Sheerness and District Tramways
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{{Use British English|date=March 2017}}
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The Sheerness and District Tramways operated a tramway service in Sheerness between 1903 and 1917.The Golden Age of Tramways. Published by Taylor and Francis.
History
The system opened on 9 April 1903 with a depot located at {{gbmappingsmall|TQ 9314 7348}} near Sheerness East railway station. There were 12 tramcars obtained from Brush Electrical Engineering Company of Loughborough.
In 1904, tramcars 9-12 were sold to the City of Birmingham Tramways Company Ltd.
Closure
This was the first electric tramway to close in Britain. There was a shortage of spares for its German-manufactured Siemens and Halske overhead equipment during the First World War.{{cite web | title = Chronology of Sheerness in the lifetime of the Sheerness Heritage Centre | publisher = SheernessHeritageCentre.com | url = http://www.sheernessheritagecentre.com/page2chronology.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070213210637/http://www.sheernessheritagecentre.com/page2chronology.htm | url-status = usurped | archive-date = 13 February 2007 | access-date = 2007-04-29 }}
Tramcars 1 to 8 were sold to Darlington Corporation Light Railways in 1917.
References
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External links
- [http://www.tramwaybadgesandbuttons.com/page148/page152/page251/page251.html Sheerness and District Tramways at the British Tramway Company Badges and Buttons website.]
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