Pernambuco
Name of System | Location | Traction Type |
Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Afogados da Ingazeira | Horse | 1895 | ca. 1914 | ||
Arcoverde | Horse | ? | ? | See Carpina (below). | |
Carpina | Horse | ? | ? | Morrison (1989, page 55) cites a Recife historian who states that this town had a tramway. | |
Caruaru | Horse | ? | ? | See Carpina (above). | |
Limoeiro | Horse | ? | ? | ||
Petrol (gasoline) | ? | 1952 | |||
Palmares | Horse | ? | ? | See Carpina (above). | |
Pesqueira | Horse | 191_ | 193_ | ||
Recife | Steam | 5 January 1867 | 1922 | , | |
Mule | 22 September 1871 | ? | , | ||
Electric | 13 May 1914 | Mar 1954. | , Service (one daily return trip, worked by a single car) resumed because of court action by the local authority, and continued to 1960. | ||
Timbaúba | Horse | 10 October 1915 | 193_ | ||
Triunfo | Horse | ? | ? | See Carpina (above). |
- Garanhuns - Diesel traction . Test operations conducted with a former Recife tramcar, equipped with a diesel engine, in 1968 over a (then recently-closed) railway branch. The engine, overloaded by large numbers of passengers seeking to ride on opening day, failed. Public service was not attempted thereafter.
- Goiana - Horse traction (?). Morrison (1989, page 55) states that an 1873 brochure issued by the Brazilian government mentions a tramway project in this town; it is not known whether the tramway was built.
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