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the system within the first two days, averaging 20,000 per week over the first three months. This popularity forced the railway to reduce its fares, with the tramway attracting three-quarters of passenger traffic between
Glossop and Hadfield. The fare for the whole journey between termini was 2d, but later penny stages (and halfpenny stages for workmen) were introduced.
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Whitfield branch to be reversed but this did not happen. In June 1920, a ten-day strike was held by the tram crews disgruntled at their reduced working hours and to improve wages, though they did not win the dispute. The system was fast becoming a liability to the UESCo, which offered it for sale to the
Council in the same month, which was declined.
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The power station was functional by August 1903 and the formal opening for passengers was set for the 20th. However, the Board of Trade deferred its final inspection until the 21st, though the opening ceremony went ahead as scheduled, with a ceremony and an inaugural tramcar which took dignitaries on
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There was initial success upon the tramway's opening. It ran a 15-minute service with a one-hour round trip time, which required four cars, each with a driver and conductor, to operate. Services divided at
Glossop with alternate cars taking the Whitfield and Old Glossop routes. 8,505 passengers used
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Terminal troubles began after the war with the tramway facing significant costs needed for works to renew its track, and also public dissatisfaction with the service. Journey frequency went down as the tramway tried to save money. Glossop
Borough Council asked for the wartime economy closure of the
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The financial viability of the tramway came into doubt within only a few years; revenues began to fall sharply in 1905 as the cotton industry, on whose workers the tramway was dependent for most of its passengers, began to experience depressions. The company paid no dividend from 1910 to 1920, with
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Despite the high number of
Hadfield to Glossop journeys, a lack of demand was soon demonstrated for the Whitfield branch. A one-man, single-deck demi-car was purchased from the British Electric Car Company (BEC) to take over shuttle operations on the spur in August 1904, the same year the tramway's
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By 1923, motorbuses were providing unwelcome competition along the tram route, while revenue and mileage on the trams continued to slide. A final offer was made to offload to the
Council in November 1927, this time to hand over the tramway, whose infrastructure was reaching a dangerous state, for
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After the 1927 closure of the tramway, the buildings remained in industrial use. Once electricity generation had been moved elsewhere (the Urban
Electric Supply Company was abolished and nationalised on 31 March 1948 under the terms of the Electricity Act 1947), Lancashire Chemicals and then the
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necessitated the first use of female conductors by the tramway. By the end of the war in 1918, a run-down
Glossop Tramway was left with a backlog of repairs after several years of minimal investment and labour shortage. It resulted in 1918 in the originally temporary closure of the less-used
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The UESCo's offices and combined electricity generating plant and tram depot was accessed by a gap between houses on High Street West and across a bridge over
Glossop Brook. The tram shed contained four pits while the power plant included a high-speed steam engine, made by
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Glossop, being a small mill town with a population of around only 22,000, was an unusual choice for a new urban tramway. However, there was a large supply of potential customers in the cotton workers holding jobs at the many factories. Additionally, the
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the gates of
Whitfield House at Charlestown. There were nine passing loops on the main line and one on the Whitfield line, as well as terminus loops. A proposal by Councillor Braddock that the Hadfield end of route should extend to Post Street in
347:, an expert electric tramway engineer with the UESCo, was given responsibility for the layout of the system. It was planned as a 4-mile (6.4 km) inverted C, with the north-west terminus in Hadfield, and the north-east at
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in 1844-5, urban public transport, to connect the areas where workers lived with the town centre mills, did not exist. The first service came with the introduction by the Glossop Carriage Company in the early 1890s of a
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free if the borough agreed to buy electricity off the UESCo. It was again refused, and the announcement was subsequently made that Glossop Tramway would be closed in its entirety on at 23.00 on 24 December 1927. The
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The management of the Glossop Electric Tramway Co. have pleasure in announcing through our columns that they have decided to try the experiment of halfpenny fares for short stages on the electric tramways.
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the profits made insufficient to cover the ongoing maintenance of the track and trams. Though Royal Assent was gained in 1915 for a plan to create a connection with the SHMD, this attempt did not succeed.
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After the closure of the tramway, the car bodies were sold off locally. One of them, possibly No.8, saw service as part of a hairdressing salon alongside the Spread Eagle Inn at Woolley Bridge.
