What types of transport were there in the 1800s in Australia?

Answer 1

In Australia the transport available between 1900 and 1920 included horse ridden and driven vehicles. "Cobb & Co", the Australian horse-drawn passenger and mail service, was popular and widespread throughout the eastern states. Rail-links were established between many centres, allowing for passage of people and goods. Within the larger cities, trams were popular. Waterways carried paddlesteamers and boats, and ships were used at sea. Motorised vehicles were beginning to be imported, and of course the bicycle was a favourite.

Answer 2

== == They used horse and carts, motor cars and steam trains Train's weren't rare at all, in fact the transport system in Victoria was quite large. Cars in that time were imported from America, Britain, Germany and France In Britain and the USA there were more than 100 different manufacturers of cars at that time.

Answer 3

Within Australia in the 1800s, the most common type of transport was horse and carriage, known variously as a dray or a sulky. Cobb & Co was a passenger and goods transport company which operated from 1853. It had an extensive network of travel routes throughout Victoria and New South Wales (beginning initially on the Victorian goldfields), and even southern Queensland. The company imported specially sprung coaches that could handle Australia's rough roads, and horses were changed at stations along the route. Railways began to be built and opened from the 1850s onwards.

Horse-drawn trams were also used in some areas, until steam-driven and electric trams were brought in during the late 1800s. Steam trains were developed from the 1850s onwards.

Answer 4

In the cities the common transport was the tram. However, immediately outside the cities and in rural areas the transport was still a horse and a carriage or cart.

'Cars' during this time were still far too expensive for Australians and there were few proper roads built in this time that could accomadate them.

Answer 5

Prior to the development of the petrol engine, commn transport used in Australia included:

• walking
• horse and cart/dray/sulky
• Cobb & Co coach (which began in the goldfields in the 1850s)
• horse-drawn trams
• steam trains

Answer 6

Back in the early 1900's, transportation was developing quickly. It was being modernized - animal power was starting to be replaced by newly invented machines and engines, enabling faster and more comfortable travel.

Steam-powered locomotives were mainly used in the industrialised world as it could carry a large number of workers and supplies over a great distance very efficiently. They could only travel along the railway, so goods and people had to be offloaded at the nearest station to their final destination.

Animal power was still being used for transporting people and supplies. Horses and bullocks were most commonly used for pulling carts.

The steam car were slowly replacing animal power and became very common in cities in 1910 . The roads between major cities in Australia were yet still dirt roads, making traveling on the motor car a difficult and uncomfortable experience.

Trams were also being used as city population grew, leading to a demand of public transport. The first electric tram in Sydney started to operate in December 1899, going from George Street to Circular Quay.

Sea travel was also developing quickly during the early 1900's. Sailing ships were replaced by steam ships and they could travel over a large distance without depending on the wind. The steam ships also enabled faster travel - it only took 30 days to travel from England to Australia while this journey originally took about 140 days.

Answer 7

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