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Volk's Electric Railway (VER) is a narrow gauge heritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of the English seaside resort of Brighton. It was built by Magnus Volk, the first section being completed in August 1883, and is the oldest operational electric railway in the world, though it was not the first electric railway to be built. It was preceded by electrification of Miller's line in 1875, Werner von Siemens' 1879 demonstration line in Berlin and by the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway of 1881, although none of these remain in operation.

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  • Volk’s Electric Railway (de)
  • Volk's Electric Railway (it)
  • ヴォルクの電気鉄道 (ja)
  • Volk's Electric Railway (en)
  • Volk's Electric Railway (sv)
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  • Volk’s Electric Railway ist eine Eisenbahn in Brighton und die älteste elektrische Bahn in Großbritannien. Ihre heutige Spurweite beträgt 825 Millimeter. (de)
  • ヴォルクの電気鉄道(英語: Volk's Electric Railway、VER)はイギリス、イングランドのイースト・サセックス州ブライトン・アンド・ホブの水族館駅とブラックロック駅間1.64kmを結ぶ遊覧鉄道。イギリス初、かつ世界でも現存する最古の電気鉄道である。 (ja)
  • La Volk's Electric Railway (VER) è la ferrovia elettrica più antica del mondo ancora in funzione e si trova a Brighton, nel Regno Unito. La prima ferrovia elettrica del mondo, tuttavia, nacque a Lichterfelde nel 1881, ma attualmente non è più operativa e non è più aperta al pubblico, se non in eventi speciali. La VER è composta da stretti binari che percorrono tutto il lungomare dal fino a , fornendo così, un mezzo storico per far visitare la città ai turisti. È stata costruita da ; la prima parte fu completata nell'agosto del 1883. (it)
  • Volk's Electric Railway är världens äldsta elektriska järnväg som fortfarande är i drift. Järnvägen, som invigdes 1883, är smalspårig (spårvidd 825 millimeter) och går parallellt med stranden i Brighton i södra England. Linjen som är idag 1,6 kilometer lång, har tre stationer och trafikeras enbart sommartid. Linjen var den första av två elektriska järnvägar som den brittiske ingenjören Magnus Volk byggde i Brighton vid slutet av 1800-talet. (sv)
  • Volk's Electric Railway (VER) is a narrow gauge heritage railway that runs along a length of the seafront of the English seaside resort of Brighton. It was built by Magnus Volk, the first section being completed in August 1883, and is the oldest operational electric railway in the world, though it was not the first electric railway to be built. It was preceded by electrification of Miller's line in 1875, Werner von Siemens' 1879 demonstration line in Berlin and by the Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway of 1881, although none of these remain in operation. (en)
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  • Volk's Electric Railway (en)
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