* 1923 – W-class Melbourne trams introduced.

Yarra Trams operates 28 major tram routes and 501 vehicles of 6 different classes in Melbourne, Australia which consists of 70 A-class ; 132 B-class ; 36 three-section C-class, low-floor Citadis ; 5 five-section C2-class, ; 38 three-section D-class, low-floor Combino ; 21 five-section D-class, low-floor Combino ; 52 W-class and 147 Z-class type trams.

Yarra Trams also operate heritage W-class trams, namely on the City Circle tourist service, as well as the Restaurant Trams.

W-class trams are also used on routes 30, 78 / 79.

* A W-class tram was used at the opening ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

To solve operational and maintenance problem the MMTB introduced in 1923 the iconic W-class tram and phased out the other models.

* Wivern, launched in 1919, was a W-class destroyer.

* HMS Vigo was to have been an Admiralty modified W-class destroyer.

This force consisted of modern C-class cruisers and V-and W-class destroyers.

Electric street lighting was introduced in 1900 and electric trams were transporting passengers in 1909.

Services were run by a large number of companies, but in 1929 all these were unified into the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe ( Berlin Transport Services ) company, which has operated Berlin ’ s trams ever since.

The U-Bahn and S-Bahn were partially operational again from 2 June 1946, fully from 16 November 1947 ( although repairs were not completed until May 1948 ) and trams by 1952.

These trams were an animal railway, usually using teams of horses and sometimes mules to haul the cars, usually two as a team.

Published in 1878, the novel is set in the 1840s, though horse trams were not introduced in Boston till the 1850s.

During this period, gas lighting, horse-drawn trams and limited electrification were introduced.

In 1906 electric tram systems were opened in St Kilda and Essendon, marking the start of continuous operation of Melbourne's electric trams.

Seven horse trams operated in Melbourne, three lines were built by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company ( MTOC ), while the other four were built by different private companies.

Although some lines were originally intended to be horse trams, and the MTOC did operate three horse tram lines on the edges of the system, the core of the system was built as cable trams.

From 1924 the cable tram lines were progressively converted to electric trams, or abandoned in favour of buses, with the last Melbourne cable tram operating on 26 October 1940.

Services resumed on 17 March 1907 using four C-class trams and three D-class trams from Sydney, which were altered to run on VR trucks salvaged from the fire.

He returned next year confirmed in his long-held opinions that electric trams were superior to buses and that overhead wires were preferable to the underground conduit ( cable ) system.

However, in Melbourne, the Bourke Street buses were replaced by trams in 1955, and new lines opened to East Preston and East Brunswick.

For 33 days from 1 January 1990, 250 trams were parked in Melbourne's CBD streets by tram drivers.

In the 1880s electric trams were installed in many cities, which induced noise into these circuits.

Urban tram networks exist in Antwerp ( the Antwerp Pre-metro ), Ghent and Brussels ( the Brussels trams ), and are gradually being extended.

The trams were eventually and gradually replaced by buses owned by the same company, which was renamed the Wrexham & District Transport Company.

The trams were becoming less used as car use increased and gradually the tram network was phased out across the city, including many routes that were still fairly well used and reckoned to be economically viable.

Since 1999, new low-floor trams have been gradually brought into operation, but technical difficulties have slowed this progress.

Also, there are the trams plying through the roads in Malda, during the British period, but was gradually removed for the sake of convenience.

First horse drawn, then electric trams ( until 1936 ) and, then, electric trolleybuses, gave Southall residents and workers quick and convenient transport along Uxbridge Road in the first half of the 20th century before they were replaced by standard diesel-engined buses in 1960.

During Sloan's leadership of GM, many public transport systems of trams in the US were replaced by buses in what became known as the Great American streetcar scandal.

" The abandonment programme began in 1935 with trams in South-West, West, North-West, North and East London mostly being replaced by trolleybuses.

The Belfast Street Tramway Company replaced carts with horse-drawn trams and the Cavehill and Whitewell Tramway company ran a steam tramway from Glengormley into Belfast.

The discomfort of passengers riding in steam trams in a tropical climate in part led to their demise in 1939, replaced by a bus network run by the City Council.

The first route, linking the town with Tipton and Wednesbury, opened on 21 January 1884 operating steam trams, the route being electrified in 1907 before being closed in March 1930 and replaced by Midland Red buses along the route.

* 1925: Enclosed double-decker trams replaced open-top trams.

Some double deckers will be kept mainly for old charm and as a tourist attraction, but most will be replaced by articulated trams.

Until 1940 the town maintained some trams, which have been replaced by the Eberswalde trolleybus system.

The trams themselves had been replaced by buses by 1962.

Steam trams began running in the streets in 1881 and were replaced by electric trams in 1897.

Buses replaced the trams in 1931.

The forecourt of the new station was originally laid out to provide a turning circle for trolleybuses, which replaced trams in 1936.

1906-Horse-drawn trams were replaced by electrical ones.

This building was replaced by a power station, in 1899, to provide electricity for the new fleet of trams in the city.

The Beaufort Street trams were replaced by trolley buses during the 1950s, and subsequently by diesel buses when the trolley bus service ended in 1968.

The steam trams were replaced by the Cronulla branch of the Illawarra railway line when it opened in 1939.

Shortly before this, however, ( in September 1958 ), Sunday evening services after 6 p. m. were withdrawn, being replaced by rail tickets being accepted on adjacent tram routes, particularly the North Coburg line, and, for the outer end of the railway line, a bus service connecting with trams at North Coburg.