, including the trams. |
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But just as the petrol engine overtook the trams and the telephone surpassed the telegraph, it now seems the mobile is set to conquer the landline. |
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At holiday times, when the trams did not run, he walked to the ground. |
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A caravan of trams stuck in the middle of the medieval city waited in line for the protest to end. |
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We can make transport an interesting, attractive, galvanising, inspiring, or perhaps red-hot issue, but buses, trams and even Freudian trains are not and never will be sexy. |
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On the whole, the directive is advantageous to the rail network, but it is not advantageous to trams and light railways, nor to community and heritage railways. |
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Now the firm whose steamrollers, traction engines, steam trams, trains and grass cutting equipment contributed to the city's industrial heritage has been recognised. |
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The developments will allow drivers to park their cars and to board trams. |
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But critics of trams claim the huge initial cost and lengthy delays in planning new tramlines Croydon took 11 years will take decades to be recouped. |
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Had the cable-to-electric conversion of 1921-23 been delayed by only a few years, motor buses rather than electric trams would have been substituted. |
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The city was almost inaudible apart from the muted clang of the trams. |
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He and Nolan cadged free rides on trams driven by Nolan's father. |
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Cable cars had several advantages over horse-drawn or steam-powered trams. |
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Your ticket is good for travel on all trams, trains or buses. |
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The slums remained for several more years, with trams being electrified long before many houses. |
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Terminating trams use a reversing siding on the Ashton line between Piccadilly and New Islington tram stops. |
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This closed in 2016 because of the effect on the pier of the weight of the trams. |
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The trams have also been designed with large areas available for the provision of wheelchairs and pushchairs. |
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The reintroduction of trams in 2004 made Nottingham the newest of only six English cities to have a light rail system. |
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With the introduction of the new Bombardier Flexity 2 trams in 2012, all were withdrawn. |
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The contract is for delivery with warranty service unidirectional trams, low-floor, multi-segment with a length of 28-32 W me. |
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This meant the trams could run with a crew of only one, reducing costs and possibly saving the tramway from closure. |
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Take in traction engines, steamrollers, veteran cars, trams, motorcycles and cycles. |
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The English Electric streamline fleet also included 45 standard enclosed single deck trams known as railcoaches. |
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The trams are accommodated at the new depot built at Starr Gate by VolkerFitzpatrick. |
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Several of the proposed routes would require trams as opposed to the current light rail trains. |
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Railways, transatlantic steamships, municipal trams, electric trains were all pioneered in Liverpool as modes of mass transit. |
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During the Illuminations, decorated trams carry passengers on the promenade along the illuminated area, running from Pleasure Beach to Bispham. |
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Much work is being put in to make sure that the traditional trams have a safe future. |
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The Rigby Road depot, near Manchester Square, is where the traditional trams are kept. |
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The Government's decision meant that the entire tramway was upgraded and 16 Flexity 2 trams replaced the fleet. |
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Empty trams ran from the arrival platform into a reversing siding in a tunnel, where they would reverse and then enter the departure platform. |
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The tram, manufactured by Merseyside based Tram Power, was being tested as part of a bid to replace the current trams. |
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Trolleybuses, trams, ferries and hydrofoil services have operated in the past. |
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Introduced in the 19th century, the trams were originally imported from the USA, and called the americanos. |
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In 1949, the government nationalized the railways, along with the electric trams and the Montevideo Waterworks Company. |
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Public transport is provided by the Kolkata Suburban Railway, the Kolkata Metro, trams, and buses. |
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By the 1900s, Belgium was a major exporter of trams and other rail components, exporting vast quantities of railway materials. |
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The railway fell into disuse and eventually closed altogether, following the introduction of electric trams and buses. |
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Centro has stated that the WBHE would provide 10 trams per hour, alternately serving Wolverhampton and Birmingham. |
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The plan entailed southbound trams from Wolverhampton first going around the city centre to the railway station. |
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This photo was taken in 1905 when the first trams came trundling out of the carbarn at the end of High Street. |
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By 1914 horses shared the streets with motorbuses, electric trams, bicycles, and cars. |
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On Sunday 6 December 2015, trams entered service on the extension to Bull Street. |
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The infrastructure is owned by the South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, with Stagecoach operating and maintaining the trams. |
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Conversely, other cities have opted to build a full metro in the suburbs, but run trams in city streets to save the cost of expensive tunnels. |
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Rapid transit systems may be supplemented by other systems such as buses, trams, or commuter rail. |
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The design standard was applied to the Metrolink network when the new M5000 trams were introduced to the network. |
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A 'heritage service' using the traditional trams now operates on Bank Holidays and weekends from March to November, as well as during the Blackpool Illuminations. |
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Should the original plan be taken to completion, trams will also run from Haymarket through Ravelston and Craigleith to Granton Square on the Waterfront Edinburgh. |
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After the UERL was absorbed into the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933, it used forms of the roundel for buses, trams and coaches, as well as the Underground. |
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Nonetheless, overcrowding has sometimes occurred on trams at peak hours. |
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It can be loaded with Travelcards and used on the Underground, the Overground, buses, trams, the Docklands Light Railway, and National Rail services within London. |
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There has been at least one collision between trams, including one in December 2006 near Benson Road station, in which 16 people sustained minor injuries. |
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Pictured is one of these trams, towing a single-decker carriage, which has just pulled into Mahattat el-Raml, near the famous Cecil Hotel, in the heart of Alex. |
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The Museum of Transport displays a collection of historic buses and trams. |
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The fairgrounds and trams have all been hand-built and painted by Ray. |
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At the northern end trams leave the railway trackbed at Priestfield to run along Bilston Road to St Georges terminus in Bilston Street, Wolverhampton city centre. |
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Underground, trams, light rail and local trains were seen as the mode of transport which were least productive for working and were also the least comfortable. |
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Indeed, prior to this, the observatory had to insist that the electric trams in the vicinity could not use an earth return for the traction current. |
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It later moved from horse power to steam locomotion, and finally converting to electric trams, before closing in January 1960, in favour of motor buses. |
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These distinctive yellow trams are one of the tourist icons of modern Lisbon, and their size is well suited to the steep hills and narrow streets of the central city. |
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Also in 1905 electric trams replaced the horse trams with a new route which passed along the High Street, down Fore Street and over the new Exe Bridge. |
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All trams are equipped with a standard horn and a warning horn. |
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The tramcars are powered by 600 V overhead wire with electricity transmitted to the tramcars by pantograph and a few vintage trams by trolley pole. |
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The trams are electrically powered from 750 V DC overhead lines. |
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By the 1920s, there were problems with congestion caused by the trams, a need for expensive track renewal work and the slow speed of the trams in Exeter's narrow streets. |
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Unmodified, traditional trams provide a 'heritage service' on weekends, bank holidays and summer months, as well as operate on tours during the illuminations. |
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In addition to heritage tours, heritage day tickets can also be used on all Blackpool Transport trams and buses as well as autumn illumination tours. |
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