Tramway: tramway English (for tram, rail plan, and way, way). Railroad established a street or highway road. Vehicle running on rails within a city or its vicinity and is used primarily to carry passengers.
"The first passenger train in the world started in 1807 by the Oystermouth Railway (Oystermouth Railway) in Wales, using specially designed carriages in a line of horse-drawn tram built for freight use . Fare-paying passengers were carried on a line between Oystermouth, Mumbles and Swansea Docks. This technology will soon reach the New World, as introduced by 1832 in New York, and in 1858 he inaugurated the first lines in Mexico, Havana and Santiago, and Rio, Buenos Aires and Callao, where he opened between 1859 and 1864. Returning to the Old World began to move to Paris in 1854, Spain came in 1871 and Dusseldorf * Germany in 1876. The first electric tram was put into service by Werner von Siemens in Berlin in 1879. The tram known a considerable development, its golden age between the beginning of the twentieth century and the interwar period, with the multiplication of lines and increasing the number of passengers making it the main urban areas. "
(*) The car of the photograph corresponds to one of the many who travel this beautiful German city. I offer two versions with the same picture taken. I remember with great nostalgia the old trams in my city. Ref wikipedia
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