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    The 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident was a fatal tram accident which occurred on 1 October 1907 in the city of Birmingham, England. A tram operated by...
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  • Birmingham last operate. Bournville Carillon installed. 1907 13 February: Fire station at Bordesley Green opened. 1 October: 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident:...
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  • Murder. 1 October – 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident: two people are killed and 17 injured. 15 October – Shrewsbury rail accident: A London & North Western...
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    resigned. 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident 2016 Croydon tram derailment List of rail accidents (1990–99) List of tram accidents "Tram accident in the Soviet...
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  • killed and sixteen were injured.: p14  On 1 October 1907, a City of Birmingham Tramways Company Ltd tram ran away down Ickneild Street, derailed and overturned...
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    Corporation Tramways. 1907 Birmingham Tramway accident Railway King of Canada: Sir William MacKenzie, 1849-1923. R. B. Fleming History of Birmingham, Volume...
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    The Wisbech and Upwell Tramway was a rural standard gauge tramway in East Anglia. It was built by the Great Eastern Railway between Wisbech, Isle of Ely...
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    new buses for Birmingham the next year, they were painted red to make them stand out. In 1902 BET acquired the City of Birmingham Tramways Company, which...
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    The 1908 Bournemouth Tramway accident was a fatal tram accident which occurred on 1 May 1908 in the town of Bournemouth, Hampshire (but now in Dorset)...
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  • Tramways operated a passenger tramway service in Rawtenstall between 1908 and 1932. In January 1908 the newly formed Rawtenstall Corporation Tramways...
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    Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of electric trams in Birmingham between 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network...
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    Counties Railway, the North Midland Railway, and the Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway, the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway joined two years later. These...
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    Coventry Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Coventry, England, between 1912 and 1940. The Coventry and District Tramways Company successfully...
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    Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Burnley between 1901 and 1935. In 1900, the assets of the Burnley & District Tramways Company were...
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    detail by his son Alfred Raworth. These included tramway systems at Devonport (1903), Rawtenstall, Birmingham, Crystal Palace-Croydon (1906), and many others...
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    operated by Birmingham and Midland Tramways. These were replaced by electric trams in 1904 and then merged into the Birmingham Corporation Tramways in 1906...
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  • Halifax Corporation Tramways operated a tramway service in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England between 1898 and 1939. After considering lifts and inclined...
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    complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1907. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held in 1801; parliaments...
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    metres, although some have radii outside this range. In some cities, the tramway bisects the roundabout. The French Cerema [fr] considers that the mix of...
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    dispenser for steam locomotives, and a weighing scale made in 1907 by Hendry Boomley & Son of Birmingham. Nilgiri Express "Mountain Railways of India". UNESCO...
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    until closure in the 1990s due to asbestos 1954 London Kingsway tramway subway Tramway Constructed using cut-and-cover method. Abandoned in 1952 with the...
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  • until retired in 1971, when purchased by the Sydney Tramway Museum. On Loan from the Sydney Tramway Museum from 2011 to 2017, when returned to Sydney....
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    Owners Association to transport the injured to the nearby Birmingham Accident Hospital and Birmingham General Hospital. Taxi services are typically provided...
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  • Seer Green rail crash (category Railway accidents and incidents in Buckinghamshire)
    in a few minutes. Railway Inspectorate; Maj C.F. Rose (1983). Railway Accident: Report on the Collision that Occurred on 11 December 1981 near Seer Green...
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    the Underground Electric Railways Company of London and the capital's tramway and bus operators to form the London Passenger Transport Board. Former...
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    reorganisation of the company in 1904, the Daimler Motor Company was purchased by Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA) in 1910, which also made cars under its own name...
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    railway was bought by the Hoylake and Birkenhead Tramway Company, who passed a bill for a new tramway from the Bridge Road station to Woodside Ferry Terminal...
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  • Tipton (over Birmingham Canal), Dasiey Bank, Bilston (occupation road), Bilston Viaduct, Bilston Quarry, Gibbets Lane, George Street, Tramway Overbridge...
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    District Tramways (Extensions) Order Confirmation Act 1910 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5. c. lix 26 July 1910     Dunfermline and District Tramways (Extensions)...
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    1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922...
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