What was the transport like in 1900s?

Answer 1

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 2

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.