... ago yesterday, August 30, 1860. first tramway in Europe waa publicly opened at Birkenhead. One those associated with George Francis Train, the originator of thai scheme, was Sir Clifton Robinson, then a boy twelve. Six Clifton ha« given ftome interesting ...

... and trolley buses (says a Manchester Guardian gossip), it may be recalled that it was just eighty years ago that George Francis Train started the world s first tramway system in New York. Called in his lifetime the Champion Crank, Train was born in ...

... elements angry class war are ready let loose when the dissolution. of the Reichstag takes place There was a time when George Francis Train was comparatively well-known characte —when was locked upon as American crank, wh-ose special craze was the construction ...