Iconic Lisbon Streetcar No. 28 III
by Marco Oliveira
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Title
Iconic Lisbon Streetcar No. 28 III
Artist
Marco Oliveira
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Picture of Iconic 100 year old Lisbon's yellow streetcar No 28.
Electrico 28 (tram 28) is the vintage yellow tram that plies various routes in Lisbon. It goes through all over the city center, crossing many touristic attractions, while navigating along winding and very narrow streets to town up at sea level.
The tram is a hop-on, hop-off service and there are more than 30 stops you can choose from. The starting point is downtown in Praca Martim Moniz and the end is uptown in Campo de Ourique (Prazeres)
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
The Lisbon tramway network (Portuguese: Rede de electricos de Lisboa) serves the municipality of Lisbon, capital city of Portugal. In operation since 1873, it presently comprises five urban lines.
The first tramway in Lisbon entered service on 17 November 1873, as a horsecar line. On 30 August 1901, Lisbon's first electric tramway commenced operations. Within a year, all of the city's tramways had been converted to electric traction. Up until 1959, the network of lines was further developed, and in that year it reached its greatest extent. At that time, there was a total of 27 tram lines in Lisbon, of which six operated as circle lines. As the circle lines operated in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions, each with its own route number, it is more correct to speak of a total of 24 tram routes, all of them running on 900 mm (2 ft 11 7/16 in) narrow gauge tram lines.
The construction of the Lisbon Metro and the expansion of the bus system began the slow decline of the network. The five remaining lines only operates in the southern centre and west of the city. Despite the relevant tourist attraction, those lines are still very important because of sections of the city's topography can only be crossed by small trams. Tram 15 also connects the entire western river front of the city to the centre and allows a better flow of passengers with the bus system towards an area that still is not served by the metro
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Mary Deal
I have always loved the sounds of street cars. This is a wonderful image and I would love to live on this street. My indoctrination to street cars was when visiting my sister in San Francisco when I was a teen. She lived on a floor above a street car line. All the city sounds were new to me and exciting. I'll never forget. So I love your street car images from anywhere in the world, all of them! f/l/t/p/G+
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