320:(borough council) had been negotiating with a small number of private companies to exercise its powers to provide electrical lighting and supply since 1898, and an agreement was made with the
663:- one for traction and the other for the borough's lighting. 500 volts of current was generated by the dynamos and taken to a switchboard to be divided by the lighting and tramway systems.
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Motormen and conductors parade in smart 'maternity jacket' rig, including white-topped caps, in front of one of the new cars outside the Dinting tram shed at the start of the service
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Employees of Glossop Tramway wore at least two uniforms over its twenty-four years. It began by issuing a militaresque outfit consisting of a double-breasted
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Nine vehicles were used on the tramway during its existence. Upon opening in 1903, the service was operated using seven double-deck tramcars manufactured by
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Whitfield branch line, in response to a Board of Trade request for tramways to save coal by reducing miles travelled, but this became a permanent closure.
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only recorded accident occurred, in the form of a runaway tram which lost control, sped down Victoria Street and collided with a shopfront in High Street.
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with five pairs of buttons and upright collars, which bore metal insignia stating 'UESCo' on one side and the employee's number on the other, and
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21E truck, was procured in 1918. It had been No. 56 in Sheffield and was new in 1899. All types were withdrawn in 1927.
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Glossop's was the second electric tramway in Derbyshire, opening three years after that of
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Westbound tram at the corner of High Street East and Hall Street (now Manor Park Road),
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a tour of the whole system. Public services started the following day (21 August 1903).
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Underground cables from the power plant paralleled the track, with a cast iron
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took over the disused route with a motorbus service from 26 December.
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and by Parliament under the Glossop Electric Tramways Order of 1901.
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of Wolverhampton. There were also two boilers and two large sets of
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Laying of the tramlines and feeder cable from the completed depot
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with a brass badge reading either 'Motorman' or 'Conductor' in
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324:(UESCo) in December 1899. The UESCo was itself a subsidiary of
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1910. The Glossop Brook iron bridge appears in the foreground.
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was rejected on the grounds that it would not be economical.
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Historic tramways in the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man
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Sheffield Tramways No.56 before entering service in Glossop
363:, like other tramways in the Manchester region, powered by
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A second uniform is visible in photographs from the mid-
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Defunct electric power companies of the United Kingdom
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Electricity supply in the United Kingdom: a Chronology
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International Tramways and Light Railways Exhibition
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Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Joint Board
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Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Joint Board
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Glossop-dale Chronicle and North Derbyshire Reporter
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South Staffordshire & Birmingham District Steam
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Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
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857:"Urban Electric Supply Company Limited Prospectus"
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466:- with the Queen's Arms Hotel in Old Glossop, via
258:, with a short spur that terminated at Whitfield.
493:tramway at Mottram, less than two miles distant.
33:Tram No.5 on High Street West near Arundel Street
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695:Map of the depot's location off High Street West
2875:Birmingham and Midland Tramways Joint Committee
893:"How Electricity and Tramways came to Glossop"
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935:British Tramway Company Uniforms and Insignia
517:, built by ERTCW on a 7-foot (2,100 mm)
235:). It was closed in 1927, with the branch to
2696:Giant's Causeway, Portrush & Bush Valley
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197:was a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) long passenger
2782:Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works
2095:Dudley, Stourbridge & District Electric
1802:Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley & Dukinfield
1082:. The Local Transport History Library. 2018
2827:Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
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1196:Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway
1152:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
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246:. It was a private enterprise run by the
2982:Railway companies disestablished in 1927
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1868:Gravesend, Rosherville & Northfleet
1222:. Hersham, Surrey: Oxford. p. 74.
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355:Branch, ran south of the main track to
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2890:National Electric Construction Company
2643:Scottish Tramway and Transport Society
2140:Staffordshire Potteries Street Railway
1566:Middlesbrough, Stockton & Thornaby
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2987:Railway companies established in 1903
2518:Dundee, Broughty Ferry & District
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903:from the original on 28 December 2022
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462:from Manchester to Sheffield via the
16:Former tramway in Derbyshire, England
2772:Brush Electrical Engineering Company
2335:Cardiff District and Penarth Harbour
2014:Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport
1169:. London: Breedon Books. p. 99.
1167:An Illustrated History of Derbyshire
1034:
667:Plater Group occupied the premises.
