The cage car trippers arrived with blackened faces. The steam tram was a dangerous affair, often running down pedestrians or flinging off passengers and crew at bumps en route. So many were killed ...

A licence was granted in 1882. A steam tram drawing a trailer car was trialled along Chapel Hill on November 13, 1882. During the following day, a newspaper reported that just after 11am the ...

steam engines were introduced to pull the tram cars. The electrification of the tramway began in 1900, transitioning from steam to electricity. On 27 March 1902, the first electric tramcar in Asia ...

Kolkata's tram journey began on February 24, 1873, with horse-drawn cars running on tracks. In 1882, steam engines were introduced, paving the way for modernization. The first electric-powered ...