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ON Monday, April 29, there was opened for regular passenger traffic an electric tramway at Northfleet, near Gravesend, which marks an era in the history of electric traction. This line has been run experimentally for the last month, but the seven years Board of Trade certificate having been received, this line now enters on the commercial stage of its existence. Four tramways on which electricity is the motive power have been in regular use for the last few years in Great Britain: it is not, therefore, because the Northfleet line is the first electric tramway in this country that it has attracted considerable attention; nor is it because it is the longest electric tramway, for two of the other four are of much greater length; but it is because this Northfleet line has been constructed on a totally different principle from that hitherto adopted on this side of the Atlantic that it is worthy of special consideration.
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The Northfleet Series Electric Tramway. Nature 40, 39–42 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040039a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040039a0