The community grew further when an electric railway was extended to Beltsville.
The line might have been Britain's first mainline electric preserved railway.
In 1978 the electric railway closed, due to deterioration and the cost of repairs.
The work of doubling the electric railway, completed in 1931, cost £35,000.
It was the first overhead-wire-powered electric railway in the world.
This is said to have been the first electric railway in Washington.
This is the only electric railway of any gauge in Wales.
A railroad reached the area in the early 1870s and an interurban electric railway about four decades later.
An electric railway ran down one side of the room, on which Paul's trains could run.
The docks were opened in 1912 and with them the electric railway.
