. The Street railway journal . CAR HOUSE IN SOLINGEN ELECTRIC RAILWAY PRACTICE IN GREAT BRITAIN BY SIDNEY H. SHORT* Electricity as a motive power for tramways is fast be-coming popular in the British Isles. Had it not been forthe fact that most of the tramway concessions in GreatBritain were made under the tramways act of 1870, run-ning for twenty-one years, electric tramways would to-daybe pretty general throughout England. In all of the con-cessions granted under this act there was a provision that over the tramway systems and are fast converting dieminto electric lines. Some of the lines ha
. The Street railway journal . CAR HOUSE IN SOLINGEN ELECTRIC RAILWAY PRACTICE IN GREAT BRITAIN BY SIDNEY H. SHORT* Electricity as a motive power for tramways is fast be-coming popular in the British Isles. Had it not been forthe fact that most of the tramway concessions in GreatBritain were made under the tramways act of 1870, run-ning for twenty-one years, electric tramways would to-daybe pretty general throughout England. In all of the con-cessions granted under this act there was a provision that over the tramway systems and are fast converting dieminto electric lines. Some of the lines have already beenequipped and are in operation. The city and town cor-poration authorities are making every effort to give totheir constituents the best possible transportation facili-ties, and are thoroughly alive to the advantages of electrictraction. Municipal ownership of the tramways is rhere-
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