What is the Meaning & Definition of tram

Vehicle electric traction that transports passengers around the city

He is called a vehicle that is characterized by its electric traction and takes care of the transport of passengers in a city that is specially prepared with Rails through which circulates the same tram.

A half picturesque yesterday and today...

Without a doubt, the tram is one of the means of transport urban most picturesque and friendly circulating through the cities of the world and is also one of the oldest that has been imposed in the task of moving the inhabitants of a city from one side to the other, including, in some cities in the world where he learned to be one of the most popular Today, no longer exists, only left traces of their passage to the rails of the streets where used to travel.

Tourist attraction

Although how recently we said the tram today already it is not as common as in other times, you will still continue to exist some trams tourist type in cities that have even the original electrical paths. In addition, there are also many modern trams that are more similar to the train or the subway but that, as they are operated almost in the same way that the old trams, are considered as such.

How does it work?

The tram is characterized for being a wagon, or a union of several cars that are placed on a special laying electrical pathways through which the car receives the energy to move. Normally, trams from other times moved manually and its movement or displacement was established on the same style of routes, although these only served to keep the car on certain routes. This was in a sense that the old tram was much more difficult to maneuver than now. In many cities that have had a tram service still streets can be found with marks of the roads that have not been removed.

Origin

The history of trams takes us back a couple of centuries ago when forms more primitive and simple the current tram wagons were used in England in the 18th and 19th century to load and transport the products of mining. These cars were joining each other to make them a big freight train which then is transformed into wagons of travel for passengers.

Period of maximum splendor. Causes of its growth

We must place the maximum popularity of the tram at the beginning of the last century and in the time between the wars (first and second world war). Many kilometers of roads were built for these times and the city's inhabitants chose above other proposed this transport security and speed that allowed them.
Think of those times, the horse had already practically become obsolete, buses did not have development that today boast and the car was reserved only to the wealthy classes who could access it. In that context then grew the use of the tram.

The recovery of the tram in Europe. Its main advantages

Today, the modern trams (especially in some European cities), have an excellent service which is based mainly on the good path of power lines as well as the high-tech cars. Many of them are so picturesque that they are specially planned to be used by tourists and thus have become authentic tourist attractions that tourists visiting the city. At least one back at them makes tourists removed the desire to enjoy this type of public transportation as old but which has managed to aggionarse to the needs of today.
This revival and recovery of the tram occurred especially in some major cities in Europe such as the French from Nantes, nice, Bordeaux and the Spanish Valencia, among others, and, later, the good impact that had on these, other cities decided to mimic this action.
Some of the benefits attributed to him today to this means of transport of stand: easy access, care of the environment, comfort, speed, and low noise.
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