Editing Tram (section)

===Internal combustion===
[[File:Bensinmotorvagn. Trafikerade linjen 19, Karlaplan - Frihamnen 1924 - 1929.JPG|thumb|The only petrol-driven tram of [[Stockholms Spårvägar (1915)|Stockholms Spårvägar]], on line 19, in the 1920s]]
[[Hastings]] and some other tramways, for example [[Stockholms Spårvägar (1915)|Stockholms Spårvägar]] in Sweden and some lines in [[Karachi]], used [[Petrol engine|petrol]] trams. [[Galveston Island Trolley]] in Texas operated [[Galveston Island Trolley|diesel trams]] due to the city's hurricane-prone location, which would have resulted in frequent damage to an electrical supply system. Although [[Portland, Victoria]] promotes its [[Portland Cable Tram|tourist tram]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://portlandcabletrams.com.au/ |title=Portland Cable Tram website|website=portlandcabletrams.com.au|access-date=17 March 2021}}</ref> as being a cable car it actually operates using a diesel motor. The tram, which runs on a circular route around the town of Portland, uses dummies and salons formerly used on the [[Melbourne cable tramway system]] and since restored.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries a number of systems in various parts of the world employed trams powered by gas, [[naphtha]] gas or [[coal gas]] in particular. Gas trams are known to have operated between [[Alphington, Victoria|Alphington]] and [[Clifton Hill, Victoria|Clifton Hill]] in the northern suburbs of [[Melbourne]], Australia (1886–1888); in Berlin and [[Dresden]], Germany; in [[Estonia]] (1921–1951); between [[Jelenia Góra]], [[Jelenia Góra|Cieplice]], and [[Sobieszów]] in Poland (from 1897); and in the UK at [[Lytham St Annes]], [[Trafford Park]], Manchester (1897–1908) and [[Neath Corporation Tramways|Neath]], Wales (1896–1920).

Comparatively little has been published about gas trams. However, research on the subject was carried out for an article in the October 2011 edition of "The Times", the historical journal of the Australian Association of Timetable Collectors, later renamed the Australian Timetable Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.timetable.org.au/|title=Australian Timetable Association |publisher=austta.org.au |date=10 August 2012 |access-date=8 December 2012}}</ref><ref name="Ceti">{{cite news |url=http://www.ceti.pl/js29a/ciepl/en,ecal.html |title=Cieplice lšskie Zdrój is one of the best known Silesian towns |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929211328/http://www.ceti.pl/js29a/ciepl/en%2Cecal.html |archive-date=29 September 2006 |access-date=8 March 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:First electric tram- Siemens 1881 in Lichterfelde.jpg|thumb|[[Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway|Gross-Lichterfelde Tram]] in [[Berlin]] in 1882. First lacking [[overhead wire]]s, it became the first tram with those in 1883.]]