Monday, November 28, 2011

trams on Grafton Street, Dublin, 1920s


At the peak, Dublin had over 97 km of active line (in 1580 mm gauge) and electrification occurred relatively early with near-full electrification complete from 1901. Heavy usage lasted from the late 19th century into the 1920s. Parts of the system closed from the mid-1920s, in part replaced by buses. The decline of the trams accelerated in the 1940s and the last trams ran on 9 July 1949 in Dublin city.

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