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	executive committee
		Upgrading of the existing tramway infrastructure, including track replacement to an improved alignment (to allow higher running speeds and clearances for new vehicles), provision of tram priority at road crossings, new low platform tramstops (fewer in number than existing) and completion of the electrical infrastructure upgrading at the northern end of the line (Phase 1).
		This level of local contribution will be reduced by the inclusion of RDA and European grants, and the current value of track, overhead equipment and associated land.
		2.3 Nevertheless, the consultants found that the Tramway continued to provide an important role in the Fylde Coast economy, both as a means of carrying 6.5M passengers annually, and as one of the defining features of the Blackpool tourist product.
	www.blackpool.gov.uk /Democracy/Minutes_and_Agendas/executive/rep2002/papers20020206ce/paperc.htm

	LTT news archive: Lancastrian Transport Trust, LTT, Blackpool, tram, trams, tramcar, bus, buses, Fylde, Lancashire, heritage
		Plans to upgrade the Blackpool Tramway may require an increased role for this site as a base for track and other material storage and this is expected to commence this winter when outside contractors will bid for substantial track renewal projects.
		Blackpool Borough Council's decision to halt discussions on the Zoo hangar almost put a stop to the tram being considered for the programme, but Blackpool Transport came to the rescue recognising the favourable media attention that it will focus on the tramway and Blackpool.
		There are a number of reasons that have contributed to the survival of the Blackpool tramway and amongst them is the creation of a fleet of one man operated trams during the early 1970s to slash operating costs.
	www.ltt.org.uk /ltt_news_archive.htm

	Seaton Trams
		A lovely 'miniature' tramway on the track bed of the Seaton branch line.
		After many tight turns to get from the new Seaton Terminus to the old British Rail track bed, it's a straight line through Colyford, over a level crossing, to Colyton Station.
		Main terminus at Seaton is purpose built, but the halt at Colyford and the station at Colyton all use as much of the old British Rail station as possible.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /stuart.poore/Trains/Seaton.htm (205 words)

	Seaton Tramway
		While the terminal itself at Seaton is new for the tramway most of the route after the first few hundred metres runs along the trackbed of the former Seaton Junction to Seaton branch of the Southern Railway, which had fallen victim to the Beeching axe in the early 60's.
		As a result the track at Colyton is well below the level of the station buildings, the ramp at the north end serving to get passengers down to track level to board the trams.
		For all that the it is narrow gauge the double deck cars ride well and the top deck serves as an excellent viewing platform as the tram ambles along beside the river.
	trainsferriesbuses.co.uk /seatontramway.htm (222 words)

	United Kingdom Recreation, Directory
		The Glyn Valley Tramway Although the tramway has long gone, the Glyn Valley Tramway Group are working to ensure that this narrow gauge railway in the Welsh Borders is not forgotten.
		Bure Valley Railway Norfolk England The 15" gauge Bure Valley Railway is built on the abandoned track bed of the historic East Norfolk Railway's Wroxham to Aylsham line.
		Four steam engines operate passenger services along the 12.25 inch gauge track.
	www.natmo.org /bmF0Xzc4ODA5NQ%3d%3d.aspx (222 words)

	TMSV: George Smith Duncan - tramway engineer
		Although short, it was unusual in that it was a single-track tramway, as most other cable tramways were double track.
		In 1879 he suggested that in light of the development of cable tramways in America, that Dunedin’s hilly topography would be ideally suited to this form of transport.
		The period also saw the construction of three horse tramways by the MTT from cable termini to Hawthorn and Kew, and from Royal Parade to the Zoological Gardens.
	www.tmsv.org.au /papers/duncan.htm (1019 words)

	The Wellington Cable Car
		The cable, a mile long wire rope was wound up and down the track by a 12 foot driving wheel, then run around huge pulleys as either end of the track, and through the driving mechanism.and#0; The cars were joined together with a second "tail" rope, independent of the driving rope.
		The construction of the tramway had caused cracks in the walls of the house.
		Entirely cable hauled railways were initially common but after the first few decades cable haulage was usually used where gradients were considered too steep for the safe passage of the vehicle.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/3589/cablecar.html (3709 words)