827:. 23 September 2020. Archived from
13:
2807:Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works
2009:Plymouth, Devonport & District
1132:. London. pp. 60–61, 69, 76.
1000:
878:
326:Edmundsons Electricity Corporation
14:
3003:
2905:Patent Cable Tramways Corporation
2440:Swansea Constitution Hill Incline
2100:Dudley, Sedgley and Wolverhampton
1616:Tynemouth & District Electric
928:
2686:Castlederg & Victoria Bridge
1858:Folkestone, Hythe & Sandgate
1437:Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire
1220:Directory of British Tram Depots
1008:"Tramway was on the right track"
987:"Glossop Tramway Strike Settled"
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458:'s Hadfield station - which had
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2817:Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd.
2450:Wrexham & District Electric
2150:Wolverhampton District Electric
1938:Wolverton & Stony Stratford
1586:Stockton & Darlington Steam
1176:Ilkeston & Glossop Tramways
1121:
2842:Starbuck Car and Wagon Company
2628:Stirling & Bridge of Allan
2370:Llanelly and District Electric
2320:Barmouth Junction & Arthog
2090:Dudley & Stourbridge Steam
428:North Western Road Car Company
359:. The route was planned to be
1:
2962:Companies based in Derbyshire
2405:Pontypridd and Rhondda Valley
2105:Kidderminster & Stourport
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708:
680:
651:, with a direct drive to the
442:Glossop Tramways junction box
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322:Urban Electric Supply Company
248:Urban Electric Supply Company
201:connecting the mill towns of
86:Urban Electric Supply Company
2977:Rail transport in Derbyshire
2895:New General Traction Company
2288:Yorkshire (Woollen District)
1606:Sunderland District Electric
1556:Middlesbrough & Stockton
1128:Electricity Council (1987).
1077:"Glossop Tramways 1903-1927"
382:
330:Scarborough Tramways Company
252:Camborne and Redruth Tramway
7:
2910:Provincial Tramways Company
2847:United Electric Car Company
2711:Warrenpoint & Rostrevor
2568:Greenock & Port Glasgow
2135:South Staffordshire Company
1657:Blackburn & Over Darwen
971:. 22 July 1904. p. 5.
716:
10:
3008:
2623:Rothesay & Ettrick Bay
2360:Llandudno & Colwyn Bay
1863:Gravesend & Northfleet
1174:Marsden, Barry M. (2004).
931:"Glossop Tramways Uniform"
266:
261:
2992:Tram transport in England
2918:
2900:Imperial Tramways Company
2880:British Electric Traction
2860:
2757:
2734:Douglas Southern Electric
2719:
2701:Glenanne & Loughgilly
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2458:
2415:Pwllheli & Llanbedrog
2410:Pontypridd Urban District
2305:
2178:
2155:Wolverhampton Corporation
2052:
1946:
1825:
1667:Blackpool & Fleetwood
1629:
1576:South Shields Corporation
1561:Middlesbrough Corporation
1518:
1445:
1432:Nottingham & District
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996:. 2 July 1920. p. 5.
993:Sheffield Daily Telegraph
866:. 25 June 1901. p. 8
707:Site of the former depot
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169:
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135:
127:
96:
91:
81:
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65:
57:
43:
38:
26:
21:
2767:British Thompson-Houston
2676:Cavehill & Whitewell
2533:Edinburgh & District
2483:Airdrie & Coatbridge
2248:Mexborough & Swinton
2115:Leamington & Warwick
1893:Portsdown & Horndean
1611:Tynemouth & District
1407:Mansfield & District
1113:Electricity Council 1987
641:
367:, and single-track with
2885:British Thomson-Houston
2822:Merryweather & Sons
2293:Yorkshire (West Riding)
2208:Grimsby & Immingham
2188:Barnsley & District
1923:Southampton Corporation
1838:Brighton & Shoreham
1591:Stockton & District
1417:Northampton Corporation
1178:. Midhurst: Middleton.
1013:Manchester Evening News
283:had opened stations at
250:, which also owned the
165:4.5 miles (7.2 km)
2792:Thomas Green & Son
2258:Scarborough funiculars
2070:Birmingham Corporation
2065:Birmingham & Aston
1994:Gloucester Corporation
1969:Camborne & Redruth
1848:Chatham & District
1601:Sunderland Corporation
1526:Darlington Corporation
1427:Nottingham Corporation
1218:Turner, Keith (2001).
