In the early 1900s, Brighton, England, was full of electric trams. But at the start of World War II, they were scrapped for the war effort. All of the trams were lost — or so historians thought. Then ...

Hiroshima Electric Railway Co.’s Type 650 tram was near Chuden-mae station when the bomb detonated on Aug. 6, 1945. It was just 700 meters from Ground Zero. The blast derailed the train ...

Brave the odds' - Introduced in the sprawling eastern city in 1873 during the early days of the imperial British Raj, trams in Kolkata were initially horse-drawn, then steam-driven. Electric ...

Up until the early 1960s, Londoners were able to jump onto an electric trolleybus or tram to travel across the capital. Dozens of routes zigzagged in the London boroughs, including daily services ...

A forgotten map has revealed what London boroughs used to have a trolleybus and tram service. E-vehicles might feel like a 21st-century creation – but trolleybuses powered by electricity trundled ...