The Dunedin cable tramway system was a group of cable tramway lines in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is significant as Dunedin was the second city...
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other cable car transit systems, and this model is often known as the Hallidie Cable Car. In 1881 the Dunedin cable tramway system opened in Dunedin, New...
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George Smith Duncan (category Engineers from Dunedin)
offices at Moray Place, Dunedin. Between 1879 and 1883, Duncan was responsible for the development of the Dunedin cable tramway system. He was then appointed...
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Francisco. The first cable railway outside the United Kingdom and the United States was the Roslyn Tramway, which opened in 1881, in Dunedin, New Zealand. America...
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Tram (redirect from Steam tramway)
formerly used on the Melbourne cable tramway system and since restored. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries a number of systems in various parts of the...
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once had, town tramway (urban tramway, or streetcar) systems as part of their public transport system. See List of town tramway systems in the United States...
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Public transport in New Zealand (section Dunedin)
now survive only as heritage displays. Cable cars have also been employed; the Dunedin cable tramway system was both the second and second-last to operate...
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The Melbourne cable tramway system was a cable car public transport system, which operated between 1885 and 1940 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The...
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Trams in New Zealand (redirect from Trams in Dunedin)
tramway was established in 1862 (Nelson), followed by a steam tramway in 1871 (Thames), and the first electric tramway in 1900 (Maori Hill, Dunedin)...
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History of trams (section Cable-hauled)
uses dummies and salons formerly used on the extensive Melbourne cable tramway system and now beautifully restored. In March 2015, China South Rail Corporation...
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Maryhill, New Zealand (redirect from St Francis Xavier School, Dunedin)
used today. Maryhill was connected from 1855 to 1955 to the Dunedin cable tramway system via the Maryhill Extension. The line, which followed Glenpark...
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from its opening in 1909. It closed in 1960. The Kaikorai Cable Car which ran from Dunedin to the Kaikorai Valley used an off-centre Fell rail for braking...
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Roslyn was in earlier times served by two separate cable car lines (see Dunedin cable tramway system). One came up Stuart Street from The Octagon, turned...
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17, 2012. Retrieved 2007-11-29. "The Cable Car Home Page – Cable Tramways in Australia and New Zealand". cable-car-guy.com. Retrieved 2018-07-14. Bett...
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site was widely supported in Wellington. The designer of the system was James Fulton, a Dunedin-born engineer. Fulton was responsible for both selecting the...
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routes. Until the demise of the system in the 1950s, this area was also at the heart of the Dunedin cable tramway system, with the longer lines running...
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Museum of Transport and Technology (redirect from Western Springs Tramway)
the Mornington Cable tram system in Dunedin. Auckland's horse-drawn tramway opened in 1884 and was replaced by the electric tram system in 1902, closing...
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Public transport in the Otago Region (redirect from GoBus (Dunedin))
transport. The Dunedin City Council operated and managed most public transport until 1986 including the Dunedin cable tramway system (similar to the...
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The 1932 Christchurch tramway strike was an industrial dispute between tramway workers and their employers that took place in the city of Christchurch...
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contract to install an electric tramway system in suburban Roslyn in Dunedin, New Zealand to link up with their cable tramway system. Brearley was needed to replace...
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success. Between 1881 and 1957, Dunedin was home to the Dunedin cable trams, being both one of the first and last such systems operated anywhere in the world...
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W. G. T. Goodman (section Municipal Tramways Trust)
to New Zealand to install electric urban tramways to link with the Roslyn and Dunedin cable tramway systems, which had been designed and installed from...
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City Rise (redirect from Fernhill, Dunedin)
Street. From the 1880s until the 1950s, City Rise was served by Dunedin's cable tramway, with lines running up from the Exchange to the hill suburbs of...
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Mine railway (section Cable haulage)
steam locomotives, all in and around the works around mines. Wagonways (or tramways) were developed in Germany in the 1550s to facilitate the transport of...
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Calton Hill, New Zealand (category Suburbs of Dunedin)
railway line, between 1880 and 1940, residents could also use the Dunedin cable tramway system. The nearest station was also at Caversham. The first published...
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museum date back to the 1920s and 1930s and were used on the Wellington tramway system between 1878 and 1964, transporting commuters around the city. The museum...
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Brisbane Tramway Museum, Sydney Tramway Museum, Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), the Tramway Museum, St Kilda (Adelaide), the Perth Electric Tramway Museum and...
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Springs Tramway Coachwork shop. Mornington Cable Trams (1883–1957): No.4 (later Dunedin City Tramways No.107) 1883 Jones Car Co, New York. Cable Car trailer...
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transportation system is the fraction of operating expenses which are met by the fares paid by passengers. It is computed by dividing the system's total fare...
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transport infrastructure such as dismantled trolley systems, former engine sheds or bus garages. Tramway Histórico de Buenos Aires, Caballito, Buenos Aires...
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