1037:"The Raworth Demi-Car"
825:Glossop Heritage Trust
726:
568:(Sheffield 1899-1904)
451:
443:
396:
2832:G.F. Milnes & Co.
2671:Bessbrook & Newry
2543:Edinburgh Corporation
2508:Dundee & District
2430:Swansea & Mumbles
2160:Wolverhampton Company
1732:Liverpool Corporation
1677:Blackpool Corporation
1662:Blackburn Corporation
1495:London County Council
1402:Leicester Corporation
1193:Steer, Peter (2022).
724:
456:Great Central Railway
449:
441:
390:
2777:Dick, Kerr & Co.
2613:Perth & District
2473:Aberdeen Corporation
2435:Swansea Improvements
2420:Pwllheli Corporation
2380:Neath & District
2004:Plymouth Corporation
1341:Wisbech & Upwell
1161:Heath, John (1993).
560:Single-deck demi-car
434:Route infrastructure
371:. For the depot and
128:Propulsion system(s)
2812:Maley & Taunton
2749:Upper Douglas Cable
2661:Belfast Corporation
2563:Glasgow & Ibrox
2558:Glasgow Corporation
2395:Newport Corporation
2325:Cardiff Corporation
2120:North Staffordshire
1928:Southampton Company
1903:Reading Corporation
1712:Colne & Trawden
1702:Chester Corporation
1541:Hartlepool Electric
1392:Lincoln Corporation
1357:Alford & Sutton
1306:Ipswich Corporation
941:on 27 November 2022
899:. 6 November 2022.
417:Decline and closure
318:Glossop Corporation
2802:Kitson and Company
2538:Edinburgh Northern
2513:Dundee Corporation
2165:Worcester Electric
2080:Burton & Ashby
1999:Gloucester Company
1984:Exeter Corporation
1672:Blackpool Electric
1596:Sunderland Company
1422:Northampton Street
1397:Leicester Tramways
1016:. 20 December 2006
821:"Glossop Tramways"
727:
679:The depot complex
649:Belliss and Morcom
507:Hadley, Shropshire
452:
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397:
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2852:William Wilkinson
2744:Snaefell Mountain
2729:Douglas Bay Horse
2618:Perth Corporation
2478:Aberdeen Suburban
2468:Aberdeen District
2385:Neath Corporation
2301:
2300:
2243:Leeds Corporation
2075:Burton-upon-Trent
2044:Weston-super-Mare
1913:Ryde Pier Tramway
1737:Liverpool Company
1647:Barrow-in-Furness
1546:Hartlepools Steam
1531:Darlington Street
1367:Derby Corporation
1066:, pp. 25–27.
831:on 5 October 2022
655:, constructed by
589:
588:
536:Dates of service
365:overhead catenary
239:closing in 1919.
191:
190:
187:
186:
2999:
2787:English Electric
2653:Northern Ireland
2608:Paisley District
2528:Edinburgh Street
2498:Cruden Bay Hotel
2445:Wrexham District
2278:York Corporation
1782:South Lancashire
1642:Accrington Steam
1281:
1280:
1261:
1254:
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1143:
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1087:
1081:
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1035:Prentice, John.
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913:
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908:
889:
876:
875:
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871:
859:
852:
841:
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838:
836:
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788:
767:
761:
739:script lettering
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704:
692:
682:
676:
633:
621:
609:
597:
524:
523:
460:through services
394:
234:
230:
228:
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183:
171:
170:
122:
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119:
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104:
69:24 December 1927
31:
19:
18:
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2996:
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2951:
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2914:
2862:
2856:
2759:
2753:
2715:
2647:
2553:Glasgow Company
2493:Carstairs House
2454:
2390:Newport Company
2330:Cardiff Company
2297:
2198:Dearne District
2180:
2174:
2060:Birmingham City
2048:
1942:
1908:Reading Company
1821:
1742:Lytham St Annes
1707:Chester Company
1625:
1514:
1441:
1387:Lincoln Company
1345:
1270:
1265:
1230:
1211:
1201:Pen & Sword
1186:
1145:
1144:
1140:
1124:
1119:
1111:
1107:
1099:
1095:
1085:
1083:
1079:
1075:
1074:
1070:
1062:
1058:
1048:
1046:
1044:tramwayinfo.com
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962:"Advertisement"
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929:Birch, Ashley.
