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ON THIS DAY 1860 The first British tramway, operated by the Birkenhead Street Railway, was inaugurated by an ..

... THIS DAY 1860 The first British tramway, operated by the Birkenhead Street Railway, was inaugurated by an American, George Francis Train. = 1862 ‘Stonewall’ Jackson led the Confederates to victory at the second Battle of Bull Run in Virginia during the ...

Published: Tuesday 30 August 1994
Newspaper: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 112 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

TRAMWAY SERVICES

... TRAMWAY SERVICES. London's tramway service dates from 1861, when George Francis Train laid the first lines. The project met with fierce opposition from bus proprietors, and Train averred that, to prove his raile dangerous, the Lusdrivers were instructed ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 1923
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

® 1797 Mary Shelley, author of ] TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: | YK | Frankenstein was born. @ Dana, singer, pictured, 45

... the - operated by the Birkenhead Street y ‘ 3 Reilway, was inaugurated by an | Exchequer, pictured, 79 gLI American, George Francis Train. | 2SN © John Peel, disc jockey, 57 AN ® 1900 Bubonic plague broke out in d. . Glasgow. new 14.9 hp Morris Major ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1996
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TEA-TABLE TALK

... Divine. The more good-will you desire, the more you must ragi:w. —* Success Ladder. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S * GREAT SECRET.” Not many now, perhaps, remember George Francis Train, who cane over to London 1n the fifties to inaugurate the tramway system. Mr. Robert ...

Published: Monday 20 June 1910
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A SAGACIOUS PIGEON

... are % 1 twins, and have just been born. Foo A Curnsk newspaper has received a oharacteristic | missive from Citizen George Francis Train, from ! Port Said. The greater part of the letter is Writte” outside the envelope. “ Look out for fearful finance crash ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1891
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE SCHOOL ASSESSMENT FOR NEXY YEAR

... and the members separated. Gronoe Fraxcis Traiy SeEgiva Ao Town m WastaiNsTer ABsEY.—We are told by a New England : “ George Francis Train is understood to luon:n.-o powerfully affected by the wish of Canon Kingsley that some American might be buried in ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1874
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1303 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OODDS AND ENDS

... that thing of Horace Greeley's und?.&-lq, ufim—flmwmh& The man was quiet for about five min Very soon be said: * George Francis Train is kicking up a good deal of & row over in Eagland ;de o-lflnmq:t.l;l”nh-hn bastile I * Train, “-h. m Train,” said ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1872
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1427 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

| GRA L e

... youngest (70 ** twins, and have just been born. = A Curxgss newspaper has received a charat*™ missive from Citizen George Francis Train. s Port Said. The greater part of the letter i ™ “; . outside the envelope. “ Look out for fearful finsn®™ crash. ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1891
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1525 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CURIQUS EPITAPH

... fashion (renewed laughter). re?-t, gir, look at the ous Widow Macree, look at Lucy Stone, look at th Stanton, look at George Francis Train l?n't r). And, sir, T say 1t with a bowed head and eneration, look at the mother of Wuhit‘nstonagged up’ a boy who ...

NEWS NOTES

... tracks of thought and new fields of research for further material in elucidation of this vexed and vexing problem, Mr. George Francis Train, who managed to beat the record by running round the world in sixtythree days, has been beaten by a postal card, which ...

KING FERDINANDS WIDOW

... singular character was in the habit of freing to Tillotson, he finds that he has been twirled | Guenting these halls than George Francis Train, the about, as Tony Lumpkin says, “in a circumbendi- | American, who first introduced the tramway system bus.’ l into ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1885
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3547 | Page: 7 | Tags: none