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=== Cities previously operating cable cars === ==== Australia ==== [[File:Melbourne cable tram 1905.jpg|thumb|Cable tram and trailer on the St Kilda Line in [[Melbourne]] in 1905]] * [[Melbourne]] (1885β1940). Main article: [[Melbourne cable tramway system]] * [[Trams in Sydney|Sydney]] (1886β1905). <small>Milsons Point to North Sydney (1886-1905) and King Street Wharf to Edgecliff (1894-1905).<ref name=":0" /></small><!-- ==== Colombia ==== * [[BogotΓ‘]], destroyed during the [[Bogotazo]] (1948){{citation needed|reason=No evidence of a cable car system in Bogota can be found anywhere else|date=February 2015}} --> ==== France ==== * [[Laon]] β The [[Poma 2000]] (service ended in 2016)<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.tul-laon.net/poma.php | title = POMA | publisher = Transports Urbain Laonnois | language = fr | access-date = 2009-04-02 | archive-date = 2009-04-21 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090421201622/http://www.tul-laon.net/poma.php | url-status = live }}</ref> * [[Paris]] ([[Tramway funiculaire de Belleville]] 1873β1935) ==== Lebanon ==== * [[Beirut]] (Late 1880s until destruction during the [[Lebanese Civil War]]) ==== New Zealand ==== * [[Dunedin]] (1881β1957, the [[Dunedin cable tramway system]]) * [[Wellington]] (1902β1979, the original [[Wellington Cable Car]] hybrid system) ==== Philippines ==== * [[Manila]] (Early 1900s-1930s, the Manila-Malabon railway.) ==== Portugal ==== * [[Lisbon]] (converted to regular [[Trams in Lisbon|tram]] lines in the early 20th century: ''SΓ£o SebastiΓ£o'', ''Estrela'', and ''GraΓ§a'') ==== United Kingdom ==== * [[Birmingham]] ([[City of Birmingham Tramways Company Ltd]], 1888β1911, converted to [[Railway electrification system|electric traction]]) * [[Edinburgh]] ([[Edinburgh Corporation Tramways]], 1899β1923, converted to electric traction) * [[Glasgow]] ([[Glasgow Subway]], 1896β1935, converted to electric traction) * [[Hastings]] * [[Liverpool]] (trial in 1883) * [[London]], England (1884β1909, [[Highgate Hill Cable Tramway]] connecting [[Archway, London|Archway]] with [[Highgate]], the first cable car in regular operation in Europe) * [[Matlock, Derbyshire|Matlock]] (1893β1927, the [[Matlock Cable Tramway]]) ==== Isle of Man ==== * [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Douglas]] (1896β1929, the [[Upper Douglas Cable Tramway]]) ==== United States ==== [[File:Cable car on Yesler Way at 3rd Avenue in 1940.gif|thumb|right|A Seattle cable car in 1940, just before service ended. Seattle was the last city in the U.S. to abandon all its street cable railways, with the last three lines all closing in 1940, leaving San Francisco as the only U.S. city where cable cars continued to operate.<ref name=hilton-p167>Hilton (1982), p. 167.</ref>]] <!-- Please note this is a list of cities; if you want to link an article on the system, please do so as part of a bracketed annotation (e.g. Chicago below). --> * [[Baltimore, Maryland]] (1890β1897) * [[Binghamton, New York]] (trial in 1885) * [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]] ** [[New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway]] ** [[Brooklyn Cable Company]]'s [[Park Avenue Line (Brooklyn surface)|Park Avenue Line]] ** [[Brooklyn Heights Railroad]]'s [[Montague Street Line]] * [[Butte, Montana]] (1889β1897) * [[Cable cars in Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]] (1882β1906) **[[Chicago City Railway]] **North Chicago Street Railroad **West Chicago Street Railroad * [[Cincinnati, Ohio]] * [[Cleveland, Ohio]] * [[Denver, Colorado]] (1886β1900, the [[Denver Tramway]]) * [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] * [[Hoboken, New Jersey]] (1886β1892, the [[North Hudson County Railway]]'s [[Hoboken Elevated]]) * [[Kansas City, Missouri]] (1885β1913), including 9th St Incline (1888β1902), 8th St. Tunnel in use (1887β1956) * [[Los Angeles, California]] (1885β1889) [[Second Street Cable Railway]], (1886β1902) [[Temple Street Cable Railway]], (1889β1896) [[Los Angeles Cable Railway]] * [[New York City]] ** [[West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway]]'s [[Ninth Avenue Line (Manhattan elevated)|Ninth Avenue Line]] ** [[New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway]] ** [[Third Avenue Railroad]]'s [[125th Street Crosstown Line]] ** Third Avenue Railroad's [[Third Avenue Line (Manhattan surface)|Third Avenue Line]] ** [[Metropolitan Street Railway]]'s [[Broadway Line (Lower Manhattan surface)|Broadway Line]] ** Metropolitan Street Railway's [[Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line]] ** Metropolitan Street Railway's [[Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line]] ** [[IRT Ninth Avenue Line]] (defunct) * [[Newark, New Jersey]] (1888β1889) * [[Oakland, California]] ** [[Oakland Cable Railway]] (1886β1899) ** [[Piedmont Cable Company]] (1890β1898) * [[Omaha, Nebraska]] * [[Philadelphia|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] * [[Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] * [[Portland, Oregon]] (1890β1904) * [[Providence, Rhode Island]] (1888β1895) * [[St. Louis, Missouri]] * [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] * [[San Diego]], California (1890β1892) * [[Seattle, Washington]] (1888β1940)<ref name=hilton-p389>Hilton (1982), pp. 389β407.</ref> * [[Sioux City, Iowa]] * [[Spokane, Washington]] (1899β1936) * [[Tacoma, Washington]] (1891β1938)<ref name=hilton-p465>Hilton (1982), p. 465.</ref> * [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]] * [[Washington, D.C.]] (1890β1899, part of the [[Streetcars in Washington, D.C.|Washington streetcar system]]) * [[Wichita, Kansas]]
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