	Melbourne's Trams To The Millennium
		Melbourne's tramway system, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere and the eleventh largest in the world, comprises 244 route kilometers of track operated by 517 trams of six classes, both heritage and modern, running on the 1435 mm gauge.
		The cable tram system was operated by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co and grew to have no less than 46 miles of track serving seventeen routes, arguably the largest in the world.
		The first successful electric tramway in Melbourne was the Victorian Railways trams which commenced their operations in 1906 between St Kilda and Elwood, just before the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company (NMETL) started theirs between Flemington Bridge, Moonee Ponds and Maribyrnong.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/9507/melbtram.html (3709 words)

	TMSV: George Smith Duncan - tramway engineer
		Although short, it was unusual in that it was a single-track tramway, as most other cable tramways were double track.
		In 1883 he was invited by Francis Boardman Clapp to go to Melbourne as the consulting engineer to the MTOC for construction of the Melbourne tramway system.
		In 1879 he suggested that in light of the development of cable tramways in America, that Dunedin’s hilly topography would be ideally suited to this form of transport.
	www.tmsv.org.au /papers/duncan.htm (3709 words)

	Aerial tramway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An aerial tramway consists of one or two fixed cables (called track cables), one endless loop of cable (called a haulage rope), and two passenger cabins.
		Aerial tramways differ from gondola lifts in that the latter use several smaller cabins circulating on a looped cable, and can be stopped at intermediate or end stations for passenger loading and unloading when uncoupled from their haulage cable by releasing cable grips.
		An aerial tramway is a type of aerial lift, often called a cable car or ropeway, and sometimes incorrectly referred to as a gondola.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aerial_tramway (1002 words)

	Blackpool trams a history of the Blackpool trams
		The final tramway extension came in 1926 when the line was extended along the new South Promenade from Pleasure Beach to Clifton Drive (today known as Starr Gate) where a connection was built to the Lytham St. Annes tracks.
		Blackpool Borough Council transferred the operation of the tramway and buses to Blackpool Transport Services Limited in 1986 but still owns and maintains the tramway tracks.
		Blackpool Corporation took over the Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad Company in 1920 and the system thus gained another eight route miles of track (with six on private reservation), two depots in Fleetwood and one in Bispham.
	www.octaviaguesthouse.co.uk /trams.htm (1002 words)

	Beamish Museum tramway
		The tramway is one and a half miles long and consists of a single track circular route around the open-air museum site.
		The tramway operates every day that the museum is open - a normal summer service uses three cars, providing a tram every 10 minutes in one direction and every 20 in the other.
		On 18 January 2003 another visitor was seen on the tramway, working on the section between Foulbridge and the main entrance.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.burchell/Beamish/home.html (1002 words)

	Rules and Regulations: Section 4
		Grounding sheaves or equivalent means shall be provided at each end of the tramway for the purpose of grounding track cables and haul ropes, as applicable, for static electrical discharge.
		No passenger tramway installation shall be permitted to operate when a structure encroaches into the air space of the passenger tramway, defined as the area bounded by vertical planes commencing at a point thirty-five (35) feet from the intersection of the vertical planes of the ropes or cables and ground surface.
		Provisions shall be incorporated in the aerial lift design to render the system inoperable when necessary for the protection of personnel working on the aerial lift.
	www.dora.state.co.us /tramway/Section4.HTM (1394 words)

	G Scale Standards
		For scratch building track then the Tenmille brass flat bottom or bullhead rail is recommended, either soldered to large copperclad sleepers or directly to brass countersunk screws fixed into the baseboard at appropriate places.
		Many modellers using the coarser wheel standards make use of commercially made track, either LGB or Peco 'G' gauge flexible track.
		The Tramway and Light Railway Society is a registered national charity founded in 1938 by those interested in trams and modelling trams.
	www.tramways.freeserve.co.uk /Models/Howto/Standg.htm (1394 words)

