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... Development. Mr Robinson review dates from the initial attempt to introduce tramway* in Great Britain at Birkenhead by George Francis > Train, and supplies detailed information concern. . ing the working horse tramways, and the reasons , which have led to ...

Published: Tuesday 13 February 1900
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1093 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DEATH OF MR GEORGE FRANCIS

... DEATH OF MR GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN. (BECTBR'S NEW Tuesday. Mr George Francis Train has died of heart failure at Mills's Hotel. George Francis Train, who was bora in 1829, was well-known as political speaker, lecturer, and author, his principal works being ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1904
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 70 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOCAL NOTES

... Cowlin and Son wae accepted to carry-out the whole the work. From New York yesterday the death was announced of Mr George Francis Train, a gentleman well known in two hemispheres. Mr Train cultivated notoriety by the adoption eccentric habits; and the ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1904
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 2672 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

'»£CTE»-8 TELEOBAV.)

... This would, course, make end of Mr Hears: as Presidential candidate. He would then rank with Mrs Victoria and the late George Francis Train the comet of season. Apart, from the differences in the Democratic party, it is around the personality President Roosevelt ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1904
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 2735 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THE TRAMWAY COLLECTION

... Colston Street depot. Mr Williams drove the first horse car in England, namely, at Birkenhead, in 1980, under the late George Francis Train. also drove the first car in Liverpool and in London. In London remained in the service of the North Metropolitan Tramways ...

Published: Tuesday 15 August 1905
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 1424 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE WESTERN DAILY PRESS. BRISTOL TUESDAY, AUGUST 15. ISIOS

... this country. It is claimed that drove the first car the system installed at Birkenhead about forty-five yean ago by George Francis Train, and that in several other cities bad performed a pioneer -work kind. For twenty-aix yean has been connected with the ...

Published: Tuesday 15 August 1905
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 3136 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE COUNCIL'S MEETING PLACE

... discoverer has just died, weighed 1511b., and has been described the largest ever taken from the earth. But the late George Francis Train witnessed the finding of greater. He dropped in at Ballarat when the fever was at its height, and found there ne’er-do-well ...

Published: Thursday 13 December 1906
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 798 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SIB CLIFTON ROBINSON’S

... Corofln district, man had a Birkenhead. One of those aaaociated with few words with his sister, and tired, wounding George Francis Train, and who originated the her in tbs thigh. He afterwards barricaded and built the track, was Sir Clifton himself in ...

Published: Tuesday 30 August 1910
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

rather the old gam? like it. Akers Douglas, the present Marquis .f S ilisbnry. Gerald Balfour, and the viuxquis ..

... was born in Birkenhead, and (hither, about the end of the first half of the nineteenth century there came American, George Francis Train, who laid hown the first tram line in Great Britain. The possibilities that lurked this method of street traction were ...

Published: Tuesday 08 November 1910
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 2635 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BBIPBANE. Mondse

... Mr Robinson has been associated with tramway interests since the fust mad of this kind wae r onstracted in England, George Francis Train, in in Birkenhead. This was Mr Robinson’s birthplace, and when the tramway was built he was about twelve years of a*e ...

Published: Tuesday 08 November 1910
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 2555 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

cither the old gang anything like Mr Akers Douglas, the present Marquis ~f Gerald Balfour, and the Marquis of ..

... Robinson was born Birkenhead, and I’-her, about the end of the first half tue nineteenth century there came American, George Francis Train, who laid the first tram line in Great Britain, i possibilities that lurked in this method . street traction were ...

Published: Tuesday 08 November 1910
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: | Words: 1412 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, The Editor does not accept responsibility for the views expressed his correspondents ..

... was the first built England; but, if memory serves right, the first was built in Rayswater and afterwards torn up. George Francis Train, an American, cried out many years in vain, the advantages of the rail, and he was generally regarded as lunatic. Now ...

Published: Monday 11 July 1927
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 876 | Page: 5 | Tags: none