Assertion: steam tram | /r/HasProperty | popular
Facets:
value: with growing rapidly through the 1880s
type: TEMPORAL
value: "immensely popular"
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Historian Professor Robert Lee said the steam trams of 1879 were "immensely popular", with the system growing rapidly through the 1880s — largely because they were much cheaper to build, given Sydney's topography, than suburban railways.