	Blackpool Tramways
		In the early sixties, the Blackpool street routes were closed, leaving the reserved track Promenade and Fleetwood route which remains today.
		This was opened by the Blackpool, St.Annes and Lytham Tramways company in 1896, using gas powered trams.
		Trams first arrived in Blackpool in 1885 when the Blackpool Electric Tramway Company commenced operations.
	www.eye-kay.freeserve.co.uk /trams/blackpool (1394 words)

	Spain-Tramcars
		The short electric single track tramway linking Soller with Puerto Soller, situated on the holiday island of Majorca (Mallorca) in Spain, some 5km at all, was opened in 1913.
		This tramway built to the gauge of 914 mm.
		In 60s the system was gradually replaced by metro and by 1967 there remained only seven routes and tramway fleet was only PCC-operated.
	www.sptc.spb.ru /spaintram.htm (1394 words)

	Le Vicinal n'est pas mort
		Remains of grooved tramway track between the bridge and the station area at Dochamps.
		When we arrived in our holiday destination in the Belgian Ardennes in 1993, I came across the Tramway Touristique de l'Aisne (TTA), a preserved section of the former SNCV metre gauge line between Manhay and Melreux which was re-opened in 1965.
		And what an extension it would be, with the line on a shelf in the valley side and old HL1076 spitting steam and smoke as it struggles uphill towards Lamormenil like it must have 60 years ago.
	home.wanadoo.nl /twpolet/site/english/tta.htm (1394 words)

	Tram - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		A tram (or tramway, trolley, streetcar, tramcar, straßenbahn) is a railbourne vehicle (lighter than a train) for conveyance of passengers (or, occasionly, freight).
		Trams are distinguished from other forms of rail based in that they travel along tracks laid down in the right-of-way of city streets as well as on researved track.
		The only survivors of the Vicinal system are the Kusttram (which almost reaches France at one end and the Netherlands at the other) and two lines near Charleroi.
	www.indopedia.org /Streetcar.html (1394 words)

	Charleroi 1983
		The smaller towns, predominantly to the north and west of Charleroi are linked by the Vicinal tramway system, much of which runs on single-track routes.
		Charleroi is the central town in an area of scattered industrial communities in French-speaking Belgium and is dominated by the steel industry.
		The first steps of an ambitious plan to upgrade several of the lines to modern light rail standards have taken place with the introduction of a short subway (at Beaux Arts) and elevated line (from Piges and Beaux Arts to Gare du Sud) in central Charleroi.
	website.lineone.net /~tramscape/Charleroi/Charleroi.htm (1394 words)

	The Seaton & District Tramway - 2003
		It is seen on the stretch of line between the depot and town centre which has tight curves (like any real tramway!) and the track is either grassed or paved.
		The car has the open platforms of the period and, like all the open-top double deck cars on the line, is very popular with the visitors.
		Initially it ran at Seaton in this condition but was rebuilt as an open top double deck car in 1980.
	home.fastnet.co.uk /gerrycork/seaton_trams (602 words)

	Transport Diversions Emporium - SEATON TRAMWAY
		Through films provided by Ken Thorpe they story of the construction and developments of the tramway is told, track building — bridge repairing — and all the other slogging jobs that volunteers and staff had to perform.
		The Seaton Tramway must be one of the most unusual tramlines in the country.
		They proved to be very popular and a permanent tramway was set up at Eastbourne, Sussex.
	www.transportdiversions.com /publicationshow.asp?pubid=2918 (257 words)

	The Tram Page - Pictures of Trams from around the World
		The Seaton Tramway runs from the seaside town of Seaton, Devon, England, to Colyton, via Colyford.
		The wheel turned a complete circle in 1993 when two locally built trams were exported to the Birkenhead Tramway, England.
		The system is laid to a gauge of 1067 mm and has a track length of some 30 kilometres.
	www.catnip.co.uk /transpt/tram.html (180 words)

