Peterborough Tramways
Peterborough Electric Traction Company | |
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Operation | |
Locale | Peterborough |
Open | 24 January 1903 |
Close | 15 November 1930 |
Status | Closed |
Infrastructure | |
Track gauge | 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) |
Propulsion system(s) | Electric |
Depot(s) | Lincoln Road, Peterborough |
Statistics | |
Route length | 5.31 miles (8.55 km) |
Peterborough Tramways served the city of Peterborough from 24 January 1903 until 15 November 1930.[1]
Infrastructure
From its southmost limit, the Market Place (grid reference TL 19208 98667), the network had three routes:
- along Westgate and Lincoln Road to a terminus at the junction with Sage's Lane at grid reference TF 17224 02114 (Walton)
- along Westgate, Lincoln Road and Dogsthorpe Road to a terminus at the junction with St Pauls Road at grid reference TF 19186 01249 (Dogsthorpe)
- along Midgate, New Road and Eastfield Road to a terminus at the junction with Eye Road at grid reference TF 20878 00536 (Newark)
The depot was located on the east side of Lincoln Road at grid reference TF 18827 00418. Millfield Bus Depot now occupies the site.
Tramcars
The fleet, in a livery of lake-brown and cream (later holly green and cream), consisted of:
- 14 Brush Electrical Machines open top double deck tramcars[1]
Closure
The system's owners started to introduce motorbuses in 1913 to supplement the trams. Ultimately Peterborough's electric tram system was superseded by a motorbus system which was an original component of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Turner, Keith (1996). The Directory of British Tramways. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-549-9.
External links
- Pictures of and information about Peterborough trams.
- Peterborough Tramways trams and uniformed staff
- Peterborough Tramways button.
See also
List of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom
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- Aberdare
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- Cardiff Corporation
- Cardiff Company
- Cardiff District and Penarth Harbour
- Fairbourne
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- Great Orme
- Harlech
- Llandudno & Colwyn Bay
- Llanelly
- Llanelly and District Electric
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Neath & District
- Neath Corporation
- Newport Company
- Newport Corporation
- Oystermouth
- Pontypridd and Rhondda Valley
- Pontypridd Urban District
- Pwllheli & Llanbedrog
- Pwllheli Corporation
- Rhondda
- Swansea & Mumbles
- Swansea Improvements
- Swansea Constitution Hill Incline
- Wrexham District
- Wrexham & District Electric
- Aberdeen District
- Aberdeen Corporation
- Aberdeen Suburban
- Airdrie & Coatbridge
- Ayr
- Carstairs House
- Cruden Bay Hotel
- Dumbarton
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- Dundee Corporation
- Dundee, Broughty Ferry & District
- Dunfermline
- Edinburgh Street
- Edinburgh & District
- Edinburgh Northern
- Edinburgh Corporation
- Falkirk
- Glasgow Company
- Glasgow Corporation
- Glasgow & Ibrox
- Greenock & Port Glasgow
- Inchture
- Kilmarnock
- Kirkcaldy
- Lanarkshire
- Leith
- Musselburgh
- Paisley
- Paisley District
- Perth & District
- Perth Corporation
- Rothesay & Ettrick Bay
- Stirling & Bridge of Allan
- Vale of Clyde
- Wemyss
- Scottish Tramway and Transport Society
and suppliers
- British Thompson-Houston
- Brush Electrical Engineering Company
- Dick, Kerr & Co.
- Electric Railway and Tramway Carriage Works
- English Electric
- Thomas Green & Son
- Hurst Nelson
- Kitson and Company
- Lancaster Carriage and Wagon Works
- Maley & Taunton
- Manlove, Alliott & Co. Ltd.
- Merryweather & Sons
- Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
- G.F. Milnes & Co.
- Milnes Voss
- Starbuck Car and Wagon Company
- United Electric Car Company
- William Wilkinson
companies
- Balfour Beatty
- Birmingham and Midland Tramways Joint Committee
- British Electric Traction
- British Thomson-Houston
- National Electric Construction Company
- New General Traction Company
- Imperial Tramways Company
- Patent Cable Tramways Corporation
- Provincial Tramways Company