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The first passenger ferry to use a gas turbine was the GTS Finnjet, built in 1977 and powered by two Pratt & Whitney FT 4C-1 DLF turbines, generating 55 MW and propelling the ship to a speed of 31 knots.
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* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
* 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
One of the most successful designs of this period was the Douglas DC-3, which became the first airliner that was profitable carrying passengers exclusively, starting the modern era of passenger airline service.
By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.
At first there was no passenger service, for south of the station was the Akihabara cargo docks, where goods from all over the world would flow into Kanda by river and be hauled up the east bank of the canal to be ticketed at the central cargo transport window.
In 2011 passenger traffic at Bulgaria's three major airports-Sofia, Varna and Bourgas-grew up to near 10 % on the year to 3. 89 million in the first half of 2011, due to rise of customers using international routes and launch of new destinations.
The company's car production at the Yokohama plant shifted towards military needs just a few years after the first passenger cars rolled off the assembly line, on April 11, 1935.
* 1980: Mercedes produced the first passenger car turbo-diesels ( Mercedes 300 SD ).
* 1986: The Fiat Croma was the first passenger car in the world to have a direct injection turbodiesel engine in ( 1986 ).
* 2008: Subaru introduced the first horizontally opposed diesel engine to be fitted to a passenger car.
* 2010: Mitsubishi developed and started mass production of its 4N13 1. 8 L DOHC I4, the world's first passenger car diesel engine that features a variable valve timing system.
Their first passenger car was the F89 using the body from the prototype F9 made before the war and the two-cylinder two-stroke engine from the last F8.
The first purpose-built passenger car, dubbed Experiment, was attached, and carried dignitaries on the opening journey.
It was the first time passenger traffic had been run on a steam locomotive railway.
* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.
* 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York, New York, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
* 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean ( she is a passenger ; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic ).
* 1973 – A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
* 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
John Robert Taylor was born in Pencaitland, East Lothian, and entered his first sidecar race at the age of 19, as the passenger to Kenny Andrews ( 1974 ).
The first inter city passenger railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, making exclusive use of steam power for both passenger and freight trains.
The experiment aimed to prove that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness, paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.
It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
* 1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
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This is the first time a Red Funnel ferry has been re-painted out of its own red and white colour scheme.
* 1811 – Inventor John Stevens ' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry ( service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey ).
The first known " modern " rowing races began from competition among the professional watermen in the United Kingdom that provided ferry and taxi service on the River Thames in London.
* 1959 – The, Australia ’ s first passenger roll-on / roll-off diesel ferry, makes her maiden voyage across Bass Strait.
* September 23 – The M / S Princess of Tasmania ( Australia's first passenger RO / RO diesel ferry ) makes its maiden voyage across the Bass Strait.
* October 11 – Inventor John Stevens ' boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry service, between New York City and Hoboken, New Jersey.
At Swinford Bridge, a toll bridge, there was first a ford and then a ferry prior to the bridge being built.
Also, the first ferry route between the island and Genoa was established, using steamboats such as the Gulnara.
In July of that year, the airline inaugurated the world's first air ferry service across the English Channel between Lympne Airport and Le Touquet Airport.
That year, also marked the conclusion of Silver City's first decade of air ferry operations during which the airline operated more than 100, 000 flights carrying over 200, 000 vehicles and ¾ of a million passengers, with peak-day frequency exceeding 200.
On 7 July 1948, a Silver City Bristol Freighter operated the first cross-Channel air ferry service, between Lympne near Folkestone in Kent and Le Touquet on France's northern Côte d ' Opale coast, with good road connections from and to London and Paris respectively.
Also in 1955, Silver City launched its first air ferry services between Scotland and Ireland and its first such service from the Midlands.
That year also marked the conclusion of the first decade of Silver City's air ferry services.
Hornblower launched the nation's first hybrid propulsion ferry in 2008, the Hornblower Hybrid, which now serves the island, docking at the Alcatraz Wharf.
When residents require hospitalization beyond the first aid care, they are airlifted out of the island by helicopter ( on emergencies ) to nearby ones or, if the weather permits, they are transported by the ferry.
The new company started out with used ships which weren't particularly well-fitted for the role they were meant for, but that was about to change when in 1961 Silja took delivery of the new, the first purpose-built car-passenger ferry in the northern Baltic Sea.
He was also responsible for Lynchburg's first bridge across the river, which replaced the ferry in 1812.
The first neighborhoods of Lynchburg developed upon seven hills adjacent to the original ferry landing.
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The site of the cemetery, in which many of the area's first settlers are buried, was chosen so that mourners would not have to ferry their dead across the river for burial.
At first, it was the only community of Prince of Wales Island to receive ferry access from the Alaska Marine Highway, but in 2002, the Marine Highway ceased service to Hollis in lieu of the new Inter-Island Ferry Authority ( IFA ).
The first known settlement of the Batesville area was in 1810 near the mouth of Polk Bayou, and by 1819 the town had a ferry across the White River and about a dozen houses.
The place was first called Converse Ferry for Charles Converse, who established a ferry across the San Joaquin River in 1852.
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