	International Trolley Sites
		Australia's oldest tramway museum (founded in 1950) and the largest in the southern hemisphere is located in the southern Sydney suburb of Loftus.
		Tramway's Homepage was merged with the Blickpunkt Strassenbahn Homepage.
		The Ballarat Vintage Tramway is operated by the Ballarat Tramway Museum Inc., formed to keep alive the tramway experience that has otherwise disappeared from the streets of Ballarat.
	www.trolleycars.com /archive0302/trolleycars/world.html (180 words)

	Transport Diversions Emporium - BLACKPOOL & FLEETWOOD - 100 YEARS BY TRAM
		It is interesting to speculate whether they were looking at the short, medium or long-term; so far as the original company was concerned, the Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramway was a medium-term investment, as the owners passed the business to Blackpool council within 22 years.
		The council has kept the job of maintaining and replacing the track and electrical equipment, with Blackpool Transport running the service.
		The Council owned and operated it for a further 66 years until the operation passed to Blackpool Transport Services Limited in 1986.
	www.transportdiversions.com /catalog.asp?pubid=2581 (180 words)

	1994.txt
		BLN 733.0157][DE] Stuttgart: (Ball 58A1) The city is gradually and expensively rebuilding its metre-gauge tramway as a standard-gauge Stadtbahn.
		Though nearly all the street-running vehicles indicate Cevizlibag as their outer destination, the line also has a short 100m branch at Aksaray leading to a turning circle right at the door of the sub-surface station of its sister line, the underground light railway or tramway serving the north-west of the city.
		Apart from Marienplatz - Degerloch (route #10, a rack line, unconnected to any other track) only four tram routes (#2, 4, 13 and 15) remain unconverted and one of these, Botnang - Obertürkheim (#4), is the next for replacement.
	www.rinbad.free-online.co.uk /1994.txt (180 words)

	Seaton Tramway
		Sections of the Seaton line are single track and provide for passing places along the way.
		Photo taken from the top of a tram.
	www.marshfarm.org /Marshfarm/seaton-02.html (24 words)

	Proposed Tramway, Light Rail, Guided Bus and Metrro Schemes with no web sites
		This tramway would only cross the frontage of one historical building in the centre of Bath (The Mineral Water Hospital in Upper Borough Walls) and the visual effect of the track and wires would be negligible.
		Overall, a well-planned tramway is infinitely preferable to a city clogged with cars and buses.
		The system would entail the removal of a number of central reservations on some roads, which had originally been tramways.
	www.thetransportal.co.uk /WEBPAGES/proposals.htm (4640 words)

	PhilT
		The subway had two stations at Holborn and Aldwych which were reached by stairs from the street.The original tunnel was built to carry single deck cars, but in 1930 the tunnel was enlarged to enable double-deck cars to be used.
		With Britain's new generation of tramways now in action in Manchester, Sheffield, Croydon, Nottingham and Birmingham, here are a handful of reminders of Britain's 'first generation' of tramways.
		Once the terminus for trams on route 70 from the City Centre, this section of track and pointwork survives.
	www.philt.org.uk /Tramway%20Relics.htm (628 words)

	Tramways
		The cable trams were eventually removed, with the last section of track being replaced by the electric tramway in 1940.
		By the end of the 19th century Melbourne had a well developed cable tramway system.
		The cable cars were very slow and also to travel from a suburb such as Essendon to the centre of Melbourne the passengers were obliged to change from the electric tram to the cable system to complete their trip.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~strthmre/trams.htm (628 words)

	Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Chapter 7, page 466
		The innovative Melbourne cable tramway engineer was George Duncan, M.I.C.E., and it is a measure of his professional stature that he advised Brisbane against it, in favour of electric tramways, at the peak of the Melbourne system's success.
		The Melbourne cable tram network was believed to be the world's largest, reaching by 1923 17 double track routes totalling 75 route -km, with 12 engine houses powering 26 cables up to 918 km long, with 592 gripper cars (dummies) and 598 hauled cars (Fig.
		Later, as the tramways stretched beyond the limits of dc, generation and distribution switched to ac, with rotary converter sub-stations and later still, supply from the city's grid via mercury arc and silicon rectifiers.
	www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au /tia/466.html (628 words)

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