Sheerness and District Tramways

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}

{{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.

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