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    The Gross Lichterfelde Tramway was the world's first commercially successful electric tram and first public electric tramway used for permanent service...
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    the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway, opened between the Lichterfelde-Ost railway station and the Hauptkadettenanstalt in 1881. In 1920 Lichterfelde became...
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    Siemens & Halske built the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, the world's first electric streetcar line, in the southwestern Lichterfelde suburb of Berlin, followed...
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    Exposition. The first public electric tramway used for permanent service was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened...
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    in Berlin. The world's first electric tram line, Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Siemens...
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    Berlin. One of the world's first electric tram lines, Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Siemens...
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    tested by Fyodor Pirotsky in 1880. The second line was the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany, which opened in 1881. It was built...
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  • and the creator of the world's first electric tram line, the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway. Hideo Shima (20 May 1901 - 18 March 1998), was the engineer of...
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  • north cemetery. The current supply was made with x volt as at the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway by the rails, which began only some meters after the last stops...
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  • World's first commercially successful electric tram, the Gross-Lichterfelde tramway in Lichterfelde near Berlin in Germany built by Werner von Siemens who...
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    tram line opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Werner von Siemens (see Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway and Berlin Straßenbahn)...
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    system). Other railway systems that used it were the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway and the Ungerer Tramway. The third rail is usually located outside the two...
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    the first railway in the world to be electrified was the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway in Berlin, Germany. It was followed by the electrification of the...
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    Werner von Siemens' 1879 demonstration line in Berlin and by the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway of 1881, although none of these remain in operation. Operated...
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    collection systems were implemented as early as 1881 with the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway.: Appendix I  The system is primarily composed of a channel, or...
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    tram line opened in Lichterfelde near Berlin, Germany, in 1881. It was built by Werner von Siemens (see Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway and Berlin Straßenbahn)...
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    Berlin Trades Fair. 1881 – First public electric tram line, the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, opened in Berlin, Germany. 1881 – One of the first railway lines...
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    for innovations such as electrifying the London Underground, overhead tramways in Liverpool and Birmingham, and the smokeless fuel coalite, built his...
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    tramway. The electric tram in Groß-Lichterfelde was built to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge and ran from today's suburban station, Lichterfelde...
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    Siemens & Halske built the first electric tramway in the world, the Lichterfelde–Kadettenanstalt tramway, from the station to the Königlich Preußische...
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    Nicolaus Otto 1879–1881: First electric locomotive and electric tramway (Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway) by Siemens & Halske 1882: Trolleybus (Electromote) by Werner...
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    successful commercial electric passenger train, the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, ran a year later in Lichterfelde. Long-distance trains travel between many cities...
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  • yard at Clydebank in Scotland. May 16 – The Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, the world's first electric tramway, is opened in Berlin by Siemens & Halske. June...
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    closed on June 13, the test track was dismantled on June 20, 1882. Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway Elektromote Archived 2016-07-29 at the Wayback Machine, Siemens...
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  • Glória and Elevador da Lavra.[citation needed] Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway (1881–1893), 180 V Ungerer Tramway (1886–1895) transportable railways as a ride...
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  • This is a list of town tramway systems in the Netherlands by province. It includes all tram systems, past and present; cities with currently operating...
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  • Wyoming, and Huntington, Oregon. May 16 – The Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, the world's first electric tramway, is opened in Berlin by Siemens & Halske. May...
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  • This is a list of town tramway systems in Germany by Land. It includes all tram systems, past and present. Cities with currently operating systems, and...
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  • presented. 4 May: Berlin Storkower Straße station opened. 16 May: Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway in service, the world's first electric tram line. 15 October:...
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  • Law is passed by the German Reichstag. 16 May – Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, world's first electric tramway, starts in Berlin. 25 September – in Meckesheim...
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