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Forty
40 years were to pass between the appearance of the first American
streetcar line between New York and Harlem and their use in Portugal
(1832-1872), and it was the city of Oporto that first introduced them
to Portugal. In 1878 a line was introduced in the city, using steam traction and, in 1895, the Iberian Peninsula's first electric tramcar line was put into operation here. It was only ten years later (in 1914) that steam traction stopped being used and, during 34 years, the public transport of the population of Oporto and the surrounding municipalities was solely by electric tramcars. It was in 1948 that buses began to be used in the city and, in 1959, a third type of transport was added to the two existing ones - the trolley-bus - in use till 1997. |
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