Old postcard (no publisher mentioned).
The elevator of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde is an ancient funiculaire serving the basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde in Marseille. It was in service in 1892, fell in 1967 and was destroyed in 1974. It transported 20 millions of passengers during its 75 years of operation.
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Postcard published by JDP, Valencia (1930s).
On 23 June 1876, Valencia's first tram, powered by horses, linked the city with its Grau port. The construction work on the first tram infrastructure in Valencia was carried out between 1887 and 1888. The first line that was put into service, on 21 November 1891, connected the Empalme station in Burjassot with Bétera, with a length of 14.7 km. On 7 July1892, the second line was inaugurated, between the current Pont de Fusta and Grau stations, with a length of 5.8 km. The tram network was successively expanded. In 1917, the Compagnie Générale des Tramways de Valence (Spain) Société Lyonnaise, known as La Lionesa, and the Sociedad Valenciana de Tranvías, which had been established on 16 January 1885, merged and the Compañía de Tranvías y Ferrocarriles de Valencia (CTFV) was born. The rise of Valencian trams occurred in the 1940s and 1950s and their decline began in 1957 as a consequence of the great flood that affected the city, and from then on the progressive disappearance of the tram as a means of urban transport began. In 1986 FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana) began to operate the city's new trams.
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Postcard published by Edições 19 de Abril, Nº 26 (2004).
The Bica Funicular (Ascensor da Bica, sometimes known as the Elevador da Bica) is a funicular railway line in the civil parish of Misericórdia, in the municipality of Lisbon. It connects the Rua de São Paulo with Calçada do Combro/Rua do Loreto, operated by Carris. The project was conceived by Raoul Mesnier du Ponsard. The mechanical motor of the elevator was installed in 1890, after the conclusion of the public work. However, the lift only began functioning on 28 June 1892, after a couple of years of tests. On 10 January 2022, the funicular closed for six months for conservation and restoration work.
Gracias a M. Teresa.
Old photo.
Collection of Joan Bta. Perich i Adrià.
The Montserrat Rack Railway (Cremallera de Montserrat) is a mountain railway line that runs from the Monistrol de Montserrat station to the Montserrat monastery, at the top of the mountain, with an intermediate station at Monistrol Vila. The line is 5 km (3.1 mi) long and has a track width of 1,000 mm. It was inaugurated in 1892, closed on 12 May 1957 and reopened on 6 June 2003.
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Expo Jumel
Ticket Nº SC01/KHOUP
15.05.2016, 15:50
7.00 €
Musée Saint-Raymond is the archeological museum of Toulouse, opened in 1892. The site originally was a necropolis, and in later constructions was a hospital for the poor and pilgrims, prison, student residence, stables, barracks and presbytery. It is housed in the former Saint-Raymond university college dating from the sixteenth century.
Merci à Daniel.