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334:Dinting Viaduct
306:
298:horse-drawn bus
269:
264:
232:
225:
221:
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216:
215:4 ft
214:
199:tramway service
195:Glossop Tramway
149:
143:
117:
113:
110:
108:
107:4 ft
106:
102:
34:
22:Glossop Tramway
17:
12:
11:
5:
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2691:Clogher Valley
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2666:Belfast Street
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2067:
2062:
2056:
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2047:
2046:
2041:
2036:
2031:
2026:
2021:
2016:
2011:
2006:
2001:
1996:
1991:
1989:Exeter Company
1986:
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1976:
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1961:
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1925:
1920:
1915:
1910:
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1900:
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1890:
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1880:
1878:Isle of Thanet
1875:
1870:
1865:
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1855:
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531:
528:
511:Alfred Raworth
498:
495:
472:Norfolk Square
468:Woolley Bridge
435:
432:
418:
415:
384:
381:
361:standard gauge
338:Board of Trade
305:
302:
277:South Pennines
268:
265:
263:
260:
189:
188:
185:
184:
176:
175:
167:
166:
163:
157:
156:
152:
151:
137:
133:
132:
129:
125:
124:
100:
94:
93:
92:Infrastructure
89:
88:
83:
79:
78:
75:
71:
70:
67:
63:
62:
61:20 August 1903
59:
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2891:
2888:
2886:
2883:
2881:
2878:
2876:
2873:
2871:
2868:
2867:
2865:
2861:Group holding
2859:
2853:
2850:
2848:
2845:
2843:
2840:
2838:
2835:
2833:
2830:
2828:
2825:
2823:
2820:
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2810:
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2800:
2798:
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2788:
2785:
2783:
2780:
2778:
2775:
2773:
2770:
2768:
2765:
2764:
2762:
2760:and suppliers
2758:Manufacturers
2756:
2750:
2747:
2745:
2742:
2740:
2739:Manx Electric
2737:
2735:
2732:
2730:
2727:
2726:
2724:
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2718:
2712:
2709:
2707:
2704:
2702:
2699:
2697:
2694:
2692:
2689:
2687:
2684:
2682:
2681:City of Derry
2679:
2677:
2674:
2672:
2669:
2667:
2664:
2662:
2659:
2658:
2656:
2654:
2650:
2644:
2641:
2639:
2636:
2634:
2633:Vale of Clyde
2631:
2629:
2626:
2624:
2621:
2619:
2616:
2614:
2611:
2609:
2606:
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2576:
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2264:
2261:
2259:
2256:
2254:
2251:
2249:
2246:
2244:
2241:
2239:
2238:Leeds Company
2236:
2234:
2231:
2229:
2226:
2224:
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2219:
2216:
2214:
2211:
2209:
2206:
2204:
2201:
2199:
2196:
2194:
2191:
2189:
2186:
2185:
2183:
2179:Yorkshire and
2177:
2171:
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2166:
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2161:
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2146:
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2078:
2076:
2073:
2071:
2068:
2066:
2063:
2061:
2058:
2057:
2055:
2053:West Midlands
2051:
2045:
2042:
2040:
2037:
2035:
2032:
2030:
2027:
2025:
2022:
2020:
2017:
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2002:
2000:
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1954:Bath Tramways
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1929:
1926:
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1916:
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1911:
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1906:
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1894:
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1869:
1866:
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1581:South Shields
1579:
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1500:London United
1498:
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1493:
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1473:
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1398:
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1390:
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1385:
1383:
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1378:
1375:
1373:
1372:Derby Company
1370:
1368:
1365:
1363:
1360:
1358:
1355:
1354:
1352:
1350:East Midlands
1348:
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1229:9780860935575
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1103:, p. 74.
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902:
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882:
865:
864:
858:
851:
849:
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792:
787:
785:
783:
781:
779:
777:
775:
773:
765:
760:
756:
749:
747:
746:Edwardian era
742:
740:
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732:
723:
703:
698:
691:
686:
675:
670:
669:
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