transport: Great Orme Tramway

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The Great Orme Tramway (Welsh: Tramffordd y Gogarth) is a cable-hauled 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge tramway in Llandudno in north Wales. Open seasonally from late March to late October, it takes over 200,000 passengers each year from Llandudno Victoria Station to just below the summit of the Great Orme headland. From 1932 onwards it was known as the Great Orme Railway, reverting to its original name in 1977. It is Great Britain's only remaining cable-operated street tramway, and one of only a few surviving in the world, and it is owned by Conwy County Borough Council. The line comprises two sections, where each section is an independent funicular and passengers change cars at the Halfway stat…

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The Llandudno Cable Car is an attraction in the seaside resort of Llandudno in Conwy County Borough, Wales.

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The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco, California. The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, the Muni Metro modern light rail system, and bus routes operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, and operates alongside the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. Of the 23 cable car lines established between 1873 and 1890, only three remain (one of which combines parts of two earlier lines): two routes from downtown near Union Square to Fisher…

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A History of Street Railways in Rhode Island. Street railway transportation developed as an innovation from horse drawn public vehicles. The horse railroad, introduced into Rhode Island at the time of the Civil War, was the first successful attempt to cope with urban transportation burdens. The horse car developed slowly in Rhode Island, centering for the most part in Providence and its environs. Originating with many small independent lines, horse-car lines in Providence and Pawtucket were consolidated under the name of the Union Railroad Company. By 1890, the Union Railroad owned and operated evert horse-car line in the state, save the Woonsocket line. Its holdings included the Providence…

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The National Tramway Museum in Crich, Derbyshire, has a large and diverse collection of heritage tramcars, and aims to illustrate the complete development of the traditional British Tramcar. Where it is not possible to show this, tramcars from places as far away as Berlin, the Hague, Douglas, Halle, Howth, Johannesburg, New York City, Porto, Prague and Sydney have been acquired to show this. The majority of the trams at Crich are double-deck trams built between 1900 and 1930, and several have open tops. There are a few trams in the collection that were built after the Second World War, and these give an idea of how the British Tram Industry may have developed if services had not declined. T…

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Penhaligon, Dame Annette, (born 9 Feb. 1946), Member (Lib Dem): Restormel Borough Council, Cornwall, 2003–09; Cornwall County Council, 2005–09

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Howarth, Robert Lever, (born 31 July 1927), Member (Lab), Bolton County Borough, then Metropolitan Borough, Council, 1972–2004 (Leader, Labour Group, 1975–2004; Leader of the Council, 1980–2004)

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Howarth, Robert Lever, (born 31 July 1927), Member (Lab), Bolton County Borough, then Metropolitan Borough, Council, 1972–2004 (Leader, Labour Group, 1975–2004; Leader of the Council, 1980–2004)

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Peters, Arthur, (died 22 March 1956), JP; Alderman of Croydon County Borough Council

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Bridge, John, (5 Feb. 1915–14 Dec. 2006), Director of Education for Sunderland Borough Council (formerly Sunderland County Borough Council), 1963–76, retired

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The Santa Teresa Tram, or Tramway (Portuguese: Bonde de Santa Teresa, IPA: [bõˈdʒi dʒi ˈsɐ̃tɐ teˈɾezɐ]), is a historic tram line in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It connects the city's centre with the primarily residential, inner-city neighbourhood of Santa Teresa, in the hills immediately southwest of downtown, which features the tram in many of its local murals. It is mainly maintained as a tourist attraction and is nowadays considered a heritage tramway system, having been designated a national historic monument in 1985. The line has a very unusual gauge: 1,100 mm (3 ft 7+5⁄16 in). The main line to Dois Irmãos is 6.0 kilometres (3.7 miles) long, but the 2026-reopened section to Silvestre exten…

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The Blackpool Tramway runs from Blackpool to Fleetwood on The Fylde in Lancashire, England. The line dates back to 1885 and is one of the oldest electric tramways in the world. It is operated by Blackpool Transport Services (BTS) and runs for 18 km (11 miles). It carried 4.4 million passengers in 2024/25. It is the second-oldest electric tramway in the United Kingdom, the first being Volk's Electric Railway in Brighton, which opened two years earlier and similarly runs on a reserved track along the seafront. These are also the two surviving first-generation town tramways in the UK, though the majority of services on the line have since 2012 been operated by a fleet of modern Bombardier Flex…